PN-D50-03
sound expansion card
The third of the four official Roland cards that were produced at the time the D-50 and D-550 were released. Contains awesome strings, woodwinds, and choirs. These days, you can find all four of these cards in the public domain on the Internet, as sysex data.
Stream:
Stream all the examples below as an .m3u playlist
Individual listening:
| Preset name with audio demo | My comments |
| 11 String Section | Realistic and expressive string section. |
| 12 Syn-Strings Hi | Classic analog strings. |
| 13 Tension Strings | Nervous strings. |
| 14 Planetary Strings | Cosmic orchestral strings. |
| 15 Symphony Orchestra | Lovely reverb. |
| 16 Analog Syn-Strings | More analog goodness |
| 17 Crescendo Strings | Just what the name says. |
| 18 Warm Strings Pad | Great analog synpad |
| 21 Vibrato Cello | Digital cello |
| 22 String Quartette | Realistic and effective. |
| 23 Pizz Typewriter | Variation of the famous Pizzagogo patch. |
| 24 Strings Horns | Mixed instruments |
| 25 Strings ElecPiano | Ok. |
| 26 High-Strings Oboe | Middle-Eastern sounding combination |
| 27 Cello-ViolaPiccolo | Effective. |
| 28 Bass-PianoStrings | That's what it is. |
| 31 Powerful Brass | Typical LA brass. |
| 32 Mute Trumpet | Nice room reverb |
| 33 Westerly Brass | Awesome 80s synth brass |
| 34 Flugel Horn | Breathy, realistic |
| 35 Eye Brasspad | Reminds of certain sounds on the Yamaha SY/TG77 synths. |
| 36 Trumpetters | Very realistic trumpet ensemble |
| 37 Pressure 5th Horns | Great for Fusion solos. |
| 38 Pianish Horns | Interesting combo. |
| 41 Baritone Saxophone | Growl sax |
| 42 Silver Saxophones | Nice for Christmas and 70s easy listening. |
| 43 Saxcessive Tones | Great combo. |
| 44 Synthesized Sax | Another killer Fusion solo synth. |
| 45 Growl Saxophone | Very growly. |
| 46 Sopranino Sax | Very high-pitched |
| 47 Xarmonica | Cross between a sax and a harmonica? |
| 48 Happy Whistler | Outstanding patch - It absolutely sounds like someone whistling. |
| 51 Breathy Flute | Vibrato flute |
| 52 Bohemian | Orchestral flute, nice |
| 53 Recorder | Woody recorder patch |
| 54 Breeze Pipe | Works for many genres. |
| 55 Flutes Ensemble | Mellotronish in nature. |
| 56 Woodwinds | Nice and realistic |
| 57 Pipe Bags | Mega cool and realistic bagpipe patch! Note the low C that keeps going, just like the real thing... |
| 58 Vibe n Clarinet | Intriguing, mysterious jazzy patch |
| 61 Heavy Metal Lead | Yep |
| 62 Monophonic Lead | Deliciously analog. |
| 63 Pulse Lead | Gentle pulse wave |
| 64 Squeeze Lead | Another lead |
| 65 Energetical Lead | Full of energy |
| 66 Monotone Lead | Subdued but nice |
| 67 Harmonics Lead | Okay |
| 68 Metallic Lead | Very metallic but also woody. |
| 71 Jazz Organ | Very nice jazz Hammond organ |
| 72 Huge Pipes | Another contender, but I still think the "Cathedral" patch is best. |
| 73 Velocity Rotor | Full Leslie on. |
| 74 Choral Organ | Beautiful and sweet organ + choir patch. |
| 75 Click Organ | Nice emulation. |
| 76 Solid Beat | Strange piano |
| 77 Wavy Motion | Super synth, very wavy! |
| 78 Pressure Generator | Expressive. |
| 81 Whispy Vox | Lovely Fairlight-style 8-bit vox. |
| 82 Alpha Omega Enseml | Enigmatic choir |
| 83 Vox n Sawz | Beautiful pad |
| 84 4th Synth Vox | Odd and nice |
| 85 Husky Voices | Another excellent Fairlight-inspired patch. |
| 86 Stereo Panorama | Awesome - and a few years before the Wavestation came! |
| 87 Voyageur | Perfect 1980s choir synth pad |
| 88 Glass Voices 2 | Magnificent variation of the "Glass Voices" internal patch. To die for. |