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.

tweekaholic

January 8, 2010 @ 5:41 pm

I love these old boxes. I used to program them in a music production class that I took back in 1999. These things are rock solid and work excellently with no problems. I loved picking though the soundset and hearing how great it sounded. If you see one of these pick it up!!

shaft9000

November 12, 2009 @ 4:20 pm

they're really good, but for sound quality the JD-990 eats it alive.
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.

JOE

September 22, 2009 @ 7:23 pm

also had this one for many a year. great all rounder.replaced it with a roland d50. the d50 is so much more organic sounding.i dont think any of the xv or jv units will stand the test of time like the d50 has.especially when yo put the voice crystal 3 keith emmerson card into the d50. if roland could make a xv with the same classy d50 sound engine you would have a sure winner.

Randy

March 11, 2009 @ 8:17 pm

The Roland JV series synths are tremendous! I own a JV-1010, JV-1080 and of course, this unit, the JV-2080. I love them all! The pianos are great, the strings and organs are awesome. I have all of my Roland synths maxxed out with expansion cards with the 2080 housing the "Keyboards of the 60's & 70's" card and the "Vintage Synth" card as well as 6 others. Most cards have over 250 patches each! The expansion cards are the SR-JV80 series which you can check out on the Roland site. There are about 20 expansion cards and extremely easy to install! There is no lack of luscious sounds! The editing and user banks are easy to use and once you get the MSB and LSB calls figured out from your controller, you can call up any one of a couple of thousand patches in a fully expanded 2080. These units can be had on eBay around $300-$350 - WELL WORTH IT!

Ronnie

February 21, 2009 @ 3:41 pm

Couldn't agree than all of you, the XP/JV series still continues to please even after all this time of newer boards and modules. I own an XP60, JV2080 and the XV5080. I also own the Fantom X6, but I still tend to the tried and true XP and JV module more!

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