Roland VC-1
D-50 V-Card for V-Synth and VariOS
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The Roland VC-1 is the faithful reproduction of the classic
Roland D-50, in a convenient PCMCIA card form, to be used with
Roland's V-Synth and VariOS. Besides featuring all the original sound banks of the D-50, the Roland VC-1 also offers a new bank of 64 sounds, with a "modern" feel. |
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| In the audio examples below, we look at the new bank of sounds. | |
| Patch audio demo | My comments |
| 11 Brass Tacks | Very analog sounding, cool synth brass |
| 12 A Bright Day | Marvelous synth pad, perfect for many genres |
| 13 Soft EPicenter | Gentle and nice electric piano |
| 14 Next Stop Nirvana | Gorgeous, evolving, WaveStation-like synth pad |
| 15 Pressure Dome | Excellent programming acts on the filter via the aftertouch |
| 16 Hard Whoover | Classic Techno sound of the '90s |
| 17 Digital Clavi | Yep |
| 18 Chasing Game | Beautiful sound with the classic Roland "chase" effect |
| 21 Stereo Rhodes | Intimate electric piano |
| 22 FM Rhodes | The classic DX7 sound |
| 23 Curly Wurly | Nice Wurlitzer |
| 24 End of the 7 Era | Fantastic emulation of the DX7 II |
| 25 Christmas Time | Wonderful Christmas sound |
| 26 Good Vibrations | Beautiful L.A. bells |
| 27 Fairy Ultra | Nice bells |
| 28 Thoughts | Marvelous digi-pad, great follow-up to the classic D-50's "Afterthought" |
| 31 Music Box | Very realistic |
| 32 Happy Toy | Yeah |
| 33 Space Harp | The typical D-50 reverb algorhitms |
| 34 Wonder Drops | Great ambient sound |
| 35 Pluck the Pad | Yup |
| 36 Long Dream | Cool dance sound |
| 37 Late 80s Stack | Classic L.A. sounds |
| 38 Gin Fizz | A bit Fairlight-like |
| 41 Perc Piper | Happy sound |
| 42 Space Rays | Excellent sci-fi patch |
| 43 Tandorri Bells | Nice ambient pad |
| 44 I saw the light | Ravishing, classic D-50 pad sound |
| 45 Future is Behind | A great follow-up to the classic Future Pad sound of the D-50 |
| 46 Bow Street Runner | Moving pad, cool |
| 47 Tension Sheet | Beautiful sci-fi digital pad, very cinematic. |
| 48 D1080 Pad | A take on Roland's own JV-1080, perhaps? |
| 51 Atmostrings | Classic D-50 sound |
| 52 Waving Strings | Gorgeous soundtrack strings |
| 53 Organic Strings | More beautiful soundtrack strings |
| 54 Megatronic | Big sound |
| 55 PhotonPhasers | Cool FX |
| 56 Soft Whoover | Variation on the patch 16 |
| 57 LA Supersaw | Simple and cool. |
| 58 Dance Choir | Nice dance choir chord, very '90s |
| 61 Rusty Voices | Haunting and mysterious syn vox |
| 62 Solo X Press | Excellent solo synth |
| 63 Daft Lead | Cool lead in the vein of Daft Punk |
| 64 Back 2 Mono | Nice emulation of a classic monophonic analog synth |
| 65 Mono Octabass | Powerful syn bass |
| 66 Gated FM bass | Yep |
| 67 Acid Bass | The classic TB-303 sound |
| 68 Rubber Bass | Funny bass |
| 71 Purr-Phunk | Huge and super-cool synth bass patch. Extremely F U N K Y |
| 72 Atmo Bass | More '90s ambient / dance beauty |
| 73 Zawco Brass | Classic Fusion synth horn sound, a la Zawinul |
| 74 D-50 Syn Brass | Classic D-50 semi-analogness |
| 75 Ambient Hit | Yup |
| 76 12str Guitar | Decent emulation |
| 77 Darjiling | Charming instrument. A city in India |
| 78 Realistic Flute | The D Beam introduces vibrato |
| 81 PiccoBello | Nice piccolo flute mixed with something else. |
| 82 Qatsi Organ | Very nice |
| 83 Sunken Cathedral | Gorgeous sci-fi, soundtrack-like sound |
| 84 Sorcerers Organ | Cool |
| 85 Voice of Elohim | Outstanding sound design |
| 86 Sun Safari | Great vocalization patch |
| 87 Musique Concrete | Yes |
| 88 Jurassic Breath | Sleeping dinosaurs |
| Roland VC-1 specs | |
| Year of release: | 200_ |
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| Aftertouch | no |
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| SITE | Type of resource | DESCRIPTION |
| Manufacturer site | home page | |
Roland VC-1 review with audio demo - June 10, 2012