I have recently discovered this little FREE gem. It's a 100% clone of the original hardware (reverse engineering of the original chips) and load all sound cards from the JV-era, so you can gets tons of sounds.
I have tested it on my Mac and it works perfectly. Pity it doesn't have any control on the sounds/presets, so at the moment it's just a preset "player", hopefully the hardware part (controls, menu) will be implemented in the future...
It's freely downloadable from https://github.com/giulioz/jv880_juce but you'll need to find the firmware(s) on archive.org
Virtual JV: free Roland JV-880 emulation
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- KVRAF
- 1724 posts since 17 Jul, 2001 from Milan, Italy
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gentleclockdivider gentleclockdivider https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=203660 - Banned
- 6787 posts since 22 Mar, 2009 from gent
That's awseome , the jv880 together with the jd990 are the best sounding romplers Roland ever made , to this date
Hopefully he tackles the jd 990 next
Up-and Running ..comparing it to my Integra ...the sound is there
Hopefully he tackles the jd 990 next
Up-and Running ..comparing it to my Integra ...the sound is there
Eyeball exchanging
Soul calibrating ..frequencies
Soul calibrating ..frequencies
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crisis-at-music crisis-at-music https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=35728
- KVRist
- 375 posts since 3 Aug, 2004 from Kiel, Germany
Great find! 
Instrumental synthwave/synthpop with classical elements: https://www.feiyr.com/x/CaMResonance2022
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- KVRAF
- 3057 posts since 6 Jul, 2013
This guy's emulation stuff is super cool, you should check out the RD Piano (MKS20 emulation) and his Boss Microrack series projects too...
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- KVRAF
- 9912 posts since 15 Sep, 2005 from East Coast of the USA
Very cool! I have a JV-880 myself, so I’m really interested in this and how it develops.
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- KVRAF
- 1785 posts since 3 May, 2023 from Norway
Cool!
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 1724 posts since 17 Jul, 2001 from Milan, Italy
Yes, I have tested them as well, I have a comparison video of the Boss RRV on my channel as wellbeely wrote: Sun May 04, 2025 8:02 pm This guy's emulation stuff is super cool, you should check out the RD Piano (MKS20 emulation) and his Boss Microrack series projects too...
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- KVRAF
- 2069 posts since 8 Feb, 2013 from Switzerland
What a nostalgia trip for me on a rainy sunday. Great! Thanks. 
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- KVRAF
- 9912 posts since 15 Sep, 2005 from East Coast of the USA
It would be great if this editor for the hardware could somehow tie into the plugin, but it's probably not possible:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/jv-patched/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/jv-patched/
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 1724 posts since 17 Jul, 2001 from Milan, Italy
Apparently, that is a CTRLR panel, but who knows. Techically it could be done using MIDI maybe?Examigan wrote: Sun May 04, 2025 10:04 pm It would be great if this editor for the hardware could somehow tie into the plugin, but it's probably not possible:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/jv-patched/
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- KVRAF
- 9912 posts since 15 Sep, 2005 from East Coast of the USA
I just loaded the VST3 on my PC and it's working here. Nice! 
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- KVRAF
- 2329 posts since 2 Jul, 2007
Sounds better than alot of the roland cloud stuff
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PEDALS: Chase Bliss Blooper + Mood MK II
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- KVRist
- 342 posts since 5 Jan, 2022
well shoot, i've been trying to install this by watching his video with no luck for a couple hours. any kind soul want to give a step by step? i've got everything downloaded but can't get Logic to see the plugin.
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- KVRAF
- 3057 posts since 6 Jul, 2013
You de-quarantined and code signed it? Rebooted?
It (the AU version) works here everywhere other than Logic, where it just crashes hard in the process block every time…
It (the AU version) works here everywhere other than Logic, where it just crashes hard in the process block every time…