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"The Paraphonic is a beautiful and vintage sounding machine. It's great for strings, sweeps, pads, and big bass. Has that rich 70's Roland Sound.
It combines strings, a basic polysynth section and a bass section. The keyboard is split down the middle to allow you to assign different sounds to the left and right sides of the keyboard.
The Synth section has a number of waveforms which can be assigned to the different sections of the keyboard. Has its own VCF with cutoff and resonance sliders, VCA ADSR sliders and LFO features. The filter sounds like the early Jupiter 4/ProMars which came out at the same time as the Paraphonic.
The Bass section has three preset bass sound types to choose via the big red buttons. It has its own VCA Attack and Release sliders and Vibrato controls. The bass tones are rich and full and can be combined together for some monstrous tones.
The String section has two lush pitched sounds - selectable via big green buttons – which can be assigned to the Upper and/or Lower sections of the keyboard. With Attack and Release control and Vibrato.
Sounds from the three tone sections can be blended for interesting results and the built-in stereo Ensemble chorus applied to each sound. One of the best stereo ensemble sections built into any Roland, with three modes. Stereo flange, stereo chorus ensemble(solina like) and a Dimension D like subtle chorus mode.
The Paraphonic 505 also features an external audio input (mono) so you could run another synth through the quadruple-BBD Ensemble chorus.
The performance control section to the left of the keyboard provides volume, tune, glide and pitch bender controls."
