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From: "exdc" <synthesis@telia.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 at 2:02:53 AM
Subject: Re: [SoundDiver] Roland D-50/550 Reverb edit
Message #17497
This is a reply to #17493.
> > >Please tell me if you know anything about D-50 reverb SysEx. > > >Then I'll make an adaptation for SoundDiver. > > > > I use the existing D550 adaption. > > I can edit Reverb type and reverb balance - are you thinking of > > adding more detail? Is it even possible...? > > Thank you very much, Colin. I'd like to send the reply to the list > again. > Yes, I want to edit more detail. According to the manual, D-50 has > 188 bytes of paramter for the reverb. If we can know what these bytes > mean, we would be able to control deeper parameters - reverb type, > reverb time, high dump, etc. > AFAIK the reverb parameters in the D550/D50 were never publicly documented by Roland. Dr T had an editor that made it possible to (blindly) adjust them all. I used that editor extensively until I understood touching a single parameter did nothing intelligible. A comment I read some years later from someone involved in its development (Eric Persing?) taught us that the reverb programming nearly cost the guy who did it his job, but serendipitously the result was astounding (for the time), and he was instead lauded for his efforts, though nobody understood really what he had created, and also suggested that whole groups of these "parameters" were required to get anything audible to happen. So if I recall correctly, Dr T learned how to access them all, and I think it was page after page of sliders, none of them marked, since noone knew what any one slider did. So, get yourself an Atari 1040 (at least) or perhaps an emulator and hunt down that Dr T editor, and you'll be all set, so to speak. Or just turn the reverb off and use Space Designer... exdc
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