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hi , i love the d110 compared to the d10
anybody know if the d10 has had any firmware upgrades to act like the d110 ?

or

if i get a d110 chip rom will it function in the d10 ??

charlie

Oh yes I know I'm kickin a dead corpse here when replying to a 6 year old thread... :D

NO you should NOT interchange roms between D10 and D110, they are quite different. D110 has no drumsequencer, but it has a lot of separate outputs that D10 doesn't have. There are other small dfferences too, but the main problem is that the checksum of the firmware is not going to match the hardware and you might get a dead unit.

Here you can download the firmware v1.06 for the Roland D-10 (it supports the SysEx editor):
http://dbwbp.com/index.php/9-misc/37-synth-eprom-dumps

There is also v1.11 firmware for the Roland D-10.

kiskadar69 wrote: ↑06:57, 17 July 2022 ... firmware v1.06 for the Roland D-10 ...

There is also v1.11 firmware for the Roland D-10.

I'm seeing v1.06 ROM chipset version all over the place, but no v 1.11.

That is weird, since v 1.11 seems to be the latest version.... since 1989.

And that is the version my D-10 have too.
Chris

"I'm seeing v1.06 ROM chipset version all over the place, but no v 1.11. That is weird, since v 1.11 seems to be the latest version"
This is possible because the picture shows that the v1.11 firmware ROMs are soldered to the motherboard and no one has taken the courage/effort to burn out the ROMs and then read the contents with an EPROM writer. Soldering them out is quite risky because either the motherboard and/or the chip can be destroyed.

kiskadar69 wrote: ↑10:54, 15 March 2023 This is possible because ... the v1.11 firmware ROMs are soldered to the motherboard ...
Soldering them out is quite risky ....
and no one has taken the courage/effort to ...

Good point.
So, on earlier D-10, the Firmware was on an eprom chip, "easily" swapable since it was mounted on a chip socket.
Then, Roland started to solder the firmware chip. A bit like if at first, they knew the firmware would possibly have to be upgraded.

Another thing my D-10 has, wich seems to be an improvement on earlier models, is that kind of heatsink over the CPU, that I have not seen (yet) on others D-10. It is visible on the picture I put.

Christian_64 wrote: ↑17:46, 5 April 2023 Another thing my D-10 has, wich seems to be an improvement on earlier models, is that kind of heatsink over the CPU, that I have not seen (yet) on others D-10. It is visible on the picture I put.

I don't think that it is a heatsink - to me it seems to be a clamp, holding the cpu in its socket. I went through the service manual but this item is not listed there...