Roland D-110

Tone Editor

This patch editor is designed for the D-110. It might also work, more or less, with the D-10.

Communicating with Edisyn

When you set up MIDI in the patch editor, you can specify the MIDI channel and the Synth ID. Set the synth ID to the same as your synthesizer (17 is customary). Set the Send Channel to correspond to the channel of the Part/Timbre you want to test your Tone in. The D-110 by default starts its Parts at Channel 2, so Part 1 is Channel 2, Part 2 is Channel 3, and so on. Make certain that Memory Protect is OFF and (this is very important) that Overflow is OFF. Earlier ROMs have a bug which causes sysex dumps to fail if Overflow is not OFF. Note that you may have to set Memory Protect to OFF every time you turn on the synthesizer.

Real-Time Parameter Bugs

I have received a report that sending real-time parameter changes can crash the D-110. The configuration was a 1.06 ROM, Windows, and a Midiplus Tbox 2X2 adapter. I have had no problems at all: I am using a 1.10 ROM, MacOS, Tascam 2x2 adapter. I suspect the issue is the older ROM. If you experience this problem, you can uncheck the Sends Real Time Changes menu. Please report any problems you have experienced.

About the D-110 Menu



Where's the Drum Editor?

The D-110 doesn't save its drum patches when you power cycle the machine: they're reset. As a result, it doesn't make much sense to write an editor for something the machine won't save in its memory. Sorry about that.

Gotchas



Thanks

Thanks to Keith (llamamusic@hotmail.com) for his extraordinary service in loaning a machine in a pinch, providing materials, and debugging. If you are a D-110 owner, llamamusic.com is a fantastic resource. Thanks also to Benjamin Wild (dj@benjaminwild.com) for debugging help and the editor's default init patch, and 02FD for determining that the D-110 supports pitch envelope sustain not withstanding the documentation.

By    Sean Luke
Date    December 2019