Roland • JV-2080

The JV-2080 is everything you could expect from a modern sound module, but more! A massive 64 voice multitimbral performance module that strives to offer the best all-around features for creating new and vintage sounds for any musical style. Excellent acoustic sounds of all instruments both common and ethnic. A massive amount of techno sounds complete with pulses, blips, sweeps, and the ever popular LFO, VCF and VCA type controls for patch editing and real-time editing. The 2080 is extremely expandable with room for 8 sound cartridges from the JV-80 series, as well as a data card slot. The 2080 has 5 excellent effects processors too, including the new EFX processors. Verb, delay, panning effects, chorus, flange, etc... It is used by many artists from all styles including Todd Terry, Max Graham, Richard Barbieri, Mike Oldfield, LTJ Bukem, ATB, and Hardfloor.
I preffer midi controllers though.
I had a 2080 for 9 years and got lots of good stuff from it, but it sounds somewhat dull in comparison.
Why?
Because it's limited to 32kHz audio bandwidth; the 990 is a full 44.1 kHz. The filter resonance is ugly/bad on this one, but quite rich on the JD - night and day difference. The JD "sizzles" very much like a real analog, the JV not so well.
The sounds are just fine, though. Even stunning sometimes!
Still the JV-2080 is one of the better modules ever made.