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Roland | U220

Description

The U-20 is nothing special. It is a digital synthesizer that uses ROM samples of pianos, brass, strings, bass, drums, etc. However it is built for professional use and is truly a quality instrument, even though its sounds may seem like dated-eighties synth pop cheese. It's got nice piano sounds, but they're not the real thing.

The U-20 features 6 part multitimbrality with a 7th drum part, plus 2 direct outputs and 2 stereo outputs. The 30 note polyphony helps if you take advantage of this synths multitimbrality for creating entire performances and ensembles. Digital reverb, chorus and delay effects liven up your sounds. Editing is simple, but there are no filters. With several performance features, the U-20 has a full 61 note keyboard with velocity and aftertouch. There's an on-board arpeggiator, a chord-memory feature and the U-20 accepts Roland SNU-110 sound library cards.

The Roland U-220 is the rack-mount version of the U-20. It has all the same sounds and features packaged in a compact single-space sound module.

BrandRoland
ModelU220
DeviceSynth
TypeRack
Engine TypeDigital
EnginePCM
Voices (max)30
Multitimbral7
Engine Detailed4MB ROM samples
Envelope (VCA)Amp envelope attack/release can be edited, among the limited parameters.
FXReverb, Delay, Chorus
Memory64 patches, expandable to 128 with external RAM card
ArpeggiatorYes
Keys0
Key typeN/A
VelocityN/A
AftertouchN/A
MidiI-O-T
Produced:1989 - 1989
Legend: Obvious Y: Yes, N: No, N/A: Not Applicable
VCO Voltage Controlled Oscillator DCO Digital Controlled Oscillator
LFO Low Frequency Oscillator Sub Sub Oscillator
VCF Voltage Controlled Filter VCA Voltage Controlled Amplifier
Velocity As with a piano, the harder you hit a key, the louder the sound, unlike most organs which always produce the same loudness no matter how hard you hit a key. Aftertouch Pressing a key after you activated it. Channel Aftertouch, no matter which key, it will send a Channel message. Poly Aftertouch, sends the pressure per key instead of the whole channel.
Values for OSC, LFO, Filter, Envelope are per voice unless stated otherwise.

Manuals, patches etc.

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