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S550 Roland. Roland S550 (MT Jun 88) It is commonly thought of as a '12 bit sampler' and a rack-mounted version of the S50 sampler without the keyboard It is Roland's rack version of the keyboard sampler S-50 and offers twice as much memory and dynamic.
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The Roland S-550 is a 2U rack (velocity and aftertouch sensitive), 16 voice (8 part multitimbral), 16 bit, sampler, featuring a digital resonant low-pass filter, dedicated filter and amp 8 stage envelopes, LFO (sine or peak-hold waveforms with delay, polarity and sync), 3.5" DSDD Disk drive, mic and line inputs, 8 individual outputs, CRT. A rack-mounted version of the S-50 came in the form of the S-550, which also had double the sample memory (1.5 Mb) and more importantly, real-time filters (called time-variant filters) derived from LAS-type synthesizers like the D-50.
MATRIXSYNTH Roland S550 Vintage Sampler Mint with Box RC100 remote Monitor
Both of these statements are sort-of true but understate the power of the S550 and why it is superior to the S50. It is Roland's rack version of the keyboard sampler S-50 and offers twice as much memory and dynamic. Having a USB-floppy emulator can be a real hassle though! I go through the routine of loading, sampling and saving onto the thing.
MATRIXSYNTH Roland S550 Vintage Sampler Mint with Box RC100 remote Monitor. The Roland S-550 is a 2U rack (velocity and aftertouch sensitive), 16 voice (8 part multitimbral), 16 bit, sampler, featuring a digital resonant low-pass filter, dedicated filter and amp 8 stage envelopes, LFO (sine or peak-hold waveforms with delay, polarity and sync), 3.5" DSDD Disk drive, mic and line inputs, 8 individual outputs, CRT. Both of these statements are sort-of true but understate the power of the S550 and why it is superior to the S50.
Roland S550. Roland S-550 sampler with Gotek USB-floppy emulator - Review & Demo The files are saved as standard W‑30 or DJ‑70 disk image files which means you can write the new Sound Disk to a 3.5" physical floppy.