Second generation D-50 style synthesis. The D-10 is a Digital Linear Arithmetic Synthesizer and the D-110 is its upgraded rackmount version. Capable of decent acoustic sounds and great new synth-type sounds the D-10/110 is a great and cheaper alternative to the popular D-50. It has a confusing synthesis / editing method composed of tones, partials and timbres. Basically it all boils down to tricky programming which, if you know what your doing, can have interesting and unique results. On-board drum sounds, reverb effects and internal / external memory storage are also a plus.

The D-110 rackmount version adds 6 individual outputs, and the follow-up D-20 keyboard version adds an 8-track sequencer. Definitely worth a listen for any musician on a budget! It has been used by Suzanne Vega, Future Sound of London, and Information Society.

Casimir's Blake

February 18, 2012 @ 6:44 pm

I have one of these. I paid about £30 for it. Unless you want bread and butter sounds, that's about all it's worth. Factory sounds are are thoroughly early-90s digital tones that cannot match the relative thickness of a D-50.

It took me about half an hour to work out the menu system, it's somewhat convoluted but manageable. There are lots of parameters that one can edit, the 8-part multitimbral mode is as powerful in that regard as you can expect. The polyphony is such that those 8 parts could allow for large single sounds if one wanted.

A shame then, that it sounds so WEAK.

tim from below

February 15, 2012 @ 1:42 pm

here it is:
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/printview.php?t=150895&start=0

tim from below

February 15, 2012 @ 1:40 pm

Hold down WRITE/COPY and ENTER while powering up.
if that does not work you lost all your internal patches.
there is a website somewhere that tells you how to put them back on with sys.ex.

google roland d-10 sys.ex internal patches for example.

good luck!

Tim

February 12, 2012 @ 5:49 pm

I have a D-10 and I replaced the battery. The first time I turned it on, the LCD display had its normal startup screen, showed the accoustic piano 1-1 and then the display went to all solid blocks.

I can turn it on and off, but nothing but the blocks. No combinations with the top buttons initiate the diagnostics nor anything else.

I have all the patches I could find on the net but how do I get the keyboard to dowload the information if I can't get the LCD screen to provide any feedback?

Anyone else seen this before?

Electron

January 28, 2012 @ 8:20 pm

I have four D-110's with the Valhalla set on them (Theatre Organ) sounds. I find them an ideal (now cheap) way of having my own virtual Wurlitzer. Also got a PG-10. Get some good fat sounds as you can use two on the same channels for double poliphony. (overflow)

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