The Roland D-50 // Songs and Sounds From an 80's Icon

[@pascalalloin588]

Quelle nostalgie... j'ai acheté un DX7 en 1986, 87 et un D50 en 88. Ces sons me rappellent des belles années où ces nouveaux claviers nous semblaient magiques. Merci pour cette belle démonstration 🙏

[@fredericportal4209]

Exact, moi aussi c était un Dx7 et un 01 W achetés en 89/91.... Je les garde précieusement comme des instruments de collection malgré les nouvelles machines et je reste admiratif des synthés de la belle époque... Le Jupiter 8 me fait encore rêver ❤

[@pascalalloin588]

@@fredericportal4209 j'ai hélas vendu mon DX7 en 2001.. regrets en effet. J'ai toujours le D50 cependant. Il est vrai que ces machines ont été des merveilles de créativités sonores dans les années 80. Et malgré la technologie actuelle, jamais détrônées.

[@garysmith8455]

Thanks for this presentation! 72 year old rock and blues keyboardist/synthesist here, still have a D-50. Also a Korg MS-20 and SQ-10 seq. along with a Yamaha CS-60 which were bought brand new in 1978! Nostalgia for sure 😉. Its great to see the D-50, a ground breaking instrument STILL getting the love all over youTube 👍.

[@TL-wu4id]

Man,the "sailing" sound is so attractive. Beautiful guitar sound.

[@pierrejpiscitelli]

It’s a great patch. Obviously the original is Christopher Cross playing guitar, but this patch captures the spirit! Thanks for watching.

[@EscutCavaller007]

Wow, the "Sailing" D-50 homage was amazing!

[@johningram2153]

Yes, a very good cover. But definitely not used on the album, which came out in 1979.

[@GunnarLoeb]

I think it is real guitar on the original

[@truefilm6991]

​@@GunnarLoebof course. The original is from 1979.

[@80Jay71]

Not to forget Orinocco flow...

[@jamesdudley8696]

This brings back SOOOOOOOOO many great memories. OMG! I bought my D50 in 1990. I still remember how hard it was to lug it home on the bus. 😂😂😂 It absolutely OWNED the airwaves back then. Everybody had one. And if you had the extension cards from Valhala, you were THE MAN! Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[@rodterrell304]

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.

[@SamSilk]

From what I know, the D50 hadn't been publicly released yet while BAD was being recorded. thing is Eric Persing who was among the Roland crew brought the synth with him under the condition he would be the one playing it in the album. Eric Persing is still famous today for being the guy who produced Omnisphere and Keyscape.

[@vaiman7777]

Atmosphere and Distorted Reality really, those became Omnisphere. He was famous before it

[@Michael8olden]

Really it all makes sense

[@timandmonica]

I was just a teenager and knew hardly anything about synthesizers when this came out. Our church leaders took me to the big music store in the '80s to help them decide on a new synth. I was extremely drawn to the d50, but we ended up buying the Ensoniq EPS. We did one church service with it and that's all it took for them to know they didn't want to. Took too long to load a new sound. We immediately returned it and we went ahead and got the d50. I spent so many nights alone in that church messing around with it, never reading a manual, just pushing buttons and figuring it out. I can't tell you how many hundreds of hours that must have been over a period of a year and a half. It's really interesting to see what you play with each patch! I couldn't play very well then either and didn't have a large sense of how to translate what was in my head to the keyboard. I played some similar things on some of these patches, but you did some things I never would have thought of trying before!

[@urischwartz6711]

Grazie signor Piscitelli!

[@Jhihmoac]

This, and the Yamaha DX7, _WERE_ the "go to's" for performance synths all through the 80s and well into the 90s!

[@issiewizzie]

This is why sometimes as synth heads we forget that it’s the composition that counts. Back in the day very few people tweak their synths. You focused on your melody and chords/harmony

[@sub-jec-tiv]

Generally I agree. But if you don’t also know your instrument and use it to its best capabilities to amplify your compositional ideas you are leaving emotional depth on the table. Learn your chords, harmony, extended harmony. Have great musical ideas, and exceptional sensitivity and taste. But also choose your tools wisely and know them deeply. Both music theory and sound design are important. Especially if you’re doing any kind of soundtrack or media work.

[@kennyzee3221]

@@sub-jec-tivI programmed a few good sounds on my Yamaha V50 back in the day which was no mean feat. My friend had the D50 and it looked pretty complicated back then. Not sure if he ended up working out how to program it though.

[@helloscammer]

In the late 80s I could turn on the radio and name the D-50 patches by number.

[@PlasticCogLiquid]

I bought one of these for $5 at a flea market in the middle of nowhere Colorado back in the 90's. It was gummed up by beer or pop but after cleaning it worked fine and I loved it.

[@Oleg_Nikolaevich]

Что? Вы купили Roland D50 за $5?

[@EIERDIEB79]

I envy you

[@PlasticCogLiquid]

@@Oleg_Nikolaevich Yep! I have no idea what became of it though, it was a long time ago. Around the same time that the AWE32 came out. I mainly bought it because I wanted something with MIDI ports, but ended up figuring out the synth side of it too and loved it. I was about 14 years old so it was pretty complex to me at the time.

[@PlasticCogLiquid]

@@EIERDIEB79 I envy my old self too, I wish I still had it.

[@EIERDIEB79]

@@PlasticCogLiquid that is understandable

[@daddiodave1107]

Listening to you is like stepping into a time machine. You definitely have one of the best channels on KZbin!

[@pierrejpiscitelli]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Thanks!!

[@sharingmatters]

So true! All these games were played during nights with the famous Playstation sound + so many songs with these synthesis sounds.

[@MrKersey]

Still have this synth and it still sounds amazing!

[@seaningram3285]

3:07 Yes! I remember that one. 5:22 Sailing, by Christopher Cross 8:03 Live to Tell, by Madonna

[@pierrejpiscitelli]

Yeah! I know that”sailing” and “live to tell” had nothing to do with the D50, but I was just inspired at the moment :)

[@kennyzee3221]

@@pierrejpiscitelliI wonder what synth was used in ‘Live To Tell’? Enjoyed the video. Maybe find a Yamaha V50. The most underrated synth in my opinion.

[@RelaxingAmbientMusic-dl5rp]

Here I am in Sydney, Australia sitting next to my beloved D50 and finding this video. I must say your diction and enunciation is perfect. Have you ever thought of TV work? Your communication and presentation skills are top notch. A great lesson for other KZbinrs. Great playing too. Subscribed.

[@vitale6633]

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 !!!

[@fannuz]

5:47 beautiful progression

[@z.c8108]

Sailing by Christopher cross one of the best songs oat

[@Cadmeus]

I love Eric Persing's work, he's a legend. I'm a bit too young for a D-50 but I had a JV-1080 when I was studying music at school, amazing sounds for the limited memory they had. It was so exciting when Eric managed to get some D-50 patches into Omnisphere, still sounds great! The Playstation sound blew my mind btw, I had no idea it was a default patch.

[@Thea-d4g]

Whatever you played in this video, each melody brings back Steve Porcaro 🙃 I love this guy...

[@haukurorsson833]

Never clicked a video faster 🎉

[@pehuendb]

Thanks for all your videos and your clear pronunciation that allows me to understand everything without subtitles.

[@glenkorner4719]

I’ve got one of these in my storage room that was my dad’s. I remember so many of these sounds now. I think I might have to plug it in. Will be the first time in over 30 years since it was used. Thanks for the memories and indeed the inspiration to go back to it.

[@jsullivan2112]

Geddy Lee used these sounds all over Hold Your Fire, only he had the D-550 rack. Most notably that shakuhachi for Tai Shan. I never put that together until now. Neat video!

[@loudspider316]

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.

[@jeffblack5024]

Same. A band member had a DX7, but I thought it was too plinky-plonky. I went into a music shop and thought this was the future due to sheer lushness and musicality. Though I didn't have the money to buy one.

[@loudspider316]

@@jeffblack5024 Haha, I hear you, it left me broke for months but it was so astonishing that it was like being in a trance. The store I went in had it plugged in to some decent monitors and you could hear it the second you walked in. There was a little crowd, all looking at each other in disbelief. I bet they just unloaded em off the lorry at the back, and wheeled em straight back out the front door. Then every album that dropped for the next bunch of years was just those sounds. Foreigner, George Michael, Enya, Jean-Michel Jarre, Prince, and as you say, that reverb was just sublime, it was the first synth that sounded like a finished recording rather than a sound source. Good times!

[@HJPhilippi]

@@jeffblack5024 And I always loved the plinky-plonky FM vibes. 😊 Yes, perhaps the D50 was the more (out of the box) "musical" synth but the DX7 opened completely new grounds of digital synthesis. It was much more experimental, so to speak.

[@JS...]

D50 was my dream synth back when it was released and I was just getting into synths. Couldn't afford it, but I got D10 instead, worked well enough back then. Nowadays I do have the D-05 which is a great nostalgia trip.

[@RossleMusic]

This combination of analog synthesis and digital sampling and additional HQ reverbs choruses etc was just mind blowing!

[@MatthewChristianMurray]

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.

[@из90х]

Это абсолютно не тоже самое, vst звучат пластиковое и не так сочно и объемно, просто подобие плоского звука

[@daveowenmusic1749]

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!

[@Alex-bc7qi]

"OK Chorale" and "Glass Voices". Two more iconic patches.

[@michaelreid5307]

The build quality on the D series is very good. I bought a D10 back in 1989 and it's still fully functional.

[@jscote5749]

Stupidly enough, I never realized how "Pipe solo" (minus the "chiff" attack) sounds like Lyle's lead sound until today. Great job as always, Pierre.

[@milesian1]

I was thinking the same thing. A couple of the patches sounded exactly like something Lyle would have played with the Pat Metheny Group.

[@marcomarrone174]

Wonderful Pierre Thanks for the tour down memory lane with an iconic time machine. Bravo!!

[@heliopadula2825]

"OK Chorale" was the patch used in the intro of "Bad Love" by Eric Clapton...... I still have my D-50 (bought in 1989) and use it on Police and Clapton cover gigs. Amazing sounds !

[@AspenTruth]

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…

[@dukestt5436]

That Basin Strat Blues, was that "Sailing" great sound

[@pierrejpiscitelli]

Correct. I'm just demonstrating the sound.

[@RockLobster223]

@@pierrejpiscitelli ....and very well too!

[@pierrejpiscitelli]

@@RockLobster223 Thanks!!

[@Dustydreams930]

I’m confused. The d50 came out in 1987 and sailing was 1979?

[@pierrejpiscitelli]

@@Dustydreams930 That's correct. I'm just demonstrating the patch. It was not played on a D50, at all.

[@jh2156]

I’ve had my D-50 since 1989 and have since bought two others for spare parts if ever needed. Of all my synths the D-50’s key-bed is favorite!

[@DXpheus]

Bought a D50 in mint condition for $800 back in 91. Loved the tonewheel organ emulations with the Valhalla Screamin B3 ROM card. The choir loved it too

[@davebellamy4867]

5:21 That like many others is an epic gorgeous sound. Someone really knew how to progtmram synths back then! Sounds like Sailing by Christopher Cross though he didn't use a D50 because it wasn't made then! Those harmonies and the unusual bass notes are magical. Plus the sound.

[@pierrejpiscitelli]

That’s right! I just thought it fit the patch :) Christopher played that beautiful guitar part in “Sailing” in a weird tuning I believe!

[@iliatilev]

All of the sounds are very dreamy and ethereal. David Foster probably used every preset in that keyboard 😁

[@pierrejpiscitelli]

Definitely.

[@Rolanoid]

I still remember hearing Digital Native Dance for the first time when the D50 just came out. Mind blown. My friend took out a loan to buy a D50 as they cost the equivalent of a second hand car back then. Later we got to record with it in the best equipped studio in our city and hear it on big expensive far field monitors. What remained of my mind was completely blown then.

[@GarySixSixty]

2:30 second one sounded like the intro to “I dont wanna live without you” by foreigner

[@IrnBruNYC]

To me, it immediately brings to mind the beginning of Prince’s Lovesexy album.

[@DarkSideofSynth]

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.

[@SomewhereInside]

Fantasia preset 1. Was used in a New Order song as a solo instrumental break combined with a drum machine , it was and still is a beautiful piece of music , the song was the vocal version of Vanishing Point , on the Technique album , and hey I can play it on my Roland cloud version of the D50

[@fmsylvia3800]

truly an outstanding keyboard. the "future pad" preset will always be my fav!

[@ricardoestradaclavijo1003]

Buenísima tu presentación!gracias

[@barryhetherington9816]

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!

[@jmartin1774]

I thought that too at 4:01

[@marianoboetto]

"Future Pad" sounds to me like Eric Clapton´s "Bad Love" intro. Great demo!

[@paolosisi7487]

"pianissimo" sounds very similar to "Desree - You Gotta be" intro, or maybe it is with some eq or resonance added.

[@milesian1]

"Living Calliope" reminds me of Lyle Mays's sound with the Pat Metheny Group. Still sounds great after all these years.

[@pierrejpiscitelli]

Yes, you can get Lyle's sound out of the D50 with some tweaking. I've done it while trying to follow the exact steps that he gave me, and it's really close!! :)

[@plotevil5884]

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.

[@Bashanvibe]

You definitely brought back memories with this board in the Gospel world the Brass patches was heavily used in some old school recordings that have become the staple for Gospel music!!!

[@mateobrynn5792]

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!

[@cascossi809]

Thank you for that lesson! I was not conscious of the importance of that keyboard. Those different sound brought me back to my childness.

[@soulextracter]

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

[@samborn7120]

I’ve owned three D-50 keyboards and I am keeping number #3 for life! Got a D-550 as a nice layering pair. ❤️

[@debralynnpaxton5238]

SLAP BASS AND BRASS patch on TOTO'S "Rosanna" solo ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@29brendus]

I own a D70, which was made as a step up from the D50 with having almost 7 octaves. It also has great sounds, but when the bass is split, it's quite difficult to programme. The internal power supply gave up a few years back, so now I use a Jupiter 50, which is excellent and less than half the weight.

[@markthomas7263]

I think I just time travelled . Thanks for the journey.

[@1683clifton]

@5:30 hill street blues? Man I had that on a loop.

[@jaydy71]

I still have my old D5, a low-cost version of the D50. It has the same synth engine but it's multitimbral and includes a drum kit. So that actually sounds like an upgrade (and in some ways it is), but IIRC the D50 had a better keyboard, more controls to program it and a bigger display. I programmed the hell out of my D5 and it's a really unique synth that married 'analogue' (between quotes because it's obviously all digital) and PCM in interesting ways. I loved the different options of how to combine up to 4 voices into a single sound: Making something wide in stereo by putting different voices left and right, using ring-modulation between different voices, etc. You can really get creative with it as it's all quite deep. The limitations of the synth engine I found was that the filters can sound really bad when pushing up resonance (it can distort in worst imaginable way) and I wish the filters could also be applied to the PCM parts of a patch. But still, I have really fond memories of the whole D-series Roland synths (D5/10/20/50, although the D70 less so). The D50 is the classic, but D5/10/20 models can be found really cheaply. I recently bought a mint D10 for 50 bucks including a flight-case. The D20 is just a D10 with a (now pretty much useless) sequencer and floppy drive built in. The D5 is basically a D10 without reverb effects. But essentially the D50, D5, D10 and D20 all sound the same and can be programmed in the same way.

[@dominiccottrill2387]

"Combie Strings", where did I hear that? The "Future pad" riff is driving me crazy. I've haven't heard it since it was in the charts years ago.

[@DuncanJackson-no3ht]

You’re a great presenter. Thanks for this! I really enjoyed the video.

[@pierrejpiscitelli]

Thanks for watching🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@gib150]

Thanks!

[@pierrejpiscitelli]

Thank you!🙏🏻

[@progwaver]

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.

[@patsonmusic]

I have both my original D-50 and a D-05. It is really great to use the D-05 as a sound bank for the D-50, works like a charm! I have them chained with the PG-1000 so it is easy to adjust sounds too on both synths.

[@progwaver]

@@patsonmusic cool that sounds great.... Yeah unfortunately I dont have my D 50s more .. I had 3 of them over almost 10 years.. 2 once at the same time in the 90s.. But one of these I sold my brother in change for a Minimoog .. The other then I sold to a good friend of mine somewhen, needed money for buy another synth.. I think it was the Alesis Andromeda then.I wanted so much.. Later then after many years I found a third D 50, I bought, but that was with some 3rd party extension I dont know more exactly what that was... 🤔 But this was a crazy unit I think about that.. I had only problems so I sold it again only few months later ... Then came the D 05.. I am really happy Roland created this Budget.. maybe the best Budget they did.. For the D50 that formfactor works quite well..

[@patsonmusic]

@@progwaver Yes, I also had 2 D-50s at one point, but kept my original in the end. And D-05 is really nice, works great and is very portable, easy to bring along :-)

[@tiomkinnyborg2289]

Never got my hands on the D-50. I did get and still own the D-110 on which I spent hours playing with LA synthesis. Those sounds were way advanced. The concept was so simple. A complicated initial sample followed by a simpler sound. The best feature was it remembering which patch you last used automatically on power on.

[@pierrejpiscitelli]

Right!

[@samson7842]

This brings back memories. A buddy had this and I ended up getting the D-70 a few years later.

[@jmclen7]

Man! I learned a lot from this video. Great stuff. Thank you!

[@petrezekdj]

Still have mine ...and keeping it jealously...

[@1683clifton]

Man you are seriously killing it! I loved every bit of that.

[@pierrejpiscitelli]

Thanks!!

[@marcinbocinski9340]

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.

[@pierrejpiscitelli]

Yes!

[@kennyzee3221]

In 1989 I bought the Yamaha V50 whilst my friend got the Roland D50. I loved the Roland except it was not multitimbral so you really could only play one instrument at a time though you could split up the keyboard and maybe have 2. My Yamaha had an 8 track sequencer and was 16 note multitimbral, but yeah I was pretty envious of its sounds. It did inspire me to program some new sounds on the V50 which went as close as it could to the D50. Ahh those were the days.

[@kennethmorton4484]

Great Video. I have never owned the D50, but back in the eighties I owned a Juno 106, which I played with a Band, performing at many Pubs and Clubs in Fife Scotland. I used the presets plus my own creations, it was especially good for Dire Straits songs. Great memories.

[@wesboundmusic]

Man, you're having me sentimental here: I had just landed a job with a year round working professional cover band because I had aspired to becoming a full time working musician throughout my High School Years. They made good money and extended advances on the money I was going to make by letting me buy everything in terms of gear my heart desired. I had snuck into the local retail music store whenever there was an opportunity to check out the keyboards they had in their show booths. (and in spite of being a guitarist first). When the D-50 landed, my mind was blown! I could've spent days going through all the preprogrammed patches while playing what songs I knew and was able to play. I remember the real keyboardist in the band - I was just helping to fill in some chords or bridges - marvel at that thing, although he had quite the "gear zoo" himself: A Fender Rhodes, a Yamaha CP-70 baby grand, a DX-7, an Oberheim Matrix-12, an Emu-II. But he'd always be in awe over the sounds whenever I switched it on and inserted the expansion memory card, which effectively doubled not only the number of memory banks, but number of sound generating voices as well. I can still remember some of the patch names I liked best, e.g. "Staccato Heaven", "Arco Strings" and the soundscape patches which were sensitive to that small joystick for wavetable modulation. And you demo a few more here that were iconic and sounded so incredible! What a time, I do miss those days like crazy! Thanks for bringing all those iconic instruments to our attention, love your videos and talent, awesome job!

[@TridentCapital]

Always one of my favorite synths. Wonderful sound and gorgeous looks.

[@sharingmatters]

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!

[@BroskiesBroBro]

Man I need this in my life

[@DVanchesteing]

Fantastic demonstration of a monumental machine ! And those chords/voicings are so sweet. Thanks !

[@deanmoore7239]

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.

[@taemurz]

Still absolutely amazing even with today's instruments ❤❤❤

[@digitalperformer7]

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.

[@TheSoulrockstar]

Prince used the "Soundtrack" patch in the intro of his song, "Eye Know" from the album "Lovesexy" released in 1988.

[@bigmaxy07]

Iconic synth man. Sounds stunning!

[@carlosalbertoteixeira375]

Wonderful video. Thanks for it, @pierrejpiscitelli. And greetings from Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

[@maccagrabme]

Would be good to have the whole video from the above shots so we can see what is being played, nice playing.

[@TomasBj-q8v]

I still got my D50, JV80 and Korg M1. I have owned a Y DX7 but I sold it and bought Ensoniq EPS.

[@mysterio1972]

Great demo! This D 50 is simply timeless and amazing!!

[@Zwopper]

Bought it on release. Love it! ❤❤❤ It's really easy to program and due to all the little stretchy, randomizing, lot's of LFOs it's really easy to make it sound analogue.

[@FPGC]

The pipe solo and the Shakuhachi patch are used in Paul Hertzog's Tai Chi from The Movie Kickboxer. In fact, I think the entire song makes use of the D50.

[@ornleifs]

Bought one when it came out and remember hearing the sounds from it all over the place. I specially loved the inbuilt effects like reverb which was not common at the time.

[@debralynnpaxton5238]

This video brought back precious, musical memories ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@samsly8464]

That was fantastic!!!

[@stevefranklin5714]

Second synth I ever owned Great video, thank you Soundtrack was one of my favourite sounds

[@stevehofer3482]

I want to add that it is remarkable that a lot of D50s still work. Think about all the electronics that you had in 1987 that bit the dust a long time ago.

[@JosephAkins]

I had the choice between and a DX7II and a D-50 when they were new. It was a tough decision but J chose he DX7II.

[@brianglock3099]

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

[@DHTSciFiArtist]

8:01 is in the bridge of Howard Hewett "Show me". I also believe some of the main chords came from this.

[@bomleny]

first used one back in 88 at Berklee in Film Scoring labs - such an amazing synth - thanks for making this video!

[@3rddegreeburns494]

I had a Roland U-20 which I thought had great piano sounds. Always wanted a D-50.

[@andyinsdca]

The Rippingtons used the "Pipe Solo" sound a ton back in the day, still sounds fresh today.

[@pierrejpiscitelli]

Absolutely!