Sujet Commentaires sur le test : Test du JD-08 de Roland

The tool can load both SYX files (raw SysEx dumps) and MID / SMF files (Standard MIDI Files) and convert from JD-800 patch format to JD-990 and vice versa. It can also convert special setups but other multi mode settings cannot be converted (there isn't much to convert that the two synths have in common...).

After the basic functionality was done, I wondered what would be required to support the JD-800 VST plugin or the JD-08 as well - turns out, quite a lot! Nevertheless, I managed to add support for them as well, so you can convert original JD-800 patches to the plugin's format (as long as they don't use ROM card waveforms), and also convert plugin banks to use with the original JD-800 (as long as they don't use extended features such as unison or tempo-synced LFOs). As the plugin appears to be based on Roland's ZenCore engine, don't expect conversions that sound 100% identical (there are well-known differences). Some parameters seem to have much lower internal precision than on a real JD-800. On the upside, the converted files also work with the Zenology plugin. But as the conversion process is quite complex, it's always possible there is a bug, so please report those if you find any.