In fact when you open up four (4) SC-VAs on a single project, the combined VST performance footprint on your computer is still relatively small. 8 drum parts by using four (4) SC-VA instances.64 parts by using four (4) SC-VA instances.128 voices/polyphonic by using two (2) SC-VA instances.Unlike the Sound Canvas for iOS which is truly limited to 16 parts on a single iOS device, the SC-VA installed on a PC/Mac will essentially do away all the limitations due to its ability to run multiple plugins simultaneously such as: So with only 16 parts (including the 2 drum parts) & limited polyphony, how does the SC-VA perform using midi files meant for the SC hardware counterpart? Would it sound the same if we attempt to play our old compositions based on 32 parts SC-88Pro or 64 parts SC-8850? The bold answer is “Yes” provided you can achieve similar results on a single or double SC-8820 as the Sound Canvas VA is 100% compatible with the SC-8820. Because I own the SC-8850 module, songs created on it using these tones would not sound too different, in fact they seemed to be compatible when played back on an SC-VA or SC-8820 especially in multitimbral mode. On the SC-8850’s end, there are 130 ‘enhanced’ tones, mostly layered with additional voices. Likewise you would get the same sound if you had chosen SC-88 Map compared to SC-55. The jazz guitar on SC-8820 Map is identical to that of SC-88Pro. on SC-8820/SC-88Pro/SC-88/SC-55 Maps? But effectively you only get two different jazz guitar sounds residing on Program Change 027 originally from the SC-88Pro & SC-55.
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For example, notice there are four different tones of the same patch name called Jazz Gt. You can cross out the duplicates by referring to the tone list contained in the appendix section of the Owner’s Manual. Likewise SC-88Pro & SC-8850 actually have less than 1,117 & 1,640 tones respectively. Below is a table of specs comparison between the Sound Canvas family lines:Įven though the SC-VA contains the same number of tones as the SC-8820, you’ll notice Roland has rounded down its spec number to 1,600 which is only an approximation. A more detail counting of tones on the SC-VA/SC-8820/Sound Canvas for iOS revealed there are 1,483 after discarding all of the duplicates.