Roland JX-305 GrooveSynth

The JX-305 is an awesome synth for electronic & techno musicians! It's like an MC-505 groovebox in a keyboard. All of the MC-505's excellent dance-oriented sounds are included, as well as 4MB more! Combining keyboard style patch synthesis & performance with Groove Approved dance patterns, sequences and phrases the JX-305 is a real dance production studio with 768 dance patterns, 256 User, 640 patches and 28 drum kits.
Perfect for live use with its massive 64 voices of polyphony, you can jam along with it while it's instantly playing a great techno/dance groove! Then grab anyone of the 9 real-time control knobs to start tweaking the filter, envelope, tempo, arpeggiator or LFO. All real-time edits, pattern changes, tweaks and keyboard playing can be recorded into its 8-track sequencer - a robust sequencer with quantizing and edit capabilities! If your bag is dance, trance and rave then this Groovesynth may be all you need! It has been used by Astral.
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- Demos & Media
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Video 1 - JX-305 Walkthrough, part 1
Video 2 - JX-305 Walkthrough, part 2Audio Clip 1 - This onboard demo shows how good the JX-305 can sound for dance and groove based music!
Manual - Roland has made manuals for most of their products available as free PDF downloads.
- Specifications
- Polyphony - 64 Voices
- Effects - 24 effects including reverb, delay, chorus, etc...
- Memory - 640 patches, 28 rhythm kits
- Patterns - 768 Dance patterns, 256 User
- Filter - Digital real-time & midi controllable resonant low/band pass filter
- Arpeg/Seq - 8-Track sequencer, Arpeggiator and real-time Phrase Sequencer
- Keyboard - 61 notes (w/ velocity)
- Control - MIDI
- Date Produced - 1998
- Est. Value - $1,200
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If it is only a bad display and not a power issue, I purchased a new display from a guy in Chicago for $60 (blue, no less) and now it works like a charm. I am not sure that it is appropriate to post his info in the messages here, maybe there is some way I can get the info to you if you need it. I love this machine and wouldn't trade it for the world. I wish that Roland did a better job of helping service legacy equipment.
I miss playing with this synth, very useful for sparking ideas.