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06 June 2012
Roland's flagship rompler of the 90s/00s
6 of 6 found this helpful The big daddy of MIDI synth modules, from the big daddy company of synth modules: Roland. This is perhaps the biggest, and brashest rompler produced.
This has more features than you can poke a stick at and a massive library of sounds. Its heritage can be traced back through the JV-2080, JV-1080 and JV-880 to the JV-80, JD-990 and JD-800, and farther. Its huge bank of waveforms contains the bulk of Roland's rompler presets of the 90s, 1083 as standard with 4 SRX expansion slots and 4 SR-JV80 slots plus up to 128MB of sample RAM for loading sounds from Roland or Akai sample libraries.
It has a bunch of effects, and fully editable synthesis, so you take those waveforms and create something new. It has a large 320x80 display to make editing easier.
128 voice, 32 part multi-timbral with dual MIDI inputs. SCSI, R-Bus, S/PDIF, 8 analogue outputs and a card slot, makes getting sounds in and out a breeze.
Does it have flaws? Yes, of course! One problem using this today, is that it was cutting edge in 2000, but technology has changed. It takes 72 pin SIMMs for the RAM, and uses SCSI for connecting hard drives, CD-ROMs and Zip drives (remember those?); all old technologies so you will likely be getting them 2nd hand as well. The card slot uses smart media, which can be hard to find, and very low capacity by today's standards. R-Bus is largely obsolete. There is no USB. But MIDI, S/PDIF and good old analogue outputs will be more than enough for most people.
But if you want a rompler, particularly one with the sounds of the 90s, then this is game, set and match.