Hi

I don't understand why everybody seems to be so upset about Zeratuls opinion- meaning that Roland should offer their customers a bigger choice of pre-programmed Patches to the JV/XP synths.
Is there something wrong with that?

Some people may not be interested in or able to program it; others perhaps don't want to throw away their lifes doing it, and just want to play and make some music. So I think I can respect his opinion!

On the other hand I know that it's lots of fun programming new sounds exactly the way you want them to be.
I myself have programmed (and reprogrammed) quite a lot, for instance the bad original bass sounds with no power at the lower register, and the results were real good.
There's no doubt that the JV/XPs really have got lots of potential for programming.

So I have to agree that there should be a possibility of getting or buying some new Patches from Roland -specially for those who don't want to do the programming themselves, but still want newer and better sounds to a product they have payed for (without having to buy the expansion cards). Why not?

By the way...It's strange that I have never seen any comments (or complaints) about the 96 preset Performances of the JV/XP synths!

Has anybody noticed how completely useless and unusable these Performances are for live playing?!
Let me tell you this: I can spend hours playing on a Korg Triton using just one of its amazing sounding Combis (Combi= Performance in Roland). And there are hundreds of them!
On the other hand I have had JV/XP synths now for six years and I have NEVER used any of the preset Performances for playing!!

The JV/XPs has great Patch sounds, so for me it is hard to understand why Roland hasn't included one single good (or at least decent) playable Performance in them.

Can this be because Roland don't want people to play with Layered Performances -so we don't notice much about the bad timing on the JV/XP sound modules?!
Or has anyone any other explanation?

Dani