Roland Clan Forums. Get new sounds for your Roland synth. D50 prefers a 'handshake transfer', so you need to have both midi in and out connected. Check your manual. Probably the D-50 got the sysex messages a way to fast. Between each sysex received must be a break of about 30 - 50 msecs. They produced a total of 6 Roland D-50 soundbanks distributed on a 3.5' floppy disk available for all supports of this time (Mac, Atari ST, Commodore 64/128 and PC). I don't know if their D-50 soundbanks have specific names other than 'Volumes 1-6' as mentioned here.
Hello all,a friend resurrected a D-50 and asked me to help him source an expansion card from ebay. I stumbled into this great project here viewtopic.php?f=24&t=76886 and we thought why not give a little extra more and get 16 cards worth of size. So he did buy one, downloaded tons of .syx sounds off the net and gave it all to me to transfer it to the card. However no matter how computer literate I might be I have no previous experience of .syx files and synths and I'm trying to find a workflow to do all that (and show it to my friend so he can continue from then on).
Please correct me if I'm wrong on the following:
From what I understood up to now .syx files contain more than one instrument sounds for a specific synth (.syx files for a Roland D-50 will be useless when loaded on a Korg, or most likely won't play even on a different Roland series).
I can repack .syx files and fill them with the instruments I prefer from other .syx files deleting the ones I don't like/use.
How many .syx files fit on a 256 card? I guess seeing that almost all are 36KB, 7 should be the maximum. I'm thinking one can't repack a .syx file to, say 254KB size, right?
If the above is correct then:
How can I preview/audition those .syx files on a pc before loading them on the card? I was given around 45MB of sounds and even though some appear to be duplicates, they are way too many to fit in even that 16x card.
After I preview them how can I edit & repack .syx files on a pc so my friend can go through that collection and make 15 .syx files (+ one with the original sounds) to finally load on the card?
How does it work between onboard synth memory and cards? Synth has X sounds in its memory, card has Y sounds and I want to add Z sounds from my PC. Do I have to copy Z sounds from PC into the onboard memory overwriting the X sounds or can I directly access the card and use the synth as a go-between leaving the X onboard sounds intact? Looking at tutorials like this one here http://www.cyan-music.com/tutorials-rol ... dling.html it's not clear if the PC can directly write .syx files on this synth's card. It seems like I first have to copy them on the onboard memory (Bulk Load) and then from the onboard memory to the card (INT>CRD).
sorry for the noob questions but I haven't found any concrete answers around and you guys here should know best. Thanks in advance.
- 3Rear Panel
- 3Front Panel
- 3Features
- 3Contents
- 5Important Notes
- 5Power
- 6Outline of the D-50
- 7Partial Block Diagram
- 7Partial (Synthesizer Sound Generator)
- 7Partial (PCM Sound Generator)
- 8Connection
- 9Play Mode
- 9Patch Selection
- 10Key Modes
- 10Memory Card
- 12Tuning
- 14Control Functions
- 14Key Transpose
- 14Aftertouch Control Knob
- 14Bender Lever
- 15Velocity
- 15Partial Balance
- 16Pedal Control
- 16Pedal Switch
- 16Expression Pedal
- 16External Control
- 17Changing Control Functions
- 19Editing Performance Controlling Functions
- 19Basic Editing Operation
- 20Compare
- 21Key Mode
- 22Volume Balance of the Tones
- 22Changing the Split Point
- 23Tone Detune
- 24Chase Play
- 25Output Mode
- 25Reverb Type
- 27Patch Control
- 28Writing
- 28Selecting a Memory Location
- 29Writing Procedure
- 31Specifications
- 32D-50 Edit Map
- 34D-50 Parameter Quick Table