Okay, this board has been pretty dead lately. What I'm interested in knowing is, how many people are here who own Roland JV/XP/XV gear and what they have. Tell us who you are and what you have. This will give us an idea of how many people are here who have Roland JV/XP/XV gear.

This would also help us realize how much potential help we could have (being that we know how many people are at our disposal).

I'll start - I'm epu. I have a Roland XP60 with the Hip-Hop,Bas& Drums,Orchestral and Exp. II cards. I also have an SC880.

The Infamous EPU.

Does a old JV880 count still?
It's had an orchestra board fitted, and even has cards in it's PCM slot (a piano card), and a in it's Data card slot (rich sound collection 2).
I've a friend who also uses a 880 out live, with the pop baord fitted.

I've a JD990, which is a serious bit of kit.
It can read JV80 cards, but everyone went the 1080 route.
With the 990., and the 880, I think I've a 1080 and some.

That's about all I've got to say...

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The Sonic Energy Authority - a sound investment

Dave (Ambient/Dance music hobbie-ist)

XP60 With Session, Hip Hop, Vintage and SFX,

Exp II is sitting in the wings. Happy to trade it for the EXP III.

Groovy combination.

May want to get the Orch 1 soon.



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Ive got a XV5080 + a JD990, the 2 best modules in the universe IMHO.

The 990 is still my favorite. It is just so raw, but to me is also capable of incredible warmth for a rompler. Also, I still find it quicker to choose from 195 waveforms rather than bloody thousands. The editing is faster, but it aint got the polyphony, multitimbral power, range of effects the XV has. Filters are more "analogue" as well, ie they dont cause permanent ear damage when you sweep them at maximum settings! The filters are imho better than the JP8000.

The XV5080 is great at smooth sounds and does sound clean as a whistle. Effects are the dogs, as is the ability to chuck wavs at it.

Anyway I could go on but I wont!

Cheers

I'm Bas,
I own an XP-30.
It's connected to a Soundblaster Live, which I use ase a sampler. The XP is the workhorse.
I'd Like to buy either a Keyboards ot 60's & 70's expansion or a Bass & Drums Board, or both, but they're way too XPensive right now.

I am Greg.
I own the 3080, Srx Contemporary Acoustic Piano and Vintage expansion. That acoustic piano is absolutely the best, IMO.
I also have a Triton (sorry epu) 61 key with the vintage board and Moss. And an eMu Xl-1 with the techno construction board.
So much to play with it seems sinful.

Hi, I'm Popo, Caracas,Venezuela.
I own an XV-88, recently bought it, but I got a little trouble with it...I know this is not the topic, but I'll be very happy if someone who knows(owns) this synth could give me a little help(just email me), since this is a Roland community people reading this. Besides that, I'm very happy with it, I have it connected to a Tascam US-428 and then to a Mac G4, running Cubase VST/4.1, hoping to get Digital Performer 2.7 soon.
(I have a Topic posted titled "XV-88 Patch Finder trouble" in this Forum)


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Hello, JV/XP/XV users...

I´m Mgomes, São Paulo, Brazil.
I´m using JV1010, so, the 1st board is, of course, Session (very good) and the second is Experience II. Also I have the discontinued Dance board. Maybe I get a bigger JV or XP to fit all boards at same time. Right now the XVs are too expensive ...

Mgomes

Hi there!
I own a XV 5080 and some other cool stuff...
You can check it out on my website on MP3.com.
Thanks,
Ikarus

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EPU:
Nice concept...stirring up the works a little. I'm almost afraid to ask - are there more active Roland Synth forums elsewhere?

I have a Yamaha minikeyboard (my sibs gave it to me for last Christmas, beginning an obsession currently careening out of control) and a JV-1010. Since I have considerably better writing than keyboard-playing chops, both are driven by a bailing-wire-and-bubble-gum W98 computer (my son and I built both ours from parts) running Noteworthy Composer. I play guitar, and mostly sing, along with my sequences.

I have a MOTU MIDI patch panel on the way to help manage the dozens of other modules I intend to buy soon...as soon as the wife gives me my credit card back.

....OK, how "old school" do I need to be before I'm no longer a "junior member?"

Hey... All I've got is the XV-88 and I am quite happy with it... except I will probably be getting some sort of midi sequencer eventually... maybe the Roland MC-50???? Anyway... OldSchool... try around 30 posts or so... that ought to do it.

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John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

KF:
I figured it was something as sophisticated and meaningful as that. I think this makes 12 or so. I'm feeling less "junior" every day. I can even go to the bathroom all by myself now! ;-)

As far as sequencers - I've manuscripted for so long it's hard to imagine constructing music any other way. My computer software just instantly connects writing to performance. Otherwise, I'm still writing the same as I did in graduate school back in 19-aught-whatever. (Of course, I couldn't play the stuff then either!)

In any case, if one has a computer, it'll do sequencing with cheap (even free) software - performance/recorded, or written. I guess the only downside (there may be others, but I'm completely ignorant on the subject) is that my dependence on computers dictates I bring a laptop to gigs.

Ah...there's another learning curve yet to be addressed!

ok, KEYBOARDFREAK, since you're the only one I've seen here having the XV-88 I need a little favor from you...the thing is that I can't reach to the categories BEATS & GROOVE and DRUMS, when using the Patch Finder Function, in Patch Mode. Please, use this method and try to select these categories and tell me what happened.
Thanks a lot, help me

For the one that has the XV88, the Beats & Groove, Drums category will only work if you have an expansion board that has that category on it. The XVs and XPs don't come stocked with those (Excpet for the XP30).

"Beat & Groove" are the patches that are loops, beat loops to be more specific. Examples are on the SRJV12 Hip-Hop Board and the SRJV11 Techno Board.

The "Drums" are drum menus. These are patches in which drum waveforms are assigned to the four tones and then key mapped to behave like a drum set. So "C2" will play a Bass Drum and "F#2" will play Hi-Hat.

The Bass & Drums, Hip-Hop, Techno and Session board all have these for example.

I hope I answered your question.

The Infamous EPU.

Hey EPU, thanx a lot...maybe this trouble sounded a little bit stupid to you, but I'm newbie with synths.
Yes, you answered my question
Thanx again

Hey! Well I got the Roland XP-30 which I reckon pound for pound is one of the best synths I have used! The sounds are absoutley brill specially with the fact that it has the 3 expansions cards and using it with the SBLive is a cool combo. Only thing I don't like is the expansion cards are a little bit overpriced.

OldSchool - Yeah.... I know you can sequence with a computer... and I do a little bit on here with a program called NoteWorthy Composer.... The only thing is I don't have a laptop and I don't have around $300 to spend on a used one right now(that's the cheapest I can find) The other thing I've though of is getting something that can play midi files so I can sequence on here and pop the disk in something up by my XV-88 to play them.... but then I can't sequence in real time. Oh well... I'll keep looking.

and then epu and akuma - does the XP-30 come with those three expansion boards as a standard thing... for $1000! Wow that is a steal.... comes out around $400 for the keyboard if you take into account the cost of the boards.

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John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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Oops... I forgot to ask this about the XP-30's exp. boards.... are those the only sound banks it has?? or does it have a preset internal bank as well?? also can you remove the exp. boards it comes with??

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Hello, KF

The XP30 and the JV1010 have all the internal waves and preset patches from the JV2080 (banks A to E), and have additional ROM with the waves/patches from Session (JV1010) and Session, Orch I and Techno (XP30), but these sound are built in, and not in form of a expansion board, so you can't remove then. The JV1010 have 1 more expansion and the XP30 have two.

Mgomes

Okay... that makes sense. I had a thought rolling around in my head... something like this "Hey... maybe I can get a cheap XP-30 used, then take the exp. boards out and put 'em in my XV-88... and voila, tons of new sounds... for less than the price of the three exp. boards.... oh and look, now I've got a 61 key controller keyboard too.... awesome!!" Oh well.... it was just a thought.

Oops... I forgot.. only two SR-JV slots in the XV...

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John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Speaking of expansion boards, has anyone tried out that SRJV80-18 Latin Expansion Board? This board seems to concentrate on Guitars, Brass and Percussion.

This seems like the real deal too. The Patch List on the Lil' Chips site says there are 52 acoustic guitars! It has someting like 55 brass instuments too.

A guy at Sam Ash told me that he got a stock of 15 Latin boards and sold out of them in two days! I can't wait to hear this one. Anyone of you hear it yet?

The Infamous EPU.

KF:
I did get the impression (belatedly) from a post on another forum that you had done some computer work. Like you, I am also too cheap to purchase a laptop, but since I'm a high school tech resource teacher by day, I check one out from there and bring it to gigs. (I'm relentlessly cheap!)

Computers are kind of a pain at gigs, so you're right, it'd be nice to just stick a disk into a module or synth. Of course, having the computer on-site makes it possible to tweek there . . .

By the way, since you have Noteworthy Composer experience (y'know, for the money, it's pretty good - did I mention how cheap I am?) - you have a guess as to how well it'll work with a MOTU MicroExpress? The folks at MOTU basically told me to "get over it" - the MicroExpress drivers will work with anything! I'm not so sure, but we'll know more by Wednesday!

The impression I'm getting is that the JV-1010 has every bit as much voice breadth as many of Roland's more expensive modules and synths. Did I get lucky?

Hi I've just discovered this site and it looks promising. I've just bought a JV-1010, but I have some problems connecting it to my Yamaha P-150. I'm am a novice in the MIDI and synth world, but I'm lokking forward to dive into it.

If you guys are too chaep to purchase a laptop, why not check out EBAY. I've seen 386 and 486 latpops go for as much as $20-$40 with everything installed.

If you're just going to sequence, you don't need a very fast computer, or a huge amount or memory.

I've also seen good condition 68xxx Mac laptops go for real cheap as well - Around $25-$50.

The Infamous EPU.

EPU:
You're absolutely right - MIDI being a serial protocol, the hardware can be dead slow and the module would still be the limiting factor. That is, of course, if you're just running the MIDI files, and not the monster application you used to generate them! (I notice Cakewalk Pro 9.0 requires a bunch of memory and processor speed.)

Of course, in my case, eBay just can't beat free . . .

Hello, I'm Martin, and I'm an....

... old bass player who got into home recording a couple of years ago with a Roland VS880 and VS1680.

I use a Roland XP60 for a lot of my sequencing work.

I have the Vintage Synth; Keyboards of 60s and 70s; Bass and Drums; Orchestral II and Session expansion cards.

I think the XP60 is a marvellous machine, but for someone who has never had the slighest grasp on synthesised music in the past, I still find it INCREDIBLY user unfriendly.

But the sounds.... phew. They are worth (just) the hours of frustration.

This BBS has the potential to be wonderfully helpful: Epu and some of you other guys have already given me good advice in the past, and having finally dragged myself half-way up the learning curve I'd be delighted to pass some of it on (assuming there is anyone in the world who knows less than I do...)

All the best,

Martin

I am Sergiu,and I recently got in the producing of Dance music(hopefully with succes).I used to own an xp 60,but I exchanged it with an xp30.I also have the Latin and the Vocals expantions,but I an not really satisfied,especially with the Vocals.
It seems to me like a waste of rom,the only natural sounding waves being religious phrazes and unuseable for contemporary music.I have a computer,windows millenium,a SB Live,Cubase vst 24,Gigasampler,which I have not used yet.
Please give me some reviews on the Hip hop and Sfx board.

The Hip-Hop board is great! Yes, there are a lot of loops, but the Rhodes, Basses, SFX, Guitar FX, etc. really make up for it. The drums are also superb. IMO, the Hip-Hop board is a must have.

Now Sergiu, how is the Latin Expansion board? I'm not too interested in the loops, but the huge amount of guitars and brass makes me want to get it. How are the quality of the new guitars and brass? How is the quality of the drums and rhythm sets?

The Infamous EPU.

Hi Everyone....Wayne here....

I've had an XP-30 for about a month now, and love it. I used to (now don't laugh too hard) use a cheap Yamaha PSR220 to drive an Alesis Nano-Piano! Needless to say, the XP BLOWS that away.

Unfortunately, for a novice, it'll take a LONG time to master this thing. I'd gladly buy a training video if they ever come out with one.

Martin:
I tend to gravitate to anyone who starts with ". . and I'm an old . . . " Next thing you know it we'll be trading nostalgic stories about the Great War . . .

I can't remember - did you (or somebody) post something on the Orchestral II? You satisfied with it? How does it compare to the first orchestral expansion board? I'm in the process of giving my wife a Christmas list, and considering my interests in orchestral instruments, one or the other is going on it. (Any port in a storm, as I always say!)

Wayne:
It was a Yamaha PSR280 that got me into this stuff. For a $200+ keyboard, it's amazing - I used it in two performances with laptop-delivered sequences, and it sounded quite good with my guitar and voice! It's a shame that 10 times as much money doesn't get 10 times the tones and realism. Don't get me wrong - I'm glad I'm expanding my palate - but it raised unrealistic expectations about how much I'd have to pay for it all!

I'm still using the Yamaha, actually . . .

Epu,I got this board not knowing it is in fact called World Collection Latin.I thought it is called Latino,like in the Gloria Estefan stuff,so at start the great ammount of ethnical loops(salsa,etc)and the clear orientation towards real mariachi music dissapointed me.But as I listened more and more to the sounds I realised I could use those in dance music.The most part of it consists of percussion sounds and loops,as you know,and those are great at least compared to the ones I v heard and used before. The trumpet sounds are the best I have heard,and the brass section as well,but not the saxes which suck.Too many guitars in my opinion,but good.Some accordions,and vocals which are again great,you know fiesta arriba ole hiiha aso.If you use trumpet and percussion alot,you want it.
I will keep it for that reaso.

Hi OldSchool,

Yes, I have Orchestral 2. Personally, I love it. But I can't compare it to 1 whihc I;ve never heard. I went straight for 2 because I really wanted all the Celtic and other odd sounds it contains.

Someone here criticised it for that - which is fair enough - those sounds probably should live on a World Sounds card (how many orchestras have you heard featuring a bhodrum, aoelian harp and tin whistle?).

I love those sounds, and also the beautiful strings, brass, woodwinds and 'traditional' orhestral percussion sounds whihc abound on this card.

But in truth you should really get an opinion from someone who is familiar with both cards...

All the best.

Martin

(P.S. what did you do in the war?)

I may get a lot of disagrees on this one, but I was heavily dissapointed with the Orch II.
The story I was looking all over New York for an Orch I. At the time (Sept.), no one seemed to be stocking them anymore.

A guy at Sam Ash told me that the Orch II was better for the taking anyway as the sounds were recorded at 48khz which allowed more headroom than the original orch. He also said the sounds were richer and that this board had more variety.

I took it home and was immediately dissapointed. There is more headroom, but the sounds sounded to "sampled" to me and fake. Also, heavy vibrato was included in the samples (which can't be taken out) and that upset me a little more.

Then next day, I discovered that the store had a used Orch I board in their display XV88. This board is a killer. The strings sound so much better and IMO, had a much better variety.

It's hard to imagine that the Orch I board sounds better than the Orch II considering that the Orch I card debuted back in 1992.

If you already have the Orch I, I would say that the Orch II board makes a great compliment. This can be seen as you'll see patches like "Oboe 5-8", where the Orch I board has "Oboe 1-4".

Other people disagree with me on this. if you are into the Celtic sounds, then go for the Orch II board, IMO, there are too many celtic sounds. Perhaps they should have included these kind of sounds on a "World II" card.

BTW, there are some great Celtic sounds on the new Patch bank for the XV series (which are also compatible with the JV/XP series) from the Roland web site. All in all, the bank they offer sounds great!

The Infamous EPU.

Martin/EPU:
Thanks for your comments. Musician's Friend still shows the Orchestra I in stock, so it looks like it's still out there. I'm intrigued by the Celtic stuff, but it's not high priority at this point.

I am now going to display my ignorance - how does "headroom" translate as far as things sounding different?

p.s. I managed to avoid any participation in wars, though it was close - student defferment, high lottery number helped.

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Well, headroom can be thought of (simplistcly) as a wider range of frequency and dynamics one could use to record a sound. Think of it as a limited amount of dimensional space one could put a sound in (again this is a simple explanation).

Imagine a 3D space that is 44,100 cubic feet as opposed to one that was 48,000 cubic feet. The larger space would allow you to capture more of the sounds artifacts and resonance - more character.

Just becuase something was recorded with more headroom doesn't mean that it will always sound better. There is less headroom on the Orch. I board, but there is also a larger variety of sounds that are related to the Orchestra.

Also, while there is more headroom on the Orch II board, there are less Solo strings and as I said earlier, the strings on the Orch II card have a more prominent vibrato which is a little more irritating to me.

Remember, this is just my opinion. You should really try to audition them yourself as I did to come to that conclusion. You may find that you end up believing opposite of what I do.

The Infamous EPU.

Hi all,

I'm using a Roland A-90Ex, an A-70Ex (both with VE-RD1's), a MBD-1 bass module, an XV-5080 (with Orch II, Keys 60's/70's, Piano, Vintage Synth, SRX 1 & 2 boards, various sample CD-ROMs), a set of V-Drums (TD-10 and TD-8) and various older rack synths (Alesis QSR, Yamaha TX802) and effects units.

I just got a Roland VS-1880, which I'm learning to use.

I guess you could say I like Roland gear...

See ya,
Chris

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Hello, I'm Joel from Australia.
I have recently bought an XV-88, which I am very happy with. I still don't know half the stuff it can do, but I'm learning. The onboard sounds are awesome, although the D-Beam is still confusing me. Anyway, See you later.



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Chris:
I hope you have a spare bedroom, 'cause I'm bringin' my toothbrush and my Guild for an extended stay . . .

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Hi!
Sorry about being so late in posting this - I have been away for 2 weeks. Anyway, I am Magnus and I have a JV1010.
All the best,
Magnus Nordén

Hi!

I have a Roland Xp-30. This is a very powerful machine. I recomend it to everybody who want a high quality all around synth.

Tomi

Ok, OldSchool, bring over an amp sometime, and we'll lay down some tracks: but first you'd have to help me figure out the VS-1880 (I'm buried in manuals over here).

Chris

Dang, Chris, I can't even SPELL VS-1880!

I am curious as to how your relationship with the v-drums module thing is working out. Is there enough difference between the TD-10 and TD-8 to justify the added expense of the former? Have you touched the TD-5?

I may move this over to it's own thread . . .

My name is Jay Storey.

I have a JV-90 (bought new in April 1995).

I have a VE-JV1 voice expansion board, and a
SRV-JV-80-03 (I believe I've got the number correct) Piano wave expansion board installed in the JV-90.

I've posted reviews at Harmony Central for the JV-90 and the VE-JV1 for those that are interested.

I also plan on posting a review of the Piano board as well.

Jay Storey

Hi guys!

I'm Dan O, and I have an XV-88 with the SRX-02 Piano and SR-JV98 Experience II expansion boards. I also have an ol' Roland D-5 keyboard which I usually use as a controller for the XV when I have a fast solo.

I've been very happy with the XV; my big question now is whether to upgrade the operating system. I have yet to hear what the improvements are with the new downloadable OS (v. 1.05).

Hi, I'm Keymann. I'm using two A-70ex on stage controlling (2) fully expanded JV-2080's; a MKS-50; Korg 01RW; M1Rex and
EMU 5K.

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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Hi, this is Paul Ip from Texas.

Over the years, I have used quite a bit of Roland equipment. Currently I have XP30 synth with Asian and Orchestral II expansion, G1000 arranger, TD-8 (V-Drum module) with PD-120 V-pad, HPD-15 Handsonic, GI-10 guitar-to-MIDI interface, KC-500 keyboard amps, VS-880V2 recorder, V-5 VideoCanvas video mixer, PK-5 pedal board and various Roland keyboard and electronic drum accessories/pedals. Roland products are generally quite good in quality (to me).

Paul Ip
from Texas

Hello JV-World

Best greetings from Germany. I have a brand new JV-1010 with SR JV80 Country Collection. I'm playing Contry Music in a really good Band and for this my JV-1010 setup is great. I also have a Korg NX5R, Yamaha PSR-740 and a Doepfer LMK4+ Masterkeyboard. It's not the best equipment compared to others of you, but for Country you don't need big Synthies. I like the small boxes like JV-1010 or NX5R because playing a lot of gigs every year like I do and carrying a lot of heavy stuff is really boring!
By the way Rolnad has good pianos and strings, the brass-sounds are better at Yamaha, especially the sweep sounds at the PSR-Series, the synth stuff and Rhodes are better at Korg.

Gerhard

i've a roland xp30, a gem wk6 and an old psr530. my next buy will be a tr rack or a proteus2000. I'm very happy with these keyboards.....

XV5080 with Orch 1-Orch 2 cards
JV2080 with Orch 1-Orch 2-World-Session cards
JD990

Love em all
Torched the Manuals ;-)

Kevan

Here's what I got:
Roland XP-30 w/vintage synth expansion
Roland VK-7 Virtual Hammond Organ
Kurzweil K2000VP V3.87 W/Pram & 64 megs Real Rhodes Sample Disk
Sample Ram
Electrix Warp Factory
Mackie 1202 Mixer
Sample CD's
SCSI External CD Rom & Iomega Jaz Drive
Computer with SB Live Drive
Cakewalk Pro Audio
Cubase VST
PG Music Power Tracks Pro
PG Music Band In A Box
and a Fatar SL-880

With this combination I can get Just about any sound that I need.

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Hello everyone.

I haven't posted in this board for a while...
My name is Stig, I live in northern Norway.

I have an XP-60 with "Vintage Synth" and "Techno" expansion board. The XP-60 is the only instrument I use, and I use the onboard sequencer to arrange my music. All I need, really! The XP-60 is still as good a synth as when I bought it nearly 2 years ago.

Stig

The following is the gear I presently have, more on the way.

Clavia Nord Lead
Roland XV5080
Roland XP80
Roland U220
Roland R8M
Roland MBD1
Boss DS330
Boss DR5
Korg M3R
Korg X5DR
Korg CX1 (original)
Voce V5
Yamaha TX7
Oberheim OB8
Oberheim Matrix6
EMU Proueus 1XR
Alesis QS-R
Alesis NanoPiano
Lexicon LXP-1
Lexicon LXP-5
TC Electronic M-ONE
TC Electronic Intonator
TC Electronic Finalizer
Electrix MO-FX
Peavey PC1600x
Creamware Pulsar
Ramsa DA7
Tascam MX2424
Tascam DA78HR

Hi, EPU.

I´m not new in the synth zone... I´m from Brazil like Mgomes, a dance producer and my gears are oriented to techno and dance music.

I have seen your topics about 2 years...

I got a XP-80 with Dance and Orchestral 01 expansions, JX-305, Midi patcher A-880, SC-88 pro, MC-50 sequencer, S-330 sampler, MS-1 Sampler, Korg M3-R.

I´m a Roland lover, like you...

I´m planning to increase my set with a Techno or Hip-Hop exp. Could you help-me.

I need sounds to make Drum´n´Bass and techno songs...

I have an XP-80 with Asia, World, Vocal and Session plugged into it.

I have an 2080 with Pop, TEckno, SuperSounds, Orchestra 1, Brass_Drums and HipHop cards plugged into it.

My also have a SPD-20 (I'm a percussionist at heart).

My biggest issues is figuring out how to get a library going of all the patches from a central place. Not sure what software to use. Still fumbling with software on a PC.

I've tried climbing the Cubase mountain but I haven't really made friends with that software yet. Suggestions? Emagic better?

Frankly, my most productive tool is Acid Pro for compositions - go figure. Someday I'll get a tip on the best path for midi sequencing (other then the build in seq. in the xp80 which is dead simple to use).

Tom Parish

heh... all i've got is a lowly xp-10 and m-bd1. i feel so inadequate!! soundfonts help me deal with the trauma, tho...

i'd be interested in hearing from anyone who feels the way i do... namely, that developing truly authentic-sounding, i-thought-that-was-a-live-drummer percussion sequences is absolutely critical. i didn't use the m-bd1 on most of the songs on our first cd (URL in .sig), but did still try to get it as realistic as possible. (of course, there's not much you can do with an sr-16...)

i'm sure there are tips and tricks i haven't stumbled upon yet, and would love to know how to achieve some things... like, for instance, getting a decent roll out of the toms. no matter what i try, it invariably ends up sounding like a collection of individual hits in rapid succession... there's gotta be a way to get it sounding better than that.

any ideas, or pointers to sites addressing this area of sequencing, would be much appreciated.

l8r

mitch

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Hi I'm Jupiter (my first synth was a Jupiter 8)

I ain't got no "JV" tackle yet. I have just A kn6000 arranger Keyboard. I am thinking of buying a JV 1080, but if my budget will stretch, a 2080. What's the BIG difference between the 1080/2080? - and do the Expansion cards sound the same on all JV modules?

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Jupiter

Jupiter5

DONT under any circumstances get a 2080, they are the worst JV for midi timing, (it is a hardware problem) they have also got a problem with decay noise/aliasing. Either go for a 1080, the original and best JV, or an XV3080.

Believe me mate, I had a 2080 and had nothing but trouble with it.
Happy new year to everyone

Oh, by the way, Im Totty, yeah i know its a funny one, got it at school and it stuck!!
Here is my gear list-in order of preference.

JD990 - Undoubtedly THE BEST synth Roland have ever done.

Nova - Ultra Phat - I MEAN IT - it is the nuts!

Jupiter6 - Mean Mutha! As ive heard before, stick that b****** in unison and leave it there! Cross mod is evil like that.

XV5080 - Great synth, still digging into it at mo, it has endless potential.

S3000XL - Great Bread and Butter sampler, rock solid.

Drumstation - Does what it says on the tin.

Boss SE70 - Great for lo-fi grunge fx.

Mackie 1604VLZ - I NEED MORE CHANNELS, but its a good one

Korg X5 - Still love some of its M1 sounds, but its abit old hat now - just a controller really

Pentium 200 96mb, Cubase, rebirth etc etc

I want a G4!

[This message has been edited by Totty (edited 01-01-2001).]

Emrys:
I feel your pain. As has been observed on the general forum, there just isn't a substitute for a real drummer.

I've been advised by many folks here that using a sampler for drums is second, as you can record, tweek, and sequence the exact sound you want, and aren't dependent on what the manufacturer burned on the ROM. 3rd place goes to the better quality modules, Roland's V-Drums seemingly getting the most favorable reviews overall (I've heard a TD-8 - it's good). Better drum modules can allow tweeking, which might allow you to find a tom sound which sounds good rolled.

All:
I wasn't going to list my equipment, but as I'm 1/3 of the way through a home CD project which is going better than expected, here's what I'm using:

Sequences: Noteworthy Composer running on a bailing-wire-and-bubblegum W98 machine (AMD-2 450, 160 meg RAM - my son and I build computers).

Sound equipment:
Roland JV-1010
Yamaha PSR-270 (almost unused)
MOTU MicroExpress MIDI patch module
DBX 266XL Compressor/Limiter/Gate
Yamaha REV100 reverb/delay
Yamaha DGStomp guitar preamp
Guild G41 steel string guitar
Palmer Pretend-a-Strat guitar
Alesis Studio 12R mixer (pick up tomorrow)
Rented for this project:
Alesis LX20 8-track ADAT
Alesis Studio 24
I'll be burning the final CD on a Tascam CD-RW700 CD Recorder, which is owned by the school at which I'm technology coordinator.

Most of this equipment was really cheap, but has worked flawlessly (with the exception of the Yamaha DGStomp, which quit after 3 days of use). Despite the abuse it's taken on this forum (some from me!), the JV-1010 has really proved to be a pleasure to work with. I have the orchestral expansion card on order, hoping to increase its usefulness. The DBX compresser unit is really great for how cheap it was, and the Yamaha reverb, found used for $125, has been amazing! The MOTU unit is being under-utilized, but as it takes all the hassle out of MIDI routing, it'll come into its own as I add modules in the next few weeks.

Back to work . . .

[This message has been edited by OldSchool (edited 01-01-2001).]

Well, I've actually had a bit of success with getting the leading edge off the individual hits in my rolls. I've spent about 10 hours working on trying to get some of the messages listed in the M-BD1's manual to work, and finally have gotten pretty close by adjusting a parameter called "TVF&TVA Envelope Attack Time". It works nicely for the roll on the hi tom and on the low tom... seems more like a toggle for the mids, though, which is irking me. I'm going to put a sample of pre- and post-tweaking on my site in a bit, if anyone's interested in hearing it. (That's http://www.speedlimit35.com/mbd1rolls.mp3, in case that link doesn't work.)

I've been trying to find a good editor program to use with the M-BD1, without much success... I've tried SounDiver, but I'm shooting in the dark with that, and everything else seems to put the smack down on my W2k box (sudden reboots... wierd). Anyone got any suggestions, or am I gonna have to write my own bloody editor? (Well, I have been looking for a good project to learn java on...)

As soon as I scrape the bucks together, I'm definitely planning on going crazy and picking up a full VPro kit... that thing is suhweet! No, I don't really play drums (I think my IQ's too high ), but I'm pretty sure that with that kit, my sequencer for tweaking, and a set of real cymbals, I'll never have to worry about the sound or realism of my drums again.

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http://www.mp3.com/speedlimit35

I own a JV-80, JX-305 and a R-70.

Ive got a
XV-5080 with bass&drums exp card.
Kurzweil 2000r
Roland Super JX-10 with some strange exp cards
Korg X3


[This message has been edited by NisseP (edited 01-05-2001).]

Hi my name is David. I have an XV-88 with the SRX-02 piano expansion card, the Experience II and the Super Sound Set. I am hoping that Roland will relaes an SRX Orchestral card at NAMM. Any new rumors? I am also looking to trade sounds with other people. Has anyone developed any improvements on the SRX piano card? Thanks.

I own a XP-30
KC-500

I just discovered this forum. Let the discussion begin.

Folks:
In an earlier post I cast aspersions on a Yamaha amp emulator, the DGStomp, which quit on me. Turns out I'd run over the power cord with my office chair wheel - when I returned it, the music store found the cord in two pieces when they took it out of the box. A little solder and shrink-wrap, and it's good as new.

I invite your cat-calls...

Heya, I use a JV-1010. I also have tons of other material not related to this forum, and am quite a power user for all sorts of music/computer tech.

Hi,

Just became a brand new Roland owner. Got the XV-88 yesterday, and been happily sleepless playing with the new toy.

I do have a question though: someone gave me a Roland CA-30 arranger, but I've never used one before. Can I even use this with the XV-88 (or would I be unwittingly performing some act of desecration by doing so)? If the CA-30 is of any use to me, could someone out there please help me out?

Thanks, and glad to see this board! I think I'll probably be needing a lot of help for a while ....

- EP
epineda@email.com


[This message has been edited by EP (edited 01-11-2001).]

Hi EPU,

Steve from Miami

I have,

JV-1080 with Vintage Synth, Tekno, and Experience 2 Boards
MC-303
Akai S-950
Oberheim Matrix 1000
Ensoniq SQ-2
Yamaha QY-10
Mac G3-Digital Performer 2.7, Unisyn

I have had the JV-1080 for almost 5 years now, best synth I have ever had.

Anyone know where to find the expansions boards online cheaper then music stores like Sam Ash ect.?

[QUOTE]Originally posted by epu:I have a jv1010 With no extras a jurrasic Alesis(non gm Synth)A tascam 564mdd recorder and a computer with all the necesarys!!!
Oh and of course my trusty steed Dx7.
The only thing i really need is a brains to put it all together!!!!!
Anybody with similar kit is welcome to slag me(via email) of if they can configure such an unusual combo!!!!!(james@dk)

Hi OldSchool,
You jest!! You have 76 posts as of this posting.
Boo!! Hoo!! I still have an ole PSR-510 in which I just replaced all switch strips for the keys. I've had the keyboard 5 or 6 yrs. I've had to replace them twice. There's some great equipment out there. Maybe one day I can afford to update.
Take Care, PS: I hope you a grown member
soon!!

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Greetings.

I have an XP-80 with the Session and Latin Boards. I will get either the Orchestral 1 or 2 next. I'm leaning towards #2. One more thing, is it me, or is nobody excited about the House Expansion Board? Does anyone know when it is going to be released? Is ANYONE looking forward to it??? Anyone?

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Villalobos

Nobby:
Gee...look! I'm now a "Member!" I'm just bustin' with pride! Only a few more postings and I'll be "Master of the Universe!"

Vacations (17 days over Christmas, MLKJr. 3-day weekend) have made me a little more active than usual around here, though I only recently discovered this forum anyway.

I'm looking forward to the House expansion boar very much since I didn't own either #6 or #11 board (I own 3080 and personly I think #11 is kinda redundant to my 3080...) . Rumor said the House expansion board should have released LAST November though....Still waiting... Will it show up in Winter NAMM these days?

Owned a JV-1010 + Bass&Drums card for just 2 weeks and I'm still impressed!

Easy to use (with a PC), and I've already started programming a few patch improvements (surely they're not serious with that tambourine waveform that sounds like a jingle bell Father Christmas dropped?).

I like the pianos on the inbuilt Session card, and the bass & drums on the Bass&Drums card are terrfific!

Just be warned though - the drums on this card only have bass drum, snare, toms, cymbals & high-hat - anything else you'll need to find elsewhere.

I'm a guitarist (real picky about guiitar sound) and have never heard anything that comes remotely close to sounding like a real guitar, and this synth is no different, but some are as good as I've heard anywhere. Doesn't matter - I'll be using real guitars in my recordings.

My sequences have immediately taken a lift from the old Korg X5DR module. Thousands of patches on the web - I've already built up a good library of the basic sounds I need (mostly brass, B3 organs, piano, strings, pads, bass & drums).

Rock on,
Hound Dog

I,m KUNNY

my roland equipment:
a new XV 5080, XP80 loaded with orchestral, session, vintage and vocal board.
JV 1080 with pop board, keyboards of the 60's & 70's and world expansion boards.
other roland synth and stuffs: D70, D50,
Juno 106, SR50, KC 500, sustain pedals and XL
roland T-shirt.

those that have recently bought the xv-88, what style of music do you use the synth to play ? and how much did you buy it for? I am looking into the xv-88.

I'm "ExP60". Also a Roland XP60, with Bass & Drums, Vintage Synths,Techno, and HipHop cards. I also have a Keyboards of the 60's and 70's not installed. Any hints? (Only 4 expansion slots.) Is there a BB for XP60 and XP80 users only?

I'm "ExP60", Roland XP60 with Bass and Drums, Vintage Synths, Techno, and HipHop cards. I also have a keyboards of the 60's and 70's not installed. Any hints?

Well... I guess you could get the JV-1010 and put it in there. That's a bit pricey though (not for a module, but for an expansion board space) but if you really need all 5 at once then...................

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John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Oooooh I forgot somebody..... Alfax, I use the XV-88 for Praise and Worship stuff, soft rock kinda stuff, and classical piano. Eventually I'll be using it for midi sequencing, but not right now. It really has a broad scope of sounds so don't let my boring old stuff discourage you..... In my opinion it is the best for the kind of stuff I use it for though. I don't really know if it can compete with Triton for the electronic market (it has NO sequencer or sampler) But it certainly is capable of just about anything..... I got mine for $2150. www.Music123.com and www.BPMmusic.com have low prices right now... just about anyone will match their prices. Try www.musiciansfriend.com Any specific questions???

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John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

hi
tell me is the JV-1000 dead or still alive?

Hi! I just bought a Roland XV-88 for a bargain price $2083 US, and am having a lot of fun. I'm toddling along with cakewalk, but having some problems gettin the Rx MIDI switch to go to multi... I'm sure I'll figure it out though.

alfax, I bought my XV-88 for $4400 Australian - at the moment it retails for $5675. I use it to play Praise and Worship music (Delirious, Sonic Flood, The Parachute Band and Tree63 for those interested) and I'm also getting into some covers now in a new band. The Keyboard is great and has just about anything you want for whatever you want.

arnold.

Good evening,

I own a JV-1080 that I trigger from an Ensoniq SD1. I use both in my church's praise and worship band and they work well together, especially layered sounds. An SD1 organ or sawtooth wave layered with any of the JV's vocal patches is awesome!

cool guys! thanks for all the replies, I've decided I'm gonna get an xv-88 soon for $2099
at guitar center!

Hi, I am Rajen from Pretoria in South Africa. I had the XP-50 which I changed for the JV1080 [JV1080 is the module of the XP-50]. I use Cakewalk PA 9 which works perfectly. I use the Yamaha DX7 as a midi keyboard and 2nd module Korg O3R/W. I have the Asia and World cards on the JV1080. I think these JV/XP are magic stuff.
Rajen.

I bought an XP-60 a couple of weeks ago. I'm really happy with it and my only problem is finding the time and patience to read the manual. Textbooks are more of an entertaining read than this thing.

JV1010
tiny but have you cranked the filters on this bad boy !!
the resonance realy screams
open up sounddiver and add some layers

the best bang for buck i ever spent

trevor

JV-80 with Orchestrial Board here!

Still use it and its still a good sounding board for the Orchestrial stuff. Not enough polyphony tho

I have recently got hold of an xp60 which i use with cubase 4, recycle, rebirth and soundedit on a g3 laptop. If only the xp60 was portable!!!

ps i am looking for some patches or cards of fat percussion, and real big bass - anyone know where i can get.

cheers!!!

Hi JV/XP/XV-people,

I'm Hans from Belgium. I own an XV-88 and an MC-80 sequencer for a month now. I used to have an RD-600 and an E-96 keyboard before. I got rid of them because I needed more sounds and I never really used the music styles in the E-96. With the MC-80 and the XV-88 I can make my own music from the bottom.
I thought the keyboard touch/feeling of the RD-600 was very good, but the XV-88's is better. I liked the RD-600's pianos more though. With the XV-sounds I've got everything I need. Although in some sounds (including the XV piano patches) you can hear some irritating noise at certain velocities, but I hope the piano sounds on the new SRX-03 "Studio" Expansion board will be better...
Yeah, you heard it right: Roland announced a new member of the SRX-family at Frankfurter Musikmesse, probably the equivalent of the SR-JV80 Series "Session" board. There's also a new RD-700 coming up with two SRX-Series expansion slots. I searched the Internet about all this but I only could find information in Dutch/French on the Roland Benelux website at http://www.roland.be/ff2001.html. Check it out!

Best regards,

Hans

Sorry, this link doesn't seem to be working. Try the homepage at http://www.roland.be and you'll get there too after one extra click...

I'm using the XP80 since four years and the Yamaha SY35 for about 5,5 Years. My music could be discribed as some kind of soundtrack-music without films, a little bit like (the grandmaster) Vangelis. The XP80 does a very good job in that case!

XP-30

Superb sounds. The only thing I need to do is purchase an interface so I can hook it up to my computer which has Cakewalk installed in it.

Well I just bought a JV1010. With it I use a Fatar SL880. Also have a Casio WK1800 and a laptop sequencer Voyetra's Digital Orchestrator Plus) all linked together. Also have an Ibanez AW100-CE (acoustic/electric guitar)

Hello, brothers-in-Roland out there in the world.
I live in Rome, Italy, and have just bought an XV 3080 with the Session and the Vintage Synth board; I was undecided between the 3080 and the 5080 and have to thank Chris (a.k.a. Feefer) for his advice. In the past I have had other Roland gear (D50, D550, D70, S750, JV80, R8, R8M). I haven't got any SRX card because neither the Drums nor the Piano board did convince me (I have already all the drum samples I can ever need and own a Yamaha P100 digital piano). So, better wait for future releases.

HJ,
XP60 with Hip Hop,Techno and Vocal Cards.Along with the Korg Triton to back it up..

I have an XP-80, and a BR-8 , roland/boss is the most relyable equipment in the world.

ROLAND XP30,WITH LATIN AND VOCALS CARDS,AMD K6 500,CUBASE 5.32,NUENDO,REAKTOR,GIGASAMPLER

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[b]D'auk o-la[b]

Hey, I can finally respond to this! I just picked up a Roland JV-2080 and Orchestral board, both well worth the price so far, IMHO, even if the instruction booklets aren't the best on the market. The Orchestral II is probably going to be my next pick-up (I'm doing orchestral/film score style music. Go fig.), and use both Finale and Cakewalk software.

I'm still a relative newbie, and am starting to get my feet wet with sysex functions. There but for the grace of God, etc. etc. and so on. Hope to be able to tell you more soon!

I have a Yamaha A4000 Sampler, and good that it is (very good indeed), i need Quick accessable sounds at my disposel, as you have to wait a while to load the samples. I was thinking of Part exchanging my A4000 for a XV 3080, and wondered if it was worth the upgrade! - just how good is this module?, it can't import Samples like the XV5080 I belive, so I will be without anysampling funcions: The sounds I'm after are Orchestral ones (very realistic ones as well, not just good- but very very good!). And I want some excellent Cello, Viola Soloist sounds etc - to go with my KN6000 Arranger keyboard. Has the XV got some good soloist sounds? - I wonder!.

Oh...and yes, I posted here to make it up to a "100" replies

Jupiter