Roland D-05 - How To Make Custom Patches

Roland D-05 - How To Make Custom Patches

In this video I go over some settings in the D-05 and walk you through where and how to program the new Roland D-05. I have created a custom patch called "Mosey On Mack" and I walk through some of the basic parameters that I adjusted to make this patch from scratch.

Please let me know if there are any questions, I will try to answer any questions.

Thank you!

[AntonioRamirez-kbgf]

So cool that you continue to make quality shit and don’t get discouraged by low view count. You’ll day will come soon. As of now this is a hidden gem of a channel but soon you’ll be a synth authority like sonic state. I feel if you do more reviews and videos like these you’ll get more views. Keep doing what ur doing

[vjrei]

I am, really proud of you for digging into a synth to create a sound. It is the most satisfying experience ever! When you really learn a synth is like learning a computer language... literally!!! And then you start to experiment and create crazy sounds and you create your own sound. =)

[Joystick]

I was having trouble finding all the different parameters inside the D-05 menus. I kept going around in circles.
Thanks for this video! It really helped!
I know where everything is now.
I'm still thinking of making a flow chart though. It's easy to get lost in all those menus.

great video! Thank you, very informative! Could you please, tell me how can I connect the Roland D-05 to the Roland VR-09 so that it can be controlled from the VR-09?

[_EightySix]

Is there a way to map a midi controller to each parameter on the D-05? That would be ideal, a makeshift PG1000.

[Hhyperspace]

Weird little fact that many don't know is that some of the MC Grooveboxes had some of the same edits like TVA and TVF in patch building with 4 tones. That along with the sounds, drums and samples you could do a lot.

[HowlingUlf]

The "lever" in the manual refers to the little lever the D-50 had instead of your usual pitch and modulation wheels.
Bend left -> pitch goes down, bend right -> pitch goes up and push lever -> modulation increases.
Personal taste maybe but I had no problem with it and sometimes it's better than standard Moog configuration.
The only downside is you can't leave the modulation halfway because it's spring loaded so it goes back to zero when you let go.


The joystick lets you also adjust two parameters at the same time if they're on the same screen like filter frequency and filter resonance. Having that in a joystick totally ROXX compared to just have to do them one at a time . Hit the button named [edit] to the right of the joystick to change the mode. When you edit you can either chose to edit one parameter [value] or two parameters [local] at a time. You can also set the balance between the upper and lower tones either live as performance stunt or while editing and it's again much better than do it one at a time with inc/dec buttons ...


That's all fine and dandy BUT ... do yourself a favor now and thank yourself later and download the free and absolutely magnificent D50 Librarian program and get everything you can think of inside your D synth on screen and everything will revealed to you!!! And you can also do librarian stuff, export text list of sounds, import/export SysEx file and move presets between D50 and D05 and more things than you can shake a stick at. So what are you waiting for? Do it! Now!!! It's and
And I mean :D

[HowlingUlf]

Great tutorial! Thanks for pushing for the four letter word "RTFM" which is almost a lost art form these days. Lazy people don't RTFM, lazy and smart people do and understand so much more and save so much headache and get so much more out of the rest of their lives just from a few hours of RTFMing :D

Great video! Tell me, please, is it possible to return to factory settings if changes were made earlier? Are the presets compatible with the D-50?

[mikebarrett]

Hello I'm desperately trying to save the sequence test line I've created is it possible?

[Frozirra]

I laughed audibly when you went over the structures. Always enunciate P&S lol 😂

[marctronixx]

real talk bro: i liked how you talked about the guts of this instrument. i've had the d-05 for over a month and have not gone into that part of it. i have been re-living the early 90s and playing all the songs i loved back then that used this instrument. i agree the parameter guid is worth the time to read. the synth is actually very easy to program!

[dr.christopherdiaz]

Will Midi Quest work with the D-05 as it does with the D-50?

[retrogamerarcadebuilder]

Hi can anyone tell me pls when iam just playing can i have two patches one at each end of the keyboard say fantasia one end bright day the other because when iam playing and i need another tone for the next part if i select desired tone you get a mute before seletion which ruins the playing any help wud be great thanks

[gabrielemariotti]

Question: I see you can load SysEx Patches onto the Korg Volca FM via DEXED vst....Is it possible to load a sound coming from the DEXED library into the Roland D-05.
I am wondering if the patches used by the DX7 and by the D50 back in the days are the same....do they share the same language?

[machiwoomiapoo]

Sweet sounds! The D-05 is the bomb! :)

[ZenithMusicNet]

The Parameter Guide is really helpful. For anyone who is interested, you can find it at Roland.com, then type in the search bar "D-05", then scroll a bit down and click Support, then Owner's Manuals.

[BioSoftStudios]

Okay, possibly a stupid question but i’m gonna ask it anyway, the user sounds in d05, are they initialized patches? I’m asking because I’ve been looking to buy a specific boutique synth that can let me create custom sounds without the fear of overwriting factory presets

[tyshekashay]

Can the d05 record or play sounds from external gear mpc live for instance, & modulate the sound? PLEASE Thank you...

[FirestormAudio]

I can't figure out how to save my patches. Whenever I hit the Write key I always get the message "Int Memory Protected". There is no explanation for that message in the parameter guide and I'm still waiting to hear back from Roland.