Piano sound for D-50?
Steve Wirth
Here's the story:
One of these days I saw a guy on stage playing a Roland D-50 with a piano
sound that really DID sound like a piano (more or less, it was not as good
as some of the other stuff around of course).Anyway, it got a lot closer
to what you would expect a piano to sound like than the internal patches
48 (Piano Fifty) and 78 (Pianissimo). And for smartasses: There was NO
MIDI plug switched in, and no other controller whatsoever in sight.
(And of course he was performing LIVE.)
Since I own a D-50 myself, I am now wondering how that guy could possibly
have gotten such a sound out of that thing. Does anyone out there know
anything about a halfway decent piano sound for the D-50 ?? If so, where can
I get this (ROM-card or ftp or anything) to take a look at it ??
It's just technical interest that makes me ask, since after years of
programming that D-50 bastard, I wouldn't know how to create a patch that
would only sound close to anything like a piano. I myself use a JV1080
expansion module for piano sound and am pretty happy with it.
Thanks in advance for any responses,
Steve
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Steve Wirth
Computer Science Department
University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Clarence Din
>One of these days I saw a guy on stage playing a Roland D-50 with a piano
>sound that really DID sound like a piano (more or less, it was not as good
>as some of the other stuff around of course).Anyway, it got a lot closer
>to what you would expect a piano to sound like than the internal patches
>48 (Piano Fifty) and 78 (Pianissimo). And for smartasses: There was NO
>MIDI plug switched in, and no other controller whatsoever in sight.
>(And of course he was performing LIVE.)
I myself have been trying to get a good piano sound for my D-50 for
years, too. When I bought my M-EX (multitimbral card) for my D-50,
the manual showed a pic of the LCD display, which said "Steinway
Grand."
Cool, I said. I told my friends that with my M-EX card, I had a
Steinway Grand sound in it. I showed them the manual as proof.
They came over and searched the presets. No Steinway sound to be
found. I called up the company that made the M-EX.
"Ha ha... (he chuckles) No, there is no Steinway Grand sound on the
D-50. Don't believe everything you see in manuals."
Great, I said to myself. "So, can I at least program something
similar to what the author of the manual implies on his pages?" I
ask the man.
"Nope. You CANNOT GET A REAL PIANO SOUND OUT OF THE D-50," he
stated.
So, I never did find that elusive Steinway sound and even with my
PG-1000 (which I had for a year), I never did tweak patch 48 or 78
to sound real.
My question to you is, was the guy playing his D-50 piano in context
with something else or was he playing solo?
If solo, then maybe he's just a good player.
Clarence
(Yes, I'm f---- up,t oo).
thorn
piano) out of a D-50; the basic waveforms aren't there...
I've had one since 1988 - don't think I haven't tried...
Later -