Synthesist Ian Dixon shared this video intro to his free Roland D-50 Editor Librarian.

The Librarian is a browser-based Web MIDI tool for backing up, browsing, importing and editing D-50 sounds, without sending your patch data to the cloud.

Video Summary:

“In this video, I show the full workflow from the YouTube transcript: connecting the D-50 over MIDI, enabling SysEx, reading the current edit buffer, opening a patch library, sending sounds to the synth, receiving a full bulk dump from the D-50, saving a library backup, importing SysEx banks, and editing classic D-50 patches such as Fantasia. The editor also makes it easier to work with the D-50’s upper and lower tones, partials, PCM and synthesis structures, ring modulation, filter and amp envelopes, reverb, tuning and patch management.

The aim is to give the Roland D-50 a modern librarian/editor workflow: build a large library of card sounds and custom patches, search for sounds quickly, send patches to the edit buffer when recording, and avoid constantly swapping cards or managing small internal banks by hand.”

Availability:

The Roland D-50 Editor Librarian is available now as a free, browser-based application.