The D-20 makes a great budget or alternative D-50. It's more closely related to the D-10 and D-110 synthesizers but adds an 8-voice sequencer with a rhythm track. The D-20 is a digital synth that employs linear arithmetic synthesis (LAS). It's 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. Reverb effects and internal / external memory storage are also available on the D-20. Definitely worth a listen.

paul

February 19, 2013 @ 7:37 pm

naja its not a piano its a synthersizer and it will make weird sounds.La synthesis.Good look trying to make it sound like a classical piano.If you do you will go down in history.More modern synths (this ones ancient) use samples ie korg triton and will do a decent piano.Newer still synths will have gigabytes of samples and will faithfully reproduce any instrument sound. korg kronus being a really nice synth for this.Look forward to buying one secondhand in say 10 years when there 300 quid

Igor

February 12, 2013 @ 5:21 am

My D-20’s music 23 year ago:

profs.sk/mp3/Medziludske%20vahy.mp3
profs.sk/mp3/Bluznenie.mp3
profs.sk/mp3/Kd e%20som%20este%20nebol.mp3
profs.sk/mp3/Zlom.mp3
profs.sk/mp3/Blazniva%20noc.mp3
pr ofs.sk/mp3/Nahoda.mp3

and so on...I love D-20!

Naja

February 7, 2013 @ 8:49 am

Hi! I just got this piano from a familymember, and I can't get it to sound like an ordinary piano? The sounds it makes are really wierd, and I kinda just wants to use use for classical music. Thanks! :-)

alen

November 23, 2012 @ 4:01 pm

FYI, the best track I've ever heard done _only_ with a D-10/110/20 family synth (it was in fact a D-20):

http://dubois.y.free.fr/ak/Trance_D20.mp3

The author describes here (http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?2194885-Roland-D-20) that this is recorded straight from the D-20's stereo output. Very impressive.

adam

November 21, 2012 @ 2:51 pm

Also, with Synthworks you can create entire banks of patches, timbres, and tones and save or load them to either the keyboard or the Atari. In fact, I'm willing to bet there's quite a bit you can do with Synthworks that you can't to with the PG-10.

The coolest thing is that you can actually graphically edit the filters and envelopes. All those numerical values get turned into something that makes a lot of visual sense.

I'm still learning how to use it. As everything is with this keyboard, it's a bit tricky to figure out at first.

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