Apopka, FL, United States
About this listing
For sale is a Roland W-30 with upgrades and extras. The unit was used in a music studio to record mostly special effects, drum sounds and vocal phrases. This is my second unit; the first one got sold already.The upgrades include:SCSI controller chip to enable SCSI communications to hard drives, CD-ROM drives, etc.Replacement of original LCD display with LED-backlight blue display. Electro-Luminiscent (EL) circuitry has been disabled as well to eliminate high-frequency noise created by the EL transformer.All tactile push buttons have been upgraded with brand new ones.Power socket was upgraded from a two-prong socket to an IEC 60320 C-14 socket with ground (3 prong).Extras include:External Plextor CD-ROM drive with CD-ROM caddy. There are only a few CD-ROM drives that are compatible with the W-30 that allow reading of CD-ROMs libraries made for the Roland W-30 and this is one of them.EPSON IOMEGA 100MB external SCSI ZIP drive. This is an external zip drive that allows loading and saving of sounds and sequences.ZULUSCSI MINI SCSI drive emulator with 16GB micro-SD card. This unit allows for addition of virtual SCSI hard drives to the Roland W-30, each 80MB in size per the Roland W-30 specification. There are currently four (4) virtual drive images on the micro-SD card.Two (2) sounds libraries CD-ROMs compatible with the Roland W-30.Three (3) IOMEGA ZIP disks with sound libraries compatible with the Roland W-30.Eleven (11) 3.5" floppy disks compatible with the Roland W-30 with sounds, including two (2) boot disks (one of them is original). Nine (9) of the disks are sound libraries from MIDI MARK.Printed Roland W-30 manual in binder.SCSI cables to connect all the above devices to the Roland W-30.Power cables for all devices described above.Carrying case for the Roland W-30. The carrying case show sign of age, mostly the interior foam, but serves as a good protection for the Roland W-30 when shipped. The Roland W-30 will be wrapped in protective plastic film to keep any dust out.The Roland W-30 currently boots up directly from the ZULUSCSI MINI SCSI drive emulator, which is drastically faster than booting from a floppy drive. The current SCSI configuration allows the following SCSI drive setup: four (4) virtual drives in the ZULUSCSI MINI emulator, SCSI CD-ROM unit (Plextor CD-ROM drive) and SCSI ZIP drive.Audio sampling functions have been tested by sampling sounds from a Yamaha SY-77 output. MIDI functions tested included playing a Yamaha SY-77 from the Roland W-30 and playing the Roland W-30 sounds from the Yamaha SY-77.The Roland W-30 is being sold AS-IS with no warranties and no returns due to its age, but it was fully functional at the time of this post.NOTE:Shipping to the contiguous states of the continental Unites States of America *ONLY*. Shipping done via FedEx. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.Thank you and good luck!
Price$999
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