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Roland D-50 demonstration

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Uploaded by on Dec 24, 2007

One of ther most beautiful synthesizers of the late eighties can still impress.

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  • How does D50 compare to D70?

  • @Forsure3333 Hardly at all. Compared to the D50, the D70 is rather weak, whatever it is the name suggests. The D70 is more related to the U20.

  • Great demo. Do you have any experience with having the key contacts cleaned? I have a few misbehaving keys and am not sure if I want to spend a lot to get them fixed. At the same time however, cleaning them doesn't really seem like a beginner's job. Do you have any advice? thanks.

  • @culturaleyes I have the same problem on mine, that's why I mostly play it via MIDI nowadays. I am planning to repair it, though. Some time ago, I did the same thing on my Juno Alpha 2. It wat the first time I ever did this job and it worked out perfectly. I think it won't be that different on the D50. I did make a manual on the repair job of the Juno, you can find it here: frankjacobs dot nl/vintsynth/roland_alpha_juno­-2_repair.html

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  • I really had problems to work without my D50s. But as the keyboard only has 5 octaves and lousy mechanics (plastic and non-weighted keys, sound comes too late)  I got the VC1 card and I hardly hear the difference to the real thing.

    Anyway - the D50 is one of the very few synths that can´t be reproduce by any other synths.

  • Madonna-Live To Tell: D50 patch C-82 Spacy Voices is not in a factory setting right? I can't find it in my D50.

  • the start is is madonna's live to tell 0:00

  • @VintSynth Exactly, the D70 is like a U20 on steroids, they even share the same patch cards. There is little resemblance to the D50. The D70 is good though, don't get me wrong, but the D50 is a classic, the D70 is just a another synth lost in time.

  • the d70 is not that weak...

  • This is the best synthesizer Brendan the Blue Jay has!

  • Good synth, good demo, and very good intro : i think i've recognized Madonna's "live to tell" intro at 0:02 !

  • SO many good memories.

  • Madonna Live to Tell

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