Roland MKS-50

Manual - Roland has made manuals for most of their products available as free PDF downloads.

SysEx Basics - Helpful guide to controlling and editing the MKS-50 in real-time from a sequencer or Midi controller using SysEx Midi data.

Patch File - Roland's original Factory Settings for the MKS-50. These are Midi Sysex files compressed in a PC friendly format. Mac users should have no problem downloading this file either.

• Specifications
• Polyphony - 6 voices
• Oscillators - 1 DCO per voice: Pulse, Sawtooth, Sub, noise waveforms. 1 sub-oscillator.
• Effects - portamento, 16 chord memories, transpose, chorus
• Memory - 64 User, 64 preset, backup to cassette
• Filter - 24db analog lowpass filter
• Envelopes - ADSR Envelopes for filter and amp
• Arpeg/Seq - None
• Keyboard - none
• Control - MIDI (w/ velocity and aftertouch mappable to VCF or ENV)
• Date Produced - 1987