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The Roland JV-2080 is a rack-mount expandable MIDI sound module, and an improved version of the Roland JV-1080. Produced by the Roland Corporation, released in 1996 and built on a sample-based synthesis architecture, the JV-2080 provides a library of on-board sample material and a semi-modular synthesis engine.
Fantastic range of Vintage warm synth sounds with built in effects.
The JV-2080 still featured the same generous polyphony of 64 voices, and 16-part MIDI multi-timbrality. A total of 768 patches are available on a stock unit (and that’s before you start adding expansion boards!), including a General MIDI bank.The main improvements are more effect blocks – useful in Perform mode – you can use up to three effects simultaneously, and still have dedicated chorus and reverb – and a large, backlit LCD display, with a very useful category search.Unscrew 10 little screws from the top of the unit, and the JV-2080 accepts up to eight SR-JV80-series expansion boards – for a total of circa 2,000 patches when fully expanded!
The “sonic character” of the 2080 is extremely “warm” – like many Roland synths of the era, even digital ones, are. Pads are incredibly warm and full-sounding, but really, every category of sounds is well represented. And by the time you start adding the expansion boards, it’s still an extremely valid unit, even now.It’s also important to notice that the JV/XP series synths are capable, highly editable machines – There are many parameters to edit, and with the large screen and soft button shortcuts, it’s relatively easy and quick to get good results starting from “raw” waveforms.The JV-2080 can provide a solid foundation of sounds to any studio.
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