Imagine the computer on the Apollo Moon missions? The JV would be like a supercomputer compared to the telemetry computer on those missions! Programmers back in the day were masters of producing something good with very few resources, but now memory is cheap and CPUs are so powerful, it is the programmers time that is a major expense comparitively, so there is a lot of "waste" today in IT, because we have so much resources that we can!
Since I know someone will ask if these are real songs - No - most of these demos other than the two Grieg chords at the beginning and the bit at the pizzicato patch are my improvisations.
Cool triv there vinyljunkie07!! Still have my -02 board and sold most others. Left also with Asia -14 and Special FX -15, rest I have sounds covered by other synths HW/SW and samples.... but -02 sounds great still. 😎🎹👍🎶🍻
My XP-30 came with this built it. I've spent countless hours just playing with these orchestra sounds. They're even better with headphones on! From what I've seen, Roland spent a lot of time working on orchestral sounds in the 90s, and it really shows.
Just want to say that your expression and touch improves the samples beyond what most owners could ever accomplish. When I told some fans how I prepared my grilled salmon, one woman said, "I could record you preparing the entire dish and still not equal it"... your string playing is my grilled salmon.
Just make sure you check the smd capacitors on the circuit boards (the JV too) as they will deteriorate over time and are by now definitely on borrowed time.... If these electrolytic caps start leaking you're potentially in for a world of hurt. I've recently recapped my vintage gear (XPs, XV and exp.boards) and it is still certainly worth the money and effort! Long may you enjoy them ;)
@@claudevieaul1465 My 2080 is built back in 1997, still seems OK without any warnings signs of caps deterioration. SMD caps are not electrolytic and do not leak, those are either Tantalum or Ceramic and can outlive everything, deterioration there is not a problem. If those were to blow up, you usually have more serious issues with overvoltage/overcurrent (or even shorting if unlucky) in the PSU department, and that is where electrolytic ones are mainly used. Healthy PSU means healthy equipment.
@@sK3LeTvM1 On the other note, my TX802 is undergoing cap replacement surgery, and that does include some ceramics, as some of them have visible cracks, while others badly discoloured. Power supply electrolytes leaked as well. but that poor thing is 33 years old.
Paolo, I bought this exp for my jv-1080 in the 90s (or maybe early 2000s), along with the 60s & 70s and Session boards. That is, after going through the demos on your web site! Thanks so much for the ton of information you've shared with the rest of us over the years!
My friend found one of these in a garage and sold it to me for 75 bucks. It's been my go-to ever since. There's so many recognizable sounds, especially having grown up in the 90s.
Great demo. I have the Integra module which has all the expansions. And all the realistic sounds are amazing. I’m still amazed that these small size libraries sound so good. I’ll never get rid of my Roland modules. Plus, it loads instantly compared to loading a GB Kontact library.
Not just the 02 Orchestral still sounds great, the others do as well :) I have 2 Roland XP80's (recapped recently) and an XV3080 (still to do), all loaded with expansionboards with new capacitors as well... These are roughly 25 years old now, and still véry useable both live and in the studio! My favs: 04 Vintage Keys (2 of those), 10 Bass & Drums, and 11 Techno.
Some sound oddly familiar. And the one you play with the Pizzicato patch at 06:15 is actually a Czech Polka called "Beer Barrel Polka" by Jaromír Vejvoda. 🙂
Thanks for your awesome demo. It's a real pleasure to hear you ! Roland relased all the Orchestral sounds on the SRX-06 card exp. SR-JV80 02 "Orchestral", SR-JV80 16 "Orchestral 2", SR-JV80 13 "Vocal Collection" and some others from the SR-JV80-07 "Super Sound Set. If you have a Roland Integra 7 you can play all these sounds with it !
I have this board, I think because I heard it on your website long ago, before you were on UA-cam. It's a great board, still stands the test of time, and a great tribute to the Roland designers of way back then, who managed to conjure so much from such a limited amount of ROM. 8MB !!!!!
Yes, I love this one. Whenever I have people to the studio I play my JV-1080 with this card and the JD-800 with the strings card. I play nice and loud on main system and people are always blown away.
Great JV era sounds for sure, Warm Violins has never sounded so good though, fantastic playing! I've listened to this piece performed by A REAL ORCHESTRA, and the way you play it sounds almost identical, astonishing!
This is the sound I've wanted for so long. Not this hyper realistic, multi mic setup with 10000GB of samples. Just sounds that sound a little real, a little fake, but with endless possibilities!
Ah yes! I remember using this expansion card a lot for scoring strings sounds back in the day... in my XP-30 years! 😀 These still sound great today 👍 Thanks for the demo and your great playing
Wonderful, wonderful card! I used this in my XP-30 all the time. Eventually sold that, and recently got a JD-990 - but I picked up an M-OC1 to get these same sounds and they're still just as great as always. Very fun to layer with more realistic libraries.
I still love JV-90 and JV-1080 and it's SR-JV-80 series boards, and I think it's still even better than the advanced SRX series and those virtuals available in Roland Cloud.
I just like to watch the way you play, so smooth! I have too a JV-880 with the same exp. card and sounds amazing! But I really don't have any use for it in my music style. Well at least so far...
I got this expansion for my current JV2080 and I always said that this could easily rival with any Symphonic library out there...I guess Roland did an outrageous job when recording the real instruments then, this is key when you wanna emulate acoustic instruments, more than having tons of memory... Cheerio Paolo.
Hi Paolo just looking for demo's of my old JV80 I pulled out of storage only to discover the the epoxy had dissolved on the key weights 😱 what a mess ! but Google is the answer for everything now days 😂 an overnight bath for the keys in caustic soda and a glue gun 👍 sorted I have the 99 experience board installed and thought I would like more orchestra sounds 🤔 on listening to your demo I realise how good this old gear sounds but then thought everything you demo sounds great 😂 thanks bro 👏
Bought a JV-1080 a couple of years ago for $150 in mint shape. I was pleasantly surprised it also contained a SR-JV80-2. Later on I was able to track down a Sr-jv80-08 60's and 70's organ for $70. See it is possible to get a good deal and NOT find it on e bay or reverb.
I hunt in dusty corners at pawn shops everywhere I go and make offers on strange boxes that they don’t have a clue about. So far, a Korg N1R for $75, Korg M3 with original box and the rare editing panel for $100 and my best find was an XV-5080 with 3 JV cards for $200.
BabyTV shows that used Roland SR-JV80-02 Orchestral 1. Charlie and the Numbers 2. Draco 3. Emma's Theatre 4. Eggbird 5. Grandpa's Gallery 6. Mitch Match 7. Mr. Snail 8. Oliver Discovers 9. Yoyo the Magician
And don’t forget Baby Einstein (Starting in Baby Bach for the Melody Harp toy, Baby Bach also first used the Roland JV-1080 and the Alesis Classical Quadracard)
It sounds great 👍🏾 but what is your opinion on the Orchestral 2 & the Session expansion boards? I know one thing with all of the free VST plugins on Vintage keys the Roland SR-JV80-04 Vintage Keys 🎹 expansion board is not worth the $250-$400 that EBay & Reverb is asking for because once you hear the free Vintage Keys plugin by Spitfire, Addictive Keys Mark One you will not miss it & because there are so many free vintage Keys plugins a lot of new musicians will not want to Pay $179 for the Fender Rhodes V8 Plugin or $379 for the Keyscape software plugin when they can get GB’s of plugins for free as as a beginner that’s exactly what I’m doing with my MacBook Pro my Keyboard 🎹 controller using Ableton Live with my 1080 with the Keyboards of the 60s & 70s & the House Collection expansion boards
Keep in mind that the SR-JV80-xx board are from the '90s / early 2000s. Today they still sound great, but obviously an 8MB product can't quite compete with the multi-GB software products of 2023 - even the free ones. From a bang-for-the-buck perspective, it makes no sense to buy old hardware from the '90s. All you need to record music, today, is a simple kit consisting of laptop, MIDI controller, audio interface, studio monitors and a few peripherals like cables / pedal / headphones etc. You can easily make top ten hits with something like GarageBand, if you have the youth, drive, talent, and huge amount of marketing behind you.
great playing...got this card ages ago based on the extensive and aamzing demos you made on your website. it would be cool to have a comparison of this board and the equivalents in the s-760
Some of the sounds on this expansion board are possibly the same samples from the S series. I have noticed the pitched percussion sounds like the xylophone and glockenspiel are the same samples that were used in the MT-32 and SC-55. I think the JV marimba is a remastered version of the S/U series marimba.
@@LittleRichard1988 Most Roland samples up until the late 90s come from their sampler library if I recall correctly, so if you're hearing the same sound in more than one of their synths it's likely they just took from that library again and compressed/edited it to work with another model.
I have the Orchestral expansion board fitted in my JV-1080 ( every JV-1080 owner should get this expansion board for the string sounds alone ). The string patches are an improvement to the stock string patches ( they are very suited to 60s western music from the likes of Scott Walker and you can create nice Phil Spector string arrangements by stacking multiple string patches ). The percussions sounds are decent ( the celesta sounds very real ). The brass and woodwind sounds are all very high quality. Another interesting thing is the fact the JV-1080 has a few internal waveforms taken from the Orchestral board.
Try patch 43. It’s a great all around string patch. It has more of a bright bow attack (marco) followed by sustained strings. Roland mastered velocity sensitivity with these string patches.
It's not "marco". "Marco" is a person's name (the English version is "Mark"). The correct term is "marcato", which is the past participle of the Italian verb "marcare" (to mark). It literally means "marked", translated to English.
I recently picked one of these bad boys up with the orchestral add on for $40! Thought it was a typo when I responded to the add lol. I've been super impressed so far. Even more impressed with your demo! Can't wait to dive deeper.
Not gonna lie sometimes i watch your videos and a small piece of your improvisation gets me on my synth copying and working it into a song and I've built a few songs around it.
Maybe not as realistic or detailed as a modern Kontakt library, but much MUCH more playable, no articulation switches, no waiting for true legato transitions to finish, no lag while playing
This may sound strange but since most of us have heard far more strings in movies than in symphony halls, these sounds in way could be more realistic than the latest multi gigabyte/articulation string library?
I totally agree, I still prefer Roland's PCM string sounds to anything you can get in a VST instrument. Halion's strings are useable although I wasn't keen on the Halion Sonic SE strings to start with. Sample libraries? I can't afford to blow money on the likes of Kontakt or EaseWest.
To be honest the more authentic you try to make a VST sample library the more artificial it sounds. Roland always were ahead of their time when it came to PCM digital sampling and did a brilliant job with the technology they had at the time. With midi sequencing "realism" isn't everything yet workstation keyboards like the Genos strive to sound as authentic as possible. I have never understood why todays workstation keyboards have "more authenticity" than midi sound modules.
Hey where can I get the wall cable for the cz101 casio, the battery part does not work. BTW I found the case on the street , like the owner hoped some one would take care of it.
I'm just too poor to have this musical equipment. I wish I had it along with JV 1080 to recreate the classic Tomb Raider soundtrack and even compose newer ones for the oldschool.
The old synths (XP50 or 80 for instance) that can serve as a platform for these expansionboards you can find for very reasonable prices, but the boards themselves can seem costly in comparison... You just have to be lucky. They are definitely worth it though :)
Hi Paolo, sounds great. I still have and use my XP-80. What do you think about the Integra7? Did you check it out? Do the old sounds sound exactly as in the old hardware? love 'em. Merry Christmas, bemi
At one time I thought the Proteus 2 sounds were the SRJV Orchestral sounds as back in the day many producers found the Proteus 2 a more desirable expansion option for orchestral sounds because some of the Proteus sounds were more realistic. I still don't know weather to settle for VST instruments that use selected Proteus samples or to just buy a Proteus 1 and 2 or buy a Proteus 1+Orchestral module if one comes up. This isn't the first time I have been tempted.
I think the Roland string sections are better than the Proteus strings even though the Proteus strings have a bit of bow friction ( but then some of Yamaha's and Halion's strings have that similar friction ). I have heard many people including my uncle tell me Roland were the best in general when it came to strings.
The Proteus 2 has nice solo instruments like the flute, piccolo, clarinet and violin and I like the Proteus percussion sounds like the xylophone and marimba ( except the marimba is a Proteus 1 sound ). Synthway and DSK have taken care of all those sounds as DSK Virtuoso sampled it's woodwind, some brass and the string instruments from the Proteus 2 and Synthway sampled many if the percussion kit sounds including the xylophone from the Proteus 2 ( plus Mixcraft's built in general midi VST library also has some of those Emu samples like the xylophone ).
For sounds like pianos, basses, drums, and saxophones the Roland sounds are higher quality. As I already have Synthway percussion kit I can upgrade to Drumwave at a very special discount so maybe I should just get Drumwave as that has the Proteus1 marimba if that's the only sound I'm after.
Another sound module that was popular back in the late 80s and 90s were the likes of the Roland U series with PCM expansion cartridges. Some people argue the Roland U series modules were higher quality sounding than the JV/XP/XV series. But the SOPCM cards and/or the Super SRJV expansion board are pretty close to the U series sounds and I'm pretty sure they are all based from the S series library ( though some sounds like the alto sax are remastered ). What's more is the fact the Super SRJV board also has a whistle patch that is a pretty good imitation of the Proteus 2's "Whistling Joe" sample as used in the X Files theme.
Did the JV/ XV use a form of LA synthesis, you know a small amount of sample with abit of synthesis. Just wondered how they got this level of sound from so little memory ?
"New" group (migrated from the rotting corpse of Yahoo Groups), for discussions and Roland XV related downloads here: groups.io/g/Roland-XV The Roland XV Synthesizers Group This group was cloned from the Yahoo Roland-XV Group and provides information and resources for the Roland XV family of synthesizers.
They did this with 8MB of sample data. The Roland engineers of this era were on another level.
@TheDukeofJuke pity he is a god botherer
@@RobBob555 A who?
Very very good 🙂
Imagine the computer on the Apollo Moon missions? The JV would be like a supercomputer compared to the telemetry computer on those missions!
Programmers back in the day were masters of producing something good with very few resources, but now memory is cheap and CPUs are so powerful, it is the programmers time that is a major expense comparitively, so there is a lot of "waste" today in IT, because we have so much resources that we can!
@@lundsweden It's also because hardware can use custom chips designed for one purpose while software synths run on a general purpose CPU.
Came for a sound demo, stayed for the music 🎵 Beautiful.
Small samples, huge sounds. This is how it was done back in the '90s :)
never seen so masterful improvisation with classic music, you are just awesome Paolo!!!! :-)
Since I know someone will ask if these are real songs - No - most of these demos other than the two Grieg chords at the beginning and the bit at the pizzicato patch are my improvisations.
Trust me, they will still ask. Even if you wrote it somewhere in the video. ;)
They are real songs. Inspiration on display. In the hands of the master the instrument does what he wants.
tinylilmatt That’s the D-50... different board...
@tinylilmatt Well he could have played Lemon Tree by Fool's Garden. ^^
JayB I LOVE Lemon Tree! I wonder how, I wonder why... teehee 🙃
This is why I love Roland.
The 1080 was used with this expansion to create all the music for the first Tomb Raider game, the Warm Violin preset is one great example
Cool triv there vinyljunkie07!! Still have my -02 board and sold most others. Left also with Asia -14 and Special FX -15, rest I have sounds covered by other synths HW/SW and samples.... but -02 sounds great still. 😎🎹👍🎶🍻
My XP-30 came with this built it. I've spent countless hours just playing with these orchestra sounds. They're even better with headphones on! From what I've seen, Roland spent a lot of time working on orchestral sounds in the 90s, and it really shows.
That really does sound impressive! Especially for the time it was released.
Sounds really good. The 1080 is a formidable host.
the 2080 is even more ...formidable
Just want to say that your expression and touch improves the samples beyond what most owners could ever accomplish. When I told some fans how I prepared my grilled salmon, one woman said, "I could record you preparing the entire dish and still not equal it"... your string playing is my grilled salmon.
I have the same controller and the JV-1080. I just ordered the Orchestral expansion. The way you play is inspiring!
You just made me turn on my JV-2080 and use this expansion board, 20+ years later and still sounds good even for today's standards
Cool
Just make sure you check the smd capacitors on the circuit boards (the JV too) as they will deteriorate over time and are by now definitely on borrowed time.... If these electrolytic caps start leaking you're potentially in for a world of hurt.
I've recently recapped my vintage gear (XPs, XV and exp.boards) and it is still certainly worth the money and effort!
Long may you enjoy them ;)
@@claudevieaul1465 My 2080 is built back in 1997, still seems OK without any warnings signs of caps deterioration. SMD caps are not electrolytic and do not leak, those are either Tantalum or Ceramic and can outlive everything, deterioration there is not a problem. If those were to blow up, you usually have more serious issues with overvoltage/overcurrent (or even shorting if unlucky) in the PSU department, and that is where electrolytic ones are mainly used. Healthy PSU means healthy equipment.
@@donnied8127 I own for abot 25 years 3x Vintage exp, 1x Orchestral and 1x Tecno. They are all perfect. No sign of explosions what so ever... :-)
@@sK3LeTvM1 On the other note, my TX802 is undergoing cap replacement surgery, and that does include some ceramics, as some of them have visible cracks, while others badly discoloured. Power supply electrolytes leaked as well. but that poor thing is 33 years old.
I have one of these with a few expansion cards too, almost 20 years now. Still works great. The French horn section is one of the best sounds, love it
Paolo, I bought this exp for my jv-1080 in the 90s (or maybe early 2000s), along with the 60s & 70s and Session boards. That is, after going through the demos on your web site!
Thanks so much for the ton of information you've shared with the rest of us over the years!
My friend found one of these in a garage and sold it to me for 75 bucks.
It's been my go-to ever since. There's so many recognizable sounds, especially having grown up in the 90s.
Great demo. I have the Integra module which has all the expansions. And all the realistic sounds are amazing. I’m still amazed that these small size libraries sound so good. I’ll never get rid of my Roland modules. Plus, it loads instantly compared to loading a GB Kontact library.
Not just the 02 Orchestral still sounds great, the others do as well :)
I have 2 Roland XP80's (recapped recently) and an XV3080 (still to do), all loaded with expansionboards with new capacitors as well...
These are roughly 25 years old now, and still véry useable both live and in the studio!
My favs: 04 Vintage Keys (2 of those), 10 Bass & Drums, and 11 Techno.
I have a JV-1080 with Orchestra 1 and 2, Asia and World installed. It's amazing.
Some sound oddly familiar. And the one you play with the Pizzicato patch at 06:15 is actually a Czech Polka called "Beer Barrel Polka" by Jaromír Vejvoda. 🙂
Yes , that bit is - I forgot I even played that -ha
Thanks for your awesome demo. It's a real pleasure to hear you ! Roland relased all the Orchestral sounds on the SRX-06 card exp. SR-JV80 02 "Orchestral", SR-JV80 16 "Orchestral 2", SR-JV80 13 "Vocal Collection" and some others from the SR-JV80-07 "Super Sound Set. If you have a Roland Integra 7 you can play all these sounds with it !
YEs, I used to have all the SR and SRX boards and now I'm re-buying them all again ;)
This board kicks ass!
your website is excellent.. i use it all the time, thanks
I agree!! Still pleasant to the ears
I have this board, I think because I heard it on your website long ago, before you were on UA-cam. It's a great board, still stands the test of time, and a great tribute to the Roland designers of way back then, who managed to conjure so much from such a limited amount of ROM. 8MB !!!!!
I've just bought a Roland JV-1010 to get the warm violins patch, and to my surprise and amazement, its built in to the JV-1010!
Its the best ever..I have that expansion and its mind blowing
I mean, your playing skills are always on point. Great reference!
Amazing sound and great demo
❤
Glad you like it!
Yes, I love this one. Whenever I have people to the studio I play my JV-1080 with this card and the JD-800 with the strings card. I play nice and loud on main system and people are always blown away.
Bought this exp. board for my 880 about a year ago. Amazing strings
Stunning. Sounds better, warmer and richer than any VST library today.
It sounds better than the most expensive samples.
Geez man you really have a talent great work as always! love these expansion board videos
Thanks a ton!
That’s the card I have in my JV1010, it sounds incredible. Also, has the best ROMpler-based Harpsichord sound imo, and some very nice choir samples!
Check the Casio MZ-2000 harpsichord sound (on UA-cam, Kris Nicholson) and see what you think, that's my current #1. But I agree, outstanding card.
@@sierramusiccentral4218 I just checked it out, actually sounds pretty amazing for a Casio! Very nice presets
Great JV era sounds for sure, Warm Violins has never sounded so good though, fantastic playing! I've listened to this piece performed by A REAL ORCHESTRA, and the way you play it sounds almost identical, astonishing!
Thank you very much!
I've just figured out the first song is from Grieg's Peer Gynt. My Dad is Norwegian, so I was raised on this stuff, however, Italians do it better!
Fantastic and marvelous sound
This was grand.
This is the sound I've wanted for so long. Not this hyper realistic, multi mic setup with 10000GB of samples. Just sounds that sound a little real, a little fake, but with endless possibilities!
Super wonderful.
Ah yes! I remember using this expansion card a lot for scoring strings sounds back in the day... in my XP-30 years! 😀
These still sound great today 👍
Thanks for the demo and your great playing
Thanks for sharing!
I had this card in my JV1080 and the SRX equivalent in my Fantom. It does sound great.
Real Classic Roland sounds from this kind of Boards.Love mines too :)
Wonderful, wonderful card! I used this in my XP-30 all the time. Eventually sold that, and recently got a JD-990 - but I picked up an M-OC1 to get these same sounds and they're still just as great as always. Very fun to layer with more realistic libraries.
Nice playing! I like the melodies. 😀
Thanks for listening
I still love JV-90 and JV-1080 and it's SR-JV-80 series boards, and I think it's still even better than the advanced SRX series and those virtuals available in Roland Cloud.
I think the Roland Cloud is a sham because you are paying for something that's never going to be yours.
I have this card myself, but not currently installed. Everytime I hear it, I can't help but instantly hear the Dragon Quest games, soundtracks.
I’m pretty sure I’ve got this in my JV1080 - really need to get back into using it!! Lovely video
I just like to watch the way you play, so smooth! I have too a JV-880 with the same exp. card and sounds amazing! But I really don't have any use for it in my music style. Well at least so far...
Got this board in my JV-1010. I love it!
"VlsVasVcsCbs"
Neat name for a patch!
To fit in the small display: Violins, Violas, Violoncellos, Contrabasses :)
I got this expansion for my current JV2080 and I always said that this could easily rival with any Symphonic library out there...I guess Roland did an outrageous job when recording the real instruments then, this is key when you wanna emulate acoustic instruments, more than having tons of memory...
Cheerio Paolo.
Oh my God the quality of the sound of the strings unbelievably realistic
Thank you!
You're welcome!
First one? Damnnnnn!!! What a lovely piece of music
Hi Paolo just looking for demo's of my old JV80 I pulled out of storage only to discover the the epoxy had dissolved on the key weights 😱 what a mess ! but Google is the answer for everything now days 😂 an overnight bath for the keys in caustic soda and a glue gun 👍 sorted
I have the 99 experience board installed and thought I would like more orchestra sounds 🤔 on listening to your demo I realise how good this old gear sounds but then thought everything you demo sounds great 😂 thanks bro 👏
I just ordered a Roland M-OC1 module. Should be basically the same as this one but with its own 28 voices and output.
Hey greetings from Germany.
Wow !
Again a wonderful Roland-
Much safetier as a Digital-Sampler
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Bought a JV-1080 a couple of years ago for $150 in mint shape. I was pleasantly surprised it also contained a SR-JV80-2. Later on I was able to track down a Sr-jv80-08 60's and 70's organ for $70. See it is possible to get a good deal and NOT find it on e bay or reverb.
I hunt in dusty corners at pawn shops everywhere I go and make offers on strange boxes that they don’t have a clue about. So far, a Korg N1R for $75, Korg M3 with original box and the rare editing panel for $100 and my best find was an XV-5080 with 3 JV cards for $200.
BabyTV shows that used Roland SR-JV80-02 Orchestral
1. Charlie and the Numbers
2. Draco
3. Emma's Theatre
4. Eggbird
5. Grandpa's Gallery
6. Mitch Match
7. Mr. Snail
8. Oliver Discovers
9. Yoyo the Magician
And don’t forget Baby Einstein (Starting in Baby Bach for the Melody Harp toy, Baby Bach also first used the Roland JV-1080 and the Alesis Classical Quadracard)
Yes the shows used the BabyTV of the Roland synth.
And what about shows of Roland SR-JV80-02?
- Gerald McBoing Boing (2005-2006)
- Ruby Gloom (2006-2008)
Which patches? It’s been a long time since I watched those shows.
@@ToonyKid The Harpsichord from Gerald McBoing Boing and Ruby Gloom.
It sounds great 👍🏾 but what is your opinion on the Orchestral 2 & the Session expansion boards? I know one thing with all of the free VST plugins on Vintage keys the Roland SR-JV80-04 Vintage Keys 🎹 expansion board is not worth the $250-$400 that EBay & Reverb is asking for because once you hear the free Vintage Keys plugin by Spitfire, Addictive Keys Mark One you will not miss it & because there are so many free vintage Keys plugins a lot of new musicians will not want to Pay $179 for the Fender Rhodes V8 Plugin or $379 for the Keyscape software plugin when they can get GB’s of plugins for free as as a beginner that’s exactly what I’m doing with my MacBook Pro my Keyboard 🎹 controller using Ableton Live with my 1080 with the Keyboards of the 60s & 70s & the House Collection expansion boards
Keep in mind that the SR-JV80-xx board are from the '90s / early 2000s. Today they still sound great, but obviously an 8MB product can't quite compete with the multi-GB software products of 2023 - even the free ones. From a bang-for-the-buck perspective, it makes no sense to buy old hardware from the '90s. All you need to record music, today, is a simple kit consisting of laptop, MIDI controller, audio interface, studio monitors and a few peripherals like cables / pedal / headphones etc. You can easily make top ten hits with something like GarageBand, if you have the youth, drive, talent, and huge amount of marketing behind you.
Still have this installed in my JV-1080.
great playing...got this card ages ago based on the extensive and aamzing demos you made on your website. it would be cool to have a comparison of this board and the equivalents in the s-760
Some of the sounds on this expansion board are possibly the same samples from the S series. I have noticed the pitched percussion sounds like the xylophone and glockenspiel are the same samples that were used in the MT-32 and SC-55. I think the JV marimba is a remastered version of the S/U series marimba.
@@LittleRichard1988 Most Roland samples up until the late 90s come from their sampler library if I recall correctly, so if you're hearing the same sound in more than one of their synths it's likely they just took from that library again and compressed/edited it to work with another model.
a lot of the orchestral stuff in the s-library and this card comes from the Miroslav recordings.. it's the same in Edirol "Orchestral" DXi/VSTi
Yes, I have all the Roland CD-ROMs too and they're even better (larger samples of course) than the SR series; just add FX
I have the Orchestral expansion board fitted in my JV-1080 ( every JV-1080 owner should get this expansion board for the string sounds alone ). The string patches are an improvement to the stock string patches ( they are very suited to 60s western music from the likes of Scott Walker and you can create nice Phil Spector string arrangements by stacking multiple string patches ). The percussions sounds are decent ( the celesta sounds very real ). The brass and woodwind sounds are all very high quality. Another interesting thing is the fact the JV-1080 has a few internal waveforms taken from the Orchestral board.
Delicious.
it would be fun to have a bunch of those, invite friends round and try reproduce a classical peice in the studio :-D
I have the -02 and the -16 in my 2080. You can make some wonderful music with them.
Try patch 43. It’s a great all around string patch. It has more of a bright bow attack (marco) followed by sustained strings.
Roland mastered velocity sensitivity with these string patches.
It's not "marco". "Marco" is a person's name (the English version is "Mark"). The correct term is "marcato", which is the past participle of the Italian verb "marcare" (to mark). It literally means "marked", translated to English.
@@SynthManiaDotCom you’re right, UA-cam decided to do one of its autocorrect spellings 🤔 & I didn’t review it before I hit the post arrow.🙁
@@armstronglance That pesky UA-cam autocorrect
I recently picked one of these bad boys up with the orchestral add on for $40! Thought it was a typo when I responded to the add lol. I've been super impressed so far. Even more impressed with your demo! Can't wait to dive deeper.
Love your improvisations in these, it one of my favorite expansion cards that i ever own. i wonder if you are doing jv80-04 vintage synth next?
Yes, definitely doing the Vintage Synth on JD-990 - for the meantime, I have them on audio at my HTML site: www.synthmania.com/sr-jv80-04.htm
Bravo Bellissimo!
Not gonna lie sometimes i watch your videos and a small piece of your improvisation gets me on my synth copying and working it into a song and I've built a few songs around it.
Wow. You should get a job doing soundtracks.
Well Roland Had Put All Legendary Expansion Sound including this Orchestral Expansion in Integra 7.
Maybe not as realistic or detailed as a modern Kontakt library, but much MUCH more playable, no articulation switches, no waiting for true legato transitions to finish, no lag while playing
Still have this and the CO2 in an XV3080. Still great...
This may sound strange but since most of us have heard far more strings in movies than in symphony halls, these sounds in way could be more realistic than the latest multi gigabyte/articulation string library?
I totally agree, I still prefer Roland's PCM string sounds to anything you can get in a VST instrument. Halion's strings are useable although I wasn't keen on the Halion Sonic SE strings to start with. Sample libraries? I can't afford to blow money on the likes of Kontakt or EaseWest.
To be honest the more authentic you try to make a VST sample library the more artificial it sounds. Roland always were ahead of their time when it came to PCM digital sampling and did a brilliant job with the technology they had at the time. With midi sequencing "realism" isn't everything yet workstation keyboards like the Genos strive to sound as authentic as possible. I have never understood why todays workstation keyboards have "more authenticity" than midi sound modules.
Hey where can I get the wall cable for the cz101 casio, the battery part does not work. BTW I found the case on the street , like the owner hoped some one would take care of it.
I'm just too poor to have this musical equipment.
I wish I had it along with JV 1080 to recreate the classic Tomb Raider soundtrack and even compose newer ones for the oldschool.
The old synths (XP50 or 80 for instance) that can serve as a platform for these expansionboards you can find for very reasonable prices, but the boards themselves can seem costly in comparison... You just have to be lucky.
They are definitely worth it though :)
You can get these sounds in SRX orchestra VST, someone i know created a JV80 Orch 1 patch for it a while back.
Was able to do some work with one, but it doesn't compete with EastWest orchestral sounds, that changed the game for me.
they have this expansion in roland cloud!
Casual Introvert ❶ SRX actually.
Hi Paolo, sounds great. I still have and use my XP-80. What do you think about the Integra7? Did you check it out? Do the old sounds sound exactly as in the old hardware? love 'em. Merry Christmas, bemi
Yes, the Integra has the SRX boards, slightly different sound but even better! :-D
At one time I thought the Proteus 2 sounds were the SRJV Orchestral sounds as back in the day many producers found the Proteus 2 a more desirable expansion option for orchestral sounds because some of the Proteus sounds were more realistic. I still don't know weather to settle for VST instruments that use selected Proteus samples or to just buy a Proteus 1 and 2 or buy a Proteus 1+Orchestral module if one comes up. This isn't the first time I have been tempted.
I had a load of Proteus modules in the 90s, including both the orchestral boards. This sounds way more lush in every respect.
I think the Roland string sections are better than the Proteus strings even though the Proteus strings have a bit of bow friction ( but then some of Yamaha's and Halion's strings have that similar friction ). I have heard many people including my uncle tell me Roland were the best in general when it came to strings.
The Proteus 2 has nice solo instruments like the flute, piccolo, clarinet and violin and I like the Proteus percussion sounds like the xylophone and marimba ( except the marimba is a Proteus 1 sound ). Synthway and DSK have taken care of all those sounds as DSK Virtuoso sampled it's woodwind, some brass and the string instruments from the Proteus 2 and Synthway sampled many if the percussion kit sounds including the xylophone from the Proteus 2 ( plus Mixcraft's built in general midi VST library also has some of those Emu samples like the xylophone ).
For sounds like pianos, basses, drums, and saxophones the Roland sounds are higher quality. As I already have Synthway percussion kit I can upgrade to Drumwave at a very special discount so maybe I should just get Drumwave as that has the Proteus1 marimba if that's the only sound I'm after.
Another sound module that was popular back in the late 80s and 90s were the likes of the Roland U series with PCM expansion cartridges. Some people argue the Roland U series modules were higher quality sounding than the JV/XP/XV series. But the SOPCM cards and/or the Super SRJV expansion board are pretty close to the U series sounds and I'm pretty sure they are all based from the S series library ( though some sounds like the alto sax are remastered ). What's more is the fact the Super SRJV board also has a whistle patch that is a pretty good imitation of the Proteus 2's "Whistling Joe" sample as used in the X Files theme.
Did the JV/ XV use a form of LA synthesis, you know a small amount of sample with abit of synthesis. Just wondered how they got this level of sound from so little memory ?
Not so small... 8MB - but yes, great samples sessions
64 voices
This was what MGS1 was composed on right?
I couldn’t afford this synth but I have. A JV30. 😞
great sounds! See you are using the maudio axiom, since it is not so friendly, can you do one tutorial on using that controller?
Yes, the M-Audio boards have button combinations, but it's not too bad if you keep the reference open in PDF / paper
If I didn't see it, I'd think it was real.
Any demo of the brass sounds available?
www.synthmania.com/sr-jv80-02.htm
There is a choirs in this expansion?
What is the difference between this and the new card Orchestral II?
Here you go: www.synthmania.com/sr-jv80-02.htm and www.synthmania.com/sr-jv80-16.htm
Gracias
are you using aftertouch or any human/hand controlled modulation?
Lush sounds. How did Roland do that with so little memory!?!?
incredibly well recorded string library (Tha's been repacked in a lot of formats) also their compression
does your keyboard have after touch? or a u just a very expressive player?
How does this compare to the later Orchestral II board?
www.synthmania.com/sr-jv80-02.htm and www.synthmania.com/sr-jv80-16.htm
@@SynthManiaDotCom They sound both greath. Unfortunately, the JV-1010 has only a single expansion slot :/
@@forthejetset Sell the 1010 and get a JV/XP/XV unit that has more than one slot
"New" group (migrated from the rotting corpse of Yahoo Groups), for discussions and Roland XV related downloads here:
groups.io/g/Roland-XV
The Roland XV Synthesizers Group
This group was cloned from the Yahoo Roland-XV Group and provides information and resources for the Roland XV family of synthesizers.
Modern expansive softwares still using samples from this card.
808 state - pacific state remake, please
Kinda sounds like the pretext to something sinister about to happen!!
I do hear a slight hint of Beethoven and Barber :)
Those three opening chords coming from Aase's death always give me some massive goosebumps