The Roland Sound Canvas (Japanese: ローランド・サウンド・キャンバス, Hepburn: Rōrando Saundo Kyanbasu) lineup is a series of General MIDI (GM) based pulse-code modulation...
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The Roland SC-55 (Sound Canvas) is a GS MIDI sound module released in 1991 by Roland. The SC-55 was the first sound module to incorporate the new General...
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The Roland SC-55 was the first synthesizer to support the GS standard. The GS extensions were first introduced and implemented on Roland Sound Canvas series...
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MPU-401, Roland Sound Canvas and General MIDI standards as the most common means of playing in-game music until the mid-1990s. Early ISA bus sound cards...
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The Roland SC-7's ROM samples sound similar with other Roland Sound Canvas and other Roland products from the same era, for example, the Roland SCC-1...
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original OS. Roland Sound Canvas series (1991): first sound module to implement General MIDI standard with Roland GS extensions. Roland MKS-80: modular...
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The Roland ED SC-8850 (Sound Canvas) is a GS-compatible MIDI sound module released in 1999 by Roland under the name RolandED. The SC-8850 was the first...
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The Roland MT-32 Multi-Timbre Sound Module is a MIDI synthesizer module first released in 1987 by Roland Corporation. It was originally marketed to amateur...
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synthesized from the sounds of many orchestral instruments together, or sampled from a single sforzando performance. The orchestra hit sound was propagated...
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General MIDI (section Sound Effects)
87 Open Surdo GS was introduced in 1991 with the Roland Sound Canvas line, which was also Roland's first General MIDI synth module. Yamaha XG is a superset...
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score and speech/sound-effects. This limitation was frustrating to owners of high-quality MIDI synthesisers (such as the Roland Sound Canvas), because users...
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Mega-Em emulated the 8-bit Sound Blaster circuitry for sound effects and the Roland MT-32/LAPC-I or Roland Sound Canvas/MPU-401 for music. It supported...
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Creative Wave Blaster (category Sound cards)
MIDI-daughterboards had already pushed aside the Wave Blaster. In particular, Roland's Sound Canvas daughterboards (SCD-10/15), priced higher than Creative's offering...
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their crisp, high-quality sounds similar to the newer models of Roland Sound Canvas [citation needed]. These devices feature an effects processing system...
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engine V.A.S.T, making it a favorite of musicians and sound designers alike. Roland Sound Canvas (1991), the first successful budget-oriented ROMpler,...
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(tracks 6, 11, 17, 27), cello (track 21), synthesizer (tracks 21), Roland Sound Canvas (track 1), foot pedal synth (track 23), vocals (track 10) Guest artists...
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music was created using PC-98s, a Roland W-30 keyboard, and a MIDI sequencer. Some sounds came from the Roland Sound Canvas series. Originally, the reticle...
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Music codec for substantial audio compression, and the complete Roland Sound Canvas instrument set and GS Format extensions for improved playback of...
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Iwatsuki stated that he used PC-98, a MIDI driver called UNYA, a Roland Sound Canvas and a Roland W-30 workstation keyboard for audio. The intro theme is a synthesized...
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sound turn to more digital and electronic textures, with sounds reminiscent of muzak and the beginning of Steve Gore's use of the Roland Sound Canvas...
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first Roland keyboard instruments to feature the Roland GS-standard, having been launched at the same time as the legendary Roland SC-55 Sound Canvas module...
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user's instrument library and sound sources, and auto-updates by default. Concerto is a plugin which allows the usage of Roland's RVR format instruments. These...
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cover Burnett, Joseph (19 July 2013). "Thirty Years On: Japan's Oil on Canvas Revisited". The Quietus. Retrieved 14 March 2016. Ham, Robert (9 March 2021)...
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and sounds influenced by Karlheinz Stockhausen. Barbieri created the odd, slightly discordant synth sound at the beginning of the song, using a Roland System...
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a live version of "Canton" was issued as a single to promote the Oil on Canvas live album in 1983. "The Art of Parties" was released as a single in May...
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tunes, layered with strings, brass, beats from the Roland TR-808 drum machine and percussive sounds to blend classical and hip hop music. The title theme...
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and Lust. Jones collaborates with American composer/producer/Our Silent Canvas label owner Christopher Bono on Nous Alpha, who release new album A Walk...
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colored or hand-made papers, photographs, etc., glued to a solid support or canvas. Tearing papers can suggest an act of artistic experience, connoting an...
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Critics (1958) Dorothy Ashby – Soft Winds (1961) Cindy Blackman – Works on Canvas (1999) Jane Ira Bloom – Sixteen Sunsets (2013) Betty Buckley – An Evening...
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bodies are constructed of steel reinforced hardwood covered with hemp and canvas, with heads hand-carved out of solid walnut and painted with fine detail...
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