And finally the Roland D50. Feeding it into the echolution pedal, stereo In/Out to the mixer. I put aside the PG1000 as I've programmed the sounds already and I have an hcard for extra patch storage.
17 (!) Screws later and my Roland D-550 has a new battery. Fortunately it is not soldered, a CR2032 held in place by a metal tab. it is back up, reset, and now just have to load the presets through sysex. I have the important patches on an external card anyways as I share it between the D50 and the D550.
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The workstation the preceded the Ensoniq VFX-SD is … the Roland D20.
Sequencer, multitimbral, drums, effects and storage either onboard, on ram cards or floppy. Just like the ensoniq. But a whole year earlier.
Even had an optional programmer to make things easier, the PG10.
If we accept synths with smaller than fullsize keys, we can even find 2 more earlier candidates. See replies.
#roland #d20 #pg10 #sequencer #midi #drums #lasynthesis #synthesizer #effects #multitimbral
Here, as reference is a Roland TN-SC1, number 13, Dance 3. Also came in a big box (to justify the price), but card is small. Fits inside a PCMCIA case but a different technology altogether. The next series would be based on General Midi/GS instead of MT32 as a midi standard, and would include 8 styles.
#synth #midi #style #arranger #mt32 #ra50 #GM #gs #generalmidi #Roland #LASynthesis #keyboard #retromusic #stylecard #Rom
The back of the Quasimidi style card looks even more homemade.
#synth #midi #style #arranger #mt32 #ra50 #Quasimidi #Roland #LASynthesis #keyboard #retromusic #stylecard #Rom
Roland TN-SC1 series of cards only had 4 selectable styles. Quasimidi got around this by using switches. 2 switches, 4 possibilities to select 4 music styles.
#synth #midi #style #arranger #mt32 #ra50 #Quasimidi #Roland #LASynthesis #keyboard #retromusic #stylecard #Rom
This case looks like a Disney VHS plastic case. Already that sets the era...
Who wouldn't want some italo-pop or disco-fox? 16 styles by Quasimidi, for some Roland keyboards, and for the RA50 (which I own, like an mt32 plus CA30 arranger in one desktop module)
Roland TN-SC1 series of cards only had 4 selectable styles. Let's see how Quasimidi got around this...
#synth #midi #style #arranger #mt32 #ra50 #Quasimidi #Roland #LASynthesis #keyboard #retromusic #stylecard #Rom
I made a quick python script to get the patch names from the sysex of the Greytsound Dancemix floppy for the Roland D20. Also available in sysex for the D5, D10, D110 (although itll not be quite the same on the 110) for those interested.
#Synth #roland #d10 #LAsynthesis #d20 #d5 #patches #midi #python
With the disk drive of my Roland D20 synthesizer working again, I'll be able to check out some patches made by Bob Grey. Also got a set from him for my Yamaha SY77 which I've mentioned before.
I will put some demo of these on my soundcloud account if there is some interest from the @synth #synth crowd.
#synth #programming #patches #floppy #roland #d20 #LAsynthesis #D110 #d10 #mt32 #midi #synthesizer #audio #music #soundcloud #sequencer #daw #dawless
Francois Dion
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