The Roland JV-1080 was one of the hottest and most popular digital synthesizers ever to come from Roland. Incredible sound quality capable of emulating any instrument imaginable plus totally fat analog synth type sounds and loads of percussion! It has 64 voices of polyphony and 16 part multitimbral, it's no wonder this is part of almost every Film Score Composers set-up as well as many more artists and hobbyists!

It has 8MB of sounds and it also offers a lot of expandability with 4 expansion slots and 2 data card memory slots. You can get up to 42MB of sounds by adding any of the popular JV-80 expansion cards suited for Techno, World Instruments, Orchestral or Synthesizers. The 1080 has a large LCD screen, lots of effects and filters for creative flexibility, motion control and extensive MIDI implementation. Editing is intense but enhanced and simplified by external editors like MOTU's Unisyn. It is used by Faithless, Hardfloor, Vangelis, Scanner, Roni Size, LTJ Bukem and Apollo 440.

jeremy chinour

April 21, 2013 @ 1:49 pm

This synth was used by Etnica / Pleiadians.

NICO FARINA

April 17, 2013 @ 8:54 pm

How to change attack/release/decay/sustain in my roland?
I tested with the filters in my MC-909, MC-808 & SH-201 with cubase 5 but do not work, just change the modulation the rest nothing.
Please user this beauty some explaining!
Thank you very much.

Kasia

March 13, 2013 @ 8:15 pm

The keyboardist for Melody's Entasis has EIGHT of these things, the sound is as you can imagine: AMAZING.

Deckard Replicant

March 13, 2013 @ 8:02 pm

I love this synth. So easy to program and such powerful capabilities. I use it daily. Not dificult at all to program by my opinion, easy layout. Phat phat phat sound.

Digi Fan

March 1, 2013 @ 2:10 pm

I absolutly agree that the JV-1080 is difficult to program when you first get into it, there's a usefull web page called-->Programming JV Synths. Well worth the read. When figured out the JV-1080's a top Rom player. I own 2 fully loaded and an XV-3080.

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