I love this synth. I used to have one, I did the internal expansion for more banks and stuff. I sold it on 2010 for about $450, what a fool! I got another one a few months ago from a pawnshop for $120. Sounds amazing! Everybody should have a D-50. It fills all the gaps.
I think you talking about the Musitronics M.EX board…I really wanted one but never got one😢. It would allow to split the board with 8 sounds and receive on 8 separate MIDI channels with 8 different sounds similar to an MT-32.
Yeah, pretty simple. Get your D50, if you want more banks and such, just get the VST. It makes no sense to expand external hardware, at the end you are going to gravitate to your DAW top have things done.@@yubasutterdroneguy1433
🙏 These are amazing Elmar, great patch programming there 👏. I still have my original D-50 with rare Musitronics M-EX daughter board and later I bought the 550 still in my rack. Such an 'organic' 8-bit pallette as others mention due to DAC's & related electronics of that time, still use them in my tracks - keepers.... would you mind sharing here, a link to these patches?? 🙌
Great sounds! People often praise the Roland-50/550, although they usually forget about the JV-880, XP-50, JV-1080 and 2080, XV-5080, Integra, Fantom X, Juno DS and FA series, which are much more powerful and sound both softer or sharper, more analog or more digital when needed. I love the D-50, but I also know that later synths are even better. I find it a little unhealthy and strange to be obsessed with praising the synth based on single waveforms while not enjoying the flexibility of the more powerful Rolands of the 90s.
Thank you very much. In my opinion, later Roland Synths are of course more powerful and flexibel. But the real unique warm and deep sound of a D-50 they cannot reach. I love the Original more.
I agree that the D-50 has very unique palette, but I wouldn't say that the synth with harsh early-digital one-shot 8 bit waveforms and very dull early digital FXs sounds 'warm'. It sounds very digital and cold (btw it is okay to sound digital). Also disagree about inability of later synths to sound like this. It is the matter of how sounds are designed. In fact it is D-50 which cannot sound like later synths, not vice versa. Well, having that said, I still have a D-05 Boutique as my favourite synth.
@@Acrimonious_Snake The sound of the D-50/D-550 can be regarded (and mainly does) as unique because of the dedicated op-amp and DAC chips, which are not inherited by its descendants you've mentioned before. There's no doubt about the power and versatility of the Fantom, Integra and XV series but they're just different in terms of IC's used compared to D-50
Every digital synth has its own DAC. Still there is no reason to value D-50 more than, let's say, JV-1080. The latter during the 90s was in every studio and is involved in more music. I am not against D-50, I love it, but simply don't understand why people praise it and at the same time don't praise other similar Rolands. For example, on a local forum I've seen a D-50 for sale for 1000$ while mint JV-1080 goes for 300$ and brand new Juno DS 76 cost me 800$ in a store. That is surreal.
@@Acrimonious_Snake Yeah, the difference between the D50 and the JV1080 is that the D50 still had these SAW and SQUARE waves seperate from the sample section. Sort of virtual analog. Therefore U can actually use PWM on them, like on the D-10, D-110. Unfortunately on the latter ones that PWM was only assignable to key velocity, which is very limiting.
Absolut klasse Sounds, den D-50 habe ich viele Jahre auf der Bühne gespielt, heute habe ich immer noch einen D-550 im Studio, da kommen Geräte wie ein Fantom oder Integra 7 einfach nicht ran. Sind die Sounds im Video eigene Kreationen ?
Herzlichen Dank. Ganz deiner Meinung. Auch der D-05 oder die V-Card im V-Synth können nicht mit dem Original mithalten. Die Sounds sind teils eigen, teils aber aus dem Netz.
@@elmarmihm1357the D-05 doesn’t sound as good as the original ? I have the D05 and didn’t compare side by side but all the ones that did it agree that D05 sound like the D50 (Gordon Reid in sound on sounds and elsewhere)
Elmar Mihm amazing sounds. Do they come from existing banks (if so from which developers please), where are they original sounds that you have created? THANKS ...
