I walked into a music store in London to get a pair of drumsticks early summer of 1987...shell-shocked, walked out with a D50. Played it to a friend of mine, he went straight in there and bought one. I still have it, with the M.EX upgrade. I had a Korg M1, and an M3 as well, and whilst they were inexplicably more popular I sold mine early 90s but kept the D50.
Great video! I have had a D-50 for decades and still love it! Thanks for bringing the D=50 back into the light again. And, great playing on your part as well!
thanks for this time travel! at the beginning of the 90's a fellow student of mine had a D50 and we spent many hours sitting in front of it, exploring and improvising, over several glasses of ouzo😅. I personally had a Yamaha SY-22...somehow a similar technical league, but not so popular. I loved mine, but sure sold it somewhen...
WoW !!! You played all my favorite patches. Spent hours just goofing off back in the early '90's. Now I have to pull my D-50 out of the closet this weekend !!!
Yes definitivly my synth highlight in the 80s, I have a Roland D 05 cause the old ones are hard to find in good condition.. As the budget came out then, I grab it. Cause I missed my D 50 I once sold.. The D 05 has the benefit to have all sounds from all rare Original Roland cards inside plus an additional new Bank only made for the D 05.. The good thing is also that these Sounds all are preset in ROM, you never loose them cause you overwrite change them.. The D 05 has a seperate RAM area to save your own patches.. wich is quite cool. Also I have from DTronics the new just came out DT 1000 in original PG 1000 size with also faders now.. Very comfortable duo. I love it.
Had one when I was 17. Paid $1500 with the four cards at Sam Ash. For over a year to get it. I remember DLR's Skyscraper album and screaming, "That's a D50!" Man I loved that board.
I love the D-50! It was my first keyboard. Mom bought it when I was 13 back in 88. I used it to play aux keys with our choir. I still have it although I let our youth group borrow it and it was damaged. I was told it probably wouldn’t be worth getting it repaired but I miss playing it. Thanks for a great trip down memory lane. Subscribed!
It cannot be overstated how much of a quantum leap this axe was at the time. In the studio, we were arriving at these complex sounds through stacking various synths and FX, but now this was available in one package - ready for the road. It was like the world, previously available to Fairlight users exclusively, had just opened up for a relatively small price. Changed my touring arsenal exponentially…
I have (almost) all of them from that era: DX7 IIFD, M1, JD800, and a D50. The D50 is just sooo lush sounding, even today. Really, nothing else sounds like it IMO.
Listen to Rich Mullins song While The Nations Rage released in 1989. The intro and outro…I’m hearing Roland D-50! Appreciate you Pierre and greatly respect your incredible gift in music!
I own the Roland Cloud emulation. Basically like having that minus the weight and the space it takes up. I do various types of pop music and use D-50 a fair amount. Sometimes I enjoy just scrolling through the several factory banks and seeing what happens when I play chords or engage aftertouch.
Thank you, Pierre, for introducing this great piece of technology to us. It is so nostalgic to listen to these sounds bringing back memories from the end of the last century. And the PS sound is stunning!
Still a great synth, have a few 3rd party cards. Bought mine around 1989, still have it. Had to replace the internal battery, not too difficult. Had several custom patches in internal memory. Backed up but haven’t had time to reload. Thanks for the post
I see someone lauding a D-50, I subscribe...lol. Awesome video, took me back to those iconic sounds. To be honest, we got so used to those same sounds being used on so many songs because it was real pain to program. It took me a loooong time to get deep into it to really create my own sounds, but the scope of what is possible once you get under the hood is amazing. Same experience with the Korg Wavestation I also used to have. Fortunately they had awesome factory sounds so they were very usable sounds straight out of the box.
There's a song "Violet" by Seal, which begins with "Soundtrack" preset. I don't know what patch is the solo that follows, but to my ear it's D50 as well.
I remember seeing and trying this in a music shop back in the day, blown away. Back when new synth patches had character, and you could still be in awe. Luckily, I can recreate many of those sounds on my dear Juno-Di, which still uses a sort of that 4-partial system.
I had a s/h D-50 in 1993 but with its keyboard it was almost impossible to trigger AT. When played with a Korg T1 weighted keyboard, it sounded way different. Thus I got rid of. Several years later, I got a D-05. What amazes me is that D-50 and D-05 sound still actual.
I’ve got a Roland FA06 and it’s got all the D50 presets you played as well as Juno, jupiter all the TR drums. Loved all the old 80s tunes you were playing, I’ve had to subscribe 👍🏾
I know nothing about keyboards. I'm just a self taught piano player since 2020. But since this is a Roland video, I have several videos playing the Roland Piano at Costco and I might buy it when it goes on sale tomorrow? My cheap keyboard has only 5 sounds but the synth sounded good when I played Jump. Wish I could play like you Pierre. 🎹 👍
Great video! DX7 e D-50 are my favorite synth. I love the 80's sound's and these synth express at their best the wonderful sounds that could be heard in the songs of the time and for example ( staccato heaven ) of the D-50 is a beautiful sound.
Love the songs you played to demo each patch. My Korg X5 has many of the same sounds. I'm fascinated how each manufacturer handles general midi sound quality.
Wow love this video ❤ I want to hear more stuff from this one!!! I still have the Roland E-20 that i got new in 89 and many of these sounds was brought over from the D-50 that was released just one year before the E-20. I should do a video about the Roland E-20 Arranger. Speeking of arranger, next week i will get mu Genos 2 deliverd 😮!
As a student I bought a D20 used (all I could afford 😅) It was more versatile than I thought, even TB-303 it could do pretty convincingly. It also had floppy as a sequencer. Due to on how sounds are created (parts) note stealing can be an issue though (particular sounds with long tails). The D50 I was not that fond of untill I read that Enya used it for the most part on her Watermark album (still a nice album 👍). At the moment I got a Jupiter 50 a.o. and is a bit of a hidden gem. It got mixed reviews and the concept of a performance orientated instead of workstation didn't catch on. Bought that for a third of retail 🤠
Totally love my D-50. Running it through a decent reverb pedal like a Strymon, Empress, TC etc. makes it a cinematic pad powerhouse. I also recommend the Hcard 750 that comes with 20 banks of categorised, useful and great patches. I offers a total of 64 banks (4096 patches).
Many General MIDI patches, which is a standard in any modern keyboard, originated from the D-50, such as: -Fantasia -D-50 Voices ("Choir Pad" in Yamaha, "Space Voices" in newer Roland products) -Soundtrack -Calliope -Polysynth -Shakuhachi -Pianissimo (named as "Atmosphere" )
It's crazy that during that era of Synths - so many artists just used presets! You were very limited with the D50 having 64 presets vs 1920 on the original Montage synth. So many choices now.
Was waiting for the Afterthought and pizza gogo patches and you didn't disappoint!!! Congrats on the purchase! I have the Roland FP90 and the XP30! The XP30 has a many of these but is tough to configure for live performance without midi and a laptop so I just use it for horns, bass and occasional LA piano!
Best thing about Roland boards is the joystick-style pitch/mod control. So intuitive and playable. Why anyone puts out boards with dual wheels is beyond me. And these days it seems like 90% of keys have the wheels (which I HATE!!! If I haven't made that clear😂) The ideal setup, in my opinion, is a YAMAHA MODX8+ on the bottom and a Roland Fantom-06 on top. Total about $3500-$3700. You get the superior Yamaha sounds on all the patches that don't need bend/vibrato and you get MUCH simpler bend/mod plus the lighter, spring-loaded keys for playing faster, more expressive solos.
The reverbs we're so good that the first thing studios did was to strip the presets from their internal fx dry to put decent outboard on it , if you printed them to tape with the onboard fx you ran into trouble frequencywise as soon as you used more than 1 D50 sound
The nostalgia is off the charts. Great playing on a legend of a synth. Which song is played with the Stereo Polysynth patch here? Thanks for making excellent content.
Really nice playing and warm inviting looking practice room or home studio. This does make me a little sad that I sold mine. The other thing that I really like about the D-50 besides the sounds is the keyboard. To me it has some of the best feeling synth action keys I've ever played on.
Just wanted to add, for the connaisseurs among you, that Bent used the D50 for the song "swollen". I think it was the adjusted presets "MelloTones" and "BriteFifth".
yeah always fancied one in nice condition. They were amazing to listen to in 1987... nothing like it!! Everyone was talking about Fairlights and Synclaviers when describing this... most are bashed up now. Same with the Wavestation. Damn those combi strings and brass... you would hear that on a load of CDs on Private Music like John Tesh, Tangerine Dream, David Van Tiegham, Nona Hendryx et al... not sure how those recordings hold up now but they were inspirational for me in 87/88
03:24 Digital Native Dance is the "Willhelm scream" of synthesizer patches. You hear that EVERYWHERE in 80's and 90's songs. I even heard it in a The Cult song lol.
Man. You are the gift that keeps on giving! That calliope patch is also in Man in the Mirror after the end of the first chorus (as I’m sure you’re already aware!)
That was amazeballs. Its a pad monster as well, kind of the predecessor of the jd-800 in a way. I particularly like the "breathy" early digital reverb that is all over a lot of these patches. Something about it, just says Enya right away lol. Thank you , subscribed! btw I think sailing was done in '79 so not a D-50 song, but I had to check because you made it sound so convincing.
One way the D50 shines is that the ADSR envelopes can be VERY long. Like ridiculously long. Set a super slow attack and decay, and you can hold a chord, and have a sound that slowly evolves and changes over seconds to minutes. This made it really popular with television composers as they could have long evolving pad sounds to score shows. Also as a D50 owner you HAVE to Digital Native Dance, and Pizzagogo.
Stereo Polysynth is 100% trying to be a Sequential Prophet-V. Outstanding copy of that sound. Listen to "OCOE" by Pages (1981, the sound this patch is copying) that's it to a T.
The late 80's big 3 - DX7, M1 and the Great D-50. Although I loved the "external processed" sound of the DX7, it was weak without using external processing. The D-50 and M1 were massive sounding keyboards right out of the box, and by far my favorites. I have an original D-50 and M1. I also have the D-05 that I use regularly for the D-50 sounds. Great video as always!
This is awesome but now you need to do another video where you're just doing ambient stuff with a sustain pedal and doodling with the joystick and mod/velocity stuff! If you turn on one or both of the Partial Balance buttons then the joystick ... uhh ... balances the partials LOL. If you know the good D-50 patches it's cool to see all the clones and variations in other Roland synths - especially the '90s ones like the JV-1080 and XV-5080. Although sometimes they're very different. The JX-8P Soundtrack patch is much more of a deep ambient thing than the D-50 Soundtrack. But... I was in high school in the '90s and I can't hear ANY of the stock DX7 or D-50 patches without it feeling super cliche. Those bright percussive-mixed-with-glassy-hi-fi-pad sounds really stand out to me even more than an 808 cowbell. Many were as ubiquitous as that M1 house piano patch everybody used. I still love all the Eric Persing stuff. I think the last Roland thing Spectrasonics did was the 2002 SRX-05 Supreme Dance expansion. That's my favorite.
I didnt own a D-50 but I owned the XP-50 which came right after. A lot of those patches sound familiar. Not earth-shattering by todays Fantom/Montage standards, but for the time period it felt like NASA under your fingers. The XP had a great Tone Wheel patch. Not sure if it was ported from the D or a new addition.
The XP-50 came 10 years later; it has nothing to do with the D-50. The D-70, D-5, U series, JD series, and JV series came before the XP. There are some classic Roland sounds, like Fantasia, that have been around in every synth since the D-50, but that is it.
Wow, the "Sailing" D-50 homage was amazing!
Never clicked a video faster 🎉
I walked into a music store in London to get a pair of drumsticks early summer of 1987...shell-shocked, walked out with a D50. Played it to a friend of mine, he went straight in there and bought one. I still have it, with the M.EX upgrade. I had a Korg M1, and an M3 as well, and whilst they were inexplicably more popular I sold mine early 90s but kept the D50.
66 years old, I had one of these, a Dx7, Matrix 1000, Korg Poly six and a few other boards back in the day. Does bring back memories of this keyboard.
Still absolutely amazing even with today's instruments ❤❤❤
Still have this synth and it still sounds amazing!
Listening to you is like stepping into a time machine. You definitely have one of the best channels on RUclips!
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Thanks!!
So true! All these games were played during nights with the famous Playstation sound + so many songs with these synthesis sounds.
Iconic synth man. Sounds stunning!
Wonderful Pierre Thanks for the tour down memory lane with an iconic time machine. Bravo!!
Great video! I have had a D-50 for decades and still love it! Thanks for bringing the D=50 back into the light again. And, great playing on your part as well!
"OK Chorale" and "Glass Voices". Two more iconic patches.
thanks for this time travel! at the beginning of the 90's a fellow student of mine had a D50 and we spent many hours sitting in front of it, exploring and improvising, over several glasses of ouzo😅. I personally had a Yamaha SY-22...somehow a similar technical league, but not so popular. I loved mine, but sure sold it somewhen...
WoW !!! You played all my favorite patches. Spent hours just goofing off back in the early '90's. Now I have to pull my D-50 out of the closet this weekend !!!
Yes definitivly my synth highlight in the 80s, I have a Roland D 05 cause the old ones are hard to find in good condition..
As the budget came out then, I grab it. Cause I missed my D 50 I once sold..
The D 05 has the benefit to have all sounds from all rare Original Roland cards inside plus an additional new Bank only made for the D 05.. The good thing is also that these Sounds all are preset in ROM, you never loose them cause you overwrite change them..
The D 05 has a seperate RAM area to save your own patches.. wich is quite cool.
Also I have from DTronics the new just came out DT 1000 in original PG 1000 size with also faders now..
Very comfortable duo. I love it.
This brings back memories. A buddy had this and I ended up getting the D-70 a few years later.
Had one when I was 17. Paid $1500 with the four cards at Sam Ash. For over a year to get it. I remember DLR's Skyscraper album and screaming, "That's a D50!" Man I loved that board.
I love the D-50! It was my first keyboard. Mom bought it when I was 13 back in 88. I used it to play aux keys with our choir. I still have it although I let our youth group borrow it and it was damaged. I was told it probably wouldn’t be worth getting it repaired but I miss playing it. Thanks for a great trip down memory lane. Subscribed!
It cannot be overstated how much of a quantum leap this axe was at the time.
In the studio, we were arriving at these complex sounds through stacking various synths and FX, but now this was available in one package - ready for the road.
It was like the world, previously available to Fairlight users exclusively, had just opened up for a relatively small price.
Changed my touring arsenal exponentially…
All of the sounds are very dreamy and ethereal. David Foster probably used every preset in that keyboard 😁
I have (almost) all of them from that era: DX7 IIFD, M1, JD800, and a D50. The D50 is just sooo lush sounding, even today. Really, nothing else sounds like it IMO.
Listen to Rich Mullins song While The Nations Rage released in 1989. The intro and outro…I’m hearing Roland D-50!
Appreciate you Pierre and greatly respect your incredible gift in music!
I own the Roland Cloud emulation. Basically like having that minus the weight and the space it takes up. I do various types of pop music and use D-50 a fair amount. Sometimes I enjoy just scrolling through the several factory banks and seeing what happens when I play chords or engage aftertouch.
Ooh, I remember that, but I opted for the Yamaha SY-77 which had some beautiful pads.
Second synth I ever owned
Great video, thank you
Soundtrack was one of my favourite sounds
Soundtrack almost makes me want to cry for some reason.
Sounds like some of Alan Holdsworth’s 80’s output
Thank you, Pierre, for introducing this great piece of technology to us. It is so nostalgic to listen to these sounds bringing back memories from the end of the last century. And the PS sound is stunning!
Still a great synth, have a few 3rd party cards. Bought mine around 1989, still have it.
Had to replace the internal battery, not too difficult. Had several custom patches in internal memory. Backed up but haven’t had time to reload.
Thanks for the post
I see someone lauding a D-50, I subscribe...lol. Awesome video, took me back to those iconic sounds. To be honest, we got so used to those same sounds being used on so many songs because it was real pain to program. It took me a loooong time to get deep into it to really create my own sounds, but the scope of what is possible once you get under the hood is amazing. Same experience with the Korg Wavestation I also used to have. Fortunately they had awesome factory sounds so they were very usable sounds straight out of the box.
Always one of my favorite synths. Wonderful sound and gorgeous looks.
That Basin Strat Blues, was that "Sailing" great sound
Correct. I'm just demonstrating the sound.
@@pierrejpiscitelli ....and very well too!
@@RockLobster223 Thanks!!
There's a track on Seal's first album called 'Violet' and I think he used the 'soundtrack' patch
Prince used the "Soundtrack" patch in the intro of his song, "Eye Know" from the album "Lovesexy" released in 1988.
There's a song "Violet" by Seal, which begins with "Soundtrack" preset. I don't know what patch is the solo that follows, but to my ear it's D50 as well.
2:30 second one sounded like the intro to “I dont wanna live without you” by foreigner
To me, it immediately brings to mind the beginning of Prince’s Lovesexy album.
Wow! You need to do a tutorial on how to play sailing. After hearing you play it here!❤
I remember seeing and trying this in a music shop back in the day, blown away. Back when new synth patches had character, and you could still be in awe. Luckily, I can recreate many of those sounds on my dear Juno-Di, which still uses a sort of that 4-partial system.
As a 90s kid, this is so nostalgic to me. I'm pretty sure this was also used in basically every early 90s TV drama, as scene transition music. =P
I had a s/h D-50 in 1993 but with its keyboard it was almost impossible to trigger AT. When played with a Korg T1 weighted keyboard, it sounded way different. Thus I got rid of. Several years later, I got a D-05. What amazes me is that D-50 and D-05 sound still actual.
first used one back in 88 at Berklee in Film Scoring labs - such an amazing synth - thanks for making this video!
"pianissimo" sounds very similar to "Desree - You Gotta be" intro, or maybe it is with some eq or resonance added.
I’ve got a Roland FA06 and it’s got all the D50 presets you played as well as Juno, jupiter all the TR drums.
Loved all the old 80s tunes you were playing, I’ve had to subscribe 👍🏾
Hey, very nice nailing the tunes authentically and accurately in so many different genres too
Such a favorite of mine, excited to hear this more on your channel!!!
Was super tempted to pick up the little D-05 a while back, such an iconic sound
Do it!!
All your videos are engaging and informative. It was nice to see the D50 revisited here.
I know nothing about keyboards. I'm just a self taught piano player since 2020. But since this is a Roland video, I have several videos playing the Roland Piano at Costco and I might buy it when it goes on sale tomorrow? My cheap keyboard has only 5 sounds but the synth sounded good when I played Jump. Wish I could play like you Pierre. 🎹 👍
Great video! DX7 e D-50 are my favorite synth. I love the 80's sound's and these synth express at their best the wonderful sounds that could be heard in the songs of the time and for example ( staccato heaven ) of the D-50 is a beautiful sound.
Whatever you played in this video, each melody brings back Steve Porcaro 🙃 I love this guy...
I still use it in each and every production i do.
Great narrative and excellent preset demos!
I hear a lot of Tom Schuman (Spyro Gyra) in this keyboard. Very cool!
Wow great demo on this board!
Love the songs you played to demo each patch. My Korg X5 has many of the same sounds. I'm fascinated how each manufacturer handles general midi sound quality.
My first keyboard!
Wow love this video ❤ I want to hear more stuff from this one!!! I still have the Roland E-20 that i got new in 89 and many of these sounds was brought over from the D-50 that was released just one year before the E-20. I should do a video about the Roland E-20 Arranger. Speeking of arranger, next week i will get mu Genos 2 deliverd 😮!
As a student I bought a D20 used (all I could afford 😅) It was more versatile than I thought, even TB-303 it could do pretty convincingly. It also had floppy as a sequencer. Due to on how sounds are created (parts) note stealing can be an issue though (particular sounds with long tails).
The D50 I was not that fond of untill I read that Enya used it for the most part on her Watermark album (still a nice album 👍).
At the moment I got a Jupiter 50 a.o. and is a bit of a hidden gem. It got mixed reviews and the concept of a performance orientated instead of workstation didn't catch on. Bought that for a third of retail 🤠
Totally love my D-50. Running it through a decent reverb pedal like a Strymon, Empress, TC etc. makes it a cinematic pad powerhouse. I also recommend the Hcard 750 that comes with 20 banks of categorised, useful and great patches. I offers a total of 64 banks (4096 patches).
Many General MIDI patches, which is a standard in any modern keyboard, originated from the D-50, such as:
-Fantasia
-D-50 Voices ("Choir Pad" in Yamaha, "Space Voices" in newer Roland products)
-Soundtrack
-Calliope
-Polysynth
-Shakuhachi
-Pianissimo (named as "Atmosphere" )
The Digital Native Dance can be very distinctively heard heard in the David Lee Roth's "Skyscraper" song intro.
Jean-Michel Jarre used this heavily. My favourite is „Marshy Zone“ from the 1990 album Waiting for Cousteau.
It's crazy that during that era of Synths - so many artists just used presets! You were very limited with the D50 having 64 presets vs 1920 on the original Montage synth. So many choices now.
Was waiting for the Afterthought and pizza gogo patches and you didn't disappoint!!! Congrats on the purchase! I have the Roland FP90 and the XP30! The XP30 has a many of these but is tough to configure for live performance without midi and a laptop so I just use it for horns, bass and occasional LA piano!
Still sounds phenomenal
i owned the D50 and the great DX7 back in the days !
Glad i came across your channel. Your videis been fun to watch. That last sound gave off a madonna live to tell vibe.
Love videos on equipment. Never had a Roland but did own a Korg M-1 until a few years ago. 🤙🏻
Best thing about Roland boards is the joystick-style pitch/mod control. So intuitive and playable. Why anyone puts out boards with dual wheels is beyond me. And these days it seems like 90% of keys have the wheels (which I HATE!!! If I haven't made that clear😂)
The ideal setup, in my opinion, is a YAMAHA MODX8+ on the bottom and a Roland Fantom-06 on top. Total about $3500-$3700. You get the superior Yamaha sounds on all the patches that don't need bend/vibrato and you get MUCH simpler bend/mod plus the lighter, spring-loaded keys for playing faster, more expressive solos.
The reverbs we're so good that the first thing studios did was to strip the presets from their internal fx dry to put decent outboard on it , if you printed them to tape with the onboard fx you ran into trouble frequencywise as soon as you used more than 1 D50 sound
Thanks 👍
Another brilliant video!
The nostalgia is off the charts. Great playing on a legend of a synth. Which song is played with the Stereo Polysynth patch here? Thanks for making excellent content.
That was great. I enjoyed just listening. What's comparable in today's market?
Nothing!
Really nice playing and warm inviting looking practice room or home studio. This does make me a little sad that I sold mine. The other thing that I really like about the D-50 besides the sounds is the keyboard. To me it has some of the best feeling synth action keys I've ever played on.
The sound from The Simpsons intro was the Spacy Voices from the PN-D50-01 sound card, not the D50 Voices
Just wanted to add, for the connaisseurs among you, that Bent used the D50 for the song "swollen". I think it was the adjusted presets "MelloTones" and "BriteFifth".
Jamie parks studio production 😎 wow music 🎶 hell yeah 😎
I want that thing so bad, I just dont' have the room!
yeah always fancied one in nice condition. They were amazing to listen to in 1987... nothing like it!! Everyone was talking about Fairlights and Synclaviers when describing this... most are bashed up now. Same with the Wavestation. Damn those combi strings and brass... you would hear that on a load of CDs on Private Music like John Tesh, Tangerine Dream, David Van Tiegham, Nona Hendryx et al... not sure how those recordings hold up now but they were inspirational for me in 87/88
I own a D-20!! for 20+ years!
03:24 Digital Native Dance is the "Willhelm scream" of synthesizer patches. You hear that EVERYWHERE in 80's and 90's songs. I even heard it in a The Cult song lol.
Man. You are the gift that keeps on giving! That calliope patch is also in Man in the Mirror after the end of the first chorus (as I’m sure you’re already aware!)
That was amazeballs. Its a pad monster as well, kind of the predecessor of the jd-800 in a way. I particularly like the "breathy" early digital reverb that is all over a lot of these patches. Something about it, just says Enya right away lol. Thank you , subscribed!
btw I think sailing was done in '79 so not a D-50 song, but I had to check because you made it sound so convincing.
Thanks for watching! Yeah, just felt like noodling on “Sailing” for that patch :)
One way the D50 shines is that the ADSR envelopes can be VERY long. Like ridiculously long. Set a super slow attack and decay, and you can hold a chord, and have a sound that slowly evolves and changes over seconds to minutes. This made it really popular with television composers as they could have long evolving pad sounds to score shows. Also as a D50 owner you HAVE to Digital Native Dance, and Pizzagogo.
Stereo Polysynth is 100% trying to be a Sequential Prophet-V. Outstanding copy of that sound. Listen to "OCOE" by Pages (1981, the sound this patch is copying) that's it to a T.
Oh yeah and Shakuhachi is the lead tone in the intro song to the Wishbone TV show!
"digital native dance" can be heard at the start of "Skyscraper" by David Lee Roth
Nice review, man!
The sounds are so characteristic of the '80s that just a few notes are enough to take you straight back in time.
The late 80's big 3 - DX7, M1 and the Great D-50. Although I loved the "external processed" sound of the DX7, it was weak without using external processing. The D-50 and M1 were massive sounding keyboards right out of the box, and by far my favorites. I have an original D-50 and M1. I also have the D-05 that I use regularly for the D-50 sounds. Great video as always!
I read that all 3 were by different companies
Back in the days these synths were refreshing with new technology. Exiting new sounds back then and even now.
@@Musicarbs Yes, Yamaha, Korg and Roland
As much as I love the D50 I think I like your playing more 😊😮
Iconic
Ive been on the hunt for a while. Got a DX7 and need this and a M1 to complete my digital trifecta 😂
Had one of those. Great synth. Now there is 100% VSTi software replica of it on the Roland Cloud with all the original sounds
I really like this channel, is there a video on reading and understanding notation?
This is awesome but now you need to do another video where you're just doing ambient stuff with a sustain pedal and doodling with the joystick and mod/velocity stuff! If you turn on one or both of the Partial Balance buttons then the joystick ... uhh ... balances the partials LOL.
If you know the good D-50 patches it's cool to see all the clones and variations in other Roland synths - especially the '90s ones like the JV-1080 and XV-5080. Although sometimes they're very different. The JX-8P Soundtrack patch is much more of a deep ambient thing than the D-50 Soundtrack.
But... I was in high school in the '90s and I can't hear ANY of the stock DX7 or D-50 patches without it feeling super cliche. Those bright percussive-mixed-with-glassy-hi-fi-pad sounds really stand out to me even more than an 808 cowbell. Many were as ubiquitous as that M1 house piano patch everybody used. I still love all the Eric Persing stuff. I think the last Roland thing Spectrasonics did was the 2002 SRX-05 Supreme Dance expansion. That's my favorite.
Honestly what messed me up was listening to too much Enya in the '90s.
Have you done 'I wont hold you back now' by Toto? An accompaniment version of that in your teaching style would make my day
“Future Pad” had that Eric Clapton “Bad Love” sound
I didnt own a D-50 but I owned the XP-50 which came right after. A lot of those patches sound familiar. Not earth-shattering by todays Fantom/Montage standards, but for the time period it felt like NASA under your fingers. The XP had a great Tone Wheel patch. Not sure if it was ported from the D or a new addition.
The XP-50 came 10 years later; it has nothing to do with the D-50. The D-70, D-5, U series, JD series, and JV series came before the XP. There are some classic Roland sounds, like Fantasia, that have been around in every synth since the D-50, but that is it.
SY77, D50 and M1, my 3 synths :)
Roland and Korg made the plugins. Unfortunately Yamaha did not.
Thank you
2:26 Seal - "Violet"
oh yea!