The JV-90 is an excellent mid-nineties keyboard controller and MIDI synthesizer. It featured a full 76-note semi-weighted keyboard. There are also several sliders above the keyboard with assignable parameters for fast hands-on editing. The sounds of the JV-90 (and JV-80) were the basis for the JV-1080, JV-2080 and XP-80 synths that came later. You'll find basses, synth sounds, pads, leads, strings, percussion, drumkits and more. One additional ROM slot allows you to add an 8MB SR-JV80 expansion board for more great sounds.

Unfortunately, the JV-90 is not a workstation like the XP-80. With only 28 (or 56) voice polyphony and no built-in sequencer, you aren't likely to make this your ONLY synth. But its keyboard feels great and many of its sounds are still useable, making the JV-90 a nice master MIDI keyboard. The JV-80 is basically the same thing as the JV-90 except it has a typical 61-note keyboard and less memory.

Luigi Carelo

July 31, 2010 @ 1:06 pm

I bought a JV-90 in 1995 about recently sent to rearrange all the buttons, is a wonderful instrument, despite the limited polyphony can be much to gain by using it in a band, as I do now is my master keyboard in my band as we play tracks from the 80s and 90s meet in the palette of sounds almost everything I need and add a JV-1080 module and other keyboards. I wonder if it is possible to transfer some sounds that I edited from the JV-90 to the JV-1080 .. I may try it did not work, now that I think I have disabled some functions of the MIDI in 1080, to avoid problems in concerts. But normally you have to be true?
Greetings from El Salvador.

phanthon7

July 22, 2010 @ 10:28 pm

HOW I CAN DO FOR TRANSFER SONGS FROM A ROLAND X8 FANTOM TO MY JV 90 PLEASE IF SOME ONA CAN TELL ME

Michael

February 26, 2010 @ 6:39 am

Actually there is a workstation version of JV-90 and JV-80. It is JV-1000, which is actually JV-90 and MC-50 sequencer built into one single chassis.

Reinaldo

October 26, 2009 @ 2:27 am

Message to Jupiter: any of the sliders of the JV-90 tranmsmit midi data to external devices, I do not know from where you got that. The only slider that can send midi messages is the CC slider beside the volume.

The other 8 slider are to control internal parameters but they have more a cosmetic function rather than a practical one because you can not assing an specific function to an specific slider.

If you are in Performance mode you can control de volume of each part but only the volume in the 8 sliders. Is not that you can change the filters and resonance, pan and volume with each slider, no. Is not possible to do that with the JV-80/90 (I had both).

For me it is some sort of scam. Is like the JD-800... a synth so sofisticated but can not sync the LFO with external midi time clock! Back then Roland was more into sound and cosmetics rather than functionality.

Jupiter

June 12, 2009 @ 4:25 pm

This is a great keyboard controller actually. Very nice keyboard feel,
and can do nice tricks like sending only program changes on a specific channel or control external functions using the embedded (eight) sliders.

Features Roland "controller" keyboards like the A30/33 are really missing... Has only 16 patch memories though.

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