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Sound Canvas compatibility
guidelines by Bob Greaves (in PDF format -- requires the Adobe
Acrobat
Reader, freeware).
Gary Agnew has these
Sound Canvas materials at his site: the
Sound
Canvas Family of instruments -RPN,
NRPN, and
Bender
Values pages.
The Roland GS
Standard (from Jim Heckroth's
Tutorial on
MIDI and Wavetable Music Synthesis).
Two graphical layouts of
the Roland Sound Canvas from David Bradfield at the CSUDH Music
Department Web Server:
GS System
LevelParameters
Part
Parameters. These files can also be gotten here
and here.
Roland Sound Canvas: a
family portrait ... Except for the MC-80 pic
recently added, this was the previous header graphic for the Canvas
Carry-All. It shows many of the SCs released by Roland, Boss and
Edirol from 1991-99.
GS and
the Graph Connection: Understanding Program Changes and Variations
- an article by Gord Braun.
The SOUNDCanvas MIDI page, by
Colin Gavin, has compositions for the SC-55/'88/ '88Pro, StudioWare
templates, sysex, hints and howtos, tutorials, links, and other good
stuff for Canvas maniacs of all stripes.
Bob Ihrman's
Patch Maps for
the SC-88pro, SC-88, SC-55mkII, SCB-55, SC-55/SCC-1, & PMA-5
SC-55: original
brochure (in
Japanese) in the 1991
section of the Electronic
Musical Instruments Museum
SC-55 information,
including specs, sysex, editors, MIDI files, and links.
Polyphony
Pathos (Ode to a Sound Canvas) revision 3 -Gord Braun.
Sound Canvas
Tips and Tweaks
(Edirol) includes the
REAL TIME
SOUND EDITING using NRPNs,
Insertion
Effects, and the
Roland Sound
Canvas Sysex Guide Online.
Edward Lotter has
tutorials on Registered and Non Registered Parameter Numbers (NRPNs),
which can be found here at
his home page.
University of Michigan School
of Music: Professor Barton Polot's Music Technology Lab
Tech Sheets
disgorge on the Roland
Sound
Canvas SC-55mkll in some detail. Topics include bulk dumps,
parameter numbers, sysex, part editing, variations, and much more.
"MIDI
Sequencing Project": experimental sequencing venture
using a Sound Canvas and a Cubase mixermap "to try and get the
weirdest noises possible out of GS MIDI" -- from
Paul
Draper's home pages.
Roland US has resources like
turbo starts, FAQs, application guides, supplemental notes, and software
for numerous SC and compatible products.
Roland
PC-200mkll:
a short review/overview at
The Gear-Head List.
XG, GS
and GM compared: a .pdf document from the
Technical Stuff and
Programming area of Michael's XG
Page.
SK-88 Pro
description / specs -- MIDI
Classics.
Bandtrax Australia
has system
exclusive strings, a
controller
listing, MIDI file
demos
and free
files, and GS
consoles
for Cakewalk.
A text
file with sysex and pc numbers for changing drum maps and kits on
SC55 and compatible Canvases (G. Braun).
The
MIDI Site has links, help, info,
music, and other things of the Canvasious kind.
SCB-55
sysex
info.
SC-88Pro
review at ElectronicMusic.com.
The MIDI Technical Fanatic's
Brainwashing Center (by Jeff Glatt) has turorials, technical docs,
programs, and other MIDI/audio resources, including
Roland Audio Card
Specs for the RAP-10, SC-7, SCC-1/B, SC-55/155, CM-300, SC-35,
SC-33, SC-50, SC-88, SC-55mkII, SCD-10, SCD-15, MPU-401AT, and SCP-55B.
There's also Mr. Glatt's RAP-10 and SC-7
Playback and
Recording Panels.
PMA-5 links:
Reviews on the
JV-90,
JV-50,
JV-35
and others
(Casey Palowitch's page).
More Roland
Card Specs and
FAQs from
Circuit, An Electronic Music
Archive.
Roland Virtual Sound
Canvas -- article by Angus Kidman (APC computer magazine..
Australia).
An article on
Advanced Sound Cards For The
PC by Phillip Moore. SCC-1 and RAP-10 are disgorged upon
here.
Harmony Central has user
comments on many Roland products, including the SC-7, SC-88Pro, DS-330,
JV-1000, G800, SC-50, SCD-15, SC-55, XP-10, PMA-5, and A90EX.
VSC-55OW
specifications (The
Soft Synths Home Page).
Crescendo PLUS,
a plug-in and ActiveX control for Netscape and IE respectively, features
the Roland Virtual Sound Canvas as oart if the package.
Roland SCD-15
review and
comparisons in the Hardware
Section at The Adrenaline Vault.
SCC-1B,
SC-7,
SC-88,
SC-88Pro,
and SCC1/SC55
comments at Sonic State.
The Sound Canvas
Carry-All animated GIF's - Large and
Small - original image by Professor Polot.
Sound
Canvas tone list on Edirol's web site, listing which tones are
available on which models of Sound Canvas.
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