Roland D-50 Synthesizer - Favorite Sounds Vol. 1

[@vjreimedia]

I love this synth. I used to have one, I did the internal expansion for more banks and stuff. I sold it on 2010 for about $450, what a fool! I got another one a few months ago from a pawnshop for $120. Sounds amazing! Everybody should have a D-50. It fills all the gaps.

[@anonymous_friend]

What expansion gives you more banks?

[@yubasutterdroneguy1433]

I think you talking about the Musitronics M.EX board…I really wanted one but never got one😢. It would allow to split the board with 8 sounds and receive on 8 separate MIDI channels with 8 different sounds similar to an MT-32.

[@vjreimedia]

Yeah, pretty simple. Get your D50, if you want more banks and such, just get the VST. It makes no sense to expand external hardware, at the end you are going to gravitate to your DAW top have things done.@@yubasutterdroneguy1433

[@qumefox]

120 for one is a really good find especially if it works. I paid more than that for mine and I bought it non-working and had to fix it.

[@elmarmihm1357]

Many years ago I found some of these sounds in the internet, some sounds are my custom patches.

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

2:50 The “Whispy Vox” patch is pretty - cutting.

[@elmarmihm1357]

Thank you very much!

[@johnnydekock]

Wow these sounds are amazingly well created. Well done!

[@elmarmihm1357]

Thank you very much!

[@smokey90]

I got a D550. nothing beats it it's amazing.

[@elmarmihm1357]

Thank you very much!

[@Roboprogs]

Wow, that “Jupiter” patch at the end was melted butter.

[@elmarmihm1357]

Thank you very much.

[@hellitastenfan]

Hallo Elmar,...hervorragend gespielt. Klasse ! Die Wärme und Charakter dieser Sounds sind unübertroffen. liebe Grüße

[@elmarmihm1357]

Danke Helmut. Könnte stundenlang damit improvisieren. Total inspirierend. Viele Grüße!

[@jergervasi3331]

Fantastic sounds!

[@elmarmihm1357]

Thank you 😋

[@mikymiky6852]

Hi sir were i can find this sound for my d50?

[@RoyMaya]

Great sounds! These are my type of sounds. 👍

[@elmarmihm1357]

Thank you 😋

[@GrimVoxTech]

Phat and lush! Great demo!

[@elmarmihm1357]

Thank you very much!

[@jeffy1993]

Digital but quite warm sounds. After D50, PCM based era has come. I believe D50 is the last heart warming synth.

[@WildChildMcCloud]

Yamaha SY77

[@Roboprogs]

Hybrid: samples plus an analog oscillator per voice.

[@oliveralbertorojasgonzal-ln9tn]

En México los gruperos en los 90's usaban mucho ese teclado

[@elmarmihm1357]

👍

[@RandallJT84]

"Lonely Juno" reminds me of Cutting Crew's "Shouldn't Take Too Long" off their album "Broadcast". Sub Station-7 reminds me of Rush's "Subdivisions". Whispy Box "I Just Died In Your Arms" Cutting Crew.

[@elmarmihm1357]

Roland D-50 can many different types of sounds. My alltime favorite synth

[@gianlucaungarelli800]

Jupiter and OBX sound fantastic

[@mikirecords4243]

42 like,great sounds,best wishes;-)

[@elmarmihm1357]

Thank you so much 🤗

[@Arachnosoft]

That Indian Vibes preset is insane. The notes played reminds me of the Ruins themes from Prince of Persia 2, played on its cousin, the MT-32.

[@elmarmihm1357]

Thank you very much. It sounds great over a harmonic minor scale. Love it too.

[@wildbein]

Wow, den "Jupiter" sound hätte ich auch gerne

[@elmarmihm1357]

D-50 kann durchaus analog klingen

[@gorantovic1473]

@@elmarmihm1357 Hi Elmar! Thank you for an amazing demo. The “Jupiter” patch is the sound from Sting’s “Ten Summoner’s tales” album. If you have time, please could you do a tutorial how to make that kind of patch on D50? All the best!

[@synthfellow]

Nice!

[@elmarmihm1357]

Thank you very much

[@nekonomikatadesu235]

Good job

[@elmarmihm1357]

Thank you very much

[@alviilmie1869]

Very nice!👍

[@elmarmihm1357]

Thank you very much!

[@legionnaires]

Indian vibes sounds very cool

[@elmarmihm1357]

Thank you very much 🙏

[@gorantovic1473]

Hi Elmar! Thank you for an amazing sound design! Please could you tell me where I can find that "Jupiter" patch? Is there a place where I can buy it? Thank you again! All the best!

[@elmarmihm1357]

Thank you very much. The Jupiter Patch I‘ve got from a friend some years ago. I don‘t know, where to buy. Perhaps Sysex google. Greetings. Elmar

[@gorantovic1473]

@@elmarmihm1357 Thank you Elmar! In that case, I would appreciate if you could tell me what are upper and lower parts for that patch, so I could try to make it. Thank you again! Cheers!

[@theaudioeng]

🙏 These are amazing Elmar, great patch programming there 👏. I still have my original D-50 with rare Musitronics M-EX daughter board and later I bought the 550 still in my rack. Such an 'organic' 8-bit pallette as others mention due to DAC's & related electronics of that time, still use them in my tracks - keepers.... would you mind sharing here, a link to these patches?? 🙌

[@elmarmihm1357]

Thank you very much

[@orquesta-herusyfragancia885]

felicitaciones ! lo compartes quiza en venta...como puedo contactarme, gracias!

[@andreciosalles299]

Hi Elmar, could you share this patches please? It´s amazing.

[@elmarmihm1357]

Thank you very much. I can‘t share the sounds, because not all of them are my own user patches.

[@andreciosalles299]

@@elmarmihm1357 It´s ok, thanks

[@jeanthierry1295]

can we have this is sysex format ?

[@michasj9]

4:38 Englishman in New York by Sting?

[@elmarmihm1357]

Of course 😎

[@valush3897]

Hi! What is the sysex in the Roland patch library?

[@elmarmihm1357]

This is a mix of many sysex libraries. Most of them are free downloads, I think.

[@magicsoundtonstudio1806]

Absolut klasse Sounds, den D-50 habe ich viele Jahre auf der Bühne gespielt, heute habe ich immer noch einen D-550 im Studio, da kommen Geräte wie ein Fantom oder Integra 7 einfach nicht ran. Sind die Sounds im Video eigene Kreationen ?

[@elmarmihm1357]

Herzlichen Dank. Ganz deiner Meinung. Auch der D-05 oder die V-Card im V-Synth können nicht mit dem Original mithalten. Die Sounds sind teils eigen, teils aber aus dem Netz.

[@xinjoy6236]

@@elmarmihm1357the D-05 doesn’t sound as good as the original ? I have the D05 and didn’t compare side by side but all the ones that did it agree that D05 sound like the D50 (Gordon Reid in sound on sounds and elsewhere)

[@reginasleziene1823]

👍👍👍💯

[@elmarmihm1357]

Trank you very much!

[@Acrimonious_Snake]

Great sounds! People often praise the Roland-50/550, although they usually forget about the JV-880, XP-50, JV-1080 and 2080, XV-5080, Integra, Fantom X, Juno DS and FA series, which are much more powerful and sound both softer or sharper, more analog or more digital when needed. I love the D-50, but I also know that later synths are even better. I find it a little unhealthy and strange to be obsessed with praising the synth based on single waveforms while not enjoying the flexibility of the more powerful Rolands of the 90s.

[@elmarmihm1357]

Thank you very much. In my opinion, later Roland Synths are of course more powerful and flexibel. But the real unique warm and deep sound of a D-50 they cannot reach. I love the Original more.

[@Acrimonious_Snake]

I agree that the D-50 has very unique palette, but I wouldn't say that the synth with harsh early-digital one-shot 8 bit waveforms and very dull early digital FXs sounds 'warm'. It sounds very digital and cold (btw it is okay to sound digital). Also disagree about inability of later synths to sound like this. It is the matter of how sounds are designed. In fact it is D-50 which cannot sound like later synths, not vice versa. Well, having that said, I still have a D-05 Boutique as my favourite synth.

[@digitized_music]

​@@Acrimonious_Snake The sound of the D-50/D-550 can be regarded (and mainly does) as unique because of the dedicated op-amp and DAC chips, which are not inherited by its descendants you've mentioned before. There's no doubt about the power and versatility of the Fantom, Integra and XV series but they're just different in terms of IC's used compared to D-50

[@Acrimonious_Snake]

Every digital synth has its own DAC. Still there is no reason to value D-50 more than, let's say, JV-1080. The latter during the 90s was in every studio and is involved in more music. I am not against D-50, I love it, but simply don't understand why people praise it and at the same time don't praise other similar Rolands. For example, on a local forum I've seen a D-50 for sale for 1000$ while mint JV-1080 goes for 300$ and brand new Juno DS 76 cost me 800$ in a store. That is surreal.

[@oupahens9219]

@@Acrimonious_Snake Yeah, the difference between the D50 and the JV1080 is that the D50 still had these SAW and SQUARE waves seperate from the sample section. Sort of virtual analog. Therefore U can actually use PWM on them, like on the D-10, D-110. Unfortunately on the latter ones that PWM was only assignable to key velocity, which is very limiting.

[@gianlucaungarelli800]

Hi Elmar, is it possible to have these sounds in sysex format ?

[@elmarmihm1357]

Sry, it isnt possible

[@geromesylvain80]

Elmar Mihm amazing sounds. Do they come from existing banks (if so from which developers please), where are they original sounds that you have created? THANKS ...

[@elmarmihm1357]

Thank you very much!

[@geromesylvain80]

@@elmarmihm1357 Is it a "commercial" bank? Which “developer”? Where can we buy it please? THANKS

[@Ivan79642]

4:38 I'm an Englishman in New-York

[@elmarmihm1357]

Yes 😊

[@larsbecker9961]

Programmieren via D50☺️🙏

[@tH4ttUs]

i do not unterstand why nord samples are so bad :(

[@elmarmihm1357]

I think the same. In my opinion Nord can really good sound analog, but not like a digital Synth.