Roland M Dc1 Patch List

Roland Corporation’s vice president of global marketing, Paul McCabe, explained via email that the M-DC1 synthesizer sound module was originally promoted as an instrument for dance music.

Which expansion board u guys think is the best buy. I can only get one or two of these right now.Those are really the ones that I'm Considering.VINTAGE SYNTH Expansion Board (SR-JV80-04)DANCE Expansion Board (SR-JV80-06)ORCHESTRAL II Expansion Board (SR-JV80-16)VOCAL COLLECTION Expansion Board (SR-JV80-13)WORLD Expansion Board (SR-JV80-05)PIANO Expansion Board (SR-JV80-03)heres link with total number of cards:Of the ones i listed, which two (in order of priority) do you think i should consider most. I'd appreciate a reason why, as well as consideration to the following conditions.1. I already own a JP8000 and a Yamaha AN1x (Planning on perhaps getting a D50) - so I don't want to many sounds of the same nature that my other synths can provide (each of these cards is 100 damn bucks)2. I am into Trance production - however, I do enjoy (especially with the JV) just sitting and playing with many different sounds. I've started listening to lots of New Age stuff like Enya, and ENIGMA especially (I'll post link of sounds im sorta lookin for that i think the JV could handle, and that will sway which card i should go for.

However professionally i am sticking with trance.3. Rarity is a factor!! If you believe a certain card is becoming more and more difficult to acquire, i'd like to know - because one day i'd like to own all of them.Thanks a lot in advance - as you probably can tell, I know nothing of these cards or their contents at all.-DLovas. Samuraipizzacat29 wrote:the vintage synth one is too expensive for what it is. You already have VA's for that. When i had a 1080 and was looking at expansion rom's I think I decided I wanted the world and asian cards the most. But even those i couldn't justify spending on considering a good vst sampler will allow you load samples of anything you want, so why pay for roms?

It seems like (referencing your other thread) you could do with a good sampler. Maybe a motif?Yea these are too expensive for what they're worth - I was listening to demo sounds from some and didn't really enjoy what I heard. I think the Vintage card is way overhyped, but still a great addition if you can find it for cheap.

In 2009 I bought a mint JV-1080 for $200 that had the Vintage card installed, a good deal indeed! I've heard the patches are more impressive in the JD-990, but I found an update to the patches from Lil' Cips old site that made them better. Still, the various JV sounds I gathered from the internet was far more useful for me than the expansion. Sold the JV on with the card later.Now, for the last 4 months I have borrowed a Roland M-VS1 (Vintage board) which is the stand alone rack version of said card.

Personally I felt it sounded much better, and all is packed in a convenient, sturdy and very easy to use multitimbral module. I also borrowed the banned/withdrawn M-DC1 (Dance board), which I thought was cool, lots of good drums and synths. Asus p8h61 m lx lan drivers for mac. Had the chance to buy but I prefer editability.I recently bought the SR-JV80-11 Techno board for my beloved JV-880, theres a lot of great sounds on it (especially pads and drums).

Definately recommended, check it out. I have the Vocal Collection, World, Orchestral II, and Keyboards of the '60s & '70s cards. I use ROMpler sounds mainly for accent/background type sounds most of the time, rather than as main elements of a track. All of these cards are useful enough for that.Vocal Collection has a good bit of useless c.p, but enough cool, unique choir sounds to justify its existence.

I guess it's one of the more highly valued cards, think I paid $140 for it a few years ago.World has a nice array of tuned percussion type sounds. It's one of the easier to find ones, I paid $75.Orchestral II ran me about $95. It's got all of the standard string and brass sounds (they're decent enough sounding for my purposes), and a bunch of Celtic stuff (I guess it came out around the time Titanic was big at the box office).Keyboards of the '60s & '70s is a whole lot of electric piano, combo organ, and Mellotron sounds.

I think this, along with Vocal, is my favorite card. Unfortunately, it was also the most expensive of the four at $150.P.S. I believe Roland still have the patch/waveform listings for all of these cards somewhere on their website. D-Collector wrote:I think the Vintage card is way overhyped, but still a great addition if you can find it for cheap. In 2009 I bought a mint JV-1080 for $200 that had the Vintage card installed, a good deal indeed!

I've heard the patches are more impressive in the JD-990, but I found an update to the patches from Lil' Cips old site that made them better. Still, the various JV sounds I gathered from the internet was far more useful for me than the expansion. Sold the JV on with the card later.Now, for the last 4 months I have borrowed a Roland M-VS1 (Vintage board) which is the stand alone rack version of said card.

Personally I felt it sounded much better, and all is packed in a convenient, sturdy and very easy to use multitimbral module. I also borrowed the banned/withdrawn M-DC1 (Dance board), which I thought was cool, lots of good drums and synths. Had the chance to buy but I prefer editability.I recently bought the SR-JV80-11 Techno board for my beloved JV-880, theres a lot of great sounds on it (especially pads and drums). Definately recommended, check it out. Thanks for the help - I'll check it out.

You just never know what will be hot someday. Artists and labels have been dealing with this for years as a song that’s a throwaway at the time of recording becomes a big unexpected hit later.

You can just never tell. No one could have predicted the influence that the Roland TR-808 would have in hip hop when it was released, but more than 30 years on it’s still a mainstay sound of the genre and has crossed over to other genres as well. Now there’s another Roland sound that’s all over hip hip songs that you’ve probably heard, but didn’t zero in on until now. Meet “Ahh (169).”Ahh (169) was a patch from the 1995 Roland M-DC1 MIDI sound module (seen on the left) filled with “dance” sounds. The hardware rack module had 250 sounds built in, but was never that popular when it was new, mostly because it wasn’t that easy to use.

However some of its sounds have as samples in today’s digital world, with Ahh (169) being the most used (you can see a ).According to, it’s been used on 138 tracks so far. Songs from Timbaland, Travis Scott, Migos, and Niki Manaj among many others have featured the sound.The one sad thing it though is that no one seems to remember who created it, and Roland states that it no longer has the records about the background of the sounds in the unit.It just goes to show that no one can predict popularity. You never know if the sound or song that you think is a piece of crap will be greeted as something new and vibrant by someone else, or vice versa. That’s what makes being a musician, songwriter and producer interesting every single day. The quest for discovery of something different extends way beyond the normal and routine, right down to sound makers that we might have shunned in our youth. You just never know.