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.

gaga

April 23, 2010 @ 10:33 am

Wonderful machine! I use it mostly to build melodies and beats for trance and dance. As an all in one keyboard, synth, rythmn machine and sequencer I don't have to go much beyond it to get my ideas down. The presets [beep] s??? Well, a synthesizer is only as good as its programmer makes it. For the price, nothing in this world can beat it.
It has been used by Control Machete & Efecto Tralali

Operon

April 8, 2010 @ 10:34 pm

This was the first synth I ever bought (back in 1999) and i still use it in every track I make. That said it took me years of fiddling with it to discover its strengths. I initially bought it as a starting block as it had an onboard sequencer and was 8 part multitimbral so I could make beats right off the bat. However, I was underwhelmed with the sound as its very weak; I was really into acid and techno but the jx just cant recreate those sounds. That said, I have now discovered that 64 voices, 4 tone generators and independent LFOs and Envelopes for each tone equals the most complex, evolving pads and atmospheres a synth can make with 1 part! Not even my access virus can keep up making the JX my go to synth for big pads and swells

Ex!

February 20, 2010 @ 2:37 pm

A great and completely underrated synth for making trance, electro and industrial. Yes the presets [beep] but the trick to getting great sounds out of this is by using the layering feature, effects and a little EQing from a mixer. It may be a rompler but this synth can get very usable bass, leads and arps. Ive used this for many shows over the last few years and never once had a problem.

Modular Jack

February 5, 2010 @ 1:32 pm

Great little keyboard. It is the one piece of gear I have never sold over 12 years of making electronic music. No it's not a Fantom or Motif but it has a ton of great bread and butter sounds, nice springey key action for programming drums and much better aftertouch than most other boards I've played with. The only thing I routinely feel it's lacking in is the number of outputs which can be a bit of a drag for live shows. Below's a video of me messing around with my Jx-305 (on the bottom) and a Juno 6. The drums and bass are all on the JX-305... Not a bad moog bass sound for a 15 year old ROMpler IMHO! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWTaqYTAV74

kris

February 2, 2010 @ 11:13 am

It is plastic and plastic and a bit of metal.
The sound is pretty great.

You need additional audio sweetening/effects and multi track it or better yet, layer it with other gear.

The drums are really awesome IMHO and the sequencer as good as most hardware. Mmake a song or set on this and save them inside or to the small card in the back slot-transfer the sequence to the computer or the other way . In a mix this adds nice stuff. All alone it may be a bit thin due to the filters. Low tech? Yes, compared to VA synths that run you 2-4 k. Layering is the secret! Multitrack! Over dub..with a mixer and a few other pieces this is easily a good part of a set up that is worth while.

For gosh sake do NOT depend on this for gigs as it is about as roadworthy as a dozen eggs in a back pack!

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