Hi,

It's just a legend slapped together with another legend synth, I've alread bought the World, vintage synth, special FX and orchestral 2 card for my upcoming 5080. See this is what it makes so special. It's that you can have an adition to your keyboard rig (in my case, a triton,. Triton has very convincing soundscapes and synth and effective allround sound, but with the xv5080, i know i have an additional powerhouse that can send 8 digital channels to my vm3100pro (so no loss in sound there).. And, back at the days we were complaining that the JD'990s polyphony just sucked ... so they slapped a new jv2080like architecture on it + ofcourse not to forget the new expressive 24bits sounds in banks E F (and G on the xv5080 wich employs it's extra cosm effects).. First i was dying for the sampling option as well, but when ive heard of the poor akai implementation, i chose to hamster expansion boards first ..

Think of it, the XV-5080 (if you correctly give your musical desires some tyoughts) will get you anywhere, I make new age so i buy nice exp boards for it.. but the internal sounds are already so great but you wont have to be scared of them being dated quickly becasue there are 8 expansionboards slots + the sampling player..

I believe it's Roland's masterpiece rightnow.. ANd I think i'm going to own it untill it dies out on me.