Hi, this is NK. I have an XP-80 with Hip-Hop and Techno expansion, and a XV-5080 with Orc.I, World, Latin and Asia expansion. Just know a little about MIDI and do some music-sequencing work as well. I am also a part-time lecturer in a music college.

Recently, after I did some demo on the XP-80 to the students in the class, 7 students each bought an XP-80 with 2 exp card! They all thought it sounded excellent, if compared to the Korg Triton. Of course it would be better off with a XV-series, but XV-series is yet to release a workstation-synth like the XP-80. Anybody has got any idea when will ROLAND release them?

I personally think that in terms of sound quality, Roland is the best. The only thing that I discovered is, compare the XP-80 to the JV-1080 or similar, using the same sound for output, the module seems to have more depth and warm where as the XP is slightly more bright and "a little bit" too sharp.

Last, the XP-80 also has this problem of note "choking" when you have more than 8 MIDI event falling on the same beat clock. It happened to my unit. has anybody experienced this?

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