Roland JV-880 Multi Timbral Synthesizer Module Demo Songs

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Songs 1-1 through 1-5 by Marvin Sanders, Copyright 1992, Marvester Music
Song 2 "Lost Weekend" by Mitsuru Sakaue, Copyright 1992, Roland
Song 3 "The Race" by Chas Smith, Copyright 1992, Roland UK

Composer Profiles:

Marvin Sanders - As Keyboard Product manager for Rolannd US, Sanders has performed at clinics all over the world. In between his involvement with their marketing and promotional afforts, he has created sounds for products from the JV-80 to the JD-800, factory patterns for the JW-50 and ROM plays found in the SC-155, U-220 and Model 760. Sanders also maintainers an active freelance career in Los Angeles composing and consulting for a variety of clients from Toyota, Acura, and Alpine to Max Factor and Michael Jackson.

Mitsuru Sakaue began composings and doing arrangemennts for commercials and videos whiel still in school. In particular, his studio work earned for him a solid reputation. Currently (1992), as a chief producer within Idecs, Inc., he produces commercial musics and jingles for FM stations. His range of activity is broad, and includes his work as an instructor and expert on music intruments/computer music for the Roland Learning Center (Japan), as well as for other schools. In addtion, he has had numerous other opprotunities for displaying his talents wll while serving as demonstrator/product specialist for Roland.

Chas Smith - Roland UK's Senior Product Specialist/Demonstrator joined the company in 1987, after a freelance career playing in rock bands. he is an active composer, principally for the jingle market. His particular interests lin in the use of the latest sampling technology and in programming synthesizers.

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[Peteraardz]

I love that classic sounds, but how did you get that fantastic warm big sound ? can you tell me more about effect that used or proccesed to get that rich sound ?

[zibbybone]

@Peteraardz What "fantastic warm big sound" are you referrring to? All sounds are coming directly out of the JV-880 (Demo Songs)

[Peteraardz]

@zibbybone yes the demos sounds good today and sounding huge warm if compare to Roland XR rack?

[zibbybone]

@Peteraardz I do not understand what you are asking. The JV-80/880 were the 1st synths in the JV series. The XP/XV series expanded on the JV series and the Fantom series expanded on the XP/XV series. The XR is part of the Fantom (X) series.

[Penguindog55]

@raymangold22 I never bought the expansion boards in the end, but the JV-1080 is still one of the best synths I have ever used.

[raymangold22]

@Penguindog55 Oh you never told me you got a JV-1080! For me, the sounds are probably the most DIRECT in terms of sonics. Like, you can immediately get something with punch.

The expansion cards I [plan] on getting are: Orchestral #1, Vintage Synth, Asia, and Vocal Collection.

[VYD239]

Frasier

[eriklima2]

Great sound! :D

[audiotrax2000]

@raymangold22: in short - yes :) I've thought about getting one too.

[raymangold22]

@audiotrax2000 Would trying to find a JV-90 be a good route to get sounds of a JV-880 AND have a decent MIDI controller to boot?

A lot of the sounds in the 880 I recognize from the JV-1080: probably one of my most favourite modules around. It has the coolest screen ever, the blue and yellow ;)

[audiotrax2000]

I had one of these. The sound here is what the 880 sounded like. The hi end was EXTREMELY excited. I got rid of it for a JV-1080, but the 1080 never quite had the presence of this module. Beware though - this one is frustrating to edit on - you can only access HALF the sounds of an expansion board at one time. Serious design flaw.

[cubdukat]

@Peteraardz That's the natural sound of the JV-880. That sound is why the entire series was one of the most sought-after synth workstations of all time.

Still, they haven't quite mastered real brass sounds. I have yet to hear a sample playback synth whose brass sounds don't give it away as something other than real brass. But as far as everything else, this is a hard box to beat.

[Daddyfish65]

@owen320 You can't record sound via MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface). MIDI sends digital information such as note on/off, CC changes for parameters, sysex programming, etc. To get sounds from your JV-880 into a laptop you need to run the audio-out from the sound module into an audio-in on your Laptop. This is usually accomplished by adding an audio input device to your computer.

[buminbeer2]

I have the JV-80 and JV-880 as well as a Fantom X6 and many other Rolands, the JV-80/880 have stood the test of time for Keys and strings/woods/brass. Rock guitars forget it, but is has some close acoustic ones. Funny these sounds are what 20 years old and still sound good as well as you can pick up a JV-880 all day for about $100 bucks when mine was like $1200 or so in the day :)