Sunday, September 14, 2008
Roland S-330 used as an advanced virtual analog synth
YouTube via zioguido
"The Roland S-330 is an old digital sampler (1986) and is quite a piece of useless gear today, infact it's being sold for a few dimes on ebay [link] and on the classifieds. I happen to have one, it hasn't been used for years... but I remembered that it had some nice synthesis features other than its limited sampling possibilities, praticularly I remembered it had a nice analog-like filter, pretty good sounding for the days.
This video shows how this machine can be used without samples, as a stand-alone primitive virtual synthesizer.
First I load the OS, then I sample 400ms of silence, then I use the 'wave draw' function to draw my waveform and loop only what's showed in the wave window (that is, most of the sampled data won't be used).
The TVF (Time Variant Filter, as Roland used to call it) is the most interesting part. It also offers an 8-stage envelope.
With the patch parameter page I can set the unison mode and use the detune for a fatter sound.
What you see here is what is output from its video socket, and what you hear is what is output from out #1.
I was about to throw it into the garbage! :)"
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Never ever throw gear in the garbage. Give it to someone else. If it's broken, give it to someone else who might be able to fix it or something.
ReplyDeleteOh, and thank you for posting such a video. It is very interesting to see what the S-330 is capable of. I find it mind blowing in fact.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds great and the interface seems loaded with cool features. Why can't todays workstations have these features ? No recent workstation lets you draw waveforms... Even software samplers don't seem to provide this option...
I wish someone made a floppy to flash card adapter so we could save all this old gear and be rid of floppy drive problems for once.
If my memory is correct didn't The Prodigy use the S-330 extensivly way beyond it's life time, it had a very gritty sample sound, must have been the filter...
ReplyDeleteThe S-330 is a 12-bit sampler, which explains some of the grittiness. The other part of it, though, is that all of the S-series samplers have the ability to down-sample as low as 11 KHz.
ReplyDeletei thought the prodigy used a W30, which is a combinaiton of sampler and workstation by roland. I think it is a 12bit sampler.
ReplyDeletenot 11khz, but you had choice between 30 and 15 khz
ReplyDelete2 X 7,2 sec using 30 khz