Roland SC-7 song selection (MIDI playback demo)

The Roland SC-7 may be the tiniest and least featureful of the Sound Canvas family, but don't underestimate it, it packs a punch! I've had one for almost a year now, and I love it, so I was disappointed to find that most of the demos of it on YouTube were pretty uninspiring. So here's 40 minutes of songs that really make it shine. :)

Important note: almost all of these MIDI files weren't written with the SC-7 in mind, they're mostly for the Roland SC-55/Roland GS standard, or just plain General MIDI. The SC-7 is clearly a derivative of the SC-55, but it is stripped down a fair bit, so it has less instrument sounds available, and it won't respond to a lot of MIDI commands specific to the SC-55 or GS standard. For example, the SC-7 won't respond to the GS commands to change the reverb and chorus type, or to change the attack and release envelope on a sound. Therefore, some of these songs will sound better on the SC-55. But they can still sound pretty great on the SC-7! Some of them could be tweaked to sound better on it, but I've chosen not to do that here.

I recorded the screen and audio in two different programs and synced them up in post, so the audio might not be perfectly in sync, sorry. I also normalised the volumes in post. The MIDI visualiser is an English patched version of Fummy's "TMIDI Player". Note that I set it to SC-55mkII mode, because that's the closest relative of the SC-7, but this means some things on screen represent what an SC-55mkII would do, not what the SC-7 does. For example, GS "variation instruments" aren't supported on the SC-7.

If you have any questions about the SC-7, please leave a comment, I would be really happy to tell you more!

Yes, the last song is by me. It's not vanity, I just thought it'd be a shame not to include something that takes advantage of the SC-7's low-pass filter, and I don't know of anyone else who's done that.

Song sources:

001 - https://archive.org/details/roland-gs...
002 - Windows 95 (Windows 3.1 also has it, but its version must be played with the Windows 3.1 version of the MIDI Mapper to sound right; the Windows 95 version is a normal General MIDI file)
003 -    • POWER! SC-55 (Full Album)  
004 - https://archive.org/details/roland-gs...
005 -    • スーパーハングオン "OUTRIDE A CRISIS" Super HA...   / https://piano.tyonmage.com/download.html
006 - Descent (I think I got a rip of the soundtrack from mirsoft.info)
007 - https://faq.yamaha.com/usa/s/article/...
008 - https://msa0011.gozaru.jp/sate/ but I got it originally from   / 1370420689916862466  
009 -   / onlymidis   Dropbox, see https://x.com/OnlyMIDIs/status/138568...
010 - Theme Hospital (captured General MIDI via DOSBox myself; the rip I found online had the wrong tempo for some reason)
011 - Windows XP
012 - Runescape (I got a rip from https://www.rune-server.ee/runescape-...)
013 -    • POWER! GS (Full Album)  

Timestamps:
00:00 001 - Moonlight Picnic (SC-55mkII ROM demo)
01:32 002 - Passport Please (from Windows 95)
03:37 003 - HaruMKT - Stellar (from POWER! SC-55)
06:46 004 - Jazz Lagoon (from SC-55 demo disk)
08:15 005 - Outride A Crisis from SUPER HANG-ON (SC-7 cover by @upc831)
13:18 006 - Title Theme from Descent
17:15 007 - Jazz5XG (Yamaha sample MIDI for XG keyboards)
20:57 008 - K.Hirai (ひらり) - BGM 27: Theme of the Ferry Toilet
25:40 009 - MidiSoft Recording Session - Big City Beat
28:03 010 - 6's and 7's (from Theme Hospital)
31:44 011 - Flourish (from Windows XP)
33:13 012 - Yesteryear (from Runescape)
37:12 013 - hikari_no_yume - beyond the stars (from POWER! GS)