Roland JV-1080 Super JV
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.
- Specifications
- Polyphony - 64 Voices
- Oscillators - Digital, LAS, 8MB Samples expandable to 42
- LFO - 2 LFO's (sine, saw, square, triangle, trapezoid, sample&hold, random and chaos) w/ key or external sync. Can modulate the pitch, filter, pan, or level
- Filter - TVF (lowpass, bandpass, high pass, peak) with cutoff, resonance, key follow and velocity sensitivity
- VCA - TVA ADSR (tone level, pan, key follow)
- Memory - 640 Patches, 128 performances
- Keyboard - None
- Control - MIDI
- Date Produced - 1994 - 2001
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The sound of this Instrument is lush !
If I could only have one sound module from my whole studio I would take this one. I own two of these.
I do tweak all my sounds but this is a proven winner. BUY ONE !!