Ok this site is fairly new. No fancy graphics just yet. Below is a small collection of owner's manuals for vintage Roland equipment in PDF format. Any manual without 'On-line' in the title is suitable for printing. These documents were compiled from 300dpi B/W scans of either the original manual or a photocopy.
On-line manuals are suitable for on-line viewing ONLY. The pages for these were gathered from Vintage Synth Explorer and recompiled into a pdf document for easier handling.
Please Help Out If you think making these manuals available on the web is a good idea why not help out. If you have a manual for a piece of Roland equipment not listed below and can spare the time to scan it please do. Scan each FULL page in B/W at 300dpi and save the image as a Tif file. Name the images accordingly:
Model-Number_Manual_p01.tif
Model-Number_Manual_p02.tif
and so on..
Then email me at [email protected] and I'll let you know how to send the scans to me. Compile over 20 pages send them to me and receive for your effort the Manuals CD (pictured below).
Apparently the reduction in file size mentioned below also includes downloads. Consequently, any file posted to Fortune City greater than 5meg previously now cannot be downloaded. This is a REAL BUGGER as many of the larger useful manuals are over 5 meg. Unfortunately I have to then suggest if you are after a manual bigger than 5 meg you get a CD. If you are not desparate I will be splitting some of the manuals up into smaller chunks so that they can be downloaded. This will take me a week or so. Sorry but send your complaints to Fortune City.
EVEN MORE LATEST NEWS
Recent changes at Fortune City are making it more difficult to run this site effectively, particularly, the loss of ability to download the files here from anywhere else other than from this page and the redution of the maximum file size to a meazly 5MB. Any manual more than 150 pages now must be split into at least 3 parts. I will endevour to keep adding to the list however once I reach the 200 meg limit of both my Fortune City accounts new manuals will be available either on CD or will replace manuals already present. The replaced manuals will then be available only on CD. Details on obtaining CD are below.
LATEST NEWS
ALPHA JUNO SERIES
Alpha Juno 1 Manual (2.97MB)
Alpha Juno 2 Manual (3.42MB)
D SERIES
D-20 Manual (Volume 1) (1.78MB)
D-50 Basic Manual (1.94MB)
D-50 Advanced Manual (3.57MB)
D-50 Midi Implementation (1.81MB)
D-50 Edit Map (163KB)
D-550 Manual - Available on CD
D-550 Edit Map (305KB)
GUITAR SYNTHESIZERS
GR-300 Manual (1.71MB)
GR-700 Manual (2.08MB)
GR-50 Manual Part 1 (4.00MB)
GR-50 Manual Part 2 (4.00MB)
GR-50 Manual Part 3 (2.90MB)
(NB The GR-50 Manual is a 3 part self-extrating archive. You must download all three parts before running gr-50_manual.exe)
GK-2A Pickup Manual (1.13MB)
GUITAR EFFECTSS
GP-100 Midi Implementation (2.43MB)
GP-8 Guitar Effects Manual (2.21MB)
GS-6 Guitar Effects Manual (3.2MB)
DEP-3 Manual (1.74MB)
JUNO SERIES
Juno-106 Calibration (2.13MB)
Juno-106 Manual (3.66MB)
JUPITER SERIES
Jupiter-6 Calibration Notes (1.66MB)
Jupiter-6 Manual Part 1
Jupiter-6 Manual Part 2
(NB The JP-6 Manual is a 2 part self-extrating archive. You must download to disk both parts before running jupiter-6_manual.exe)
Jupiter-8 Manual Part 1 (7.0MB)
Jupiter-8 Manual Part 2 (5.4MB)
(NB The JP-8 Manual is a 2 part self-extrating archive. You must download to disk both parts before running jupiter-8_manual.exe)
JX SERIES
JX-3P Manual (4.16MB)
JX-8P Manual (2.50MB)
Alternative JX-8P Manual (972KB) available from Marc Schreier (The JX-8P GURU)
MEMORY
M-16/64C Instructions(86KB)
M-512E Instructions (340KB)
MKS SERIES
MKS-30 Schematics (286KB)
CLASSICS
TB-303 Manual Part 1
TB-303 Manual Part 2
(NB The TB-303 Manual is a 2 part self-extrating archive. You must download both parts before running tb-303_manual.exe)
TB-303 Schematics (3.48MB)
MC-202 Manual (Japanese) - from MC202 Fan (968KB)
SEQUENCERS
CSQ-100 Manual (3.34MB)
MC-500 Super-Mrc Manual Part 1 (6.0MB)
MC-500 Super-Mrc Manual Part 1 (3.5MB)
(NB The MC Manual is a 2 part self-extrating archive. You must download both parts before running mc_500_manual.exe)
MRB-500 Bulk Librarian Software Manual (1.56MB)
MRM-500 MIDI File Converter Software Manual (1.66MB)
MRM-500 Standard MIDI file Converter Supplemental Notes (Link is direct to Roland US)
MRP-500 Performance Software Manual (2.14MB)
MC-300 Advanced Owner's Manual - Available on CD
MC-50 Quick Start (1.04MB)
MSQ-100 Online_Manual (845KB)
MSQ-700 Manual Part 1 (6.10MB)
MSQ-700 Manual Part 2 (6.0MB)
(NB The MSQ-700 Manual is a 2 part self-extrating archive. You must download both parts before running msq_700_manual.exe)
MISC
MPU-IPC-T Manual (427KB)
MT-32 Manual (2.06MB)
DR-5 Turbo Start (115KB)
BOSS DR-5 Owner's Manual - Available on CD
BOSS DS-330 Owner's Manual - Available on CD
EV-5 Expression Pedal (217KB)
PROGRAMMERS
PG-200 Manual (248KB)
PG-300 Manual (1.71MB)
PG-300 On-line Manual (617KB)
PG-1000 Manual (1.08MB)
SAMPLERS
S-50 Manual Part 1
S-50 Manual Part 2
(NB The S-50 Manual is a 2 part self-extrating archive. You must download both parts before running s-50_manual.exe)
S-50 Basic Supplemental Notes (Link is direct to Roland US)
S-330 and S-550 Supplemental Notes (Link is direct to Roland US)
S-330 On-line Brochure (1.22MB)
SH SERIES
SH-09 Service Notes (844KB)
SH-101 On-line Manual (1.66MB)
SH-101 Service_Notes (4.29MB)
SH-3 Patch Sheet (1.53MB)
TR SERIES
TR-606 Operation Manual Part 1
TR-606 Operation Manual Part 2
(NB The TR-606 Manual is a 2 part self-extrating archive. You must download both parts before running tr-606_operation_manual.exe)
TR-606 Procedure Table (1.29MB)
TR-606 Schematics (2.34MB)
TR-727 Manual (3.46MB, If you need a TR-707 Manual desparately this one will do)
TR-808 Schematics (886KB)
TR-909 On-line Manual(3.91MB)
U SERIES
U-220 Owner's Manual - Available on CD
U-220 Factory Setting Charts (1.97MB)
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| £10 UK |
| 20 Euro |