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D-5O Samples, Famous sounds · by **Hanon_CTS** » 27 Jun 2011, 02:37

Hello All,
I've recently gotten my D-5O back from extended loan to a friend's project studio.
I'm going to post some of the "famous patches" samples for use in your NE3, Wave, and NS2 instruments.
The D-5O factory presets have been altered to remove any effects that can be produced by the Nord instruments.

These are all sampled from my instrument and not from any existing recordings, or any existing licensed sample sets.
These are freely shared for use by NordUserForum members for performance and recordings and license is hereby granted for said usage, but not to be sold as an individual sample, samples, or part of a sample collection.

I'll start with I-44 Pizzagogo as used in Enya's Orinoco Flow.

D50_pizzagogo.mp3

D50_pizzagogo.nsmp: (420.11 KiB) Downloaded 2907 times

I-21 Digital Native Dance

D50_Digital_Native_Dance.mp3

Digital_Native_Dance.nsmp: (8.51 MiB) Downloaded 2122 times

I-38 Cathedral Organ

D50_Cathedral_Organ_Demo.mp3

Cathedral_Organ.nsmp: (2.6 MiB) Downloaded 2569 times

I-37 Soundtrack

D50_Soundtrack_Demo.mp3

Sountrack.nsmp: (2.45 MiB) Downloaded 2087 times

I-15 Horn Section as used in "Paula Abdul's Straight Up"

Horn_Sec_Demo.mp3

Horn_Section.nsmp: (2.75 MiB) Downloaded 2349 times

There may be more coming throughout the week.

I-31 Breathy Chiffer

D50_Breathy_Chiifer_Demo.mp3

D50_Breathy_Chiffer.nsmp: (2.14 MiB) Downloaded 2085 times

I-16 Living Calliope

D50_Living_Calliope_Demo.mp3

D50_Living_Calliope.nsmp: (2.87 MiB) Downloaded 2152 times

I-55 Stereo Polysynth

D50_PolySynth.mp3

D50_Stereo_Polysynth.nsmp: (9.38 MiB) Downloaded 2692 times

I-61 Staccato Heaven

Staccato_Heaven_demo.mp3

D50_Staccato_Heaven.nsmp: (2.77 MiB) Downloaded 3329 times

Baroque Strings

Baroque_Strings_Demo.mp3

D50_Baroque_Strings.nsmp: (2.29 MiB) Downloaded 2163 times

All demo s of the sounds are using the NE3 with reverb and Chor1 and a little EQ.

Cheers, Hanon

Re: Roland D-50 Samples, Famous sounds · by **Johannes** » 04 Jul 2011, 07:54

cool stuff! excellent sounds and sampling! Too bad I still have to wait for my NS2...

I would bet the Cathedral Sound is the one used in the intro of George Michael's Faith!!!

Re: Roland D-50 Samples, Famous sounds · by **Klangwerk** » 13 Jul 2011, 20:11

Hi Hanon,
well done! D-50 was one of my favourite Synthies. Why shouldn´t we play with the originals anymore?
I wish to have a big stage and to play with all my old "values" like DX-7 II FD, D-50, Roland JD-800, Siel Opera 6 ...
I´m sorry that I don´t have my Poly 800 anymore.
Keep sampling!

Helmuth Schicker

Re: Roland D-50 Samples, Famous sounds · by **Hanon_CTS** » 13 Jul 2011, 22:25

Klangwerk wrote:...
I wish to have a big stage and to play with all my old "values" like DX-7 II FD, D-50, Roland JD-800, Siel Opera 6 ...
...

Hello Helmuth,
For the longest time I just wanted to be this guy,

I wonder if he'd ever taken a header into Carl Palmer's drums?

The poly 800 was a great little synth, especially with the Moog-slayer mod.

Cheers, Hanon

Re: Roland D-50 Samples, Famous sounds · by **bdodds** » 17 Jul 2011, 21:58

I always wanted to see Geoff program the Fairlight in the middle of a set, maybe take a few hours to sample and map out a new waveform. :)

Mentioning the D-50 brings back some huge memories, I remember spending hour after hour at the local music store playing with one.. i loved the LCD on it..

Re: Roland D-50 Samples, Famous sounds · by **Hanon_CTS** » 17 Jul 2011, 22:26

bdodds wrote:I always wanted to see Geoff program the Fairlight in the middle of a set, maybe take a few hours to sample and map out a new waveform. :)

Mentioning the D-50 brings back some huge memories, I remember spending hour after hour at the local music store playing with one.. i loved the LCD on it..

Hi Bri,
I don't think Geoff used more than one or two sounds per instrument, hence so many instruments. I'd have loved to hear the grumbling that went on from his keyboard techs about having to set all of that up.

I've always been a big D-50 fan. I bought my first one in '87. Only one local music store had them in stock, the store owner had been trying to get me to work there, and I finally agreed to work a weekend so we could both try out the arrangement.

I had worked for a different music store ten years earlier, and still had a local reputation as being a very tech-savy keyboardist. I worked the weekend, made some great sales, and ended up using my employee discount to get a good price on the D-50.

I ended up not taking the sales job "the money just wasn't right".
The thing that caught me about the D-50 was the built in effects which was rare in '87.
Now it's a great old keyboard, the PG-1000 programmer is a MUST to get the most out of it though.

Cheers, Hanon

Re: Roland D-50 Samples, Famous sounds · by **bdodds** » 18 Jul 2011, 05:27

what's funny is that my background is in digital stuff (circuits, programming, language, networks) and i'm probably the worst digital synth programmer ever.. give me knobs for everything and i'm good to go..

Re: Roland D-50 Samples, Famous sounds · by **lvvo42** » 19 Jul 2011, 10:18

Hey Hanon, great job!

I just got my Nord Stage 2 last weekend, and was anxiously thinking about getting some samples from my old-and-still-working D50 into the NS2. Fantastic to see that you already got some available!
Is there any possibility that you can also post the C-55 Stereo Polysynth sound from the D50? That was one that I used a lot in the past...

Thanks!!!

Re: Roland D-50 Samples, Famous sounds · by **Klangwerk** » 19 Jul 2011, 15:43

Hi Hanon,

thank you for that picture. I'm still dreaming!
But I forgot to mention my old Roland JX-8P which I bought one year earlier than my DX7 II FD.
It had so nice warm string sounds and I remember the stab brass.
Cheers
Helmuth

Re: Roland D-50 Samples, Famous sounds · by **Hanon_CTS** » 19 Jul 2011, 19:58

lvvo42 wrote:Hey Hanon, great job!

I just got my Nord Stage 2 last weekend, and was anxiously thinking about getting some samples from my old-and-still-working D50 into the NS2. Fantastic to see that you already got some available!
Is there any possibility that you can also post the C-55 Stereo Polysynth sound from the D50? That was one that I used a lot in the past...

Thanks!!!

Hello lvvo42,
Welcome to the forum!
I've added the Stereo Polysynth to the original post.
The sample size is a bit large due to the length of time to capture the filter sweep properly.

I'll be adding some Korg Wavestation samples in a new thread later in the week.

Cheers, Hanon

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