Roland U-220 sound demos
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- The rack-mounted version of the U-20. Plenty of realistic sounds (especially for the time), and several drawn from classic Roland synths like Jupiter-8 and D-50. [controller keyboard: Roland D-10]
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I have watched and heard this video many times over the years and I am still coming back to it in 2023 because of how you bring the wonderful sounds of the Roland U220 back to life. I have this unit, but you inspire me to dust it off the shelf and use it! Thank you SynthMania. I have been following your channel for years and years and I can only imagine how much hard work and dedication you have put into making these videos for us, especially your 2 videos on the search for the bassline of "Illusion" - Imagination (it would be good to make a modern update of this using only a VST (instead of hardware) , a MIDI controller and pitch automation in Ableton.) I still come back to these videos and other videos of yours from the past.They are an invaluable source of information to sounds of the 70's, 80's and 90's wiithout which we would struggle to find the answer to "where did that sound come from and how did they make that sequence?" All the best to you, my friend. We all really appreciate your work and it shows that you have a lot of fun making these videos for us! 😄
Thank you - Yes, it was the Roland SH-1000, so you can use any modern VST that replicates that type of Roland SH sound
Two years ago there was a lady playing the keyboard version (U-20) in an old-fashioned 19th century folk band. She had the keyboard inside a custom wood shell made by her husband. You could not tell what type of keyboard she was playing at all, and that piano sound fit really well into the band's music. The whole thing, inside its case, looked like a clavichord (NOT a clavinet).
It's been 5 years since you uploaded this demo and it still sounds as sweet as then.
Thank you very much for sharing!
The fretless bass on the U220 is still about the best I've heard on any module before or since
signature50 yep, I remember that sound! :-)
I had a U-220. It was great. I am not a "musician" but MIDI and sound modules like the U-220 helped me to create some cool music.
u will always be a musician. Dont let these guitarists be exclusionary.
Someone who makes cool music is a musician, isn't he?
Simply beautiful playing
The U220 Piano sound was heard in various Disney Channel bumpers in the late 80s-early 90s.
Peter Lurye used this for composing Magic School Bus and Bear in the Big Blue House.
One of the patches he used is the acoustic piano patch. (He even uses the vibes and shakuhachi patch)
It might have been the U-110, U20, D70, SO-PCM-01 Card, or SR-JV80-07 Expansion Board but Billy Straus, Steve Sandberg, or Josh Sitron also used the U-220 piano on Seasons 1-4 of Dora the Explorer.
Funny thing is : The converters of the U220 sound much smoother and better than the 2080. The U220 has practically the same base sound as the JV880, if you turn off the FX. The sounds of the U220 are pretty basic, but If you like them (as I do) go for it! Units go for 50-100€ at the time of this writing.
beautiful playing
It sounds even better than I thought ! Great playing.
I had one of these when they first came out in the late 80s; still have the CD demo songs I got at NAMM done by Eric Persing. To this day, one of the best 'horn section' sounds I've ever used was a custom patch where I built up multiple horns with tuning and panning on the U220.
OMG that Future Pad sound at 10:21 is so beautyful still today.
Each demo segment was a style appropriate to the sound. Cool.
Sounds to me that the piano has more character than the more modern modules. It would be a perfect expander for my Korg M1.
This was when synths sounded great before they were watered down with GM/GS sound. I had and gigged a U20 for years and loved it. I still think it had one of the best sounding pianos and the strings, choirs and pads were great too. In the end I replaced it with a Korg Trinity which was more flexible but still did'nt have as good acoustic piano sound.
Amazing! I owned the predecessor U110 when it came out; it was a no-frills sample player. Some weeks ago I found the U220, and what a surprise when I noticed that it actually allows editing of sound parameters such as ADSR, random pitch/panning etc. Still limited compared to the later JV series, but amazingly versatile and inspiring.
I love my U20. The pads and bells are beautiful and outstanding. It has that charming HQ-lofi sound of the 90s and remembers of the sound from amiga-MODs. Some Windows 95 system-sounds were created with an U20/220....
Can you please link or reference to where you found out about the u220 being used for Windows systems sounds?
@@XTheNicksterX Did you get anywhere with that?
@@BookieKillah No, I was never able to find a source referencing the U220 being used for windows 95 system sounds, there is one sound on the U220 that sounds like the notification sound in windows 95, but beyond that I am not sure how the other sounds were made.
@@XTheNicksterX Yeh, would've been nice for *Stephan S* to provide a bit of citation there...
Fantastic playing and demo!!!!
You make it come alive because of your ability to match genres to the sounds. Brilliant demo!
Mad organ and choir are fabulous!
Beautiful sounds
Wow, the solo brass and winds are insane
many very epic sounds! tahnks for sharing!
getting one of these tomorrow, so excited
Wow this module is about 30 yrs old and you can still make it sing!!!
Perfect demo!
I wanted some great Roland sounds at a budget price in the mid 90s and bought a used U220. It had some truly amazing patches for the time including the acoustic piano, strings, choirs, solo trumpet, vibraphone, that infamous muted electric guitar sound and even some brass sounds. It was a perfect sonic match for the Korg T3ex, Roland DR660 and Alesis S4 Plus that I was using at the time for my music production
now heres the demo i been lookin for;)
THIS WAS A HUGE PART OF MANY MANY PRODUCTIONS I'VE MADE! U-220!
Great playing, especially on the acoustic guitar!
Bass and piano, you got it, the gift
AMAZING MAN, thanks for the video, i had one this ....and search for videos reviews......thanks for posting
2:20 That sounds like that one bell from Kirby 64! Also, happy 1K likes!
6:44 A lot of Kirby fans will recognize this sound.
8:22 I feel like I've heard this somewhere in Kirby music.
9:45 sounds familiar.
Yep, I can recognize a lot of Kirby instruments!😄
0:49 good lort that was smooth
Beautiful sounds :)
Nice demo!
7:55 - that piano sounds so solid and full of tone; a tad bright perhaps and lacking some sample layer dynamics but apart from that it gets the juices going.
Best demo ever mr magic pinkies !
It seems like a lot of these sounds, along with sounds from the R-8 drum machine made their way into the Sound Canvas series.
Yeah. I can't trust that acoustic guitar and some other instruments were taken from U-220.
U-110/220, D-10/20/110, and MT-32, as well as R8 Drum Machine, are the modules that made rock solid foundations of the Roland Sound Canvas series.
Sinth Vox 1 - Moments in love, and Shakukaki sound for me the best. Great demo.
Funny - I have a D-20 and a U-220 as well. I thought the same thing w/r/t the Choir sound. Mind blowing, huh? The Fairlight partials (Vox) sounds were amazing as well. Still a nice piece of kit. The internal effects really helped make this module sound great. Eric Persing's internal demos always blew me away on all Roland gear. I think you press Jump and ^ (up) while powering on the unit to get into the demos. Always disgusted me I couldn't ever reproduce any of that on my own... heheh. Of course with a moderately well equipped laptop, DAW software, and Omnisphere these days, well, there's Eric Persing again! :D
I have one since they came out . It made a great live piano which cut through the mix and had body. The unit sort of died last year so I got a u220 to replace it. It had the orchestral strings card with it which sounds amazing
I have this one in my rack. thanks for rediscovering the nice sounds of this. Your conclusion about the choir is right. It compared it with the Korg M1 and they sound nicer on the U220
This is a lofi dream!
So this one of the synthesizers that’s been used in Kirby games since the 90s(such as the iconic Syn Vox and Trumpet used 😅in Kirby games)!😄🤩😎👌
The D70 was a U20/U220 with added time variant filters and more complex envelope generators as well as that supposedly novel DLM processing.
Salve Signor Paolo,ho un problema e spero che mi possa aiutare.Ho un XV3080 con le schede Pop,Tecno e Orchestral 1. Il problema è questo:non capisco perchè il preset "Snow "Flakes" non suona quando il 3080 è in modalità performance. Quale potrebbe essere il motivo? Grazie in anticipo
I have many demos of the SN-U series cards at my html website. However, I do plan to do demos of them on youtube as well
Could not find it anywhere, would you please share the exact link? Grazie mille e un saluto
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0:10 For some reason, this made me want to sit down to eat, and use a napkin for once...
1:40 Simpsons theme?...
2:20 Frenté - What's Come Over Me?...
3:15 Knock On Wood?...
4:13 Haddaway - What Is Love...
5:15 808 State for a couple of seconds there...
5:43 Albinoni's Adagio For Strings?...
6:54 Art Of Noise - Moments In Love...
9:26 The start of any number of Steven Seagal/Jean Claude van Damme movies of the late 1980s...
10:52 So familiar, but can't identify this intro...
I had the U-110. It was a great sample player. I used it mostly for drums after I sold by TR707 and TR727.
Own 2 of these, awesome sounds from them
***** Unfortunately they are in use with music production
I own 3 of these: the 1st is at home, the 2nd is in my band's rehearsal room, the 3rd is the spare.
J'en ai un que j'ai acheté en 1989 (hé oui, je suis un vieux con) et je n'ai aucune envie de m'en séparer. Je l'utilise toujours dans des productions actuelles. Ses sons (comme on l'entend ici) sont absolument géniaux et parfaitement utilisables.
Ha, thanks :) That's from a song of mine called The Turtle iirc, from an album of Lounge music that eventually I'll release
just bought one of these on Reverb, cant wait to play it! :)
Excuse me, I bought this module, but the user patch are setting all at the midi channel 9; I change the channel to 1 and write the patch, but when turn the power on its again to the channel 9; remember you how make that the changes working out?
amazing
hi I know this is a old video but I recently bout this soundmodule with expansion card and all is working but i dont know how to set up the expansion card can you help me?
Hi there. I am new to synths and keyboards and midi, but have always loved the old 80's sounds (my youth). I jumped at the opportunity to buy a korg 03r/w and a Roland pc300 controller, along with a Roland u-220 and a Roland A-880 patchbay. (I still can't believe my luck!). BUT! As a total novice, the manuals are like reading how to build rockets for engineers who understand how to build rockets and I am not an engineer! I have spent months on trying to get them to go - the patchbay is sitting idol in the too hard basket for now. I am really struggling to understand the midi channels... The korg and the u-220 both default to channel 1 - but I want to play both separately - at this stage anyway. Korg on midi channel 1 (I have nailed that) and the U-220 on midi channel 2. I don't even know if the u-220 is broken - and I have done factory resets and reinstalled the sysex files etc - but I make the midi channel to 2 and many patches play at the same time as the korg on midi channel 1.
I am literally pulling my hair out and everyone I ask tells me stupid stuff like I am making things more complicated than I need to, which is not helpful. I simply would like to set the U-220 to midi channel 2. Would someone please please PLEASE give me easy step by step instructions on setting the u-220 to play on midi channel 2 so I can enjoy these wonderful sounds and continue on with my learning journey :(
Do i can plug it to the ALESIS FUSION 8 HD?
Yes on Shakuhachi.
Many voices great for ambient music.
great demo...i have the U110 and still use it from time to time for it's acoustic instrumentation. didn't realize that the U110 and U220 have very different presets.
I considered buying a U-110 and some sounds like the saxophone are better on the U-110. But when I found out the
U-220 had a few extra sounds including synth pads from the D-50 I decided to get the U-220. But maybe as these modules
are only 1U size and the chance of me finding a Korg M1r or 01R/W seems remote I might also buy a U-110 as you can still
buy them quite cheap. I also have a CM-32L and CM-32P.
I just got a U-220 and it has a weird issue where notes played simultaneously are staggered, it sounds like a rough glissando. Is that normal or what could it be?
I still have the U-220 and I use it. ;-)
This synth was used by Peter Lurye who composed The Magic School Bus. In it, you hear the piano and shakuhachi, and vibraphone.
He also used the Universe synth from the Korg M1.
haha wow. it may just be a 'sound demo', but this video is great. Awesome playing.
Oooo! i just love slappin' a bit a flange ;)
Hi can i así you something i have problems to save when i change parametres how decay or atack and press data and save
Then when i use other preset the u220 dont remember this changes
Thank you! ❤ That was great a lot of fun! I wish I could write you a check!
i remember the heavy guitar sound-was great for dance-i used it loads in bottom octave
Sharing my choir sound making experience (related with the choir sound in the vid starts at 6 minutes)
The more "key by key" the sampling, the better the choir sound gets and actually nothing else matters more than this...... Making various choir sounds (working on a recent project of mine) every type of choir sound idea came out very well if the recorded human sound was chromatic scale recorded. If the program (patch or kit) was recorded using less samples the pitching kills everything!
I have a U-220 and a D-20...haven''t pulled them out storage in a decade. Maybe I will just for laughs HAHAHA! :D Nice playing tho sir...love your newer videos - very interesting gear you have - WOW.
Any chance of doing a demo of the expansion card sounds -if you got 'em?Thanks
Mine has been in it's case for possibly 15 to 20 years. Just thinking of getting ti out again, check if it still works and writing some songs on it as I did many years ago. My only gripe with it is that the keys aren't weighted enough.
Hi, can you tell me if the U-220 has the Classic (Soundtrack) D50 Patch as well. If it does, is it as good as the fantasia?
Digital Abandonment It does have the Soundtrack patch, but it's not as good
Shame:(... I think i'm going to have to get the
D-50 rack instead. Thanks.
Digital Abandonment U20 SOUNDTRACK PAD is dreadful!
does the jv 880 or jv1080 fair any better?
Digital Abandonment As far as I am aware, I am fairly certain the 1080 does NOT have this patch onboard. I have no experience with the 880 I am afraid.
Are these the factory basic sounds without any additional card?
Enjoyed watching this, I actually quite like the piano sound at the start, wonder if this is as great rave machine as my D-110, if I see one cheap I'd be tempted to give it a go.
The best!
i like the sound
is there an ADSR edit funtion on these?....sounds cool...love the choir.
yes, even has a shortcut for it:)
I hope they add the U-220 to the Roland Sound Cloud.
ho una tastiera midi roland pcr 500
e questo sound module, ho collegato il cavo midi e con un jack al mixer
ma non si sente niente... qualche suggerimento?
I have a midi keyboard roland PCR 500
and this sound module, I connected the MIDI cable and a jack on the mixer
but you do not hear anything ... any suggestions?
+Pompeo Giatti Hai provato ad impostare il playback delle due canzoni demo contenute in memoria? Se esse suonano, il "motore" sonoro dovrebbe essere intatto, e forse il canale MIDI e' diverso dalla PCR-500, o c'e' il local off, o forse le patches devono essere ricaricate - ma la prima cosa che potresti fare e' suonare le demo songs e vedere se suonano.
what is the playing theme at the choir demo?
+MSS ManoSoundStudios TV In the future, please post the location of the clips you are asking questions about - 6:04 It's my improvisation.
I used to have a U110 in the nineties. The piano sound might not sound so high-end compared to todays standards, but it was the best piano sound around for live gigs, since it had so much body and cut through the mix at all occasions. 90GB sample libraries never gave me that experience, I've owned also JV and XV rompers after the U110 but the pianos all sound weak compared !
heavily used by Pete Parsons who engineered/co-produced a lot of the atmospheric drum and bass on labels like Lucky Spin and Dee Jay recordings that found it's way unto LTJ Bukem's Promised Land cd.
That and the Korg M1 were staples for that stuff before the JV1080 came out.
Was 'Synth vox 1' used on the theme to Star Trek Next Generation?
Probably would have been either the original sound from the Fairlight II called ARR1, or from the Emulator II sound called DigiVcs
NATIVE DANCE!!!!
I love your channel Paolo ; Here in paris I can find them for 50 to 100 bucks ; gonna get one for sure, at least for the piano and choir !
Have fun!
Which one is better U220 or JV880 regarding sound quality?
Woow This U220 seems better than Mine !!!!
Um bom músico da vida ao som. E o seu caso brother!
Are those effects on the Roland or do you have to buy sound cards ?
No sound card was used in this demo.
Salve. Possiedo anche io questo rack ma probabilemente sono intenzionato a venderlo. Mi chiedo però se sia possibile aggiungere suoni al suo interno dato che gli attuali non soddisfano le mie esigenze. La mia richiesta è un'operazione plausibile?
anpynn Salve, il modulo sfortunatamente non puo' caricare nuove forme d'onda all'interno, ma si puo' espandere con la linea delle schede serie SN-U110 - Maggiori informazioni a: www.rolandus.com/support/knowledge_base/view/22620587
Nice, emu strings? :) :)
please how Connect the módule in this vídeo? to sound card ? i dont know about this. thank's sound great!
You can connect the U-220 from its main Left & Right outputs, to the Left & Right inputs of your sound card
SynthMania thanks.as you tried the jv1010? you think it sounds better than the u-220 (pianos, basses, trumpets) they sell me the 2 and I do not know which one to choose. thank you for answering friend
Hello, yes, the JV-1010 will sound better than the U-220 as the JV-1010 is newer and has better samples and also the built-in "Session" expansion board: www.synthmania.com/sr-jv80-09.htm however the drawback is that it does not have an alphanumeric display, so no names of patches
SynthMania ok Friend th.e link that I passed the sounds that there are those of the module jv1010? thank you very much for sharing your experience
Hey what song are you playing with the "Mad Organ" patch? It's at the tip of my tongue!
Haddaway - What is love
@@SparrowGlider Oh yeah, thanks!
The sound called mad organ on the u220 is called Organ 3 on the sound canvas modules and there the same exact sound specifically the sc55 4:11
And it has also been used on What is Love by Haddaway!
@@luhmayo647Yes, I have heard that too. But I have also heard people saying it’s the D-70; which in some ways overlaps the sound character of the U-220. I’ve also read someone suggesting the 01/W. It always confuses me a little😅.
What song were you playing for the "Future Pad" sound around 10:20? It sounds familiar.
radagast brown Just my improvisation
Sounds like Elements by Psyche (Carl Craig)
damn, that is one good sounding module!! What A/D converter did you use to record the output?
SSL Alpha-Link MADI AX
a-hah. That explains it! thx for reply!
SynthMania
Last question - how does the Alpha-Link compare to the UAD Apollo?
I haven't tried the Apollo, but it gets rave reviews, so it's most probably very good (plus it has the plugins). The strong point of the Alpha-Link compared to the many all-in-one audio interfaces on the market is the number of analog I/Os (24 x 24) which I need for my mixer. Frankly, imho today all audio interfaces are really, really good, even the inexpensive ones.
THANKS!
The musicianship is stunning.
10:35 is my favorite