The U-110 is a basic rack-mount sound module consisting of acoustic-oriented PCM samples with preset settings, limited flexibility, and boring late eighties sounds. It's nothing to get excited about. It has 2MB of ROM-based sampled sounds, none of which sound great. The U-110 is fairly noisy as well. Its palette of sounds could be grossly expanded with up to four expansion cards, but good luck finding those today!

The U-110's biggest distinction, really, is that it was Roland's first totally digital sample-based synth. At the time, that was a break-through - look at all the realistic sounds you get in a single rack space MIDI module! Nowadays, it's hard to wonder why anybody would want one of these. The U-110 was available in a prototype form as the T-110. But the U-110 was soon replaced by the U-20 keyboard and U-220 module. Astral Projection used a U-110 before they switched to the U-220.

filo

August 8, 2010 @ 2:31 am

i have one here at the moment and that aliasing noise is RIDICULOUSLY loud! i just paid 35€ so i don't really care but this thing is a joke.

Randy

June 14, 2010 @ 8:55 pm

I bought one of these shortly after they came out. Listening to it through headphones, I found that the trailing envelope of many of the samples, especially piano, had very noticeable sampling aliasing noise on them. It was a very-annoying "buzz." I returned the unit to the store where I purchased it the next day for a refund. Perhaps it was just a bad unit, but I really don't think so.

mick

August 7, 2009 @ 7:25 pm

i bought my u-110 new back in 1990 and have been using ever since. I found it to be very reliable and the the sounds to be very authantic. My personal favorite sound is number 53,brass.Pity they never made a keyboard version.

mick

August 7, 2009 @ 7:23 pm

i bought my u-110 new back in 1990 and have been using ever since. I found it to be very reliable and the the sounds to be very authantic. My personal favorite sound is number 53,brass.

planetplayer

January 12, 2009 @ 5:54 am

Tried this and was OK finally a real sounding acoustic instrument that was not from The E company. Waited till technology evolved.

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