Sadly, almost nothing (I did say almost) sounds like a roland. Roland's sound quality is still tops with me, but I have to agree- for the money I paid, I want 16 working well timed channels, not 4 or 5 (do a heavy string backing and you're lucky to get 3 channels).
It's pretty bad when even the demos have poor timing.

I appreciate the suggestions for using other synths, but NO ONE should have to. I have 4 other synths, some costing half as much as my JV, but they have no problem with timing--- but on the flip side, none of them sound near as good as the roland.

Maybe roland was us to buy multiple jv/xp synths....*sigh*