* then the 3rd release that started this thread 'Virtual Sound Canvas 3' - supports virtual SC-55, SC-88 and SC-88Pro the second release was Virtual version of SC-88: I guess it was supporting SC-55 mode as well OK, I dig up Release/Update History mainly from the old Edirol brand website of Roland, it's interesting so to sum it up here: the separate sound banks for SC-55, SC-88 and SC-88Pro. Anyway, let me put few screenshots (most of them from WinXP and one from Win98SE) including one that shows the files, i.e. I guess my hope is some day someone will do that with Roland Virtual Sound Canvas 3.x and based on real hardware dumps will recreate perfect software copy of the real hardware (because current sound banks are deliberately lower quality than the one inside the real hardware). After all it's amazing how (I believe some Russian guys) reverse-engineered S-YXG50 sound banks format and based on that made Soft-Synth of Yamaha TyRUS using the same S-YXG50 software synth engine just with replacing the sound banks. So, it's very light-weight compared to the new 'Sound Canvas VA', but most interesting (at least to me) is that like Yamaha S-YXG50 the sound banks are separate files - that gives potentially an advantage like Yamaha the format to be reverse-engineered and they be replaced with dumps from the real hardware. It seems there is VST version included in what is called VSC-MP (Virtual Sound Canvas Multi-pack). it uses (virtual) driver, same like Yamaha S-YXG50 Soft-Synth, which makes it work with everything as it is system-wide. I cannot find any discussion about it - here or elsewhere and that's why I am posting this topic.Īctually, I am surprised why is that, because I've just tried it and it works both in Win9x and WinXP.

They did release 'Edirol (Roland) Virtual Sound Canvas 3.x' :

Heads Up: Roland Sound Canvas VA VSTi Plugin! Something like 15 years before Roland released 'Sound Canvas VA':

Edirol virtual sound canvas vst 4