Roland Sound Canvas VA

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Roland Sound Canvas VA
Type GM/GM2/GS Software Synthesizer
Manufacturer Roland
Release date 2015
Standards General MIDI
General MIDI 2
Roland GS
Parts 16[1]
Max polyphony 64[1]
Normal presets 1608 + 256 user presets[2]
Drum presets 63 + 2 user presets[3]
Effects Reverb, Delay, Chorus, Two-Band global EQ, Global insertion FX based on BOSS effect units.

The Roland Sound Canvas VA is a Sound Canvas Software Synthesizer released in 2015, Notable for its solid attempt to bring the de facto standard desktop sound module into the modern era, the Roland Sound Canvas VA is available as both a VSTi and AU software synthesizer for contemporary computers.

Roland Sound Canvas VA was first released standalone, then included with the Roland Cloud software-as-a-service subscription. This was discontinued on the 1st of September 2024, where it was no longer available for purchase.

Oddities

Discrepancies between Roland Sound Canvas VA and Roland-ED SC-8820

The Roland Sound Canvas VA is a software-based emulation of the SC-8820 Sound Canvas unit, utilizing the EPROM files from the original hardware. This means that the Sound Canvas VA is designed to be a theoretically identical software replica of the SC-8820, offering the same sound and functionality in a virtual format.