Unveiling the Secrets of the Roland D-50: The Definitive Vintage Synthesizer Sound Design Tutorial

This video took 11 hours to film and has over 4,350 edits so please like and subscribe to the channel if you found it helpful! Ever wondered how to make your own sounds with the Roland D-50? This is the definitive tutorial on LA synthesis and sound design, whether it be with vintage synthesizers like the Roland D-50, D-550 or JD-800, with the Roland Cloud software / VST, Zenology or Zencore, or boutiques like the D-05 or JD-08.
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I'll be using an original hardware vintage synthesizer D-50 from 1987 in concert with a PG-1000 programmer but everything I show works with the software / hardware versions I mentioned. You can even program the D-50 without the programmer directly with the membrane buttons and screen.
You'll learn every function and parameter in the D-50 as well as how to save your own patches / presets to harness the most famous digital synthesis engine of all time!
00:00 Intro
01:23 What makes the D-50 special?
03:58 PG-1000
04:29 Patches / Tones / Partials
05:17 Muting Partials / Fantasia
07:36 Hypersynth HCard-750
07:54 Initialize Preset
09:30 All 47 One-Shot Samples
12:30 All Looped Samples (Wavetables)
15:20 All Sample Loops (Wavesequences)
18:14 PG-1000 Color Coding (Crème - Partial / Blue - Tone / Red - Patch)
19:03 Structures
21:31 Waveforms (Oscillators - WG Waveform)
24:03 Pulse Width Modulation (PWM)
25:24 LFO's
30:27 Filter (TVF - Time Variant Filter)
36:14 Bias
39:36 Envelopes
51:44 Time Key Follow + Depth Key Follow
57:27 Filter Modulation by LFO
1:00:52 Blade Runner / Vangelis Lead Patch Design
1:01:43 Why can't I hear Partial 2? (Fixing Init Preset Problems)
1:05:41 Amplifier (TVA - Time Variant Amplifier)
1:06:43 Amplitude Modulation
1:16:38 Vibrato (WG Pitch)
1:22:10 Equalizer (EQ)
1:25:32 Chorus (All Chorus Patches)
1:28:51 Output Modes
1:30:10 Reverb (All Reverb Patches)
1:38:02 Blade Runner / Vangelis Lead Patch Demo
1:38:32 Writing and Naming Patches
1:40:20 Making a Kick Drum
1:43:00 Pitch Envelope
1:51:16 Key Modes (Whole, Dual, Split, Solo / Monophonic)
1:55:00 Analog Brass Patch Design ala Kawai K3
2:06:12 Auto-Bend one Partial (That 80's Brass Trick)
2:16:37 Patch Parameters (Tone Pitch Shift, Balance)
2:19:53 Bend Modes
2:21:16 Portamento (Modes, Hold Modes)
2:23:11 Chase Modes
2:35:51 Analog Brass ala Kawai K3 Patch Demo
2:36:02 Compare Patches
2:36:52 Pretty Hate Machine / Wavesequencing Patch Design
2:37:57 Ring Modulation
2:47:03 Working with Loops (Wavesequences)
2:56:41 Pretty Hate Machine / Wavesequencing Patch Demo
2:57:06 Outro