JV-2080
64 Voice Synthesizer Module
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The Roland JV-2080 was the successor to the very popular, industry-standard studio expander of the '90s, the JV-1080. 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! |
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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 after 10 years from its inception. 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 The JV-2080 has been my go-to studio machine for 10 years, and even if it has been superseded by the XV and Fantom series, it can provide a solid foundation of sounds to any studio. I spent quite some time recording many audio demos to show how versatile this instrument can be - and remember - this is a stock unit - before adding any SR-JV80-series expansion board... ;-) |
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1 Timepeace
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Scott Tibbs
Music by Scott Tibbs Copyright ©
1996, Roland Corporation US
Scott Tibbs has performed and conducted for several orchestral groups, including the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, throughout the United States, Canada, Latin America, and Japan. His diverse compositional output ranges from numerous film, theater and television projects to the symphonic concert stage. For the past four years, he has been teaching music composition and theory at UCLA where he has received a Ph.D. degree in composition. He has performed with well-known artists Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Cosby, Jerry Sienfeld (sic), and Bobby Shew, amongst numerous others.
2 Denki
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Ryeland Allison
Music By Ryeland Allison Copyright © 1996, Silver Outlet Music BMI
Ryeland makes electronics groove at the speed of sound, including computer controlled transistor rhythm. Busy Bee on the Quake Coast fashioning Distorted Reality, Cyberian sounds, and during twilight: his dynamism plunders vibrancy at once among peace-loving frequencies. He jiggles remote to youth righteousness, enclosing his testament to ambrosial positive relatives, buzzing all serviceable results.
He is honoured to introduce this to you.
3 Short Cuts
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Yuuki Kato
Music by Yuuki Kato Copyright ©
1996, Roland Corporation
Guitarist, bassist and drummer. At present, he is the managing director of the Music Brains, Inc. This company is involved in various types of music production, such as CD and background music, and is based in a home studio (in the Setagaya area of Tokyo) that was built with a design concept of a "wholistic (sic) environment optimal for acoustic instruments and computers." The company's credits include demo data for Roland products such as the SC-88Pro and KR, and numerous titles of Roland SMF music data. On this demo, direction is handled by Music Brains' chief director Takayuki Nagatani.
These demos are 100% Roland JV-2080, straight from the master stereo outputs - no other effects were applied.
| USER bank | |
| Patch name with audio demo | My comments |
| 001 2 0 8 0 | This preset definitely deserves to be the sound one hears when turning the machine on. A powerful, evocative, majestic and evolving breathy choir/pad. This is to the JV-2080 what preset 00 "Universe" was to the Korg M1. |
| 002 Keep :-) | Keep smiling. This sound is a typical 303 sound that is being transformed by excellent programming of hi-pass filter, and quality delay fx. Happy House is the name of the genre that is associated with the happy face in the title. |
| 003 Temple of JV | Cool |
| 004 Adrenaline | Highly distorted TB-303 sound. Great for hardcore techno. |
| 005 Rich Dynapad | Beautiful soft pad - analog sounding. |
| 006 Morning Lite | Delightful, classy and gentle bell pad - typical of the 1990s |
| 007 Rain Forest | Incredible programming, sound like a live, field recording |
| 008 Str + Winds | Decent classical ensemble |
| 009 Booster Bips | Digital grittiness |
| 010 Jupiterings | Fantastic analog filter rising pad, inspired by the Jupiter series - great aftertouch |
| 011 Sm.Brass Grp | A small brass section - nice |
| 012 Techno Dream | The classic sounds used in Robert Miles' "Children" |
| 013 Trancing Pad | Bouncy pad |
| 014 Mental Chord | Rave/House sound. "Mental" was an adjective in vogue in the British rave scene a few years ago. |
| 015 Feed Me! | Expressive distorted electric guitar, with feedback |
| 016 3 Osc Brass | Nice analog brass orchestra sound |
| 017 Planet Asia | Nice moving pad |
| 018 PieceOfCheez | Cool Clavinet through filter |
| 019 December Sky | Beautiful pad sound, inspired by the Korg M1 perhaps |
| 020 East Europe | Superb zither |
| 021 RiversOfTime | Classic evolving sound, a la Korg Wavestation |
| 024 Pulsatronic | One of the classic JV-1080 sounds |
| 029 HolidayCheer | Stupendous Christmas sound, a la Linear Arithmetic D-50 |
| 030 Glider | Powerful analog lead with portamento "slide" |
| 035 X.. Whistle | Beautiful recreation of the E-mu Proteus/2 whistle patch that Mark Snow used to score the "X-Files" theme (source: Keyboard magazine, 0/00) |
| 044 Blue Notes | Classic jazz split - contrabass + ride cymbal on the left, brass on the right |
| 046 Enlighten | Beautiful voxy pad - typical of the '90s |
| 049 SH-2000 | The Roland SH-2000 was a monophonic synthesizer with aftertouch, nonetheless. |
| 050 Shadows | Eerie fx pad |
| 054 Full Orchest | Nice and realistic orchestra patch |
| 055 B'on d'moov! | Typical "electronica" acid sound, best sequenced/arpeggiated. |
| 058 BandPass Mod | Respectable filters on this machine. |
| 059 4pole Bass | Deep synth bass. |
| 060 Octapad | Solid, wide octave pad |
| 064 D-50 Rhodes | Soft electric piano like many in the D-50. |
| 065 Solo Strat | Expressive and realistic electric guitar sound. |
| 067 Soap Opera | Classic 1940s/1950s organ |
| 070 Dimensional | Superb evolving resonant pad. |
| 071 Stacc.Heaven | Emulation of one of my favorite patches ever: Roland D-50's preset 61, "Staccato Heaven". Eric Persing (famous Roland programmer and Spectrasonics founder) did a marvelous job combining an organ waveform with |
| 074 Afterlife | Cool |
| 075 JUNO Power! | Nice but which Juno is the programmer talking about? Probably the 106. |
| 083 Soundtraque | Another beautiful D-50-factory-style patch. |
| 084 House Chord | Quintessential early '90s House chord |
| 086 DesertCrystl | Splendid electric guitar with string pad. |
| 090 Darkshine | Liquid pad |
| 092 Surf's Up! | A great Vox Continental sound - used in Surf music of the 1960s. |
| 097 Resojuice | Rough and gritty analog resonant lead - The modulation wheel adds detuning. |
| 098 Silicon Str | Marvelous analog string pad - These are the famed Roland warm filters in action! |
| 102 Sequalog | Better sequenced. |
| 105 Solo Steel | Nice acoustic guitar with steel strings - Includes slide noise on release of the keys. |
| 108 2.2 Bell Pad | The programmer is probably referring to the digital/analog hybrid P.P.G synthesizer |
| 115 Gluey Pad | Warm and nice. |
| 125 Droplet | :-) |
| 126 Silky Way | Essential sound in any sound library: the '80s soft pad! |
| 127 Helium Queen | Outstanding Theremin emulation - perfect for Halloween and scoring scary movies :-) |
| PRESET A bank | |
| Patch name with audio demo | My comments |
| 001 64voicePiano | The standard 2080 grand piano sound. Usable for many genres, although more suitable for pop/rock styles. |
| 003 Classique | Nicely filtered, dark European grand piano |
| 008 E.Grand | Classic Yamaha CP-series electro-acoustic pianos |
| 011 West Coast | Another JV-1080 classic sound - Acoustic piano + electric piano + strings |
| 012 PianoStrings | Very nice, useful patch |
| 014 Waterhodes | Electric piano through fx |
| 016 SA Rhodes 1 | S.A. synthesis used in the late '80s Roland digital pianos. The RD-1000 was the most famous model. Many pros used it in live settings. The synthesis employed was "S.A.", or structured-adaptive, and rather than being based on subtractive, FM, sampling or other popular technologies of the era, it was a proprietary technique developed by the Roland engineers. Back then, it had no competition. It didn't sound exactly like a piano, but the expressiveness was there, the nuances, and the feel. |
| 023 PsychoRhodes | Fast filtering |
| 025 MK-80 Rhodes | The classic Roland MK-80 |
| 026 MK-80 Phaser | version with phaser |
| 030 JV Rhodes+ | 1980s goodness |
| 037 Phaze Clav 2 | Typical Hohner Clavinet through phaser |
| 038 Phuzz Clav | Cool Clavinet through fuzz box |
| 040 Claviduck | Clavinet through envelope follower/filter |
| 046 Full Stops | Nice Hammond organ - the mod wheel engages the 2-speed Leslie effect. |
| 049 AugerMentive | A la Brian Auger |
| 051 The Big Spin | Massive Hammond through Leslie |
| 055 Tone Wh.Solo | Warm, tube-like Hammond, they rock 'n' roll way |
| 056 Purple Spin | Distorted organ a la Deep Purple |
| 058 Assalt Organ | An assault to the ear drums - the '60s way |
| 059 D-50 Organ | The classic D-50 "58 Rock Organ" patch |
| 060 Cathedral | Sweet church pipe organ |
| 063 Poly Saws | Analog sounding polysynth |
| 066 Saw Mass | Fat |
| 068 Poly Brass | Fusion like |
| 072 Fantasia JV | Emulating the classic D-50 preset |
| 076 Huff N Stuff | More D-50 inspired sounds. |
| 078 BellVox 1080 | Fantastic soft noizepad |
| 081 Childlike | Simple carillon like bells |
| 087 Music Bells | Sparkly and nice |
| 092 Warm Vibes | Very nice vibraphone patch |
| 099 Steel Drums | The sound of the Islands |
| 102 Drone Split | Asian coolness |
| 104 Jamisen | The typical Japanese instrument |
| 108 Nylon Gtr | Honest nylon guitar |
| 110 Steel Away | The classic steel guitar sound of the original JV-80/JV-880 synthesizers. |
| 112 12str Gtr 1 | Nice 12-string |
| 114 Jz Gtr Hall | Cool |
| 118 JC Strat | JC who? |
| 119 Twin Strats | Typical Twin Peaks '50s style tremolo guitar |
| 122 Rotary Gtr | Cool electric guitar through tremolo, a la "Black Hole Sun" |
| 123 Muted Gtr | Reggaey |
| PRESET B bank | |
| Patch name with audio demo | My comments |
| 001 Dist Gtr 1 | Mega-distorted rock electric guitar |
| 003 R&R Chunk | Excellent, highly playable guitar patch |
| 004 Phripphuzz | A la Fripp |
| 009 Pick Bass | Standard Fender Precision played with pick. |
| 013 Finger Bass | Fingered bass, typical Roland. |
| 015 Ac.Upright | Okay contrabass |
| 016 Wet Fretls | Expressive fretless bass with plenty of effects. |
| 021 Slap Bass 4 | Clean slapped bass. |
| 025 Mondo Bass | Aggressive synth bass. |
| 026 Clk AnalogBs | Analog bass with click in the attack. |
| 030 Super Jup Bs | Inspired by Roland's own "Super Jupiter MKS-80" synth. |
| 035 BritelowBass | Cutting synth bass |
| 037 Rubber Bass | Classic Roland synth bass |
| 038 Stereoww Bs | Stereo, wide open synth bass |
| 040 Deep Bass | Typical Moog bass |
| 041 Super JX Bs | Inspired by Roland's MKS-70 Super JX. |
| 043 HI-Ring Bass | Techno. |
| 045 SinusoidRave | Woofer crazy |
| 048 Auto TB-303 | Superb filtered acid synth a la 303. |
| 050 Velo Tekno 1 | Nice techno synth, with cool delay fx. |
| 051 Raggatronic | Another classic JV-1080 sound. |
| 052 Blade Racer | Same here. |
| 053 S&H Pad | Nice |
| 055 Fooled Again | The typical The Who song. |
| 058 Rezoid | '90s synth |
| 059 Raverborg | Cool House sound |
| 069 Paz -- Zap | Yep |
| 070 4 Hits 4 You | Classic early/mid 90s sampled brass stabs. |
| 074 Tekno Hit 2 | Classic Techno hits |
| 077 SquareLead 1 | Yes |
| 078 SquareLead 2 | Yep |
| 079 You and Luck | The usual "Lucky Man" patch. |
| 084 FXM Saw Lead | Aggressive, nice synth lead with the unique "FXM" Roland effect |
| 088 MG Interval | Typical Moog with two oscillators set at a fifth |
| 092 Loud SynLead | Brassy lead |
| 095 Flute | Lovely flute sound |
| 099 Pan Pipes | Nice South American feel |
| 101 Taj Mahal | A flute in a large space, very New Age |
| 103 Oboe mf | Nice emulation |
| 105 Clarinet mp | Ok clarinet |
| 108 ChamberWinds | Realistic chamber winds |
| 111 Sop.Sax mf | Cool soprano sax |
| 112 Alto Sax | Nice |
| 114 Tenor Sax | Ok |
| 115 Baritone Sax | mm.. |
| 118 Bigband Sax | Big section! |
| 119 Harmonica | Fantastic, realistic harmonica patch |
| 121 BluesHarp | Classic dirty blues harmonica sound |
| 128 Mute TP mod | Typical Miles Davis sound. |
| PRESET C bank | |
| Patch name with audio demo | My comments |
| 005 Trombone | Exquisite trombone patch, with cool slide via bender |
| 009 Horn Swell | Regal and realistic |
| 010 Brass It! | Superb cross between realistic and analog brass |
| 012 Archimede | Nice |
| 015 True ANALOG | Fantastic soft analog synth brass, typical of the late '70s/early '80s polysynths. |
| 016 Dark Vox | Beautiful voxy pad |
| 018 Angels Sing | Nice percussive vox |
| 020 Longing... | Excellent Fairlight-type choir |
| 021 Arasian Morn | Gorgeous Fairlight patch |
| 023 Mary-AnneVox | Perfect pad for Ambient music |
| 024 Belltree Vox | Mega-ravishing vocal pad with bells in the background |
| 031 Doos | Classic Roland doo sound. |
| 034 LFO Vox | Yep |
| 036 Warm Strings | Soulful cross between analog and sampled strings |
| 037 Somber Str | Realistic string section |
| 041 TremoloStrng | Yes |
| 044 Symphonique | Very cool ensemble, realistic - includes timpani |
| 045 Film Octaves | Thick, lovely string section doubled in octaves |
| 047 Bass Pizz | Cool |
| 049 Harp On It | Beautiful harp |
| 051 JP-8 Str 1 | Quintessential Roland pad - inspired by the Jupiter-8 |
| 052 JP-8 Str 2 | Variation of the above |
| 053 E-Motion Pad | Resonant filter in action |
| 054 JP-8 Str 3 | Another great variant of the JP-8 strings |
| 055 Vintage Orch | aka Solina |
| 058 PWM Strings | Ok |
| 059 Warmth | Gluey anapad. |
| 063 Pulse Pad | Nice |
| 064 Greek Power | Perhaps inspired by certain sounds used by Vangelis? |
| 071 JP-8 Hollow | Classic Jupiter-8 hollow pad |
| 072 JP-8Haunting | And variation. |
| 073 Heirborne | Nice and different. |
| 076 Jet Pad 2 | Lots of flanger. |
| 082 Fantawine | Typical glass pad |
| 083 Glassy Pad | Another D-50 favorite. |
| 084 Moving Glass | Cool |
| 085 Glasswaves | More glassy pads. |
| 087 ShiftedGlass | Fantastic soft pad! |
| 090 Rotary Pad | Goes round and round |
| 091 Dawn 2 Dusk | Gorgeous evolving pad, a la Wavestation |
| 093 Strobe Mode | Lots of LFOs |
| 094 Albion | Nice effects. |
| 096 Stepped Pad | More modulation coolness. |
| 098 SoundtrkDANC | Yes |
| 099 Flying Waltz | Another typical JV-1080/2080 sound |
| 100 Vanishing | Mysterious digital, glassy pad. |
| 101 5th Sweep | Resonant analog pad |
| 107 Sands ofTime | Delicious and strange pad. Triggers another sound at release. |
| 108 Inertia | Weird |
| 113 Shattered | Cool, full sounding. |
| 115 Pure Tibet | Very nice ambient patch |
| 117 Night Shade | Cool noise pad |
| 118 Tortured | Cinematic dramatic |
| 119 Dissimilate | Perfect for soundtracks |
| 120 Dunes | Very nice sci-fi sound fx |
| 121 Ocean Floor | Incredible emulation of being underwater |
| 124 Variable Run | Cool |
| 126 ComputerRoom | Yep.. |
| General MIDI bank | |
| Patch name with audio demo | My comments |
| 004 Honky-tonk | Nice and happy honky-tonk |
| 005 E.Piano 1 | Soulful digital Rhodes |
| 019 Organ 3 | Typical Progressive organ of the '70s |
| 021 Reed Organ | Nice |
| 039 Synth Bass 1 | Typical synth bass |
| 056 OrchestraHit | Yep |
| 071 Bassoon | Lovely. |
| 076 Pan Flute | Nice |
| 080 Ocarina | Outstanding. |
| 086 Solo Vox | Nice |
| 100 Atmosphere | The classic GM sound. |
| 102 Goblin | Nice effect. |
| 106 Banjo | Well sampled. |
| 127 Applause | Thanks. |
| PRESET E bank | |
| Patch name with audio demo | My comments |
| 001 Echo Piano | Lovely grand piano through delay |
| 002 Upright Pno | Solid upright piano |
| 018 Exotic Velo | African feeling |
| 088 Jay Vee Solo | Full and analog sounding. |
| 114 D50FantaPerc | D-50 style |
| 126 Perky Noize | Yes |
| User performances | |
| Performance name with audio demo | My comments |
| 01 Strobe Pad 1 | Superb, complex digital pad |
| 04 Opening Orch | Realistic and happy orchestra |
| 05 Cyber Sweep | Superb filtering action |
| 07 Humming Pno | Pretty piano + vocal pad |
| 12 SH Split | Roland analog split |
| 16 LateAutumnSP | Beautiful, melancholic soft pad |
| 20 CeremonialFX | Cool sounds and percussion. |
| 21 AcPiano+Pad | Yes |
| 27 FX Bell Pad | More L.A. synthesis fun |
| Preset B performances | |
| Performance name with audio demo | My comments |
| 01 Dulcimar&Gtr | Lovely acoustic sounds |
| 02 DulcitarStk | Nice |
| 04 Rave Attack | Classic early '90s sounds |
| 10 Cosmic Dawn | Beautiful pad |
| 14 Strobe Pad 2 | Nice evolving LFOs |
| 19 White Hole | Scary Sci-Fi FX |
| 20 EasternSplit | Fantastic Asian feel |
| 28 Pad - Lead | Marvelous split |
| 30 Bass - Lead | Solid split |
| 32 Drone - Pipe | Ethnic beauty |
| Rhythm patch name with audio demo | My comments |
| User | |
| 001 HouseDrumSet | Classic TR-808 sounds and more |
| 002 JazzDrumSet1 | Honest jazz samples |
| Preset A | |
| 001 PopDrumSet 1 | Pop/Rock samples |
| 002 PopDrumSet 2 | Pop/Rock samples, more aggressive |
| Preset B | |
| 001 PowerDrumSet | Tight |
| 002 RaveDrumSet | Nice samples |
| Preset C | |
| 001 JazzDrumSet2 | Fusiony |
| 002 OrchDrumSet | Orchestral set |
Vintage Patches for the JV-series by reader Julian C.
VINTAGE / ANALOGUE' - PATCHES
for Roland JV series Synthesizers.
These
are 3 Patch Banks of 128 patches each, which I programmed on the Roland JV 2080.
All Patches use ONLY the JV internal waveforms - NO expansion cards
are necessary. I believe these Patches will also work on the
Roland XP Synths.
I
have tried to emulate some of the best patches from the many Vintage and rare
Synthesizers I have owned and played over the years. Some Patches are created
from memory, some from demos on the Net and some from direct A/B comparisons
with the original sound.
Each
Bank also contains a good selection of 'Basics' such as Organs, Electric /
Acoustic Pianos, Bass and Strings (which I think The JV does particularly well).
The Patches are in .syx
format.
Hope you enjoy – JULIAN C.
| Features at a glance | |
| Year of release: | 1997 |
| Polyphony: | 64 |
| Presets: | 768 stock |
| Rhythms: | 12 drum kits |
| Keyboard: | n/a |
| Responds to velocity: | yes |
| Responds to aftertouch: | yes |
| Sound generation method: | Sampled |
| MIDI: | in, out, thru |
| Sound expansion capabilities: | yes, SR-JV80 series expansion boards |
| Effects: | MultiFX, and dedicated Reverb & Chorus |
| Controls: | buttons, large display |
| Outputs: | stereo pairs |
| Display: | LCD, backlit green |
| Misc: | the successor to the studio standard JV-1080 |
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