I have a Roland JV-880 which costs peanuts on eBay and which takes expansion boards such as the SR-JV80-04. These boards are all ways of building up a library of sounds, piece by piece as you can come up with the bread. Midi Quest Editor/Librarian for the Roland JV-880. From the JV-880: Performance Bank, Performance Bank (Card), Performance, Patch (Part 1), Patch (Part 2),. ![]() Amerie because i love it vol 1 zip file download. The sonic prowess of the JV-880 is by far its strongest point. The acoustic instrument patches are all very good; some of the best ones are the guitar with the chimes, muted trumpet, strings, and flutes. There are also some very cool analog synth sounds, ranging from leads to pads to strings. One of the best things to this synth engine is the fact that Roland included voltage controlled filters and two independant LFO's per part (allowing for up to 8 per patch). The LFO's can be made to modulate a lot of things, and they also can pan around the stereo field, providing for some very spacious and dazzling timbres. The delays sound really good, the reverbs are good but tend to sound grainy with longer tails; the chorus is very well thought out and flexible. One caveat here: when the JV-880 is put into 4-output mode the effects processor is cut off, period. A bit on the lame side, but nothing outboard processing couldn't cover. Since the tonal parts can be made to only kick in at certain velocity levels, etc. When creating patches, this allows the JV-880 to become VERY reactive to your playing (a very good example of this is the aforementioned guitar with chimes patch). The rhythm section has some of the best drum samples I've ever heard packed inside any sample-playback synth, newer modules included. The JV-880 is useful for ANY kind of music, plain and simple. The JV-880 is probably one of the best all-around synth modules ever made, despite the limited polyphony. Even though it's now considered an older model, it still stands very well against newer synths, Roland's own Super JV line included. I got the first JV-880 ever shipped to the town I was living it at the time and I loved it so much that I now own two of them. I would highly recommend this module to anyone looking to augment the synth energy in thier studio - the JV-880 can be had for under $400 these days and there is absolutely nothing that sonically compares in the same price range. The fact that the JV-880 will accept the newer Roland expansion cards just simply allows it to stay up-to-date - this thing won't go stale. It would have been nice had Roland included the voice expansion option in this unit like the JV-90, but then again, that's why I got a second JV-880.
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