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The JD-990 is an enhanced version of the JD-800 and was the top o' the line JD-synth. Its rack-mount design and impressive power and functionality within the studio paved way for the hugely successful JV-series rack modules which lead, ultimately, to the XV-series monster-modules! The JD-990 is a digital synth with 6MB of ROM sounds with "analog-like" edit parameters and features. These include lowpass filtering, ring modulation, osc. sync, frequency cross-mod, etc. The JD-990 is also compatible with JV80 and JD800 expansion boards.

The JD-990 has a large LCD display which makes editing very easy and intuitive, you can actually see the envelopes and LFO rates. There's an on-board multi-effects processor with Delay, Reverb, Phaser, Distortion, Chorus, and EQ. For the studio, the JD-990 has MIDI IN/OUT/THRU and eight outputs in four stereo pairs. The JD-990 can hold one internal expansion board and the best choice is to put the Vintage expansion in it because that gives you about 512 patches (Only 255 from JV-series!) of which 256 are specially programmed for the JD-990. It is used by Vangelis, The Prodigy, Apollo 440, ATB, and Mirwais.

35 VISITOR COMMENTS

artik

December 14, 2011 @ 7:31 am

It's used in the song "Insomnia" by Faithless.

Duncan J. White

November 10, 2011 @ 2:50 pm

Hi g-love

To access the sounds on the Vintage Board, you need to:-

1. Turn on the JD990
2. Press Utility
3. Press F4
4. Press F2
5. Press F5
6. If necessary, highlight “PCM card” using the cursor arrows
7. Use the data wheel to select the ROM board
8. Using the cursor keys, press the right arrow to access the patch number 001
9. Use the data entry knob to select your desired sound

G-Love

November 7, 2011 @ 11:29 pm

I'm having a hard time accessing the sounds from my Vintage Expansion Card. When I turn it on, it recognizes that it's expanded but I can't get to the sounds...any suggestions?

brunorc

November 7, 2011 @ 2:56 pm

Of course I meant Behringer BCR2000...

brunorc

November 7, 2011 @ 2:55 pm

@gridsleep: get the Behringer BDR2000, it has a lot of knobs & switches, and you can program them to send SysEx messages to control the JD990 as you would control JD800.

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