SR-JV80-05
World
Expansion board
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Number five in Roland's large sound library for JV/XP
instruments, the "World" expansion board is dedicated to sounds,
instruments, loops and musical effects from all around our planet. The board opens with the spectacular "World Tour!", a spectacular offering of loops from different continents, and from there, it's a wild ride between Africa, Asia, the Americas, and even a little bit of Europe and Australia. The loops sound absolutely authentic, as I'm sure many of them were recorded on location. There are also a few patches that "mix and match" the loops to create new, original ones (how's a Brazilian cuica on top of a Moroccan loop?). |
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Another great thing about this board is the creative use of digital effects to augment - and in several cases, create new - instruments and loops. Several "ambient patches" are based upon the ethnic samples in ROM, but sound like they came out from something like Spectrasonics' "Distorted Reality". The single instruments are also great fun to play, and using the pitch bender and modulation wheel is possible to mimic quite well the sonic character of the original instruments. Finally, a few surprises at the end, where we even meet the dinosaurs at Dinosaur Park ;-) |
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| Patch name with audio demo | My comments |
| 001 World Tour! | An exciting trip through the world, these are useful loops to have in the sample library |
| 003 Yoh-How | Excellent recording quality, in surround, it feels like being there with them stomping our feet |
| 004 Kenya Split | Cool loop and nice instrument |
| 005 Intar Melody | Nice hypnotic instrument |
| 007 Thumb Chimes | Beautiful sound. |
| 008 Velo Afro 1 | Superb velocity switching |
| 015 Udu Pot Menu | Very realistic clay drums |
| 024 Pure Balafon | Very well-sampled balafon, an African type of xylophone |
| 027 Angklungs | Cool Indonesian instrument |
| 030 Steel Drums2 | The classic Caribbean instrument |
| 035 Kawala Str | Deep atmospheric strings. |
| 037 Shakupad | Nice hybrid patch based on the shakuhachi |
| 043 Eastvox | Nice |
| 044 Black Rain | Excellent, ambient patch |
| 049 Conch Call | Great sound |
| 051 Space Pipe | Cool and sci-fi |
| 053 Asian Chord | Ambient |
| 059 Whistle Vox | Nice cross between a whistle and the classic Fairlight syn vox |
| 060 Living Dead | Scary :-0 |
| 063 Drop of Rain | Expressive |
| 067 Pandoras Box | Superb sound effect, great for sci-fi themes |
| 068 Ethno Dreams | Another beautiful ambient/new age patch |
| 072 Trade Winds | Incredibly beautiful plucked atmospheric sound |
| 077 Gong Menu | A lot of gongs |
| 083 Temple Metal | Tibetan prayer bells and bowls |
| 087 Gamelan x4 | Enchanting, classic Indonesian gamelan ensemble |
| 095 Rama Cymbals | Nice Indian small cymbals |
| 101 Shakueko | Ambient version of the classic Japanese shakuhachi flute. |
| 105 Zampona | Typical Latin American pan flute (zampoņa) |
| 115 Ocarina 3 | Beautiful ocarina |
| 117 Kawala | I think this is an African flute but I'm not sure. |
| 127 C Shell+echo | Nice conch shell through delay |
| 129 Afroharp Arq | More ambient goodness |
| 131 Koto | Stupendous Japanese koto |
| 136 Shamisen | Beautiful shamisen, again a Japanese instrument |
| 141 ChineseOrch2 | Superb rendition of a Chinese orchestral ensemble |
| 142 Euro Zither | I'm playing the classic theme from "The Third Man" for this zither example |
| 146 Cimbalom | Cool cimbalom patch - an Eastern-European instrument similar to the dulcimer. |
| 147 Brt.Dulcimer | Bright dulcimer, nice. |
| 152 Cavaquinho | Superb cavaquinho, a sort of small guitar used in Brazilian music |
| 153 Oud | Enchanting oud, staple instrument of Middle-Eastern music, similar to a lute. |
| 162 Ethnic VLNx3 | Nice Chinese violin |
| 165 Erhu Lead | Another great Chinese instrument similar to the violin |
| 167 Mosque Reeds | Cool Middle-Eastern reed instruments |
| 170 Mizmar | Perfect for belly dancing |
| 171 Shahnai | The classic North Indian instrument (also spelled shenai, shehnai) |
| 174 Bagpipes | Scotland, here we come. |
| 176 Egypt Tablah | Superb Egyptian drum loops |
| 186 Sitarchestra | More India goodness |
| 187 Ravis Axe | Outstanding sitar |
| 188 Passag2India | Deep meditation |
| 193 Sitar Gliss | Nice |
| 195 Tamb. Drone | Nice tambura |
| 197 Tribe Switch | INCREDIBLE patch, super-fun to play, and so expressive! The percussion patch king. |
| 205 Shaker Menu | Lots of them. |
| 207 Cowbell Menu | Yep |
| 214 Rain Stick | A bit short |
| 216 BellsOfSarna | Beautiful bells from India |
| 220 Comb.Loop 4 | One of the excellent combined loops (made from different ethnic loops). |
| 224 2Bar Loop 1 | Another great combo loop |
| 226 2Bar Loop 3 | And another one. |
| 230 Bushroot | Australian Outback! |
| 233 Didgeridoo | The famous Australian instrument - one of the funkiest (I have one :-) |
| 236 Ethno Bass 2 | Modernized ethnicity. |
| 242 JawHarp Menu | Nice jaw harp |
| 245 Zaghruta | Cool vocalizations |
| 248 PlayLoHi F#m | :-) this reminds me of an obscure '70s tv serial called "Orzowei". |
| 249 Going Deep | Down in the sea |
| 252 DinosaurPark | :-) |
| 001 JV rhythm | Very useful rhtyhm patch, perfect to create ethnic rhythm tracks. |
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Roland SR-JV80-05 World review with audio demo