System-8 Roland Librarian Patch Samples

Introduction


    All of these patches come available for free for the Roland System-8 via the Roland Librarian software. These are just sound clip examples.  These clips are for demonstration use only, and not for resale or reuse, commercial or otherwise. I am doing this to demonstrate the suitability of the Roland System-8, mainly for church environments.

    As well, I will include sound clips of other System-8 Plugins such as the Jupiter-8, Juno-106, JX-3P, Jupiter-4, and Juno-60

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    I chose notes to play based on the type of patch.  I recorded them all in to my Boss BR-80 as one file, then parsed them out using Audacity.

    The second half of this article will include sound clips of some patches I have converted into pads.

    Roland seems to use following annotation: "BANK-PRESET-NAME".

    This article is currently a DRAFT. I have recorded all the examples of Roland Librarian presets, but the adapted patches below are still being recorded.

    Roland seems to use a naming convention as follows:

System-8

Factory 1

SY System-8 Saws
SQ Star Spiral
PL Synth Edge
SY EDM Chord
PD Rich Strings
LD OSC Sync Ld
BS Pedal Bass
FX SBF Effect
SY Smoke Lounge
SQ TranceArpgChd
KY Phase EP
BR Brass Fanfare
PD Pad Plucker
LD 5th Sweeper
BS Licked
SY T-Buzz 1
PD Overtone Str
SQ NeverLand
KY VT Key
BR Bright Brass
PD Sizzle Pad
LD Whistling Ld
BS Saw Bass
FX Space
SY Soul Punch
SQ Mod Arpg
SY 5th Ambipluck
BR New Romantic
PD Blow Pad
LD Saw Lead
BS OF Bass
BS Wobble Love
SY Modern Trance
SQ Clockworks
PD Condenser
SY Coned
PD Big Pad
LD PWM Lead
SQ Bass Burn
DR Flit Zap
SY Bell Synth
SQ FM Arpg
KY OD Organ
BR Classic Brass
PD Wispy Pad
LD Sync Solo
BS Velo Reso Bs
FX Percussive
SY Something Big
SQ Ethereal Arpg
BL Dual FM Bells
BR Brass Tacks
PD Super Saws
LD Glider
BS Bass Melody
SY T-Buzz 2
VC For Vocoder
SQ Arper Chord
SY Spit Hits
SY T-Buzz 3
PD SquareStrings
LD S-Andes
BS Lots of Saws
FX Tek Toms

Factory 2

KY FM Chorus EP
BR Runner Brass
LD Talkin' Box
SQ Bassline 2018
PD Slow-mo Pad
BL Hang Dream
LD Wizard Lead
FX Chaotic SBF
KY Legend FM EP
KY Piano Age
KY Piano Glow
KY Ethereal EP
KY Steel Pan
KY Porcelain
KY Talkin' Clavi
KY FM Drawbars
SY Shooter
SY Grimer
SY 90s Tech Stab
SY Hybrid Sweep
SY New Jupiter
SY Dreaming
SY Formant u-i-a
SY Klanger
PD After Life
PD Floating Sea
PD Juno Warmer
PD Fat 80 Pad
PD Crumblin' Pad
PD Pumpin' Pad
PD Metallic SBF
PD Metallic Pad
BS Jazz FM
BS Sub FM Bass
BS Top Attack Bs
BS Intro Bass
BS Organ Bs 2018
BS Formant Steps
BS Robot Wobble
BS FM LFO Wobble
LD Funky Analog
LD Harmonic Res
LD Solo Sync FM
LD Digi Growl
LD Harmonic Steps
LD Distress
LD Tropical Flute
PL Syn-Harp
PL Future Trance
PL FM Pluck
PL Tech Pluck
BL Bell Synth
BL FM Bell 1
BL FM Bell 2
SQ Hybrid Arpg
SQ Distant World
SQ Pluck Seq
SQ FingerArpg 1
SQ FingerArpg 2
SQ SBF Sequence
FX FM Drone Boy
FX Scaring Night
FX Sweeping SBF
FX Oj Oie

ACB Perc 1

FX Velo Zap
FX Flanging Perc
FX Keep-Pressing
FX Reso Beam
DR Noise Clap
FX Down Down
FX Space Wars
FX SBF Hall
SQ Machine
FX FM Hit!
FX Up Down
FX EG Beam
FX Robo Talk 1
FX Robo Talk 2
FX Rev Pitch Nois
FX Earth

ACB Perc 2

DR White Snare
DR Snare Clap
DR Flit-Rim
DR Clap with Rev
DR 80s Kicky Sine
DR RTD Kick
DR 606 Simple Tom
FX KANAAMI
DR Nz Shaker
DR SBF Cym
DR S8 Snare 1
DR S8 Snare 2
DR FM Cym
DR SYNTH Drum
FX INDST Hamm
FX BURN

Bjorn Akesson Vol. 1

LD Trance Hero
PL Dreamer
LD White Wall
LD SnakeZ
BS Simpl Bass
LD Squarik
LD Arpy
BS Ripple
PD Breeze Pad
LD Saw Noise
BS Psy Bass Pluck
LD Big Box
LD Tech Leader
LD Detuna
BS Crunshii
SY Orientik

Bjorn Akesson Vol. 2

BS Prog Room
SY 3 Love 3
LD Space Mission
SY Arp Mechanic
PD Out There
PL Chord Feels
SY Library
FX Bit Rise
BS Synth Bass
LD Arp Lifting
SY Metal Drops
LD Club Saw
SY Jump!
SY Tech Stab
LD Trance Keys
BS Rock Trance

Cristian Varela Vol. 1

LD CV Lead 1
LD CV-Lead 2
LD CV-Lead 3
PD CV-Pad 1
PD CV-Pad 2
PD CV-Pad 3
PD CV-Atmos 1
PD CV-Atmos 2
PD CV-Atmos 3
BS CV-Bass 1
BS CV-Bass 2
BS CV-Bass 3
BS CV-Bass 4
FX CV-Effect 1
FX CV-Effect 2
FX CV-Effect 3

Cristian Varela Vol. 2

LD CV-Lead 4
LD CV-Lead 5
LD CV-Lead 6
LD CV-Lead 7
PD CV-Pad 4
PD CV-Pad 5
PD CV-Pad 6
PD CV-Atmos 4
PD CV-Atmos 5
PD CV-Atmos 6
BS CV-Bass 5
BS CV-Bass 6
BS CV-Bass 7
FX CV-Effect 4
FX CV-Effect 5
SQ CV-Sequence

Driven

Grime bass
Metal bass
Industry bass
Phlanged Bass
Pulsebass
Xaosbass
Gritbass
Mondobass
Smackbass
Sharpbass
Systembass
Knockbass
Lowtone
Animabass
Thickness
Metalbasik
Futuresweep
Voxmove
Hard Kathedral
Fizzfaze
E-motion
Notable
Disintegrated
Big Evolutor
Transitions
Wilder Than Thou
Chromium
The Stack
Metamorf
Crushed Ice
Time Crystals
TwentyFortyNine
Total Chaos
Rasterized
Dirty Kat
Mallet Byter
Drivetime
Powerorgan
Bigalog
Bakelyte
Broken Bot
Autovox
RAWR
Mercury Attack
Achtung Buzz
Noizebyte
Gamer Synth
Thickest 4th
Harmonicoid
Triggered
Kluster Pluck
Syncbolt
Sideband Pop
Hard Glass
Shortmullet
Scratchy Can
Microchip
Interval Spike
Grinder
Hammered
Majorette
New Detroit
Ur Nu Gruy
Knock Circle

Dystopic ST

PD ApocalypsePad
LD Blips Lead
FX CPU Fail?
FX CinematicDrone
BS Dystopian Bass
PD Eerie String
LD FM Lead
SQ Filmic Acid
SQ Horror Arpg
BS Jagged Bass
BL Sorcery Bells
PD SoundtrackPad
BS Syncish Bass
SQ TechRush Arpg
SY Triple Stack
SQ Unsteady Arpg

Electronic

LD Wow Lead
LD Mean As Duck
LD Mellow Cello
LD Talk Dirty
LD Ya Lead
LD Bit Speak
LD Sympony
LD Tha Killah
LD Bizzare Pluck
LD Organically
LD Spiked
LD The Future...
LD Nagging Feel
LD The Law
LD Gesundheit
LD Fonk 5th
LD Laser Horns
LD Spalunking
LD FM Bell
LD Curiously
LD Druples
LD Brute Force
LD Regal 5ths
BS Funk Bass
BS SQR Bass
BS Wonky Bass
BS Heavy Tone
BS Gutteral
BS Sci-Bass
BS Alien Bass
BS Soft Bass
BS Awkward Bass
BS Q Bass
BS Wide Load
BS Madness
PD Movie Pad
PD Click Pad
PD Adventure Pad
PD Square Moment
PD Lonely Pad
PD Super Saw Pad
PD Galaxy Pad
PD Soft Pad
PD Super Phaser
FX Wha?
SQ Formant Mover
SQ Calculations
SQ Artic Tundra
SQ Liquid Move
SQ Secret Bells
SQ McFlangerino
SQ 303ish
SQ Dazed
SQ In Mind
SY Mad Poly
FX Dive Bomb
FX Bubble Drop
FX Bad Com
FX Future Car
FX Cone Destroy
FX Bass Drop
FX Bass Swell
FX Phase Run
FX Bubble Pop

FM-AB

BS FM 8Bass01
BS FM Flit
BS FM MonstBass
BS FM VeloBass
BS FM HumanBass
BS FM WobbleBass
BS FM MetalBass
BS FM SBF Bass
BS FM Piano Bass
BS FM DownBass
BS FM RateBass
BS FM MovingBass
BS FM Ninja Bass
BS FM BraBass
BS WIDE Bass
BS FM Line Bass

Frontiers

Dream Time Arpg
Nautilus
Anomaly Arpg
Gegemon
HOME
Jupiter Poly
Drive Time Synth
Carpenter
French Touch
S-8 Frontiers
Reso Lead
Muffin
Octane
O-Run Bass
Synth Hero
Dee Fifty
Stand by
Ultra
FM Strings
Shodan
Wings of Fury
A OK
Polyres
Dreamy
Kitsune
Midnight
Vintage Poly
Serene
Shamara
Swerve
Terminate
Innocense
The Brass Pad
Jupiter Pad
Super Brass
Plucky Synth
Simple Pluck
The SQR Pad
Unicorn Sighting
Super Jupiter
Velo JP-6
Great Bass
Big Bass
Hybrid Bass
Soft Square
O-run Arpg
Mean Mono
Agro Arpg
The Darker Pad
Juno-8000
Dream EP
VeloDisto
The 106 Plus
Fat Velo Bass
106 Plus 1
Sync Base
Bright Pad
Hammer Synth
Rubbery Synth
Vocal Machine
Pad Vocal
Retro EP
Future FM Klay
Vocal Machine 2

Inspired

LD Wired
LD They Say
SY Tidal Jam
KY El Plastico
PD Glass Girl
LD SD Floater
BS FM Booty
LD Op2 Timer
FX Mr SciFi
SQ Sunrise
LD Digi-Machete
BR Dee Ex Brass
SY Squeeze Me
LD Vas
BS Lefty Bs
FX Forbidden

Lead & Pad

PD SpacePad
PL KOTO
PL KOTO Metal
LD NoiseLead
SY Knife Chen
PD EXP Pad
SQ Attack Seq
FX EXP STR
LD Kill Lead
SY Chord Riff
LD G Lead
LD ROT Lead
LD THE Lead
LD SawSaw Lead
LD Ruins Lead
LD Cold Lead

Mello

BL DiggiBell
AR Fuzzy Arpg
STR Chamber Saws
KY Gnarly Keys
BS FM Punch It
PD FM Pad
KY EP FM
BS Dark Wright
LD Funky Sync
BS Sub Atomic Bs
PD LoFi Dreams
SY Soft Obi
PD Softly Hum
BS Chorus Bass
PD Tune In Pad
LD Apollo Lead
SY LoFi Smooth
AR Degraded 16th
KY Plastic Piano
BS Mixreddy BS
BL Ballad Bell
BS Old Skool
LD Evolves
AR 70s Arpg
SY Trig Me
BR RnBrass
KY MalletPiano
KY Tremelolo Key
BS Low Grinder
AR Tinkle Arpg
LD The Flute
PD Poly Oh Poly
BS B-Bass
SY Magic Reso
KY Broken Keys
LD Melancholead
FX Downlifter
SY Ana Belle
BA Jazzy Bass
PL SinePunch
BS Model Bass
AR Waterfall
BL EfEm Bell
PD Organic Pad
LD Sad Solo
BA Bass Driver
AR FlowingMilts
LD Ethnic Lead
AR Robot
BL Reso Bell
PL FM Pluck
BS Rolling Bass
LD 70s Style
LD Galaxy Stab
BS Mellow Bass
LD Moody Lead
KY TremoBell
AR Logical Arpg
KY Tricky Tink
PD Drama Q
BS Classic Rbass
BL Bell of Soul
PD AutoChain Pad
BS Heavy 809

Modern System

BS Chainsaw
BS Eight0
BS Hollow
BS Deep FM
BS Plastic
PD Future Baz
PD Gamma Ray
PD Moving Lush
PD Bagpipe Drift
PD The Special
SY Candy 5th
SY Odd Attack
SY Glass Chord
SY Fuller 5th
SY Cutoff Tonic
KY Lullaby
KY British
KY Low & Slow
KY Bend Tines
LD Filthy Brass
LD Phunky
LD Space Trumpet
LD Unstable
PL Robots
PL Tropic
PL Soft Pluck
SQ Particles
SQ Waiting
SQ Tempo Chords
SQ Techno Drive
FX Going Up
FX Going Down
SY Sunday
BS Dirty 5th
SY Far East
PL Shorty




Mystical

Chimney Synth
Aged Synth
Distant Pad
Fmalog
Plucky Synth
Simple Pluck
The SQR Pad
Something Big
Side of the Band
Emotion Analog
Great Bass
A Stack
Magic Bells
Hammer Pluck
Plucky Bell
Pretty Digital
FM and Super Saw
New FM Bell
FM and Juno
Magic
Mystery
Legend
Sideband Bells
Dark Bell
Scatter Bell
Sample Mallet
Dream away
Shooting Star
Moving Ep
Classic FM Bass
Dynamic FM
Formant FM

Skylark

BL LoFi Bell
BA Skybass
BL Classy Bell
GT Mute Pluck
KY Soft EP
BL Tube Bell
BL Water Bell
PD Soaring 106
PD SmoothPad
AR Type1 Arpg
BS Driven 2 Bass
BS WideBass
PD Pad Plucker
SY Pluck Bell
BS SolidBass
BS Bass Driver
PD Jupiter Pad
SY Shimmery Pad
SY Res Play
AR Snappy Arpg
BS Chorus Bass
BS 8 Oh 8
FX Uplifter
BL NightlyBell
LD Brassy Lead
BR OldBrass
PL Cosy Pluck
BR Pop Brass
BR Van Brass
LD Lil Smooth
BS Stab Bass
BS Nice Bass
BS DarkBass
AR Punchy Arpg
SY BigSynk
AR Lil Arpg
PD JP Cream
LD SoaringLead
Ar Sunrise Arpg
FX Boom!
BL AnaBelle
FX Downlifter
SY Juicy Saws
PL Soft Plucks
SY Huuver
SY Stabby Pad
BS BoomBass
BS Hard 808
AR Velociarpg
BS Why Bass
BS Hard Bass
BS D-Bass
LD BigSuperSaw
BS Funky Bass
BS Pulse Bass
LD Wormy
BS WaveS Bass
BS ReBass
BS Old Bwoar
BS One More Time
PD Movie Pad
BL Synthbelle
BS Tight Bass
BS Fat SQ Bass

Synthwave

Breath Bass
Danger FM
Smackbass
Hybrid Bass
PPBASS
HARMONICS
NOIZ#! Bass
SAMPLE BASS
VString Saws
The Wave String
Great Bass
String Section
Twinklepad
PHAZED Pad
LAYER SYN
JX80s
Hollowtack
Powerfifth
Bigsquare
Syncer
TRI ME
DRUNK Lead
JUST LEAD
BIG N ASIA
Computorx
Arpique
PGeeWiliz
Pizzidelay
Laser Bell
SEQUENCE ME
METRO
MAGIC Dust
Electric Bass 1
Lately Bass
Modebass
X-Bass
NetBass
VeloBass
Sub FM
Body Bass
Muted Brass
FM Flute
FMViolin
Reedvoice
FMSAW
PAD Z0re
Magic FM
Sci-Fi Pad
Wavemorph
VSpecial
TriFM
Tribu
FMRadio
Mode Piano
FM Cut Lead
LEAD ME
Takko Bells
THAT Elec Piano
Jazz Gu1tar
FMClav
Island Mallet
Live Bells
Master
Scary

Synwave 1

PD Polaris
PD Genesis
KY Sweet Piano
KY FM Plucker
BS FM-Bass&Pluck
KY Silky Pluck
KY E-Grand
SQ Ice or Candy
KY Random Sparks
SY Classic Sync
BS Allure
FX Synchronizer
PD Glass Clouds
LD Distorted R@M
PD 344 Options
BR Bright Brass2

Synwave 2

LD 7 More Miles
BS FM Does Bass
KY Back2Square 1
KY Bring Some FM
LD Punk Plastic
SY Harm Done
PD Alien Glass
BS Low & Behold
LD Outer Edge
LD Changes
BS Fat & Juicy
KY Piano Fromage
BS FortM Destiny
PD DestinationDM
FX They're Here
SQ Stardust Exo

Transient 1

LD Butterfly
LD TranceGuitar
LD SupaNova
LD Unison Raid
LD Logica
LD Supersaw
LD Supersquare
LD Distorted Saw
BS Trance 7th
BS Vowel Square
BS Phazer
BS Trance Saw
BS Release Me
BS Trance FM
BS Agressive
BS Analog Sub

Transient 2

SQ Trancy Arpg
SQ Dreamy Arpg
SQ chord Me Arpg
SQ Acid Arpg
SQ SpaceNovaArpg
SQ Blackhole Arpg
SQ Orbital Arpg
SQ Blurry Arpg
PD Trance Pad
PD Big Air
PD Dark Fm
PD Spacey Squiare
PD Sawer
PD Dimensions
PD Unison Slide
PD Mystic

Transient 3

KY Fm Pluck
KY Analog Plug
KY Synthetical
KY Lunar Pluck
KY Organic Pluck
KY System Nova
KY TriSaw Pluck
KY Nova Trance
FM Monster
FM Pitch Me
FM LFO-Filter
FM Tech-Trance
FM Outback
FM Dark Noiz
FM Smooth Zound
FM Acidliner

Transient 4

SQ Stars
SQ Sekai
SQ Analog Trance
SQ Classic Trance
SQ Ringing Bell
SQ Deep Trance
SQ WhereWeBelong
SQ Backwards
KY Lullaby
KY Sys8 Trance 1
KY Sys8 Trance 2
KY Overdrive
KY Digital Piano
KY Ambient Piano
KY Trance Piano
KY Novaline

Vectors

KY FM Grain SEQ
SY Jump Chords
BS Splinter
LD Trashy
PD FM = Strings
KY Buutiful SEQ
SY Wooden Box
SY FM EffectSEQ
BS EDGE SEQ
SY FM Marbles
KY Glass EP
PD Wire Pad
BS New Jerry
SQ DOS Box
SQ Bits n Bots
PD Motherboard