Roland U-110
The Roland U-110 is a ROMpler synthesizer module that was produced by Roland Corporation in 1988.
The predecessor of the more successful U-20 keyboard and U-220 module, the U-110 was Roland's first dedicated sample playback synth. It used ROM to store sounds rather than loading them from disks into RAM, hence it was not a true sampler as it could not sample sounds.
The U-110 contained a base 2MB of sounds stored in ROM. It could be expanded with up to four Roland SN-U110 sound library cards, unlike the more popular Roland U-220 that could only accommodate two. It had six individual outputs, allowing for each instrument channel to be recorded separately, and two mix outputs to output all channels as a stereo pair.
Specifications
| Feature | Value |
| Polyphony | 31 voices |
| Sound Generator | DC-PCM sound generator |
| Base Sample ROM | 2MB consisting of 99 sounds |
| Patch Storage | 64 internal memory locations |
| Expansion | 2MB of extra sounds can be added by using up to 4 Roland SN-U110 PCM cards |
| Outputs |
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| Multitimbral | Yes. 6 parts splitting the polyphony with each part, i.e. no dynamic voice allocation |
| Effects | Basic digital chorus and tremolo |
| Filters | - |
| Display | 16x2-character LCD display |
| Controls | 6 front panel buttons and a volume knob for the mix/headphone output. |