Roland Sound Canvas SC-55: Leading a Computer Music Revolution! - Sound Profile

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When it comes to the early days of computer music, there are few pieces of hardware that define it better than the original Roland Sound Canvas. Since 1991, the SC-55 has served as the de facto General MIDI and Roland GS sound module. With three major revisions in the Sound Canvas series and nearly three decades of time later though, does the SC-55 still hold up or is it yet another piece of outdated tech? Watch and find out!

Listen to the full POWER! SC-55 album here!    • POWER! SC-55 (Full Album)  
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Huge thanks to MovieMovies1 for contributing to this video with his voice over!   / moviemovies1  
And thanks to Spoofer for helping us verify any discrepancies between the SC-55s!    / @spoofersdomain9185  

SC-55 "MT-32 Map" Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

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