Virtual JV: free Roland JV-880 emulation

[Examigan]

Is there any way to actually edit the tones? Although there is a tab "Tone" in the "Edit"-Area, it is empty over here.

No, not for now.

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...

[Uncle E]

Doing God is a DJ with the Vintage Synth Pizzicato.

[beely]

Is there any way to actually edit the tones? Although there is a tab "Tone" in the "Edit"-Area, it is empty over here.

Much of his stuff is WIP stuff, so it's not finished.

Although I always remembered the JV880 beeing multitimbral (4 tones make one patch). I could be wrong though, since I also used to have a 1080 and I might confuse things.

Yes, it was multitimbral, and each patch had, like most of the Roland romplers of this time, four tones per patch (but that's not multitimbral, that's the nature of a patch). Multitimbral meant you could have different patches on different MIDI channels responding at once (up to the voice limit).

More here:
https://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/roland-jv880/2381

As it is now, it is not a complete JV-80/880 emulation or am I missing something?

It's not finished, so no, it's not "complete" - it is what it is, for now.

Another case of it not working in Logic, M2 Pro, Sequoia. Immediately crashes upon loading and recovering does not work.

Same - maybe it's a Sequoia thing?

[Scotty]

There is a free Jv 880 editor that is opening in both my Windows 10 and Macintosh M1 computers. I think I’ll have to setup a virtual midi connection in both directions. IF you want to try it out it is here.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/jv-patched/

[N 4 LIFE]

There is a free Jv 880 editor that is opening in both my Windows 10 and Macintosh M1 computers. I think I’ll have to setup a virtual midi connection in both directions. IF you want to try it out it is here.

<span class="skimlinks-unlinked">https://sourceforge.net/projects/jv-patched</span>/

Is there any way to actually edit the tones? Although there is a tab "Tone" in the "Edit"-Area, it is empty over here.

Although I always remembered the JV880 beeing multitimbral (4 tones make one patch). I could be wrong though, since I also used to have a 1080 and I might confuse things.

As it is now, it is not a complete JV-80/880 emulation or am I missing something?

I couldn't find any way to edit the tones...comes up blank over here as well. Yes, I think you are right about the Roland "LA" 4 partials to make up a tone, or is it 4 tones to make a patch? At any rate, when I run it as a stand alone, I can get it working on separate midi channels and in Logic Pro I haven't been able to do that. What I'm doing instead is just stacking instances of the JV and making track stacks. Holy S, it sounds huge.

You may be talking also about the "Performance" mode these modules used to have and sadly I don't those are finable anywhere these days. The only place I've been able to find those in factory patch format so for as for the Korg M1 vst.
There is another poster on this thread who says he's got a patch librarian for this but he doesn't where to install to after download.

[Examigan]

There is a free Jv 880 editor that is opening in both my Windows 10 and Macintosh M1 computers. I think I’ll have to setup a virtual midi connection in both directions. IF you want to try it out it is here.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/jv-patched/

I knew about JV-Patched already, but I wasn't even sure how to go about doing that. Is there a special utility that is needed to get them to communicate to each other? (virtual midi connection)

[Examigan]

After more testing it works great in Presonus Studio One v7 on windows, but in Cubase 14 , once you record midi add another instance and press play, the first instance goes out of tune. ( this doesn’t happen in studio one )

I just tried that in Cakewalk and it works ok.

[DJErmac]

Doing God is a DJ with the Vintage Synth Pizzicato.

Sister Bliss says : "yes, but no".

[N 4 LIFE]

There is a free Jv 880 editor that is opening in both my Windows 10 and Macintosh M1 computers. I think I’ll have to setup a virtual midi connection in both directions. IF you want to try it out it is here.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/jv-patched/

I knew about JV-Patched already, but I wasn't even sure how to go about doing that. Is there a special utility that is needed to get them to communicate to each other? (virtual midi connection)

yeah, I can't get the two to talk to each other yet. I hope the inventor of the patch editor will give us a file/folder path to make them work together. that would be great.

[Garrincha]

You may be talking also about the "Performance" mode these modules used to have and sadly I don't those are finable anywhere these days.

Thanks for chiming in. I meant the 4 tones per patch. The performance or multi mode is something different. It's so long ago since I used Roland modules that I just mixed that up.

I do remember vaguely that I bought the JV 1080 because it had enough voices to actually use performances. With the 880 I mostly used it in single-mode, but with 4 tones per patch. Many of the patches it came with, only used one (or two for stuff like the Stereo Piano from the Session expansion).

So it could be fun to use the complete structure to programm huge layers. We will see if the developer adds further functions to the GUI.

[beely]

Does the app/plugin respond to JV80/880 sysex if you send it? Can you dump patches in, edit them remotely etc?

[Uncle E]

Sister Bliss says : "yes, but no".

Hard to tell with this insomnia. I can’t get no sleep.

[mi-os]

Very nice, but a shame he didn't fix the noise burst bug in RdPiano. At least i don't see any activity on GitHub.

[gentleclockdivider]

There is also an rd-5oo categorie and some of the presets have the SA-prefix ( structure adaptive synthesis )
I wonder if these are sample based or the real deal like in his other Roland mks-20 emulation
Comparing them side by side , it seems that it's not sample based ( altough my ears could be wrong )

[EvilDragon]

All of the sounds are sample based on JV/JD/XV series synths. SA is there only in name, not in function.