Roland MV-30
PCM

About

Roland Studio M MV-30 is a hardware sequencer with built-in PCM synthesizer.

Roland MV-30
Roland MV-30 (1990)

MV-30 Overview

3MB PCM waveforms of Roland D-70, which is the expanded set of U-110 / U-220.
Digital resonant filter added..
28-polyphonic with 2 Effects - Chorus and Reverb..
Nearly fully editable, which is a great step forward from U Series.
A single Tone patch is made of a combination of one or two similar waveforms. To layer more oscillators, multi-timbre settings should be edited.
"" Various waveforms can be assigned to the keys within the Drum Kit. It has some unique features like Random Pitch.
Expandable with PCM cards: Up to 2 cards can be used simultaneously. The cards are compatible with D-70 and U Series.
"" 8-part multi-timbral.


Sound Examples

Here are some .mp3 examples of MV-30.
No external effects, overdub, external cards used. The examples are recorded years ago, and the old mixer I used then added some hiss noise.

Sounds
TVF Sweep (720KB)
Auto Bend (174KB)
Piano with split point shift (406KB)
TVF LFO (282KB)
"" Bend Pad (379KB)
Chorus with 2 layers (709KB)
Songs
MV-30 song #01 (3.8MB)
MV-30 song #02 (2.7MB)

. Specs

Here are the waveform list and the spec chart of MV-30.

MV-30 Built-in sounds
MV-30 Built-in sounds

MV-30 Spec chart
MV-30 Spec chart

Related Models


Roland's PCM synth started with U-110, a filter-less PCM playback module. Later U-220 came out with more PCM ROM. MV-30 is the updated version of U Series with digital resonant filter.

Roland U-110
Roland U-110 (1988)

Roland U-110
Roland U-220 (1989)

The synth engine of 12-bit sampler S-50 Series is related to U Series. S-50 use interpolation to expand 12-bit samples to 16-bit D/A. Especially S-550 / S-330 sampler had digital filter, and most related to MV-30.

Roland S-550
Roland S-550 (1988)

D-70 is the 76-keys version. Up to 4 Tones can be layered. And the new synthetic function is added - DLM (Differential Loop Modulation). With DLM, the small loop segment of the PCM sample is expanded and relooped, and it makes striking noises that sounds like granular synthesis.

Roland D-70
Roland D-70 (1990)

SoundCanvas SC-55 is the contemporary version of D-70. The sound became clearer (maybe the it acquired 16-bit architecture), though DLM is lost (See SC-55mkII page). JV-80 Series and JD-800 use related synth engines.

Roland SC-55
Roland SC-55 (1991)

Roland JV-80
Roland JV-80 (1992)
The name 'Studio M' may have come from Roland's sequencer MC Series (Micro Composer). MC-500 is the highest end machine of the mid-80s. Later Roland released MV-8000 - a sampler workstation. It seems to be the remote descendant of MV-30.

Roland MC-500
Roland MC-500 (1986)

Roland JV-80
Roland MV-8000 (2003)

Links

Roland US Roland Manual Download



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8. 5. 2006
12. 21. 2006 Update with spec info