Well, it’s pretty good. The layout of the panel I use is basically identical to the PG-1000. You just have to move the sliders with your mouse instead of your hands. 
Cool, I love the the way the PG1000 looks. Does it work with USB?
This is the panel by the way:
http://ctrlr.org/roland-d50-editor/
I haven’t tried it over USB yet - only using a MIDI interface. And running Ctrlr in standalone mode.
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Thanks, I really hope it works with usb.
Don’t see why it wouldn’t - you should be fine.
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my D05 arrived today and i can confirm it works with Ctrlr. i have a lot to learn though, after a quick mess about some of the PG-1000 controls didn’t alter the sound at all despite there being four partials being used. also couldn’t seem to change the effects.
https://cultofd50.org/blog.htm
You just witnessed one of the greatest mysteries in the history of Roland D-50 sound design; The Mystery of Carl Johnson’s Sound Banks.
They are two: "Descent into madness" and "Voltage Drift". It is said that both sound banks make the D-50 sound like never before. Bigger, deeper… amazingly alive. And they were on sale for a couple of months during 2014, until late October that year.
Then, they disappeared.
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**UPDATE: ATTENTION BreadAndButter Sounds has an online editor and librarian for the D-50 and… IT’s AWESOME. Even better than the one I used to make these sounds. All you need to do is go to Roland and download the D-05 driver, install it, hook up a USB MIDI cable, go to www.breadandbuttersounds.com using Chrome or Opera and holy shit; you are able to control EVERY parameter from the editor in the browser!!! Go there. Praise them.
Had to be done… couldn’t stand having this sonic wonder be represented by the plethora of mostly atrocious demos on YouTube.
So… here’s an hour of cosmic euphoria from the stellar D-50.
To be ABSOLUTELY CLEAR - this is ONE patch at a time. NO OVERDUBS/MULTI-TRACKS WHATSOEVER. This is all from the STOCK PCM ROM. I did not “burn” a special ROM or whatever, nor am I aware that’s a possibility - if it is, I’d sure like to know about it!!! This is the potential lurking within the D50. The factory presets and “signature” sounds that shame the real truth of the D50 are completely repulsive in my opinion… seriously, fuck Fantasia… and Native Dance??? Yikes.
99.9999% of the transient waves in the D50’s ROM are absolutely useless, and not one is used in my patches. The otherworldly sound of the D50 come from the aspects I have never been able to come remotely close in replicating; they are 1) the manner in which the pitch envelopes warp and sonically tear the PCM waves… the artifacts and Nyquist frequencies that appear like audio phantasms from a terrifying heaven. 2) The experimental synthesis concept that wouldn’t appear again for years after the D-50, and it revolutionized everything to this day - the first time Virtual Analog was implemented in a poly synth. The D-50 generates square and saw waves. These get combined, layered, etc. with the PCM waves in the partials of the patch. Thats’s it… just 2 waveforms compose the oscillator section of the VA part. And very primitively. But the metaphysical witchcraft of the D50’s “pulse width modulation” is magic; I don’t mean that allegorically - I’m convinced there’s like eye-of-newt or some shit in this thing. 3) The filters… come on… alien technology for sure. Nothing is as weird and awesome as those. I personally feel that there is NOTHING about the D-50 that sounds remotely “analog.” And that’s another excellent attribute of it, because it sounds all its own and still is huge, spacious and completely warm. The distortion in the signal path is the perfect level of saturation. Things just blend and smear absolutely right. 4)The EFFECTS. Not at all because they sound anywhere near what they claim to be, or are excellent in accuracy, because they are not. It’s because they are essentially spatial, wave and frequency modifiers that wouldn’t be seen in synth context until many years down the road as “imaging, spatial exciters, air, metalizer, etc.” The reverbs are not typical of what you would expect from something called ‘reverb.’ They are the space in which dark matter lays… so get a Roland Boutique D-50 the minute that are available, and Roland - you can forward royalties to my PayPal account. Thanks.
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www.breadandbuttersounds.com
A great solution for OS X users
D-05, D-50, D-550 Cloud based editor.
All you need to do is go to Roland and download the D-05 driver, install it, hook up a USB MIDI cable, go to www.breadandbuttersounds.com 5 using Chrome or Opera and holy shit; you are able to control EVERY parameter from the editor in the browser!!! Go there. Praise them.
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The D-05 is a great digital synth ,I use it and like the sound as much as my Waldorf Quantum
Start with the Carl Johnson’s Sound Banks.
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question for d05 and DN owners- does it seem overkill to have both of these? i’m considering a d05 now but also use the DN a lot in my current practice
They have quite different sound character. Depends what you want if it’s worth to get it.
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Oh. OH! Aaah!!
Costs more than the synth though…! Lol.
Did I mention OH!?!?
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I second d2ba’s recommendation of breadandbutter.com. I’m able to create, edit, and save patches for free.
Note that I can’t get this link to work in Safari, but it works great in Chrome.
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Your Sounds are awesome! Great stuff!
Let me ask a really stupid question: are these sounds all straight from the D05 without further FX?! My mind is completely blown. I have one of these sitting in it’s box in my synth cave (GAS purchase) and was appalled by the user interface. Now I have to revisit this little black beast asap.
Strymon Deco and DiG on many of the patches as mentioned at the start of the video. Still, some wonderful sounds.
Thanks, only was able to listen to the audio.
I’m able to do the same with CTRLR and I prefer the look of the PG1000 panel. I’m guessing there must be some other differences between the two editors though.
Dont forgot to download the Carl Johnson sound banks -see previous post Cult of D-50
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