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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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Ronald Boykin

Posted 113 days ago

I still have mine after buying it on Ebay several years ago for $700! I think it's still worth it! It help me create all types of arrangements. I take the midi data and shoot it over to Logic or Sonar and record my guitar to it. If I don't want to deal with my computers I'll shoot a arrangement over to my VS-890 recorder and record my guitar. Right now there's one of these for sale on Ebay for $400!

ac

Posted 118 days ago

"If your bag is dance, trance and rave"
That's pretty much all I've listened since 90's and this thing sounds like none of that (pre-1998 music). What brought me to this was the JX- name.

I don't have it but just listen to the filters in the demo. Wouldn't pay $25 for it. Room space is more valuable than that.

Alex

Posted 137 days ago

I've mine still. As it come out I sold out all my old stuff that time. This thing really does it all. Hardly used for goa productions. Very cool. Now I am going back to use more different analogue Synths. So there's no use for it anymore.

neomad

Posted 279 days ago

Wonderful synth. Powerful and very funny. The only limitation was: unable to handle decent midi implementation. If you want to work like a computer, a lot of hangs and holds, frozen, etc.

I would like buy it again ( I use to have 3 different units) but being difficult to edit songs outside synth (in logic or another sequencer) it's a real pain.

planetplayer

Posted 299 days ago

Tried it and was not that impresed but god idea for groove people.
By the time it came out the patterns were sort of dated.

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