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Roland • JV-880

The JV-880 is the rack-mount version of the JV-80 keyboard and features powerful multi-timbral capabilities combined with impressive sound editing capability, all in a 1U rack space. The immediate forerunner to the immensely popular JV-1080/2080, the 880 provides the same high quality sounds for which the entire JV line has come to be respected. And like its descendants, the JV-880's sampled waveform memory can be expanded (to 14 Mbytes) using Roland's series of SR-JV80 expansion boards and SO-PCM1 cards.

Editing sounds is done via the rotary encoder that lets you select parameters and set values at the touch of a button. When editing you can audition sounds right from the front panel by pressing the preview button. There are TVF (filter), TVA (amp), micro-tuning, and multiple LFOs. An onboard effects processor with various types of chorus, reverb, and delays rounds out the package. It is used by K.O.

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fvsr

Posted 17 days ago

It loads only 64 patches from the expansion card at a time through the "Load Patch Group" funtion. As far as I know it doesn't load the percussion sets from expansion card. You must not change the expansion card very often because you may damage the JV-880's slot. The JV-2080 has much better audio resolution and low end than the JV-880, 8 slots for the expansion bords, and more editing resources. If you like the JV sounds you must go to JV-2080 or JV-5080.

synthgeek

Posted 252 days ago

The JV-880 uses the same kind of cards as the JV-1080, JV-2080 and the XP-30, XP-50, XP-60 and the XP-80. The SR-JV80 cards are discontinued but can be found at Ebay at a very reasobably price theses days. You can hear demos of some of them here:

http://www.synthmania.com
Just scroll down the home page and you'll find them menu on the left side.

Andre

Posted 400 days ago

I had one a few years ago. Solid expander with good sounds. The only no-go is 16 User performances which will keep you buying extension cards or synchronizing your dumps all the time.

Shawn

Posted 403 days ago

These do have very high quality sounds and are going pretty cheap. The only down side to them is that they can only take one expansion card at a time while the later versions (JV-1080, JV-2080) will accept four or more. The expansion cards really add a whole new dimension of versatility to these units. Instead of swapping out whole synth modules all you have to do is pop in a new card, and that is very easy to do.

JRG56

Posted 488 days ago

Demo on U-Tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZBEzCveDow&feature =related

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