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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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Paul Urbannavage

Posted 8 days ago

I just found one and paid $210 for it.

Jupiter

Posted 144 days ago

For the cheap price the JV modules go for, get a JV2080 with as many expansions. It's a breeze to work with once you get the basics.

Scott Rodriguez

Posted 208 days ago

Does the awesome (IMHO, best patch on the unit) Greek Power patch overdrive the output section on anyone else's unit? I get serious, not good distortion probably from the low end. Hard to believe Roland would program in a patch that would crash the output if turned up past 3 (this one goes to 11).

thom

Posted 215 days ago

I sort of inherited of this synth.

I use SoundDiver... and wow... how can I say... If any of Roland's units can summerize the ''Roland sound'', it's this one.

The Hit Man

Posted 221 days ago

Do a review on the JV-1000 it's insane and puts most synths to shame.

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