Please note that Vols 3 through 7 require expansion boards. Ten volumes with over 1000 sounds in all. We spent a lot of time with these synths and produced a large library of sounds for them that brings out their best.

The strings and electric pianos are also very good as well as it's ability to create a wide range of synth textures and effects. It's great for synth basses and leads and excels at creating warm synth pads.

With the great selection of ROM waves included, the JV and XP synths are capable of producing a wide range of cool sounds. The XP50 was followed by the XP60 and XP80 keyboards. There are 10 Tone structures including two wave generators, time variant filters (TVFs) and time variant amplifiers (TVAs) as well as a ring modulator and bass booster. Both the JV and XP have a wide range of effects including reverb, chorus and 40 different insert effects such as rotary, phaser, delay and pitch shift. The XP50 has a 61-note velocity and aftertouch-sensitive keyboard and also a sequencer built in which holds up to 60,000 notes and 100 patterns. The JV-1080 and XP50 features 64-Voice polyphony, as well as 16-part multi-timbral capabilities. We like to use MOTU's 'Unisyn' which has a great JV/XP editor included in the package. The JV and XP series synths have a large LCD screen although it's always a lot easier to use a computer editor when editing sounds. All the sounds you will ever need for any live gig. You can have up to 42MB of sounds if you max them out with four expansions. The 'World', 'Session' and 'Orchestral' boards also have lot's of great sounds included on them. The 'Vintage Synths' and 'Keyboards Of The 60's and 70's' are a must have and really make these synths stand out. The expansion boards are what makes these instruments so versatile. If that's not enough, a couple of years later Roland released the JV2080 which could hold up to a whopping 'eight' expansions! It was miles beyond what you could find in any other synths during the time and keyboard players went crazy for them. Both the JV1080 and XP50 came with 512 Internal and 128 User programs as well as several drum kits (which is a nice amount in itself), but you could install an additional 'four' SR-JV80 expansion boards which added another thousand programs. The most notable feature was the large amount of sounds that they held. When Roland released the JV1080 and XP50 in 1994 it was another big step up from their earlier JV series ROM player synths. Load our sounds via XP Series floppy diskĮach Sound Library (128 Patches) $20 Any 5 Volumes Only $80 Please note the following volumes require expansion boards: Great Sounds For Roland's Powerhouse SynthsĮach volume gives you 128 quality sounds for these fantastic synths.

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