Just noticed the MT-32 has a Soundtrack patch as well. Similar, not exact. Unsurprisingly, the D-110 does too. Yes, they are just less good impressions of that patch on cheaper gear. Kind of like all the Roland stuff of that era have a "Fantasia"-type patch variant as well - it was just part of the...

Good post and I agree on many of the points. Roland, whoever convinced the top brass that 4-voice polyphony was a viable choice, please demote them back to bringing the cakes in and making the tea. Even the *first "proper" polyphonic analog synth* - the FIRST, back in the 70s (!), the Sequential Pro...

I'm wondering if the "SOUNDNIGTH" patch comes from a JD800 patch, as I've seen reference to this elsewhere... It seem's "Holophon's Soundtrack" JD800 bank (which should also load into the 990) has a bunch of "Soundtrack"-derived patches as well (don't know whether this is JX Soundtrack, D50 Soundtra...

I have a D-550, JD-990, XV-3080, and NI Massive (hey, it would be nice..), so if there's something I can provide that would help, give me a shout. (Although I'll be traveling a bit in June, so throw your requests out there and I'll reply if I can.) That's be great - when I get back into the weeds o...

Thanks for the audio demo, really helpful! Nice patch, seems worthwhile to convert that over to the XV as use that as a starting point, or at least compare it to what I have. Tonally it seems right in the ballpark, although the envelopes are a bit softer in that patch compared to the D50 patch. But ...

I would really, really, really love to see an authentic Oberheim OB re-issue. I am just not sold on the OB-6 being enough like the older ones. Musictrackjp's video has been the only one that I have seen where someone has made it sound like an older one (in that case an OB-8), but being that this th...

Lovely synth, with accesss to all those cool Roland llibraries. Have you tried S550/ W30 era library with it? Is that even possible? I'm not sure it loads those libraries, and I no longer have a SCSI CD drive either - lent it to someone and never got it back. It loads the S760 era stuff I think, no...

I also use SD cards with my XV-5080 - much less hassle than rigging up SCSI devices and so on...

For me, I like the form factor as a fun plaything (not a "serious" instrument as such). The four voices is a bit of a slap in the face, but I expect that's either because the current custom Roland chip they use can't do more than that (there aren't very many recent Roland products using this modelli...

It's been suggested than there is a JD-990 patch called "Soundnight 2" which is supposed to be a "very good copy" of the D-50 Soundtrack patch, though I can't verify it. I'm not sure what the original source for this patch was, but it wasn't the factory presets in the 990. Is there anyone with a 990...

Nice!

Someone just released an ST clone... can't recall name, but it's a straight hardware emulator of that and a bunch of other ancient PCs. I can't really see the point of this. if you want the hardware for some specific reason (eg, you want a dedicated Notator machine), you can buy ST's for peanuts (I...

So, just rigged up my stuff to make sure the config works (have to run the Roland XV Editor, or SoundDiver, in a Snow Leopard VM on my MBP, and connect the various MIDI stuff through that, but with audio coming back to the MBP) - and tweaked a few parameters to open up the lower tone: https://dl.dro...

That thing on that keyboard at the most-right says Sync II. Sync II, early 80s: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4211158/sync/2.jpg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4211158/sync/synclavier_ii.jpg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4211158/sync/Synclavier-II_a.jpg Synclavier (generation 3), m...

Go team! :) Funny thing: I checked the PWM in the D-10 and it has a value of 29 for all 4 partials. However, the PWM starts taking place only with values over 50 :D There may be other modulators in there, perhaps? - eg, PWM modulated by velocity, or an envelope or something (I haven't yet re-looked ...