Roland SC-88VL Demonstration

Comparing canyon.mid between the Roland SC-88VL and the FM synthesis of my motherboard’s onboard audio.

[@rommix0]

I had one of these for a while. I hardly ever used it, but it's really great for midi renders.

[@LittleRichard1988]

I was originally going to get a Roland SC-88vl as my first Sound Canvas in January 2010
but unfortunately I was outbid so in March 2010 I ended up with the SC-88 Pro. But in
this video those sounds were
from the SC-55 map which I think has a better clean guitar
sound compared
to the Native map which sounds a bit thin.
The synthesizer on Windows 7 is
Microsoft GS Wave-table synthesizer which is basically
a software based
synthesizer with lower quality SC-55 samples and no reverb. Adlib Sound
Blaster was FM synthesis.
Before I had a real Sound Canvas I originally made do with Microsoft Wavetable Synth or just
before I got an SC-88 Pro I was using the latest version of Virtual Sound Canvas which I
downloaded as abaondonware but it had latency issues and doesn't work with any operating
system after Windows XP. One reason for getting a Roland Sound Canvas was because I didn't
like some of the sounds in my Yamaha PSR-295 keyboard.

[@CoolDudeClem]

It maybe a legendarry peice of kit, but sounds exactly the same as a PC's built in midi playback. The sounds were always a bit thin to me.

[@42ccb]

It isn't a FM synth, but a standard Windows Microsoft GM Wavetable Synth