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Roland • JV-1080

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.

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Bill

Posted 31 days ago

William Taylor, to remove the expansion cards you first have to roatae these little plastic knobs at corners. If ou look at top of card you should see a screw symbol. Once they are turn properly just lift up. Those little knobs due a preety good job of holding in those cards.
(Hard to find tidbit about the JV lineup)
The main reason why I like the JV line are those cards which can add sounds you would have previously had to sample. EMUs are easier to put in but don't have the collection of clasic sounds like the ones on my vinatge sythn.

William Taylor

Posted 32 days ago

How do you remove the sound cards from the expansion slots. When I take off the top of the unit I can see them but they will not budge. I can't find the screws that will release them.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Bill

Digi Fan

Posted 118 days ago

The JV-1080 has become one my favs. Can be programmed to provide yu with loads of classic quality dark sound's. Tasty LFO's, sharp filter's and the dedicated delay do the trick. Rich sound but not the too big 24 bit sound like me xp-30. Highly recomended if yu love programming.

Philippe

Posted 168 days ago

this may be one of those "forgotten" synths. it is the main workhorse in so many studios all over the world but it never got the same attention like for example the MKS series. i like those exceptionally good factory presets!

tech charles

Posted 185 days ago

Is there a small army of people using M-Audio Oxygen controllers with JV-1080s?

Ok, the Oxygen is a breeze to program so the first thing I did was set knobs for bank select MSB and LSB and it's just kind of grown from there until I've got 4 presets of the oxygen dedicated to editing the internals, one preset that does patch /msb/lsb selection on the current and volume control across channels 1-8 and 10 and *all notes off* sent by the buttons underneath the sliders in case anything jams for live use.

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