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Decending Towards Death [Checking out my new Roland JV-1080 hardware synth]

By electronic_tiger on August 25, 2024 6:44 pm

Someone recommended me a Roland JV-1080 synth. So I picked one up. The JV-1080 sampler based synth from 1994. This is nothing like the sample libraries we have today. The JV-1080 has a whopping 8mb of memory. That's 8 megabytes, not gigabytes. So it loops these tiny waveforms to generate the sound. That you can bring to life with envelopes, LFOs and all kinds of modulation parameters. And the sounds that are in this box are wonderful. Well, some of them are. Quite a few are horribly outdated as well.

Anyway, this track is just me quickly checking out some of the sounds that are on the machine.



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August 28, 2024 5:43 am

orangedrink

this sounds so amazing

love when the changing voices come in

crazy how much can be done with so little and people complain about current gear! 

so this is a rack module right?  and you programmed or played a MIDI keyboard with it?

great stuff, hope you do more with this!

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August 28, 2024 5:46 am

orangedrink

also: this was very koyaanisqatsi

is this it?

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September 1, 2024 2:48 pm

electronic_tiger

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September 1, 2024 2:59 pm

electronic_tiger

Thank you orangedrink! Yes, it's that exact rack mount unit. And yes, the interface is very much of it's time... Which is a polite way of saying, it's crap. But it's workable if you put the time and effort in.

There are MIDI editors out there for it. But I haven't gotten it to work with my unit. From what I'm reading it could be that mine is too old. Seems there was a firmware revision on later units. That's not something you can just easily flash on there, unfortunately. Truly a different era. So front panel action it is. I've gotten used to it. It's not fast but the sound is brilliant!

I am delighted you picked up on the Koyaanisqatsi reference/homage. The sounds I got out of the JV-1080 gave Koyaanisqatsi-vibes, so I leaned into it hard.

Many thanks for the comments!

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September 1, 2024 2:59 pm

electronic_tiger

orangedrink wrote:

also: this was very koyaanisqatsi

is this it?


Yes & Yes!

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