Roland U-110

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Roland U-110 with 2 PCM cards fitted Roland-u100.jpg
Roland U-110 with 2 PCM cards fitted

The Roland U-110 is a ROMpler synthesizer module that was produced by Roland Corporation in 1988.

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The predecessor of the more successful U-20 keyboard and U-220 module, the U-110 was Roland's first dedicated sample playback synth. It used ROM to store sounds rather than loading them from disks into RAM, hence it was not a true sampler as it could not sample sounds.

The U-110 contained a base 2MB of sounds stored in ROM. It could be expanded with up to four Roland SN-U110 sound library cards, unlike the more popular Roland U-220 that could only accommodate two. It had six individual outputs, allowing for each instrument channel to be recorded separately, and two mix outputs to output all channels as a stereo pair.

Specifications

FeatureValue
Polyphony31 voices
Sound GeneratorDC-PCM sound generator
Base Sample ROM2MB consisting of 99 sounds
Patch Storage64 internal memory locations
Expansion2MB of extra sounds can be added by using up to 4 Roland SN-U110 PCM cards
Outputs
  • 1 stereo mix output
  • 6 individual outputs (different output modes available)
  • headphone jack (outputs stereo mix)
MultitimbralYes. 6 parts splitting the polyphony with each part, i.e. no dynamic voice allocation
EffectsBasic digital chorus and tremolo
FiltersNone
Display16x2-character LCD display
Controls6 front panel buttons and a volume knob for the mix/headphone output.

List of SN-U110 ROM Cards

Card NumberName
SN-U110-01Pipe Organ and Harpsichord
SN-U110-02Latin and FX Percussion
SN-U110-03Ethnic
SN-U110-04Electric Grand and Clavi
SN-U110-05Orchestral Strings
SN-U110-06Orchestral Winds
SN-U110-07Electric Guitar
SN-U110-08Synthesiser
SN-U110-09Guitar and Keyboards
SN-U110-10Rock Drums
SN-U110-11Sound Effects
SN-U110-12Sax and Trombone
SN-U110-13Super Strings
SN-U110-14Super Acoustic Guitar
SN-U110-15Super Brass

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