SR-JV80-14 World
Collection Asia
Expansion board
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"Asia" is number fourteen in the Roland SR-JV80-series of
expansion boards for the XP/JV synthesizers. This board features many sounds from several countries in Asia - China, India, Japan, Korea and Indonesia. These samples are excellently recorded and include percussion, strings, winds, special fx, and even loops of real instruments played by local musicians. The percussion patches are particularly impressive, with much expressivity and "impact", but the strings and winds are equally well-programmed and impressive-sounding. Together with the "World" collection, also in the SR-JV80 series, this card is a must have if you play ethnic/world styles, or if you produce New Age/Ambient, soundtracks, documentary music "bed" etc. |
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Check out the audio demos below to see what this card can do. |
Patch name with audio demo | My comments |
001 Asia Phrase | Incredible trip through the Asian region |
002 TablaBy Menu | Great-sounding tablas, straight from India |
005 Gamelan Menu | The classic Indonesian orchestra |
007 ChinaPrcMenu | Well-recorded Chinese percussion |
010 Sitar w-Drn | Ravi Shankar in-a-box |
012 Sitar Guru | Nice round sitar tone |
020 St.Santur | The Indian zither |
026 Santur Trem | with tremolo... |
027 Dusty Room | Superb middle-eastern sounding instrument, extremely dissonant |
029 Chung Ruan | Beautiful Chinese plucks |
038 Chung Gang | Nice |
039 St.PiPa | Beautiful tone |
050 Gu Zheng Pik | Realistic |
056 YangQin Pick | Classic Chinese sound |
059 Ricelands | Nice, ambiental |
064 Er Hu Solo | The famous Chinese violin |
071 India SoloFl | Not quite as haunting as - say - a large bansuri can be, but very nice tonality. |
077 Qu Di Vibro | Nice |
080 Bang Di Blow | Smooth flute tone |
082 Flute&Acomp. | Incredibly beautiful, hypnotic, haunting patch setup. |
095 Suona VSw | Ok |
101 St.Jegogan | Nice mallet work |
105 Gamelan Orch | Clean, nice |
113 Pemade | Cool tuned percussion |
123 Temple Bell | Beautiful |
126 China Gong | Powerful gong |
135 AsianFantasy | Nice comp synth |
144 Monsoon | Superb programming that opens and closes the envelope according to velocity |
161 ChansFunHous | Fun |
174 WindEnsemble | Nice |
177 Twilight | Warm pad |
178 Sacred Glass | Perfect ambient pad |
188 Slo Eastspin | yep. |
192 Phantom Pad | Nice |
204 SoundChaser | Different |
218 Tolls | Outstanding :-) |
226 By The Sea | Lochness |
238 BigBazar VSw | at the market |
001 India Set | Excellent rhythm set |
006 PopAsiaSet 1 | Nice |
008 TeknoAsiaSet | Superb 808 bass |
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Roland SR-JV80-14 World Collection Asia review with audio demo