SR-JV80-01 Pop
Sound Expansion Board

The Pop board is often underestimated because, being the first offered, contains waveforms that were added in the standard ROM of the instruments that followed, and people who own later models such as JV-1080, XP-80 and JV-2080 don't think they need "more of the same" bread and butter sounds: but even if that's the case, this board contains certain waves and patches that are not available anywhere else.

"Pop" is the name of this wave expansion board, and certainly it does a good job of providing all the staple instruments used in pop, such as pianos, bass, organs, saxophones, choirs and strings.  It's also noteworthy the addition of a few waveforms in D-50 style, brief attack of very characteristic sounds, such as breathy flutes, pads, even PWM waveforms - from which to start molding your sounds.

Even though this board doesn't receive the acclaim of other more famous boards in this series - i.e., the Session, Orchestral, Vintage or '60s & '70s, it still is a valid tool for any musician who owns one of the JV/XP series of instruments.

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