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Average rating:
4.4 out of 5
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I have been using it live as a Master keyboard 'cos it as a good synth action so I didn't really use the internal sounds but since a few weeks I've been using in a new band and it surprised me again how good it sounds. I'm mainly geared towards analog stuff (but I don't make electronic music and certainly not prog rock). I had been considering buying another analog poly which excels in string sounds but the D50 is so great in luscious and spacy strings I dumped the idea quickly. For a digital synth it has lots of character and it complements my analogs fabulously.
I think it must have been used in lots of eighties movies. True analogs have waaaayyy more character than digital synths but the D50 is one of those remarkable exceptions that really stands on it's own.
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I have one D-50 for about 4 years now and I think this will stay a 'forever'synth. There are (happily) alot of good synthesizers and the D50 is sure one of them. It can produce such unique sounds which you can not produce with another synth. I was able to buy a mint PG1000 and I am looking forward to experiment with it! You can buy an expansion card for the D50 (and D550) that is produced by a german company, called 'Musitronics'. This card makes the D50 (or D550) multi-timbral so you can play 4 patches at the same time. It also triples the memory (192 patches in this case) and it costs 59 US$ or 69 Euro. See http://www.musitronics.de/
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I love the D-50 and have had it for 12 yrs. Hear are some of the patches I've matched to the "T" Separate Ways (Journey) - Jump (Van Halen) - The Final Countdown (Europe) - Blue Collar Man (Styx) - Intro to "Only time will tell" (Asia) - Why Can't this be love (Van Halen) - 1984 (Van Halen) - Low Synth Bass in intro to "Right Now" (Van Halen) - Troubled Child (Journey) High on you (Survivor).....and of course the D-50 has been used in quite a few mid to late 80's songs such as the STACCATO HEAVEN patch in "Say you will" (Foreigner)... Paula Abdul's "Straight Up" used the brass stabs and trumpets...Don Henley's "End of the Innocence" uses the "Soundtrack" patch.... Milli Vanilli's "Girl you know it's true and Paula Abdul's "Forever your girl" use it extensively throughout the whole songs. Great for movies..... Also you can catch the D-50 Patches in some Mike & the Mechanics songs. Don't worry about crappy presets in a synth. most synths have 50/50 presets..good and bad. Every synth is that way. Learn to be a programmer and create your own patches, you'll be alot more at ease using synths. Do not look for a piano sound from the D-50, you won't find it!!! The Roland D-50 is a SYNTHESIZER. Do you want me to spell it out? SYNTHESIZER. If you want a piano sound...buy a good piano module or a "Digital Piano"..geared specifically FOR piano. So all you cry babies out there that are saying the D-50 sucks because it doesn't have a piano sound...well....you have to understand that a synthesizer is for synth pads, strings and analog sounds. DAMN good ones at that!
Although...I've created a hell of a hammond B3 organ sound on the D-50. NOT the real THING...but when played LIVE on stage, it sounds as close to it as possible.
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I purchased the Roland D-50 in 1989 just 2 yrs after it was released but still in it's early stage when 80's synth was still big. This has been my one and only Synthesizer now for almost 13 yrs now, and I love it. I've gigged on the road with it.and in the studio. The preset patches give you plenty to work with. This synth is excellent for strings and synth pads...and any sound in the world. The one piano preset is Terrible!!! The few electric piano sounds are workable if Midied with another synth. For piano I Midi the Kurzweil Micro Piano to the D-50 for a beautiful real time piano sound. If you're looking for piano then don't invest in the D-50. Unless you want to Midi Piano to it. If it's beautiful orchestra movie theme sounds, or warm pop synth and strings you're looking for, the Roland D-50 is Tops! Over all, for a straight out Synthesizer The Roland D-50 is a monsterous Machine and very program friendly.
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Poseo un sintetizador Roland d-50 pienso que es muy bueno, pero lamentablemente los contactos de las teclas se me han da�ado casi 15 y estoy tratando de comprarlos pero no se donde ni cuanto cuestan. incluso me comentaron que existen una tarjetas de expansi�n que fueron creadas nuevas y que traen nuevos sonidos. por favor si alguien me puede enviar informaci�n. gracias. Dios los bendiga
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