Roland D-50: thesynthfreq's original patches.

Hi! this a video of the patches that I have programmed for my Roland D-50. Since replacing the very old lithium battery, all the patches were erased and I am re-typing them in one at a time. These are the ones that I have replaced so far. I have more patches than whats on here, but I will make another video once I reprogram those other patches back in the D-50. The D-50 is my favorite synth of the late 80s and is a lot of fun to program. It take me about 2 hours to make a good and useful patch. I am just improving the sequences and "songs" that I am playing to show each sound. D-50 uses Linear Arithmetic Synthesis. Got to have those waveforms! :)

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Music

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• Roland D-50
• sound design
• waveforms
• patch programming
• synthesis
• synthesizers
• jumellemusic

[Firepowerforfreedom]

Great patches! I'm anxiously waiting for my Roland D-10 to arrive to experiment with it and my iPad. I've heard the D-10 isn't too impressive on it's own, but coupled with MIDI synths such as NLog Pro and Animoog, or with an effects processor, some amazing sounds can be extracted from it :-)

Btw, if you don't mind me asking, is that a hearing aid or a cochlear implant? My gf has CIs and I'm always amazed at the things she is able to hear (she can recognize Van Halen's "Jump" almost immediately)

[TheSynthFreq]

@Firepowerforfreedom hi :) Awesome!. Yes I have two hearing aids for a bi-lateral sensory neural HL as a result of ototoxicity. They are Phonak Naida V U.Ps (purple). they are the highest power hearing aids they make in the series. They recommended that I get a CI for my left ear but since a hearing aids helps, I decided against it. the Phonak ones I have now, help me hear 250-3kHz, everything above 3k is 'transposed down' into my better hearing range. :)

[bloozeman101]

what did you call the patch at 2:14? :)

[TheSynthFreq]

@bloozeman101 HI :) On the D-50, I just called it "Random LFO" since the LFO I used to create the varying pitch was set to Random (in the P-Env). Random LFOs also sound awesome when routed to the filter with a high resonance setting. :)

:) TSF

[synthystation]

The best thing to use for D-50 and Sysex is "D50 Librarian". I've had great luck with it.

It's free and you can save a complete image of all 64 patches, drop in new sets of 64 or single patches, rearrange, make best of mixes of patches, etc. Virtual PG-1000 too. d50librarian.co.uk

[TheSynthFreq]

@synthystation Hi :) Yes! I have that editor, its the only computer related program I use with my D-50. So far I have just been able to send patches from D-50 to the editor, and also send a newly created patch to D-50 from the editor using the init patch. The virtual programmer is awesome! I have the real programmer and the virtual one is very good. :)

:) TSF

[Firepowerforfreedom]

@TSF Just got my D10 today, and it's blowing my mind already... I can only imagine what a D-50 must be capable of :-)

[Firepowerforfreedom]

@TSF Clearly, those Phonaks (familiar name - my gf has a Phonak SmartLink) are helping quite a bit - the subtlety of some of these patches requires a sharp ear ;-)

[mcattack32]

Is there an easy way that you know of to be able to download D50 patch sounds into a D-5?

[sentientprogram]

Excellent patches, I love your videos!

[2vsU]

@nokia3210fuck lol you know, @ 2:22 this is what it reminded me of. This is some good stuff.

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[Juddzey]

Thanks for sharing! I have a D-550 that's not been used in 10 years. I replaced the bat but as you lost the pre-sets. I need the original patch 18. the "Dyno My Hammond" I'm playing in a Satana band and they don't care for the organ patches on my Technics kn7000. I wish I could find my sound card! Arghhhh