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Roland have discontinued the Concerto hosted series, and made all the products on it free to download and keep These are generic front-ends for sampled synths, so limited editing but low CPU. You need a free Roland Cloud account, then in Cloud manager search your library and DISCONTINUED. The products are:

ANTHOLOGY SERIES
Roland synths from these eras:
1985 I and II
1986
1987 (D-50)
1990
1993 I, II and III

EP 14 (Electric Pianos)
Orchestra I, II, III and IV

Acoustic-One (Drums)
Blupblop (Retro Gaming)
Electrode (Electro House)
Funky Fever (Disco)
Grit (Aggressive EDM)
Resin (Hip Hop / Neo Soul)
RoboHop (Hop Hop / RnB)
Sector-7 (Synthwave)
Sugar (Tropical House)
Tera Guitar (Steel String Acoustic)
Tera Piano (Grand PIano)
Trapped (Trap)

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I downloaded this and it's a PITA to move libraries to an external drive, but it can be done. Not sure I'll ever use any of these but... free is free.
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How did you move the content, Laura? I couldn’t see a way, but didn’t look too hard I’ll confess.

Two best uses I’ve thought of so far:

1) the Orchestra is perfect for… period virtual orchestras. And that is a thing. And also hip-hop.

2) the 1987 band has most of the core D50 presets. For, um, when you need one of the core D50 presets.

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Guy Rowland wrote: Jul 03, 2022 2:57 pm How did you move the content, Laura? I couldn’t see a way, but didn’t look too hard I’ll confess.
This is on a Mac

- Go to the location of the existing Roland Cloud/Concerto/Instruments folder. You'll see the instruments you've downloaded and a "rvr_paths.txt" file. If you don't see one, you're going to have to go through this process twice, the first time to create one, and the second to modify it. Or you could create your own txt file and type in the path, it's just a txt file. Let's pretend there's one there.
- Create a new folder path on the drive of your choice: Roland Cloud/Concerto/Instruments and copy the instruments you've downloaded into there (can drag & drop)
- Open the plugin in your DAW, click on the "Options" button on the lower-ish left
- Click "Concerto Instruments path"
- Click on Add New Directory and navigate to the new Instruments folder on the external drive, click Open, then Save. Note: you do not have to manually type in a semi-colon, the plugin will do it for you. Trying to type it myself (or the path, either), crashed the plugin. :thumbsdown:
- Delete the instruments from the old location but do not delete the "rvr_paths.txt" file.
- Un-instantiate and re-instantiate Concerto and hopefully your instruments will show up.

The only way to remove the old path (/Library/Application...) is to edit the text file itself. You can do that and remove the old path and it still works, as long as you leave the txt file in the original location. But you can also leave the old path on there and it works too.


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Good lord.

Thanks Laura!


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I'll confess I couldn't face all the hacking, but remembered a simple Windows trick I haven't used for a while - create a symbiotic link. This turns a real folder in any location into a virtual folder that points at a different real location. In other words, I move all the files to my G drive, but Windows still sees them in their original C location.

A free app called dirlinker does the process, and from then on it keeps thinking it is putting new files in C, when in fact it is G. Huzzah!


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Hmm, the 1993 anthology has some good JD-990 patches in it. Mr 990 Brass is the definitive synth brass sound, and there's a lot of aggressive stuff in there a la The Prodigy and Apollo 440.

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