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Roland D50 Sample Collection 004
Do you remember, or have you heard, the Enya song Orinoco Flow? If so you will have already heard one of the famous sounds from the Roland D-50 synthesiser. Released in 1987, the D-50 was something of a step into the dark for the company because it was their first digital synth as their previous releases were analog subtractive machines. Yamaha had their own form of digital synthesis, which they called FM (Frequency Modulation) made available on the hugely successful Yamaha DX7 (see our Yamaha FS1R and TX802 samples) . The D-50 used really short samples for the attack transients of the sounds followed by more usual synth waveforms for the sustained portion of the sound. This worked surprisingly well, if programmed correctly, and, at last, we had a piano sound that really sounded much like a real world piano. So, with the D-50 it was possible to create realistic sounding patches as well as the more usual synthy tones.
Roland D50 Sample Collection 004
Our fourth Roland D-50 sample collection has been constructed using sounds taken from the Roland PN-D50-02 & PN-D50-03 Memory Cards (please scroll down to see a full list of the patches sampled). We took a total of 2,794 samplesto create this large sample set (4 samples per octave across over 7 octaves of a whopping 97 patches). To ensure the best possible quality we sampled using professional MOTU recording studio equipment. We also took long samples to make certain that we could achieve perfect loop points. We used the Roland VariOS with the VC-1 D-50 Card [see http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may05/articles/rolandvc1.htm for a review of the card]. Please Note: Although SOS insists that there is no difference between the VC-1 and a genuine D50 we noticed on one or two patches there was a very small difference but, considering the higher quality output of the VC-1 the advantages outweighted the negatives.
Sample collection 004 (patches listed below) is part of our 41.66 GB Roland D50 10 DVD sample collection. This enormous collection is available at a reduced price but, obviously, you are welcome to buy the single DVD.
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D-50 Sounds Sampled In Budget Collection 004
Below is a list of the D50 sounds which we sampled to create collection 004.
Voices/Patches BANK 002: Memory Card/ROM PN-D50-02 & PN-D50-03:
PN-D50-02 Sounds
| BANKS 1 & 2 | BANKS 3 & 4 | BANKS 5 & 6 | BANKS 7 & 8 |
E11 Synthetic Piano 1 |
E31 Guitar Frets |
E51 Samba Drum & Agogo |
E71 Stringz & Bellz |
PN-D50-03 Sounds
| BANKS 1 & 2 | BANKS 3 & 4 | BANKS 5 & 6 | BANKS 7 & 8 |
F11 String Section |
F31 Powerful Brass |
F51 Breathy Flute |
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