The under-rated, often overlooked, Roland SonicCell sound module!

I borrowed a Roland SonicCell from a good friend and set it up for use in Logic with a custom multi-instrument in the Logic envoronment. The SonicCell is often over-looked despite it offering 896 preset patches built-in the famous Roland Fantom X synth engine. It’s an odd device because it is both a sound module, and audio interface and a file player. Unfortunately, some of the features are not ideally useful today. Perhaps its was a device just trying to do too many things at once. In this video, I’ll walk through the features and capabilities of the SonicCell as well as the details on how to use it - or any external synth - in Logic.

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00:00 Over-looked and under-valued
00:54 SonicCell is 3 devices in one
02:25 Technical Specs - SonicCell compared to the JV 1080
03:46 Connecting the SonicCell
05:25 Midi Implementation for the SonicCell & Patch Names
07:40 Our target configuration in Logic X
09:43 Complete Midi Configuration Walkthrough in Logic - Midi Environment
14:50 More options to configure
15:58 After the Fantom X, the XP series took over in ROMplers
16:40 Sound Design on the SonicCell - consider Patch Base
17:34 It’s got great sounds!
18:20 Outro

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