Roland D50 synth plus extras

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Roland D50 – classic80s synth in excellent condition plus extras Classic 80s Roland D50 in excellent condition. The synth hasrecently been serviced and it works flawlessly, plus it now has a new back up battery – so good to go for at least another 10 years. This really is a ‘classic’ synth and I love the sounds, sad to see her go, but I need to space. The D50 comes complete with the original manual, plus a Roland PN D50 00 sound card, which includes all the original classic D50 patches installed on the card. I have added a lot of custom patches to the synth and many of them are beautiful fat pads and leads, but you still have access to all the original sounds on the card and the synth can easily be reset to factory if you require. I’m also including in the sale a sturdy well padded flight case, plus two CDs of professional sounds for the D50. These two discs comprise over 20 years of D50 sound collecting with thousands of sounds included, more than enough to keep any D50 fan happy! They also include all the patches from all the original Roland D50 cards and are easy to import to the synth via MIDI . This is a real bargain at this price, given that the PN D50 00 card is currently going for over £40 alone and the hard case new cost well over £150. So grab yourself a classic synth at a great price. Please note the courier cost is high as this is a very heavy instrument and the case of course adds to the weight, plus I always send all my keyboards fully insured, so we are both covered just in case there is a problem. I would prefer local pick up if at all possible due to the weight of the keyboard. If you want more info’ just ask. Here’s the Vintage Synth review: The D-50 is an all-time favorite digital synth that's still just as popular today as when it first came out in '87. Once Roland's hottest digital synth, it competed against the Yamaha DX7 , and was much easier to use. By joining 8-bit PCM samples with "LAS" synth-generated sounds, the D-50 is capable of unique and complex sounds. The PCM samples contained the attack transients, while the rest of the sound came from the Linear Arithmatic Synth (LAS) section which sounds very analog, with subtractive-style synthesis and low-pass-resonant filters. Built-in chorus and (for the first time) digital reverb are also included for giving your sounds space and life! It also has a joystick controller for real-time timbre manipulation. The D-50 was great for new and non-acoustic, percussive, ethereal and beautiful pads & sounds. Both the D-50 and D-550 benefit from the PG-1000 external controller which gives you very plain and simple slider/fader type control of all adjustable parameters of the synth. The D-50 includes MIDI on all 16 channels but because it is monotimbral you can only use one channel at a time. There is an upgrade which will give the D-50 and its rackmount version a full 16 channels of simultaneous MIDI multitimbral data communication. This popular synth has been widely used in all forms of music. Eric Clapton, Enya, 808 State, Jean Michel Jarre, Vince Clarke, Apollo 440, Eat Static, LTJ Bukem, Fluke, Information Society, Lab-4, Gary Numan, Rick Wakeman, Kitaro, Rush, Vangelis, Richard Barbieri, Boston and Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran are just a few of the many satisfied users. Sound on Sound review: /sos/1997_articles/jul97/rolandd50.html Synthmania review /d-50.htm read more

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