S-50
Sampler | |
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General | |
Surname | S-50 |
Manufacturer | Roland |
Sound synthesis | digital, sample |
Period | 1986 - 1988 |
Price (year of publication) | |
properties | |
Polyphonic | 16 |
Multitimbral | fourfold |
Effects | - |
Keys | 61, velocity sensitive, aftertouch |
Game aids | Pitch, modulation stick |
Ext. Controller | - |
Interface (noun) | MIDI (In, Out, Through) |
Sequencer | as a software update |
D / A converter | 16 bit |
Samples | 12 bit, 30 kHz or 15 kHz |
Storage spaces | 8 patches, 32 tones (sample) |
ROME | - |
R.A.M. | 756 KB, 14.4 seconds |
Ext. Memory | 3.5 "floppy disks |
The S-50 is manufactured by Roland called "Digital Sampling Keyboard". It was Roland's first sampler and, as a 12-bit sampler and a memory for 14.4 seconds of sample time, offered powerful possibilities for its time. Due to the 16-bit converter, the sampler still sounds amazingly good and can still be used today.
The single-line display offers little space for information, so for comfortable work an RGB monitor (the RGB-25N monitor cable is required) or a TV or B / W monitor must be connected to the video output . The S-50 is quadruple multitimbral and therefore also has four outputs, another output is provided as a mix. The 16 notes that can be played simultaneously can be distributed to the four outputs in 8 different combinations. The recording takes place via a mono input with adjustable sensitivity.
As a special feature, it was planned from the start that different operating systems could be reloaded via diskette.
- SYS-501: Version 1.00 of the operating system
- SYS-502: Version 2.00 of the operating system, this enabled u. a. the connection of a "Digitizer Tablet" (DT-100) and the storage of 32 instead of 16 individual samples.
- SYS-503: The "Director-S" software transformed the S-50 into a sequencer .
- SYS-505: “Library Converter”, this operating system enables the sound libraries of the S-550 and W-30 samplers to be read in and saved. So z. B. from one floppy disk for the S-550 sampler two floppy disks for the S-50.
The L-500 series floppy disks were offered as a sound library. The floppy disk images are available as a Roland sound library (RSB) for download from the Internet and must first be written to floppy disks with the MS-DOS program “sdisk”.
The scope of delivery included:
- System disk
- four sound disks (L-51 – L-54)
- Disk box, can be attached to the back of the S-50
- in Germany a 120-page manual
- PJ-1 audio cable, 2 × 2.5 m
- Mains cable (2-pin, IEC C9; not the more common C13 power cord)
The rack version (S-550) was possibly a. used by Vangelis , Duran Duran and Jimi tenor .
Connections (on the back):
- DT-100 digitizing tablet
- Video output ( cinch )
- RGB monitor (8-pin Din socket)
- Midi (In, Out, Through)
- Express pedal EV-5
- Pedal switch DP-2
- Sustain pedal or start pedal for recording
- Recording input (mono jack)
- four individual outputs
- Mono output
- headphone
Web links
- Archive of the Roland Sound Library
- virtual Roland Museum
- S-50 / S-550 home page