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breakmixer · Post by **breakmixer** » Wed May 28, 2014 7:14 pm

Ok - it is in the manual 32 presets

Skorpius · Post by **Skorpius** » Wed May 28, 2014 7:28 pm

The answer is on UVI's product web site:

"A JX-3P was fully restored to factory spec, programmed by members of our sound design team and deeply multi-sampled, capturing samples both dry and with the built-in analog chorus enabled."

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Wed May 28, 2014 7:34 pm

Skorpius wrote:The answer is on UVI's product web site:

"A JX-3P was fully restored to factory spec, programmed by members of our sound design team and deeply multi-sampled, capturing samples both dry and with the built-in analog chorus enabled."

No, that doesn't clarify if they sampled the original factory presets.

Here is a run through the original:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9oJBTo5UHQ

Most of them sound completely awful

breakmixer · Post by **breakmixer** » Wed May 28, 2014 7:50 pm

Numanoid wrote:
Skorpius wrote:The answer is on UVI's product web site:

"A JX-3P was fully restored to factory spec, programmed by members of our sound design team and deeply multi-sampled, capturing samples both dry and with the built-in analog chorus enabled."
No, that doesn't clarify if they sampled the original factory presets.

Here is a run through the original:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9oJBTo5UHQ

Most of them sound completely awful

Their is a couple of them I want to play, but I don't want to buy a £300 synthesizer to do so. A few of these presets were used on a very famous dance record from the 80's, Fat Fifth is one of them...

I just found I do not need an ilok dongle to use UVX-3p

It notes 32 factory presets included, I'm guessing that is all of them.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Wed May 28, 2014 8:02 pm

breakmixer wrote: Their is a couple of them I want to play, but I don't want to buy a £300 synthesizer to do so. A few of these presets were used on a very famous dance record from the 80's, Fat Fifth is one of them...

It notes 32 factory presets included, I'm guessing that is all of them.

Here is a more comprehensive site with sound demos of each patch: http://www.synthmania.com/jx-3p.htm

breakmixer · Post by **breakmixer** » Wed May 28, 2014 8:13 pm

Numanoid wrote:
breakmixer wrote: Their is a couple of them I want to play, but I don't want to buy a £300 synthesizer to do so. A few of these presets were used on a very famous dance record from the 80's, Fat Fifth is one of them...

It notes 32 factory presets included, I'm guessing that is all of them.
Here is a more comprehensive site with sound demos of each patch: http://www.synthmania.com/jx-3p.htm

Thanks for that link - helps alot, btw apart from the Bassline(TB-303), most of the synth sounds on this track are JX-3p presets...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ5jTAISutM

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Wed May 28, 2014 8:19 pm

breakmixer wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ5jTAISutM

Yeah, could be, an awesome track that is

I've never thought about that bassline as 303, but yeah most def

breakmixer · Post by **breakmixer** » Wed May 28, 2014 8:27 pm

Woops, again...

breakmixer · Post by **breakmixer** » Wed May 28, 2014 8:30 pm

Numanoid wrote:
breakmixer wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ5jTAISutM
Yeah, could be, an awesome track that is

I've never thought about that bassline as 303, but yeah most def

Not could be recieved this email today from someone involved with it(a later remake with the same sounds), deleted some of it as it is without permission...

"Chris(Barbosa) is the original writer and producer.
Anyway, we used the original instruments. The majority of the synth parts were a Roland JX3P. Several were factory sounds. I think the two-note chord you're talking about is a patch called "Fat Fifth".

breakmixer · Post by **breakmixer** » Wed May 28, 2014 8:31 pm

Woops, whacky double postage!

Skorpius · Post by **Skorpius** » Wed May 28, 2014 9:05 pm

Numanoid wrote: No, that doesn't clarify if they sampled the original factory presets.

Well, if a synth is fully restored to factory specifications, it does very well clarify that the original sounds have been sampled, because they were part of the factory specifications.

fluffy_little_something · Wed May 28, 2014 9:19 pm

Numanoid wrote:
Skorpius wrote:The answer is on UVI's product web site:

"A JX-3P was fully restored to factory spec, programmed by members of our sound design team and deeply multi-sampled, capturing samples both dry and with the built-in analog chorus enabled."
No, that doesn't clarify if they sampled the original factory presets.

Here is a run through the original:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9oJBTo5UHQ

Most of them sound completely awful

Um, do you mean awful or awsome?

I think the JX-3P sounded funky and great, was like a two-osc version of the Juno in a way, using some identical components, and thus sounding better than the supposed successor, the JX-8P.

breakmixer · Post by **breakmixer** » Thu May 29, 2014 3:18 pm

fluffy_little_something wrote:
Numanoid wrote:
Skorpius wrote:The answer is on UVI's product web site:

"A JX-3P was fully restored to factory spec, programmed by members of our sound design team and deeply multi-sampled, capturing samples both dry and with the built-in analog chorus enabled."
No, that doesn't clarify if they sampled the original factory presets.

Here is a run through the original:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9oJBTo5UHQ

Most of them sound completely awful
Um, do you mean awful or awsome?
I think the JX-3P sounded funky and great, was like a two-osc version of the Juno in a way, using some identical components, and thus sounding better than the supposed successor, the JX-8P.

I have now got it installed and it is not as straight up as just 'factory presets' as used on Shannon - Let The Music Play, found the string synth sound, Fat Fifth sounds different to the one on the vinyl(more than just effects added), as for the bell like metallic lead sound - it's nowhere to be found. Glad I didn't buy the real deal thinking I would have straight access to the sounds just to mess about a bit, most of these 'factory' sounds are quite basic and more or less achievable with other synths/hardware. Nice as a reference point though for reprogramming the sounds(and tweak to sound closer from there), haven't explored the complete soundset as was just primarily interested in the factory bank - nice authentic looking UI though!

Only paid $79.99 via JRR Shop, also didn't need an Ilok dongle as you can now use your PC to hold the license on.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Thu May 29, 2014 3:38 pm

fluffy_little_something wrote:Um, do you mean awful or awsome?

Based on that video they sound awful, the presets that is, not the synth.

With just 32 presets available, it is a shame that the engineers had to put in presets for clavinets, organs, piano etc, but it seems every synth need to be geared toward covering the needs of the barroom pianist.

fluffy_little_something · Thu May 29, 2014 3:55 pm

I think the Roland programmers did a good job back then, especially with the brass sounds... They would sound even better if one could hear the lower frequencies better, which are all but missing in the video.

The selection of the sounds, well, it was the early 80s

The basic sound is very pleasant, which is why I suggested TAL do an emulation of the JX-3P next, where they could reuse code from the U-NO-LX.

UVI launches UVX-3P - Roland JX-3P Emulation