uriel garcia PN-D50-00, and usually it comes as a part of the D50 package, not for sale. But you can also get it as a SysEx file from many D50 blog archives.
Michael Souhoka I used to have back ups of all the best D50 patches, but they're on a fat mac 3 1/2 inch floppy somewhere, probably lost to entropy and bit rot at this point. I want point, I found patches online, but they're probably all long gone thanks to copyrights. If anyone wants to private message me where to regain all my patches for sysex upload, I would be grateful!
@@Examigan Yes, it has all those factory presets (PN-D50-00) built-in, also includes presets from PN-D50-01 to 04. These presets are also included in the new Roland Boutique D-05.
i fell in HOPELESS LOVE with the D-50 when i was released. nothing sounded like it and nothing since. I always felt it sounded like CHRISTMAS. i cant explain why. it had this ICY sound which you could layer on its Digital Warmth, it was by far the most Wide Ranging of all the synths up to its release and it was a huge hit. it is good for evolving dizzying textures. this video sure brings back those memories.
I like your playing, Mr. Ujiie-san! Your chords are incredibly complex, but rarely dissonant - they're so uplifting! Your style reminds me of the short tunes played before The Roland D-50 is the essence of a digital hybrid (PCM+Subtractive) synthesizer. Like another commenter said, I always found these kinds of sounds very Christmassy. They're simultaneously warm and cold, both obviously electronic and full of the breath and airiness of acoustic instruments. It's both organic and synthetic, and since electricity is a force of nature - why not both? These sounds are so iconic that the General MIDI standard literally requires imitations of them in every compliant keyboard. These sounds remind me of a hidden nostalgia both for a time I was never alive, and for as long as I've been alive and aware of pop and video game music - they're everywhere, but you don't hear them as often.
This Synthesizer Roland D-50 is far the best and I give credit for all the engineers and engineering that went into making this. I still have mine and use this for composing my music.
You can name a Top 40 hit with each preset of the Roland D50. It really became Roland flagship synth for a full decade. It was my first professional level synthesizer.
It's the sound of British Television in the 1990s because it (along with a few other Roland units) are what the BBC used for music production for pretty much the entire decade.
It was my first pro-synth as well! As a teenager, I worked for an entire summer and saved enough to either buy a used car or a used D-50 with a stand and a 200w Peavy amp. Never regretted my decision once!
This is an excellent channel. Demos are always very good with excellent commentary. The sounds this unit produces are excellent even by today’s standards.
Well, if Roland introduced the D-50 in 1984, they would've made a splash, no doubt. However, having 1MB of onboard samples in 1984 would have been totallly prohibitive. Such instrument would have to cost probably around $5,000 in in 1984. But yes, Roland fired back with the D-50 in 1987 which was right about the same time as Yamaha introduced the DX7II. So yeah, Roland fired back a the DX7II, and very successfully at that.
Thank you Ujiie-sama for your great videos, I have heard some of the most beautiful sounds from your playing. Hearing your playing reminds me of the magic of piano and keyboards. Thank you
Ironically, because of the very expensive ROM memory back in 1987, they made a very tastefully designed instrument. It has all a synthesizer should have, which is saw and square wave generator with variable pulse width and ring modulor, and it has 76 short samples (some looped spectra) sprinkled all over, but in very tasteful manner, again. That's what makes this instrument so particularly beautiful. Now, with more ROM and RAM than brains, we get products that we get...
The sounds of the Roland D-50 were OUT OF THIS WORLD back then. I don't think it sounds outdated by today's standards, but all you need to do is add it to your DAW like a MIDI controller or something and just buy some VSTs that adds some realism to the atmospheric feel of the D-50.
Love this keyboard!!! remember Toto, Michael Jackson, Van Halen, Huey Lewis and the news .. Sounds as Living Calliope, Horn section, Fantasia, Digital native dance, Slow rotor, futur pad... This keyboard is a Legend!!
The V-synth and VariOS can emulate a D-50 when you use the VC-1 card. They're said to be able to perfectly replicate its fuzzy sound. The D-50 isn't a ROMpler, by the way. It has a stand alone synthesizer engine that's pretty powerful. Most patches available online don't contain samples. The Roland D-70 is a ROMpler, though. It shares many samples with the D-50 (it can play Digital Native Dance too).
AztecWarrior707 Im awaiting the D-50 PN-00 sound card as my D-550 doesnt seem to have that on it soon as i get the sound card ill be playing things like the opening of Faith by George Michael,church music etc. The cathedral organ is like a huge pipe organ that has been squeezed into a keyboard.
yes the pn-00 contains the original factory patches, and yes you can download all the banks from the Roland cards and transfer them using "midi-ox(PC)" or ."sysex librarian (MAC)" i use sysex librarian, you can also back up your sounds from your d50 before you install the new banks, i always back up before loading new banks
The D50 is unique. I have used one on many occasions and "OK Chorale" still gives me shivers. IThe keyboard is a real solid brick of a machine, and nice looking too, but very heavy. If you are looking to get one for the sounds, get the D550 module as the MIDI is a lot more responsive.
At 4:27, that is "Digital Native Dance", the most beautiful sound patch of D-50 that I love. The percussive loop after the pad sounds like a dancing Gods and Godess.
Sorry, but I am going to have to correct Katsunori San here. D-50 came out in 1987 (okay, Eric Persing had it year and a half before, but that's Eric Persing who designed factory patches and decided on what goes into D-50 sample ROM, I think...). Anyway, DX7 came out in 1983, much earlier than D-50. DX7II came out in 1987, but it was too late for Yamaha to recapture the world with yet another FM synth, so they had to go D-50 and M1 route and introduce SY77 in 1989. Breathtaking story...
I love the D-50. It depressing though how mainstream public reacts to it. To me, the preset 24 loops based on the 76 samples in ROM, those preset loops are the least appealilng part of the istrument. They were simply equivalents of demo songs. They put demo sounds instead. And yet, moste people see the D-50 as those presets loops only. It saddens me...
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hahaha! 4:32 those little drum beat sounds.....very Roland. I have a cheap old Roland E-30 that I use for a MIDI controller and it has a similar sound onboard called "one note jam"....sounds a lot like that, but they removed the pitched portion of the patch.
Whew!.. Not sure the exact word to say about this... Beautiful? I've commented on here before but wanted to revisit this and make another comment. :) The Fantasia family of samples are my samples... They hold a special place in my heart... There's other versions of Fantasia: Fantasia 2 (bright version), and Night Vision (brighter version). :) You can find them in a program called: Acoustica Mixcraft. :)
Best thing is D-50 can sound 100% better than these 80s presets, bypass that PCM stuff and you have probably the warmest digital ever made (and has live oscillators like an early VA). D-50 is one of the best synths ever, not for doing PCM/Rompler stuff but for all the other things it can do and how it sounds doing them!
I like to found one Keyboard with every electric FM Pianos of Yamaha DX7, Dyno Piano of 01/W FD Korg, Roland D-50. Where can I found!? But, not expensive! Greetings from Brasil!!! Congratulations!!! You are Great!!!
Awesome demo. No BS twisting of knobs and making useless strange sounds. One of the best sounding synths of all time still have the little brother D550 in the rack
never had an oportunity to own one, wish i could have because alot of the new ones even though they are better, this one here, had some amazing sounds that you cant get from alot of the new ones
My most memorable and first time i hear the Roland D-50 was on a tune of Shawn Lane on the album power of ten, exactly the first preset Ijiie play before talking
A rare feature was also the joystick making dramatic, simultaneous real-time changes of various parameters possible (filter sweeps, LFO rate etc.). Unfortunately it is only used once in this video in 1 dimension (up & down).
@GNeuman I must agree synth sound technologies evolution slowed down, but now, the real developments are the interface and sequencing - take a look at monome, ableton, elektron, kaosspad, lemur - all of those greatly revolutionized the way music can be played
Yamaha DX7, KX5, Roland D-50, Honda CBX, Ferrari 288GTO, Testarossa, Lamborghini Countach, 1984 Porsche 911, need I say more? Beautiful timeless designs...
Auralaffinity is right. Everywhere i was looking for patches for my micron, radias, blofeld, microkorg and many vst's that sounded like the 80's. I found some (and some really good ones), but if you are looking for 80's sounds you should buy a 80's synth! That's why i bought the Roland D50! :)
I remember all of those patch names...
0:04 - Future Pad, 1:28 - PCM E. Piano, 2:20 - Fantasia, 2:46 - Metal Harp, 3:00 - Arco Strings, 3:37 - Horn Section, 3:58 - D-50 Voices, 4:13 - Slow Rotor, 4:25 - Digital Native Dance, 4:54 - Flute/Piano Duo, 5:15 - Combie Strings, 5:25 - Nylon Atmosphere, 5:53 - Synthetic Electric, 6:12 - Intruder FX, 6:38 - OK Chorale, 7:21 - Jete Strings, 7:35 - Future Pad (reprise)
Do u know the memory card number for those patches
uriel garcia PN-D50-00, and usually it comes as a part of the D50 package, not for sale. But you can also get it as a SysEx file from many D50 blog archives.
Michael Souhoka I used to have back ups of all the best D50 patches, but they're on a fat mac 3 1/2 inch floppy somewhere, probably lost to entropy and bit rot at this point. I want point, I found patches online, but they're probably all long gone thanks to copyrights. If anyone wants to private message me where to regain all my patches for sysex upload, I would be grateful!
@@MichaelSouhoka Does the Roland Cloud D-50 plugin have those already, and if not, can I use them?
@@Examigan Yes, it has all those factory presets (PN-D50-00) built-in, also includes presets from PN-D50-01 to 04. These presets are also included in the new Roland Boutique D-05.
i literally cry everytime this man plays an improv. his stuff is just so epic
Look at his Yamaha DX7 review. His improv there is epic!
D-50の音色いつ聴いても素晴らしい‼︎
This guy's synth demos are the best on the planet.
i fell in HOPELESS LOVE with the D-50 when i was released. nothing sounded like it and nothing since. I always felt it sounded like CHRISTMAS. i cant explain why. it had this ICY sound which you could layer on its Digital Warmth, it was by far the most Wide Ranging of all the synths up to its release and it was a huge hit. it is good for evolving dizzying textures. this video sure brings back those memories.
I always thought it was a very Christmas-sounding synth too.
i like when he say,s "PCM SOUND GENERATOR" cool dude !!!!
1:51
I like your playing, Mr. Ujiie-san! Your chords are incredibly complex, but rarely dissonant - they're so uplifting! Your style reminds me of the short tunes played before
The Roland D-50 is the essence of a digital hybrid (PCM+Subtractive) synthesizer. Like another commenter said, I always found these kinds of sounds very Christmassy. They're simultaneously warm and cold, both obviously electronic and full of the breath and airiness of acoustic instruments. It's both organic and synthetic, and since electricity is a force of nature - why not both? These sounds are so iconic that the General MIDI standard literally requires imitations of them in every compliant keyboard. These sounds remind me of a hidden nostalgia both for a time I was never alive, and for as long as I've been alive and aware of pop and video game music - they're everywhere, but you don't hear them as often.
30年くらいたってるのにそれほどには今と変わらない気がする。
氏家先生、こんにちは。そう、全くおっしゃる通り、ファンタジア、本当に素晴らしい、デジタルリバーブを標準に組み入れてくれた事がすごく刺激になりました。残念ながら僕はユーザーにはなれなかったのだけれど、GAIAユーザーで勘弁してください。あれ、ディレイとリバーブがとっても素敵に聴こえるんですよ。GAIA買ってみてください、シンセサイザー初心者さんには本当にお薦めです。ローランドさんありがとう。
I bought the very first D50 sold in San Francisco in early 1987.
Poke Mon , I bought the 1217th sold in Birmingham England 1989
I bought the cheapest one 50 euro
con fuzz it’s missing the mainboard, eh? 😜
@@ckeilah no really not joking bought it for 50 euro with 2 romcards and a memory card , also a jv1080 for 75 and m1r for 100
con fuzz congratulations! Sounds amazing.
This Synthesizer Roland D-50 is far the best and I give credit for all the engineers and engineering that went into making this. I still have mine and use this for composing my music.
You can name a Top 40 hit with each preset of the Roland D50. It really became Roland flagship synth for a full decade. It was my first professional level synthesizer.
It's the sound of British Television in the 1990s because it (along with a few other Roland units) are what the BBC used for music production for pretty much the entire decade.
It was my first pro-synth as well! As a teenager, I worked for an entire summer and saved enough to either buy a used car or a used D-50 with a stand and a 200w Peavy amp. Never regretted my decision once!
The D-50 was an amazing machine. It's nice to hear it again.
This is an excellent channel. Demos are always very good with excellent commentary. The sounds this unit produces are excellent even by today’s standards.
氏家師匠はなんでこんなに素晴らしいの・・・。
D-50は私のメインキーボードにしてました。これに音源モジュールのU-110が基本セット。
ピアノの音だけは別に1台あったけど、打ちこみなんかはこれがメインでしたね。
CMのBGMの作曲でいい働きしてくれました。
アタック強めのストリングス好きだったな。ブラスも良かった。良いシンセでしたね。
all reviews should be like that
6:40からの音といい演奏といい、素晴らしい。
Well, if Roland introduced the D-50 in 1984, they would've made a splash, no doubt. However, having 1MB of onboard samples in 1984 would have been totallly prohibitive. Such instrument would have to cost probably around $5,000 in in 1984. But yes, Roland fired back with the D-50 in 1987 which was right about the same time as Yamaha introduced the DX7II. So yeah, Roland fired back a the DX7II, and very successfully at that.
Great D50 Synthesizer !!!!!
Domo Arigato Katsunori for this great demo!
Thank you Ujiie-sama for your great videos, I have heard some of the most beautiful sounds from your playing. Hearing your playing reminds me of the magic of piano and keyboards. Thank you
Ironically, because of the very expensive ROM memory back in 1987, they made a very tastefully designed instrument. It has all a synthesizer should have, which is saw and square wave generator with variable pulse width and ring modulor, and it has 76 short samples (some looped spectra) sprinkled all over, but in very tasteful manner, again. That's what makes this instrument so particularly beautiful. Now, with more ROM and RAM than brains, we get products that we get...
The sounds of the Roland D-50 were OUT OF THIS WORLD back then.
I don't think it sounds outdated by today's standards, but all you need to do is add it to your DAW like a MIDI controller or something and just buy some VSTs that adds some realism to the atmospheric feel of the D-50.
Roland has a bit accurate emulation of the D50.
Love this keyboard!!! remember Toto, Michael Jackson, Van Halen, Huey Lewis and the news .. Sounds as Living Calliope, Horn section, Fantasia, Digital native dance, Slow rotor, futur pad... This keyboard is a Legend!!
The Roland D50 rules;excellent demo by the way!!!
Tim Fielding yep king of synths(:🎹
D50でのトラックメイキングも見てみたいな〜なんちゃって
名機ですね
The "Future Pad" patch on the Roland D-50 synthesizer was used for the 1989 Barbour/Langley Productions synthesizer jingle.
The V-synth and VariOS can emulate a D-50 when you use the VC-1 card. They're said to be able to perfectly replicate its fuzzy sound.
The D-50 isn't a ROMpler, by the way. It has a stand alone synthesizer engine that's pretty powerful. Most patches available online don't contain samples. The Roland D-70 is a ROMpler, though. It shares many samples with the D-50 (it can play Digital Native Dance too).
i love to watch you play. you sound amazing. I have the D50 too. An amazing synth. thank you for sharing.
This is the video that pushed me to buy a D50!!!
GREAT ROLAND D 50 DEMONSTRATION, ONE OF THE BEST ON THE YOU TUBE
Still have my D-50 racked up with all of my other gear. Still love it, but after hearing this demo I think I will use my old friend a bit more.
名機です❤❤❤
Great review. Had one.... Sold it... Want another one now!
I now have a D50 again!
Congratulations!
ONE OF THE BEST SYNTHS I EVER HEARD!
I had to pick between d-50 and m1r. I chose the mr1 because it was way cheaper, got it for $70 including shipping. So d-50 will have to wait :(
D-50-D-550 prices are rising fast. My D-550 has almost doubled in value since i bought it 2 yrs ago.
Paul Johnson So do I. :(
REBECCAのコピバンをしていたときに重宝したシンセです。
「Nervous But Glamorous」の上モノや「MONOTONE BOY」のオルガンなどで使ってました。
Not to mention that the cathedral organ sound was bloody awseome.
Yeah even today! i still like using it for playing the Dracula theme (Toccata And Fugue) and wedding march. etc
still impresses me
AztecWarrior707 Im awaiting the D-50 PN-00 sound card as my D-550 doesnt seem to have that on it soon as i get the sound card ill be playing things like the opening of Faith by George Michael,church music etc. The cathedral organ is like a huge pipe organ that has been squeezed into a keyboard.
Isn't the pn-00 for the factory sounds? you can get these factory sounds online and transfer them on your d50 via midi
yes the pn-00 contains the original factory patches, and yes you can download all the banks from the Roland cards and transfer them using "midi-ox(PC)" or ."sysex librarian (MAC)" i use sysex librarian, you can also back up your sounds from your d50 before you install the new banks, i always back up before loading new banks
AztecWarrior707 I have all the factory cards.
The keyboard that made the entire soundtrack to the first season of rugrats
love the guy
addicted like hell,
one of the top demo artists currently on the planet
!!!!!!!! :)
j'aime bocoup le roland D-50.
The D50 is unique. I have used one on many occasions and "OK Chorale" still gives me shivers. IThe keyboard is a real solid brick of a machine, and nice looking too, but very heavy. If you are looking to get one for the sounds, get the D550 module as the MIDI is a lot more responsive.
the music played at the start of this video is very good, I played it multiple times
I still have my D50 and love it. It was my main workhorse instrument for many years.
ROLAND D50 THE CLASSIC
Happy B-DAY D-50!!!! haha
5:53 "That sound has a nice feel to it"
- not when I play it it doesn't ;-(
Didn't understand his words but I DEFINITELY understood his LOVE and ENTHUSIASM for this great vintage synth!!!
At 4:27, that is "Digital Native Dance", the most beautiful sound patch of D-50 that I love. The percussive loop after the pad sounds like a dancing Gods and Godess.
Future pad at the beginning and the end of this video is just magic! Got my eye out for a good condition D-50 now.
A very good sound - even today😊
The SY77, SY99 are the D50's brothers by Yamaha. Similar algorithms but replace Substractive with FM plus other stuff.
At 4:27 I'm instantly transported to the blessed year 1988!!!!
his playing style combined with those digital sounds remind me of the outtro song to Super Mario 64
6:13 Vangelis used that on the opening of Will of the Wind on his Direct album 1988.
It is great fun to see your demo's! Thank you!
Sorry, but I am going to have to correct Katsunori San here. D-50 came out in 1987 (okay, Eric Persing had it year and a half before, but that's Eric Persing who designed factory patches and decided on what goes into D-50 sample ROM, I think...). Anyway, DX7 came out in 1983, much earlier than D-50. DX7II came out in 1987, but it was too late for Yamaha to recapture the world with yet another FM synth, so they had to go D-50 and M1 route and introduce SY77 in 1989. Breathtaking story...
Pokonamah uwa mah hebring dah ah salam ti urang Bogor Allo uwa tea tedi budak Sunda Bogor mangga permios sampurasun nya uwaa☺️🙏🙏🙏
the melody in the beginning is brilliant
Your demos are always the best!
Excelente teclado!
今でも欲しいキーボードです。
どっかにないかなー
Great reviews - you get to the essence of each synth !!!
I love the D-50. It depressing though how mainstream public reacts to it. To me, the preset 24 loops based on the 76 samples in ROM, those preset loops are the least appealilng part of the istrument. They were simply equivalents of demo songs. They put demo sounds instead. And yet, moste people see the D-50 as those presets loops only. It saddens me...
Don't be sad
no matter what synth i hear nothing sounds better than the sy99. even new synths just dont do it like the 99 does
Thank you I am SY99
6:16 aaand the nightmares begin.
Breakthrough synth, probably as revolutionary as the DX7 was.......Those times of astounding developments in synth technology are now long gone.......
Lovely sounding machine!
Great Demos thank you ! And thanks RUclips for the Subtitle function. Finally we can understand you :-))))
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Dudes got chops.
Just a bit.
2:46 のMetal Harp が、
八神純子さんの曲、『ANOTHER PAGE』のイントロなどに使われてますね。
うちにもD-50あります。
fantasiaお気に入りです。
リクエスト的にEX5やZ1とかも期待してますｗ
Many thanks I have my D50 next Week !!!!
hahaha! 4:32 those little drum beat sounds.....very Roland. I have a cheap old Roland E-30 that I use for a MIDI controller and it has a similar sound onboard called "one note jam"....sounds a lot like that, but they removed the pitched portion of the patch.
Super!
Love a good demo done by someone who can play.
I wanna play like him!
Whew!.. Not sure the exact word to say about this... Beautiful? I've commented on here before but wanted to revisit this and make another comment. :) The Fantasia family of samples are my samples... They hold a special place in my heart... There's other versions of Fantasia: Fantasia 2 (bright version), and Night Vision (brighter version). :) You can find them in a program called: Acoustica Mixcraft. :)
Pinnacle of quality on youtube right here!
blown away i need to check more synths
Best thing is D-50 can sound 100% better than these 80s presets, bypass that PCM stuff and you have probably the warmest digital ever made (and has live oscillators like an early VA).
D-50 is one of the best synths ever, not for doing PCM/Rompler stuff but for all the other things it can do and how it sounds doing them!
realityfakers yeh but.... we want the 80's presets....
What a sound!
I had the JV1080 rack previously..the D-50 smack it down easily..... never knew it sounds this good !
Actually, the Roland D-50 did not release until 1987.
ackthullly
I like to found one Keyboard with every electric FM Pianos of Yamaha DX7, Dyno Piano of 01/W FD Korg, Roland D-50. Where can I found!? But, not expensive! Greetings from Brasil!!! Congratulations!!! You are Great!!!
これのライバルはDXではなく、M１だな。マイケルジャクソンのBADの頃のサウンド。
Awesome demo. No BS twisting of knobs and making useless strange sounds. One of the best sounding synths of all time still have the little brother D550 in the rack
That's the synthesizer I would like to get when I have enough money to buy it.
The de 50 was released in 1987.
never had an oportunity to own one, wish i could have because alot of the new ones even though they are better, this one here, had some amazing sounds that you cant get from alot of the new ones
My most memorable and first time i hear the Roland D-50 was on a tune of Shawn Lane on the album power of ten, exactly the first preset Ijiie play before talking
A rare feature was also the joystick making dramatic, simultaneous real-time changes of various parameters possible (filter sweeps, LFO rate etc.). Unfortunately it is only used once in this video in 1 dimension (up & down).
@GNeuman I must agree synth sound technologies evolution slowed down, but now, the real developments are the interface and sequencing - take a look at monome, ableton, elektron, kaosspad, lemur - all of those greatly revolutionized the way music can be played
Yamaha DX7, KX5, Roland D-50, Honda CBX, Ferrari 288GTO, Testarossa, Lamborghini Countach, 1984 Porsche 911, need I say more? Beautiful timeless designs...
4:27 - most powerful synthesized sound ever!!!
Erasure's The Innocents album was recording mainly using the D-50 and Casio synths.
had one. sold one. missed one. just bought another on ebay!
I have this 👌🏼 Roland d-50 ☺️
4:25のプリセットが好きだった。
Oh boy,what a sound!!!
Auralaffinity is right. Everywhere i was looking for patches for my micron, radias, blofeld, microkorg and many vst's that sounded like the 80's. I found some (and some really good ones), but if you are looking for 80's sounds you should buy a 80's synth! That's why i bought the Roland D50! :)