Well, what's up with those 3rd party patch creators? Our XP's have A LOT of S&S power. You could really get some convincin patches out of the supplied internal waveforms.

The best that I heard was Roland's "Dance Kit". All of the patches there sound professionally programmed. It sounds like they took a lot of time to perfect the patches. Having that BANK feels like having an expansion card installed.

Back in the 80's you could get thousands of "non-variation" sounds out of synths like the DX7 and Kawai K1R, the Roland JV/XP should be no different.

It's time we stop complaining about the weakness of the internal waveforms and start either begging 3rd party developers or develop great sounds our self.

Aside from the "Dance Kit", every other patch bank I heard just really sucks. The others sound like variations of the sounds in the Roland already.

Your comments please. . . . .

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