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Roland S-1: MIDI CC, NRPN and OSC map

The Roland S-1 as named OSC addresses — 54 CC — ready to use from Claude (MCP), SuperCollider, Sonic Pi, TouchDesigner or any OSC app via osc-bridge.

Device Roland S-1
Vendor Roland
OSC prefix /s_1
Source 📦 Derived from MIDI Guide (community CC/NRPN data)
Firmware unknown
Revision per pencilresearch canonical CSV
Upstream pencilresearch
Data licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 — MIDI Guide (https://midi.guide) by Pencil Research and contributors
Driver file devices/roland/s_1.pencilresearch.fw-unknown.json

Not tested on the device yet

This driver comes from documentation or community data and has not been checked on real hardware. If you own one, a quick test and a pull request promoting it helps everyone — see CONTRIBUTING.

Other variants of this device: s_1.

How do you control it?

Find the MIDI ports, then start the bridge with this driver:

osc-bridge detect        # prints the ready-to-run line for what is plugged in
osc-bridge run --device devices/roland/s_1.pencilresearch.fw-unknown.json --out-port <N> --in-port <M>

Then send OSC to 127.0.0.1:7777, for example:

osc-bridge osc-send /s_1/controls/mod_wheel 63

From Claude or any MCP client, the osc-bridge mcp server exposes this driver as s_1: ask “what can the Roland S-1 do?” and it reads this map with list_routes. See the MCP guide.

MIDI CC and NRPN parameters (54)

OSC address CC NRPN (MSB/LSB) Range Nature Section
/s_1/controls/mod_wheel 1 0–127 continuous Controls
/s_1/lfo/rate 3 0–127 continuous LFO
/s_1/voice/portamento_time 5 0–127 continuous Voice
/s_1/voice/pan 10 0–127 continuous Voice
/s_1/controls/expression_pedal 11 0–127 continuous Controls
/s_1/lfo/waveform 12 0–127 continuous LFO
/s_1/oscillators/oscillator_lfo_pitch 13 0–127 continuous Oscillators
/s_1/oscillators/oscillator_range 14 0–127 continuous Oscillators
/s_1/oscillators/oscillator_square_pulse_width 15 0–127 continuous Oscillators
/s_1/oscillators/oscillator_pwm_source 16 0–127 continuous Oscillators
/s_1/lfo/modulation_depth 17 0–127 continuous LFO
/s_1/oscillators/oscillator_pitch_bend_sensitivity 18 0–127 continuous Oscillators
/s_1/oscillators/oscillator_square_level 19 0–127 continuous Oscillators
/s_1/oscillators/oscillator_saw_level 20 0–127 continuous Oscillators
/s_1/oscillators/oscillator_sub_level 21 0–127 continuous Oscillators
/s_1/oscillators/oscillator_sub_octave_type 22 0–127 continuous Oscillators
/s_1/oscillators/oscillator_noise_level 23 0–127 continuous Oscillators
/s_1/filter/envelope_depth 24 0–127 continuous Filter
/s_1/filter/lfo_depth 25 0–127 continuous Filter
/s_1/filter/keyboad_follow 26 0–127 continuous Filter
/s_1/filter/bend_sensitivity 27 0–127 continuous Filter
/s_1/envelope/amp_envelope_mode_sw 28 0–127 continuous Envelope
/s_1/envelope/trigger_mode 29 0–127 continuous Envelope
/s_1/envelope/sustain 30 0–127 continuous Envelope
/s_1/voice/portamento_mode 31 0–127 continuous Voice
/s_1/controls/damper_pedal 64 0–127 continuous Controls
/s_1/voice/portamento 65 0–127 continuous Voice
/s_1/filter/resonance 71 0–127 continuous Filter
/s_1/envelope/release 72 0–127 continuous Envelope
/s_1/envelope/attack 73 0–127 continuous Envelope
/s_1/filter/frequency 74 0–127 continuous Filter
/s_1/envelope/decay 75 0–127 continuous Envelope
/s_1/oscillators/oscillator_range_fine_tune 76 0–127 continuous Oscillators
/s_1/voice/keyboard_transpose 77 0–127 continuous Voice
/s_1/oscillators/noise_mode 78 0–127 continuous Oscillators
/s_1/lfo/mode 79 0–127 continuous LFO
/s_1/voice/polyphony_mode 80 0–127 continuous Voice
/s_1/voice/chord_mode_voice_2_on_off 81 0–127 continuous Voice
/s_1/voice/chord_mode_voice_3_on_off 82 0–127 continuous Voice
/s_1/voice/chord_mode_voice_4_on_off 83 0–127 continuous Voice
/s_1/voice/chord_mode_voice_2_key_shift 85 0–127 continuous Voice
/s_1/voice/chord_mode_voice_3_key_shift 86 0–127 continuous Voice
/s_1/voice/chord_mode_voice_4_key_shift 87 0–127 continuous Voice
/s_1/efx/reverb_time 89 0–127 continuous EFX
/s_1/efx/delay_time 90 0–127 continuous EFX
/s_1/efx/reverb_level 91 0–127 continuous EFX
/s_1/efx/delay_level 92 0–127 continuous EFX
/s_1/voice/chorus_type 93 0–127 continuous Voice
/s_1/osc_draw_chop/oscillator_draw_multiply 102 0–127 continuous Osc Draw/Chop
/s_1/osc_draw_chop/oscillator_chop_overtone 103 0–127 continuous Osc Draw/Chop
/s_1/osc_draw_chop/oscillator_chop_comb 104 0–127 continuous Osc Draw/Chop
/s_1/lfo/key_trigger 105 0–127 continuous LFO
/s_1/lfo/sync_mode 106 0–127 continuous LFO
/s_1/osc_draw_chop/oscillator_draw_step_slope 107 0–127 continuous Osc Draw/Chop

Performance MIDI

Notes, pitch bend and any CC are also available: /s_1/note/on <note> <velocity>, /s_1/cc/<number> <value>, /s_1/pitchbend <0-16383>, /s_1/program_change <n>.

Limitations

CC/NRPN only. SysEx (preset management, display control, bulk dump/load, vendor-proprietary opcodes) is NOT covered by pencilresearch. To extend this device with SysEx, sniff the vendor editor, add `sysex.header/footer` + `commands` blocks, and use `update_device.md` PR template.