Yes, I would have to agree with Reggie S. While the XP and JV series will be discontinued sooner or later, all of the new XV units will have SRJV slots.

More so, the XV3080 has only 2 SRX slots and 4 SRJV slots. It's almost as if Roland either made the XV units more or less to offer an "upgrade" of sorts to current Roland JV/XP users, OR if Roland will continue development of SRJV cards for some more time.

The XV is an inprovement over the XP, but not by that much. The sound is good, mainly the drums. All of the other sounds have been present on other Roland modules (post 1998) for some time now - Namely the SC880 and SC8850.

I really hope that the rumors about this SRJV80-20 board are true. Having the ability to load outside samples into our XP/JVs will keep our synths in the useful area for quite a while. I would predict that even if the SRJV80-20 was expensive, people would still gladly purchase it.

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