The classic Roland Sound Canvas sound module is reborn as a software synthesizer for iPhone or iPad. SOUND Canvas is a software synthesizer that emulates perfectly the highly popular GS format sound source, along with a bulit-in SMF *1 player for playing Standard MIDI Files. It is based on the Roland GS standard that has been de facto standard sound source, 'SOUND Canvas Series' of Roland Desk Top Music (DTM). It is compatible with the sound for 'GS','GM2', and 'GM'. It includes Reverb, Chorus, Delay, and 2 Band EQ, plus 64 types of insertion effects *2. In addition, it plays SMF for 'SC-88Pro' and 'SC-8820'. *3 You can enjoy the old data created by SOUND Canvas series and a variety of GS data on the market from Roland with high quality sound.
*1: SMF:Standard MIDI File with extension '.mid'. The SMF to play in the SOUND Canvas is recommended SMF format 0. *2: This utility canNOT edit the tone nor insertion effect.
Dec 24, 2015 - Roland - Sound Canvas VA Software Synthesizer. You can't expect Roland to give their IP / know-how away for that little money. This sort of. Download SOUND Canvas and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod. The classic Roland Sound Canvas sound module is reborn as a software synthesizer for. Sound Canvas is overall a very decent port of the unit it's based on, and will play most SC88pro and SC8820 midis you throw at it. Virtual Stage Camera.
*3: Subtle nuance of Tone color, Volume balance, trigger timing of note on may vary depending on the data. [ Features ] -Two types of graphical user interface: “Sound Canvas skin” for music data creation and “Player skin” for practicing with instruments or karaoke application. *Swipe left or right(up or down for iPhone) with two fingers to switch between the skins. - High quality MIDI file sounds by its 1,600 tones and 63 factory drum presets. - Convenient functions:'LOOP' mode to repeat your specifying region, 'SONG LIST PLAY' to play sequentially plural songs, and more multifunction. - MIDI interface (separately sold) connection enables to receive MIDI data from the external devices to play sounds.
- Available with a music application compatible for the Core MIDI. [Compatibility] - Requires iOS: 8.1 or later - Works on: iPhone5s, iPhone6, iPhone6 Plus, iPad Air or later, iPad mini2 or later, iPod Touch 6 Generation. Sound Canvas is overall a very decent port of the unit it’s based on, and will play most SC88pro and SC8820 midis you throw at it, and even some SC88 ones depending on the track. Cheat engine. No support for multi-port midis, but this app *is* advertised to be 16 part only. Now onto the bugs, most of them are related to background sound.
The app by default does not play in the background but does have an option for it. However, the app will not show up on the lock screen as it’s playing music, and sound playing in other apps at that time will not mute Sound Canvas like you’d expect. Looping also doesn’t work if the screen is turned off for whatever reason. Another bug is that the option to select the default map for music only seems to work on drums and none of the other instruments. So for example, if a track uses Electric Piano 2 and you select the 55 map, you’ll get the 8820 EP2 instead of the signature 55 one. There’s other minor oversights like the dials for some of the effects, such as Delay, showing values from 1 to 127 instead of the real values, which is not the case in the VSTi version of this app, Sound Canvas VA. Speaking of the dials, as of iOS 11.3, I’m no longer able to dismiss them, which is a bit annoying.