Roland D-50 Patches Download
D-50D-50Linear SynthesizerI LOVE THE D-50. After my Casio CZ-1000, it's thefirst 'professional' synth I ever bought, and it still ranks as my favorite synthesizer ever.It's the work of genius: at the time (1987), ROMwas still expensive, and samplers were a lot more expensive than synthesizers(at least those samplers in the 'high' leagues, such as Emulator, Fairlight,Synclavier). The solution from Roland was to incorporate in ROM smallsnippets, very short 'attacks' of real and classic instrument waveforms,place theme at thebeginning of a sound, and finish off with standard, oscillator-basedanalog/digital synthesis. Since the first portion of a sound is the onethat strikes us with a first impression of realism, L.A. (Linear Arithmetic) synthesiswas very successful because allowed incredibly realistic results with verylittle ROM. The Korg M1 followed the year later with an improved ROM set,and was even more successful than the D-50 ever was. Short loops very alsoincorporated in the D-50's 100-block ROM.
Roland D-50 audio demos in mp3Preset name with audio demoMy commentsA beautiful, beautiful synthesizer patchcomposed by a soft pad and a twinkly bell. Very famous patch thathas been incorporated in every major workstation since.Excellent for New Age!Extremely realistic split with a jazz acoustic basson the left and a jazz guitar on the right hand.Excellent and realistic orchestral stringsNicely brassyClassic late-80s / early 90s solo synth patch.The Korg M1 also hadplenty of these types of sounds.Classy early sampled choir.Excellent Hammond organ sound with percussion.Slow Leslie (rotor)Very famous D-50 patch - an ominous resonantsynth - hold the note and the Natives go wild.Clean reproduction of a marimba.Classy el. Piano and flute split.Gorgeous string ensemble. Just the rightmix between realistic and synthesized.Powerful fusion sound.Cool! An electric guitar with 'grit'.Typical L.A. Synthesis sound. A beautiful andclassic 1980s pad patch.Very nice FM style electric piano.Typical LA solo synth.Incredibly beautiful and realistic emulationof asian bellsCross between slap bass and brassAftertouch-based synth strings.Nice synthetic brass.Another excellent flute solo synth.
The D-50 is an all-time favorite digital synth that's still just as popular today as when it first came out in '87. Once Roland's hottest digital synth, it competed against the Yamaha DX7, and was much easier to use. By joining 8-bit PCM samples with 'LAS' synth-generated sounds, the D-50 is capable of unique and complex sounds. Released in 1987, the Roland D-50 Linear Synthesizer is easily one of the most. Sounds; Compatible with original D-50 patches; 64-step, polyphonic onboard.
Goodpatch to show the D-50's 'chase' function (in the second part of theaudio example).B E A U T Y - a very, very famous patchthat is perfectly crafted. The perfect pad.Still incredibly valid pipe organ preset!Effective fusion solo synthesizer.Charming and deliciously retro-60s vibraphone sound.Realistic and classic bass + Stratocaster combo.One of the most recognizable D-50 patches.Used by Enya in her '80s hit 'Orinoco Flow', this a great-soundingstring pizzicato patch.Nice solo synth.Aftertouch-based solo synthesizer lead.Beautiful and majestic synthesizer withhuge filter sweep. I love it!At the time of its release, I remembereverybody complaining about the D-50 piano (especially compared to thepiano on the Korg M1that came one year later). Today, this is still a valid housepiano patch.Another classic D-50 pad sound.
Roland D 50 Spacious Sweep
Beautiful.Happy fusion solo synthNice log drum / flute split.Strings with extremely fast attack.Punchy, 'meaty' polysynth patch.Digital sound.Hypnotic organ sound.Classic 'drawbars all out' Hammond sound!Pure Heaven. This is my favoritepatch ever, and the perfect pad.Another excellent ethic bell patch.Standard split.Excellent for film-scoring.Obviously inspired by Roland's ownJX-seriesClassic D-50 patch, similar to the E-mu Emulator II's famous sampleused in Peter Gabriel's 'Sledgehammer'.Very realistic and useful.Reminds me of a certain sound used by Wendy Carlos inthe soundtrack of 'The Clockwork Orange'Guitar-like patch.Powerful digital patch.Classic '80s sound.Useful split. Note how powerful the synth brassis, using only two partials.Lovely Baroque-style string ensemble.Perfect syn-brass.Digital but with a nice character and realisticattack.Very nice and typically LA breathy pad.Synthesized piano that's strangely more realistic than the'Piano Fifty' patch.Another very famous D-50 patch.Incredible special FX, alien-like sound.Spiky synth.Mega-powerful synthesizer bass. Verydigital in nature. Watch your woofers.Pensive, electronic spacey pad.Realistic trombone patch.Another excellent New Age sound.Beautiful character.Clean electric piano.Additional Roland D-50 audio demos- an ambient demo I created utilizing aD-50 only. Roland D-50 tips, suggestions and tricksInitializing the D-50:turn on while pressing 'DATA TRANSFER' and '0' at the same time.
This willclear the internal cache and solve MIDI problems.LOADING SYSEX BULK DUMPS FROMCAKEWALK SONAR: The Roland D-50 is an older generation machine,so I found that when I'm sending sysex data from modern sequencers such as theone I use, Cakewalk Sonar, I get the 'MIDI transmission error' message, becausethe synth cannot handle the speed at which the sequencer is sending the sysexdata. The solution, found on Sonar's sysex Help section, is to tweak the 'TTSEQ.ini'file in the Sonar folder - basically setting the 'SysxSendPacketSize' to 64 asshown in the screen print below. This makes the flow slow enough that theD-50 will be able to handle it.ALSO IMPORTANT: Whensetting up the D-50 to receive the sysex data: MAKE SURE YOU HOLD DOWN THE'DATA TRANSFER' button when you press '(B.LOAD)'. Then you can release thetwo buttons and finally press 'ENTER'. If you don't keep the 'DATATRANSFER' button pressed at the same time, the bulk load won't work.Finally, sometimes the D-50 will freeze after completing the data transfer.Not to worry.
Roland D-50 Vst
Just turn it off and on again, and it will go back tonormal, with the new patches you just loaded in memory ready to play.ALSO NOTE: SOME MIDI INTERFACESDON'T SEEM TO WORK WITH THE D-50 - This had me scratching my head!I was trying to load patches from Sonar to the D-50 via an M-Audio 'MIDISportUno' interface: I have used this handy little interface extensively withmy laptop and never had any problem. BUT, with the D-50, THE 'UNO' DOES NOT WORK,no matter what settings on the ttseq.ini file. After an hour of trying andgetting MIDI errors, I switched to my older M-Audio USB MIDISport 1x1, and thatWORKS FINE. In the past, I used an Opcode MIDI Translator that also workedfine. And I will try with the MIDI on the M-Audio FireWire 1814 and willreport about that one.