The Roland S-50 is a 61-key 12-bit sampler keyboard produced by the Roland Corporation in 1986. It featured a 3.5-inch DSDD floppy disk drive and had external CRT monitor support to facilitate editing of samples. It could hold up to 32 samples. A rack-mounted version was also available, which featured expanded memory.[2]
| Roland S-50 | |
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Roland S-50
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| Manufacturer | Roland Corporation |
| Dates | 1986 - 1987 |
| Price | £2195 UK $2695 US |
| Technical specifications | |
| Polyphony | 16 |
| Timbrality | 4 parts |
| LFO | Yes |
| Synthesis type | Samples |
| Filter | Low-pass, hi-pass digital filters |
| Aftertouch expression | Yes |
| Velocity expression | Yes |
| Storage memory | RAM (512K)[1] |
| Effects | no |
| Input/output | |
| Keyboard | 61 keys weighted |
| Left-hand control | pitch-bend and modulation wheels, volume, record level, controller / bend range sliders. |
15 to 30 kHz variable sampling rates at a 12-bit resolution, (28.8 seconds and 14.4 seconds respectively) The samples can also be saved to disk (3.5-inch DSDD floppy disk drive).[3]
A rack-mountable version was released in 1987,[4] which also had twice the sample memory (1.5 Mb) and time-variant filters. A less feature-rich version of the S-550 was also available as the S-330. Both can support the DT-100 Digitizer Tablet and an external computer monitor for visual manipulation of the samples on screen.
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