SR-JV80-99
Experience
This is the first of the three "Experience" expansion boards from Roland. These cards were meant to be an "appetizer" and a sampling of the best sounds you could get in the full versions of the SR-JV80 boards.
The cool thing about the Experience series is that a few of the patches on each board cannot be found in any other board: the patches marked with asterisks are in fact original sounds, even though they are based on the wave pool of the "real" boards.
The SR-JV80-99 contains 19 waveforms and 64 patches from the following expansion boards: Pop, Orchestral, Piano, Vintage Synth, and World. There are quite a few interesting and unique sounds on this board. Check out the following demost.
| Patch name | Audio demo | Source board | My comments |
| 01 *Tr.Rhodes | Patches 1-8 | Piano | Excellent, dreamy and sparkly Rhodes, found only in this board. |
| 02 *DynRhodes 1 | Piano | More aggressive version of the above. | |
| 03 *DynRhodes 2 | Piano | Tiney version of electric piano. | |
| 04 Solo Vln 1/ | Orch | Excellent and expressive violin! | |
| 05 Solo Vln 2 | Orch | The second violin, very similar to the "first". | |
| 06 Agitato Vln | Orch | Happens after you give coffee to the players. | |
| 07 *Marcato Str | Orch, Pop | Bowing hard. | |
| 08 *VeloString2 | Orch, Pop | Velocity- responsive. | |
| 09 New Strings | Patches 9-16 | Pop | Excellent for film scoring. |
| 10 *Pentatonic2 | PCM01 | Powerful, well sampled ensemble. | |
| 11 *Dim Hit 2 | Orch | Drama! | |
| 12 *Tnr/SopSax1 | Pop | Great, soulful tenor on the right, soprano on the left. | |
| 13 *Tnr/SopSax2 | Pop | "Growlier" version of the above. | |
| 14 *Dist Gt Low | Pop | Well-produced distorted guitar sound. | |
| 15 *Power Chord | Pop | Rock on! | |
| 16 Bowed Guitar | Pop | Just like David Bowie's "Heroes"... | |
| 17 *Asian Gong | Patches 17-24 | World | Beautiful and moody bell |
| 18 *KalimbaGls2 | World | Awesome kalimba glissato | |
| 19 *Mini Tour | World | Outstanding collection of world grooves!!! | |
| 20 OB 2 Voice | V.Syn | Lyle Mays's Oberheim, anyone? | |
| 21 *OB 2 Voice2 | V.Syn | Same as above. | |
| 22 *PatsGR300 2 | V.Syn | Pat Metheny's signature sound. | |
| 23 *CS Lead 2 | V.Syn | Lead presumably taken from a Yamaha CS-series synth. | |
| 24 *Synthlead 1 | V.Syn | Expressive analog synth! | |
| 25 *Synthlead 2 | Patches 25-32 | V.Syn | Minimoog style. |
| 26 *Synthlead 3 | V.Syn | More Mini. | |
| 27 *Synthlead 4 | V.Syn | And again more Mini!! | |
| 28 *Polysync 2 | V.Syn | Beautiful, powerful synth a la Prophet. | |
| 29 Wavesync | V.Syn | Excellent, '80s. | |
| 30 *Rock Sync 2 | V.Syn | Great for rock and roll, indeed! | |
| 31 P5 Sync Lead | V.Syn | Prophet-5 lead. | |
| 32 *T8 Sync 2 | V.Syn | Sequential Circuits T8 synth. | |
| 33 *P5SyncRush2 | Patches 33-40 | V.Syn | Powerful and full, a la Rush.. |
| 34 *Synkoid 2 | V.Syn | Similar to above. | |
| 35 *TB303 Bs | V.Syn | Standard 303 sound. | |
| 36 TB303 AcidBs | V.Syn | ACEEEEED! | |
| 37 *Bark Bass 2 | V.Syn | Yep.. | |
| 38 Quarck Brass | V.Syn | Yes.. | |
| 39 *SpitBrass 2 | V.Syn | Cool and analog sounding! | |
| 40 *PolyXpandr2 | V.Syn | BEAUTIFUL, analog sound! | |
| 41 *AsianBellPd | Patches41-48 | Piano,World | OUTSTANDING, BEAUTIFUL synth pad that only exists on this board. |
| 42 *Asian Ens | New,Orch,World | More beauty. | |
| 43 *Square Pad | V.Syn | Hypnotic, soft synth pad | |
| 44 *Jet Pad 1 | New | A phased nirvana. | |
| 45 *Jet Pad 2 | New | More phased nirvana, please! | |
| 46 *OB Pad 1 | V.Syn | Fantastic analog pad, courtesy of Oberheim OB-series...! | |
| 47 *OB Pad 2 | V.Syn | More Oberheim OB beauty | |
| 48 *Strings Ens | V.Syn | Very nice, gluey synth strings. | |
| 49 *MG STR | Patches 49-56 | V.Syn | Presumably sampled from a Moog (Memory?) |
| 50 *JP8 Str 1 | V.Syn | B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L!!! Typical soft, muted Jupiter-8 strings, what Roland does best!!! | |
| 51 *JP8 Str 2 | V.Syn | MORE BEAUTY! | |
| 52 *CS Str | V.Syn | Yamaha CS-series strings. | |
| 53 *CS Pad | V.Syn | More CS. | |
| 54 *Prologue 2 | V.Syn | Popular name for patches. Nice pad. | |
| 55 *Asian Sweep | V.Syn | Asian synths. | |
| 56 *Sweep Pad 1 | V.Syn | Cool, standard poly. | |
| 57 *Sweep Pad 2 | Patches 57-64 | V.Syn | Very nice sweeping synth pad. |
| 58 *ClicheSweep | V.Syn | Full bodied, very nice. | |
| 59 *MetalDrone2 | V.Syn | Moody, great for film scoring. | |
| 60 *PG HarmoPad | V.Syn | What's PG? | |
| 61 *WaveTable | V.Syn | Sample-based. | |
| 62 *Animotion 2 | V.Syn | Excellent, Wavestation like pad. | |
| 63 *Random Pad2 | V.Syn | Delightful little pad. | |
| 64 *MC8 Seq 2 | V.Syn | The MC-8 was one of Roland's early sequencers. |
Waveforms:
An "*" (asterisk) indicates that the sound is
slightly different from that on
the other Expansion Boards on the market.
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Waveforms: |
Board: |
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01 *Dyno Rhodes |
Piano |
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02 *Sop&Tnr Sax |
Pop |
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03 *Vln Solo |
Orch |
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04 *VlSoloSpicc |
Orch |
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05 STR Attack |
Pop&Orch |
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06 Pentatonic |
PCM01 |
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07 Orch Hit Dim |
Orch&PCM01 |
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08 *Low Lead Gt |
Pop |
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09 CS Saw |
V.Syn |
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10 GR-300 Saw |
V.Syn |
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11 TB-303 Bass |
V.Syn |
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12 *P5 Unisync |
V.Syn |
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13 *OB Lead |
V.Syn |
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14 *OBXP Str |
V.Syn |
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15 JP6 JetPhase |
New |
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16 *PG Sweep |
V.Syn |
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17 Asian Gong |
World |
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18 Kalimba Glis |
World |
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19 *Mini Tour |
World |
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