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Displacer · Post by **Displacer** » Tue Feb 10, 2026 6:04 pm

Ugh Roland Cloud should be much better than it is...everything about it other than the sound, like the preset browsing feels laughably old fashioned. I had it for a while but got tired of the crummy interface.

HOTF · Post by **HOTF** » Tue Feb 10, 2026 6:16 pm

aMUSEd wrote: Tue Feb 10, 2026 5:45 pm Just bought the D-50 but I can't seem to find any patches

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Hmm I want to get it too. Does this come with all the original samples and presets ? With or without expansions ?

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Tue Feb 10, 2026 6:41 pm

HOTF wrote: Tue Feb 10, 2026 6:16 pm
aMUSEd wrote: Tue Feb 10, 2026 5:45 pm Just bought the D-50 but I can't seem to find any patches

Screenshot 2026-02-10 at 17.40.54.png
Hmm I want to get it too. Does this come with all the original samples and presets ? With or without expansions ?

It seems to come with 6 banks - I presume the originals - not possible to know any are expansions as none are actually named

beely · Post by **beely** » Tue Feb 10, 2026 6:50 pm

It comes with the D50 presets, and all the Roland sound cards they made for the D50.
You can get thousands of presets online too.

There were not expansion samples for the D50, it didn't support that.

SLiC · Post by **SLiC** » Tue Feb 10, 2026 8:01 pm

Displacer wrote: Tue Feb 10, 2026 6:04 pm Ugh Roland Cloud should be much better than it is...everything about it other than the sound, like the preset browsing feels laughably old fashioned. I had it for a while but got tired of the crummy interface.

Pretty much true of all of their plugins other Zenology that is a touch more modern.

Examigan · Post by **Examigan** » Tue Feb 10, 2026 8:30 pm

I just noticed in the RCM it shows the D-50 and says it's only $49 now. Is that correct? I already own it, but if thats the new price, that's a good deal.

D-50 price.jpg

MartyK · Post by **MartyK** » Tue Feb 10, 2026 8:50 pm

Displacer wrote: Tue Feb 10, 2026 6:04 pm Ugh Roland Cloud should be much better than it is...everything about it other than the sound, like the preset browsing feels laughably old fashioned. I had it for a while but got tired of the crummy interface.

Yes, indeed. Everything is very outdated and not user-friendly. Roland could learn a thing or two from software manufacturers like U-he.

dumbledog · Post by **dumbledog** » Tue Feb 10, 2026 9:11 pm

beely wrote: Tue Feb 10, 2026 6:50 pm It comes with the D50 presets, and all the Roland sound cards they made for the D50.
You can get thousands of presets online too.

There were not expansion samples for the D50, it didn't support that.

The charmingly Web 1.0 site Bobby Blues has a whole bunch of patches up, although probably too many to wade through. Paradox of choice and all that. He does not have older commercial patches from Valhala et al; you'll have to search around.

I greatly recommend the Linear Galaxy and Universe soundbanks for some excellent pads with that "Star Trek TNG" vibe.

Jon at Roland · Post by **Jon at Roland** » Tue Feb 10, 2026 9:17 pm

Examigan wrote: Tue Feb 10, 2026 8:30 pm I just noticed in the RCM it shows the D-50 and says it's only $49 now. Is that correct? I already own it, but if thats the new price, that's a good deal.

D-50 price.jpg

Indeed! This deal started today.

sinemotor · Post by **sinemotor** » Tue Feb 10, 2026 9:24 pm

Jon at Roland wrote: Tue Dec 16, 2025 7:17 pm Jon at Roland

Hey Jon

any chance to see SuperNATURAL Acoustic sounds being added to Zenology in the future?
I think that this is the missing piece which would make Zenology the ultimate Roland software instrument. Kind of like the Integra-7 hardware was!

beely · Post by **beely** » Tue Feb 10, 2026 9:24 pm

dumbledog wrote: Tue Feb 10, 2026 9:11 pm The charmingly Web 1.0 site Bobby Blues has a whole bunch of patches up, although probably too many to wade through. Paradox of choice and all that. He does not have older commercial patches from Valhala et al; you'll have to search around.

Some time ago I batch converted all the D50 banks found online (the "Cult of D50" archive) to the plugin format - I can't remember offhand, but it's something like 600 banks' worth...

(This was before Roland added sysex import into the D50 plugin directly.)

You can probably dig up the link I posted somewhere here, it's probably still online. Or you can download the files as syx files and import them into the plugin...

(I also converted each patch into Logic aupreset files too.)

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Tue Feb 10, 2026 11:02 pm

I just tried importing one of those sysex banks into the plugin ('karnevil') and it won't load - neither do the mid format ones

OK most do though - must be just that one - pity

Examigan · Post by **Examigan** » Tue Feb 10, 2026 11:52 pm

beely wrote: Tue Feb 10, 2026 9:24 pm Some time ago I batch converted all the D50 banks found online (the "Cult of D50" archive) to the plugin format - I can't remember offhand, but it's something like 600 banks' worth...

(This was before Roland added sysex import into the D50 plugin directly.)

You can probably dig up the link I posted somewhere here, it's probably still online. Or you can download the files as syx files and import them into the plugin...

(I also converted each patch into Logic aupreset files too.)

I found that here :

Ingonator wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2017 7:57 am Bedsides the demo and the patches i just posted above KVR member Beely just posted a download for a huge amount of D-50 banks converted to the plugin *.BIN file format:
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... &start=405

beely · Post by **beely** » Wed Feb 11, 2026 12:09 am

Thanks for digging that out - the DL link is in this post:
viewtopic.php?p=6819783#p6819783

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Wed Feb 11, 2026 10:43 am

Thank you.