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I just bought my first synth after months and months of research, it's a 1988 Roland D-20 and i got it for a bargain.
The guy i bought it from gave me a ROM card that goes into the expansion at the back of the synth.
I put the card in and loaded it into the system. It has a totally new bank of original and experimental sounds which are cool.
Just one small problem, i forgot to backup the default patches/timbres to a 3.5" floppy disk!
So now i have all these new sounds on it but i have lost my old default sounds. I miss my organs and honky tonky sounds.
Please help. I have studied the owner's manual intensively and thoroughly and it does not mention anything about restoring to factory defaults.
Does anyone know if it is possible to find a download on the net that has all the default D-20 patches that can be copied to a floppydisk and then loaded into the synth?
Please help me!!!

HOLD WRITE + PRESS SYSTEM. PRESS ENTER TWICE.

Warning!!!!!
Doing that, you will reset all the factory values, not the factory sounds.

AFAIK (I think I read it on Roland website) you won't recover preset sounds pressing any button. You should have to dump the factory preset sysex file into your D20. You can find it on the net, and also a MIDI OX editor which works fine to do that job.

Maybe I have that file in my computer, I loaded it once in my D10 (same as yours except it has not sequencer or floppy unit).

regards

I read factory reset instead of factory sounds. My apologies.

DX wrote:Warning!!!!!
Doing that, you will reset all the factory values, not the factory sounds.

AFAIK (I think I read it on Roland website) you won't recover preset sounds pressing any button. You should have to dump the factory preset sysex file into your D20. You can find it on the net, and also a MIDI OX editor which works fine to do that job.

Maybe I have that file in my computer, I loaded it once in my D10 (same as yours except it has not sequencer or floppy unit).

regards

If you could give me that file that would be a big help.
It is the only option, so it seems.

Maschine, don't worry because the thread title can mean both Factory settings or factory sounds

I warned d20 because the factory settings reset erases all the sounds loaded. Altough It wouln't be a problem because he has the rom card with the sounds.

d20, I will send you the file. Just let me a couple of days because I am out of home. (I still need to find it on my computer)
Then you will only need to dump the sysex with MIDI OX or some midi editor like it, and voilá!.
Please send me a PM with the email address you want to receive it.

Regards.

http://www.rowaudiosales.co.uk/page4.htm

Thanks Tav!
That link solved my problem.
I knew there was a way to reset the default sounds without needing an external device or files.
Thanks so much, Cheers.
DX - thanks for your help but i don't require it anymore. All it took was holding down the "Tune/Function" and "Write" buttons simultaneously while powering up and now everything is how once was.

Great!
I am very surprised. I never tried that way, but I know folks who did that way, and they told me their sounds were missed.

PS. I am afraid that I was confusing about to recover the original preset settings in case of a new replaced battery. In that case, no reset procedure can recover the presets until you load them into the memory.



Sorry if anyone was confused with my previous answers.