Mac Logic Studio: a little Roland JD800 Environment

This is for the Mac users of the Logic Studio Pro.


I found this at www.logicprohelp.com forum posted by Virgo.

Roland JD800 Environment

by virgo » Mon Mar 26, 2012 4:13 am

As promised in this thread (click to see post), here`s my little JD800 environment.


I will probably add the FX section sometime.




Original download link:

JD_800_Makro2.zip 

JD800 Environment (590.51 KiB)

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Roland JD-800 JD-990 VST Patch Editor VST for CTRLR

JD-VST Patch Editor

(updated at november, 16, 2014)



Good news to the Roland JD-800 and JD-990 worldwide users!

Christian Morency just released a beta version of a VST Patch Editor for the Roland JDs. 

This is a dedicated panel for the CTRLR software. This could allow you to visually modify your patch and control your JDs from your DAW.

You can read more about and download at the CTRLR forum: http://ctrlr.org/forums/search/JD-vst/  

If you download CTRLR from the website, please use the Stable version. 

As a Beta Version the software still have some bugs.


And also, there's a great topic at  Gearslutz: JD800 / 990 VST editor

The page include links to download.


Few notes:
You need to free your computer midi ports on which the JD is connected for CTRLR and assign them to CTRLR in the global settings. Download the panel (it's currently at the bottom of the device database). Once open from CTRLR, right-click on the panel and assign the midi device to the panel.

Download link:http://ctrlr.org/panels_deprecated/

Youtube tutorials:

JD-VST Tutorial 1:

JD-VST Tutorial 2:

JD-VST Tutorial 3:

Software and Patches for the JD-800 and JD-990

There are very good professional software supporting  the Roland JD-800 and JD-990, but if you want a non-pay choice, these are the best.

The JD-800 Patch Organizer created by Laurent Lecatelier-Dudec (France), was released as freeware in 24/04/1999 (date in original author´s site) and is no more available from the programmer´s site.

In more recent years, Gwydion Elderwin (Australia) created a JD-800 Randon Bank Creator and a Jd-800 to JD-990 Bank Converter.

About the patch banks here.

The first I found many years ago, was compiled by Stephen Drake, the guy who kept most of JD material available for years. This site is proud to pay him our tribute. Thanks Stephen!
The first internet banks are so-so grouped, thus makes some sense.

Gwydion also have done a strong work removing duplicates from hundreds of patches, adding lots more and creating a library for each synth. Still is missing time to classify all that stuff into categories.

Missing all you my friends, I know business and daily life take time, but I would be happy to receive some news. 

The bank files are in .rar format. You need Winrar or compatible to extract it.


Also: 

Links for other JD sites, stuff and foruns. Permanent list

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NEW JDTools - Patch conversion utility for Roland JD-800 / JD-990 and compatibles

Formats supported: JD-800 SysEx dumps (SYX, MID) 

JD-990 SysEx dump (SYX)

JD-800 VST / Zenology patch bank (BIN)

JD-08 patch bank (SVD)

ZC1 patch bank (SVZ)

Roland JD-990 Sysex Dump Utility for Ctrlr - by dnaldoog

Roland SUPER JD Synthesizer Module JD-990 Editor for Ctrlr - by dnaldoog

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Christian Morency released a Beta version of a VST Patch Editor for the Roland JD-800 and JD-990.
See the following post with some info, links and video tutorials:
JD-800 JD-990 VST Patch Editor VST for CTRLR

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A new post is added with a user created for the Logic Studio platform on Mac:

Mac Logic Studio: a little Roland JD800 Environment

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Downloads:

JD800 Patch Organizer                                                       230 Kb
JD800 pach banks organized by Gwydion Elderwin           499 Kb
JD800 Path banks internet collection                                     407 Kb
JD800 randon bank creator                                                     512 Kb

JD800 to JD990 Bank Converter                                            177 Kb

JD990 Patch Organizer                                                         230 Kb
JD990 Pach banks organized by Gwydion Elderwin              544 Kb


Roland SL-JD Cards Patches Not waveforms                    62Kb

Roland JD-800 SE Especial Edition Patches (a Brazilian version not in the factory presets). This was an interesting remarkable work from great Brazilian musicians with new exclusive patches. Most people forgot to save that and lose the patches made by Roland's Brazil people. Some (few) requires the Strings card.

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