Roland D-10

OVERVIEW 61 key (velocity sensitive) with LCD display, a card slot for RAM (no waveforms expansion).
Simple pitch bender modulation on the left.

RELATED MODELS:
- Roland D110 is the rackmount version
- Roland D20 same but with sequencer and floppy disk storage
- Roland D5 simpler version
- Roland MT32 famous gaming consumer version, with same sound generation
- Roland PG-10 Programmer for quick edit

Terminal connectors:

- Midi Interface (no Thru port)

- main signal out

- headphones out

- power switch
- memory card slot
- pedal switch control for start stop and sustain

OSCILLATORS intel 16 bits CPU 8097BH manages 32 voices (DAC PCM54 BB) polyphony or partial (a patch is composed by up to 4 partial); each partial being either a synth waveform (saw tooth or square with variable width) or any one of the internal 256 PCM samples. Finally Each pair of partials (1&2 and 3&4) an be assigned a Structure (13 models, see below).

PCM The sample PCM are divided into two banks, each with 128 samples.
PCM A: transient attacks (The attack samples concentrate on providing the attack envelope segments of behavior of instruments. )
PCM B: same as A but in looped form.
NOTE: 63 samples are dedicated to drums and percussion

SOUND HIERARCHY very confusing... typical of 90 roland.
"The D-10 can produce a maximum of 32 voices using 32 Partials at the same time, A partial is the smallest unit of sound within the. D-10. A Tone consists of one to four Partials. A Tone made of only one Partial can be played 32 voice polyphonically, but a Tone Of two

Partials has 16 voices, and a Tone of four Partials is 8 voice polyphonic. Finally Multi Timbrals".... allll righhhttt

Effect , drum machine and memory

EFFECTS eight onboard digital effects: small and medium rooms, medium and large halls, plate, and three delays. Additionally you can set reverb/delay time and effect level with some minal edit.

DRUMS The built—in rhythm machine stores 32 different preset rhythm patterns + another 32 user programmable patterns.
You can make a song (or tune) in a rhythm track by using those rhythm patterns. Also an internal metronome

MEMORY Preset Patches: 128 + User Patches: 64.
Sounds can be saved to Midi sysex dump or to memory card (models: M256 , M512e, M128)

Roland D-10

Multi Timbral Linear synthesizer (1988)

Overview

Sound

Algorithms

Effect , drum machine and memory

Roland D10 Specifications