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MC-x0x Sound List Introduction

The sounds (Tones, Drums, Partial PCMs) don't have very intuitive names and there's no search on the x0x. See this for the 101 (missing the PCM and PCM-Sync entries) and this for the 707. Also, you can download MC-707_SoundList_multi01_W.pdf from Roland and search it.

What do the sections in the PDF mean?

The sounds are in sections Tone, Drum Kit, Drum Inst, PCM Wave, and PCM-Sync Wave.

  • Tones are for Tone tracks
  • Drum Kits are for Drum tracks, and are pre-grouped Drum Instruments
    • There is a mapping of pads to instruments in the PDF
      • Usually bottom from left is kick, snare, 3x toms, 3x others; top is rim, clap, closed high hat, open hh, 2x cymbals, tambourine/maracas, cowbell/style-specific thing
    • Most of the kits are mixed, so a 909 will have some 727, 707, etc.
    • You can change a kit in your project (Sh+pad, Enter, Inst Select) without changing the preset for other projects; same if you chop/load samples/wavs into a project's drum track's pads
  • Drum Instruments are assigned to pads in Drum Tracks
  • PCM Wave are the possible wave/samples used in partials (Sound Design) when OSC OSCType is set to PCM, there are banks as well as a number
  • PCM-Sync Wave are the possible wave/samples used in partials (Sound Design) when OSC OSCType is set to PCM-Sync, there are no banks, just a number

What do the banks mean?

TODO some seem to be only VA, others PCM and LA.

What Instruments are on the 707?

TODO make script to replicate this from PDF starting with parser from this and its repo.

Reviewing sound names reveals a number of devices named, abbreviated, or implied. This list shows the specific device (or its family, ex: Juno) and then lists its various substrings within presets. There appear to be about 40 Roland devices and 5 non-Roland.

The presets don't always start with their device name, and sometimes they aren't surrounded by spaces (ex: ClassicJPpad, SL-Jn60sub1). Any case variants are included here.

Some prefixes indicate groups, such as SL for Synth Legends. Some of the presets have trailing MFX indicators, such as w for wide stereo (SDD-320, but sometimes CE-1), comp (compression via Equalizer), w comp or w cmp (SDD-320, not sure how the compression is done). There are others like Lim (limiter), Atk, Bit (Bit Crusher), Dly, Rtry (Rotary), Trem (tremolo), Cho (chorus), etc.

You can use this list as a reference to decode the preset name while scrolling, or to search the presets to find all the sounds for a particular device. Not all of these are in all sections (tone vs drum vs partial).

  • Jupiter: Jupiter, JP, JP-4, JP6, JP8, JP-8, JP8000, JP80, JX-8P, JX, MKS-80 (rack mount JP-8), XV, 5080 (rack mount XV-5080), JV, 1080 (rack mount JV-1080)
  • Juno: Juno, JUNO, Alpha, Juno-D, Ju-D, JD, JD-8000, JD80, 106, Jn106, Jn60, Juno60, MKS-50 (rack mount Alpha Juno)
  • SH: SH, SH101, SH-101, 101, SH-2000, SH2
  • TR transistor rhythm: TR-606, TR-626, TR-707, TR-727, TR-808, TR-909
  • CR-78 CompuRhythm: CR-78
  • TB-303 bass line: TB, TB-303, TB303
  • D-50: D-50, D50
  • RD-1000 digital piano: RD-1000
  • MC micro composer: MC500, MC202, 202
  • GR guitar synthesizer: GR-300, GR-500, GR-700
  • AX keytar: AX
  • VP-330 vocoder and synth: VP330
  • TM-2 trigger with drum kit: TM-2
  • Pro-E, E-70 Music Style Card: SC1
  • Moog: MG
  • Prophet: P5
  • Oberheim: OB
  • Yamaha: CS
  • Rhodes: MK-80
  • Unknown
    • D-2000 (RD-2000?)
    • Compu (CR-78?)

There are also named and inferred devices in MFX

TODO capture those.