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Average rating:
4.4 out of 5
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Let's be brutally honest. We don't see many 1995 honda civic si hatchbacks anymore. They are rare! Ask any owner to sell it to you and it is NOT likely they will for good reason.....value, reliability, and performance (I own one which still rocks hard after 200k miles on the same engine) The Roland D50 is similar in that we barely ever see it anywhere anymore but it has some amazing ingredients at its core. Sound, reliability and performance. Sound unlike anything before or after and not to be compared to the realistic sound modeling or sample playback engines on any boards. The D50 is and will always be in a class by itself. Looks fantastic, and sounds out of this world. It is the mother of all synthesizers and not even the OASYS can touch it. THE EARS WILL TELL YOU WHY. If u can find one grab it and you will never look back! Just like with the DX7IIFD. It has earned a rightful golden throne in synth history.
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HAMMONDS,GUITARS,EL.PIANOS BETTER THAN ANY ROMPLER.ANALOG SOUNDS ALL SORTS BETTER THAN ALL NEW SYNTHS.ROLAND D-50 CAN IMITATE JD-800 SYNTH LEAD WITH OCTAVE EFFECT.IF YOU PLAY FAST ACCORD ON TVO OCTAVE UP AND DOWN WITH BUTTON CHASE YOU GOT A ARPEGGIATOR.KEYBOARD FEELING IS SO SO HOT EVEN BETTER THAN MY KORG T3 AND YAMMI DX-7.GREAT MACHINE FOR DISCO, ROCK,POP-ROCK,PROGRESSIVE ROCK.D-50 SOUNDS ON ROLAND XP-50 ARE SO LIFELESS,COLD WITH NO SOUL.ORIGINAL IS ONE,MAYBE ONE OF THE BEST SYNTHS EVER ROLAND D-50.WAVESTATIONS PADS,MINI MOOG LEADS,OBRHEIM BRASS,JX BELLS AND BRASS,ALL SORTS OF JEAN MICHELL JARRE SOUNDS,ENYA OOO AND AAA CHOIR,FANTASTIC STRINGS,POLY BRASS AND BASS.WITH MORE TWEAKING BETTER SOUNDS...LOVE IT OR HATE IT MY CHOICE IS LOVEEEEEEEEE TO DEATHHHHHHHHHHH
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Well, after a break of 18 years I finally have another D-50 and I'm NEVER going to let this one go!
Sure, the presets have been used to death, but it doesn't take much tweaking to produce some truly awesome (and unique) sounds.
As other reviewers have mentioned, the D-50 can produce sounds that (even to this day) no other synth can come close to. The "Glass voices" patch is my fave and when you play a big chord it really makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand to attention! And "Intruder FX" has got to be one of the most organic, expressive and weird sounds ever to come out of any machine!
It is probably the one of the best synths EVER. Perhaps not in terms of features, but in terms of the sounds it can produce (and that's what a synth is all about, isn't it?).
If you've never played a D-50 you truly owe it to yourself to give it ago. You WILL NOT regret it. It was a groundbreaking synth back in 1987 and it can still produce new and different sounds to this day.
It is truly unique. Give it a few years and it will be up there with the Jupiter-8, as one of the greatest sound-making machines EVER!
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The Roland D-50 was my first synthesizer. I bought it four years ago i think, and its realy the reason of why i`m so into synthesizers today. Its just an amazing synth. Enough about the cinda 80s preset- sounds ect. They sound so so.. I`ve got like 10 diferent cards and i know..;) But the most fynny thing with this synthesizer is that no matter what u want to create of sound, give yourself 15-30 mins, and u are guaranteed to sit with a synthsound that tells u why u want ever sell this thing. (If u know how to program it tho ofcoarse) I bought the PG-1000 programmer for about 1.5 year ago, but i havent realy used it that mutch. By the time i got one, i had learned the whole d50 interface.(Witch is layed out wery logically) I do use it, but just because it lets me control all parts at the same time. part 1,2 both on the lower and upper section. So u basically dont have to program every thing 4 times. Thats just ofcoarse if u just want a typical juno"ISH" (its not THAT analog sounding:P)sound with lets say 4osc pr voice just slightly detuned. The thing is that all the parts has its own envelope for the filter and amp for the posibillity of creating sounds that no other synths can.. but if u dont want that, the pg1000 will let u control all the env, filter, lfo..Basically everything the d50 lets u control.. -for the "parts" u select. Saves u for a lot of time:)
The D-50 has in total: 4osc! saw or squ pr voice with 8 voce of polyphony. Each osc has its ovn EG for filter and amp. So 8 EG`s. 2x3 LFO`s with rnd,squ,saw and sine waves. These can be synced and chosen to control pitch amp or filter. Sice u have 3 LFOs in one part. This gives u a wide specter of posibilities. The D50`s filter is rather digital. But i love it! It not analog its just D-50! Thats for everything else in this synth also. hehe.
The sounds i think fits this synth most is BIG lush pads, Spacey and digitaly-ish fxs, and again just amazing pad sounds that no aother synth can create. I cant get half ass cool pads with my KORG MS2000 etc. Just not possible.
So overall, the D-50 is a one of a cind synth with its own sound. Its not cheap digital (for god sake!!not at all!!) yet not analog... its a Linear Syntheziser that sound just amazing. If i for some reason lost it i would defenatly replace it with a nother d50..! no doubt!
They are going for mostly the same price as a Juno106 or Juno60. Its worth the money, and i u dont like it, well it wont be any problem to sell it, because there are a lot of people that does like it:)
Synth Hobbyist 19 from Norway
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The D50 is one of the greatest synthesizers in history next the DX7II. To this day no other machine matches its breathy heavenly sounds and massive analog and brass capabilities among others. And no the M1 did not sink it. I owned the M1 and the D50 sinks it in the category of brass, organs, strings and FX. The only real reason the M1 became so popular was for the sequencer and although it had a fake crappy piano sound it nevertheless was way stronger than the one on the D50. I sold the M1 for its lack of decent organ, electric piano, acoustic piano and brass sounds so don't tell me the M1 is better. The D50 has the best B3 sounds of any synth in history. Get the Screamin B3 card from Valhalla and you'll see what I mean.
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