Roland U-110
Patch Editor
This editor will work with the U-110. Though it is card-compatible with the U-20/U-220, you should use Edisyn's U-20/U-220 editor for them instead.
Communicating with Edisyn
Set Edisyn's MIDI channel to the same as the synth's Control Channel. Turn ON Program Change and Exclusive.
Gotchas
- The U-110 doesn't seem to respond to requests to download individual patches: so Edisyn must change the patch to the given patch (loading it into current memory) and then request the patch from current memory.
- Incredibly, Roland's sysex specification is missing almost everything needed to write the editor, so much had to be reverse engineered. If you'd like to see a working specification, see the comments at the end of Edisyn's RolandU110.java file.
Librarian Support
Edisyn's U-110 editor (unlike the U-220 editors) supports bulk downloads from the machine, and in fact has a dedicated menu option in the Librarian to ask the machine to send it a bulk dump, which is much faster than Edisyn asking for each patch one by one. Try it out, it's called Request Bank from Synth.
Thanks
Thanks to Keith (llamamusic@hotmail.com) for his extraordinary service in loaning stuff, providing materials, and debugging. Thanks also to Ray Bellis for verifing the U-110's lack of sysex specification information.
By
| Sean Luke
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Date
| October 2022
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