KVR Audio

meeks · Post by **meeks** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:10 am

Just got one for $237 w/ one expansion...each expansion goes for different prices...in all I say go for it.

DevonB · Post by **DevonB** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:11 am

spectrum wrote:In terms of being a faithful representation of the factory sounds, probably the 1080 - because when I was at Roland, I tweaked every one of those thousands of factory and expansion board sounds to sound just right on a 1080...(not a 2080, which is much darker sounding.)

Ildon wrote:Roland really needs to fire its preset guys.

So, you mean fire Eric, Ildon?

Devon

spectrum · Post by **spectrum** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:11 am

kevvvvv wrote:Eric ... did you do the cards too?

Yep, most of them.

But I was the last part of the chain....lots of people contributed patches and then I would tweak and choose what to present as the finals.

Some of the re-issue stuff was done in Japan though.

spectrum · Post by **spectrum** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:13 am

Ildon wrote:Since you're not going to be doing a lot of editing, I wouldn't recommend it. The JV/XPs shine when you sit down with it for a week and come up with a bank of your own stuff, otherwise it sounds... well... egh.

Sure....making your own sounds is always the best.

Roland really needs to fire its preset guys.

Yep...we sucked pretty bad. Guess that's why all those Roland synths we did were so unsuccessful....

spectrum

kevvvvv · Post by **kevvvvv** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:21 am

spectrum

But I was the last part of the chain....lots of people contributed patches and then I would tweak and choose what to present as the finals.

What a wonderful job you did, mate

(You've probably been told this before, but it doesn't hurt to hear it again

)

Like many, I spent a whole chunk of my life playing with those sounds. I remember how excited I was to get a synth with 32 bit envelopes. Press a key and - bang - the attack was instantly up there

...

Is this nostalgia helping soulata?

I don't know but I wouldn't mind hearing another JV story

spectrum · Post by **spectrum** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:45 am

Thanks!

kevvvvv · Post by **kevvvvv** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:47 am

and ....? (... jvstory, jvstory, jvstory ...

)

spectrum · Post by **spectrum** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:55 am

Anyone care to take a guess what the actual bit depth and samplerate of the JV format waveforms are?

kevvvvv · Post by **kevvvvv** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:58 am

should stir the loins a bit

Kim Olesen · Post by **Kim Olesen** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:59 am

kevvvvv wrote:spectrum
But I was the last part of the chain....lots of people contributed patches and then I would tweak and choose what to present as the finals.
What a wonderful job you did, mate

(You've probably been told this before, but it doesn't hurt to hear it again )

Like many, I spent a whole chunk of my life playing with those sounds. I remember how excited I was to get a synth with 32 bit envelopes. Press a key and - bang - the attack was instantly up there

...

Is this nostalgia helping soulata?

I don't know but I wouldn't mind hearing another JV story

+1 I still love my jv to death. The best gear investment i ever did!!!

As far as jv stories. Tell us what the real deal with the dance expansion was. (i have one which i bought before it was withdrawn)

spectrum · Post by **spectrum** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:01 am

spectrum wrote:Anyone care to take a guess what the actual bit depth and samplerate of the JV format waveforms are?

Little known fact....it's 8bit/30khz

The trick is how the engine hypes them back to life!

Roland's technology on compression of samples is quite something.

Kim Olesen · Post by **Kim Olesen** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:03 am

spectrum wrote:
spectrum wrote:Anyone care to take a guess what the actual bit depth and samplerate of the JV format waveforms are?

Little known fact....it's 8bit/30khz

The trick is how the engine hypes them back to life!

Roland's technology on compression of samples is quite something.

Wow. there must be something going on in that engine. t just sounds so good to my ears. Now give me the daNCE EXPANSION STORY;-)

Kingston · Post by **Kingston** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:04 am

spectrum wrote:Little known fact....it's 8bit/30khz

The trick is how the engine hypes them back to life!

Roland's technology on compression of samples is quite something.

hmm 8-bits, but surely at least closely related to u-law/a-law variants? 30khz makes a lot of sense though.

kevvvvv · Post by **kevvvvv** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:05 am

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm .... 8 bit huh ....

... and ...?

spectrum · Post by **spectrum** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:08 am

Kim Olesen wrote:As far as jv stories. Tell us what the real deal with the dance expansion was. (i have one which i bought before it was withdrawn)

Unfortunately, mucho copyright problems with third party supplied samples on that one. Numerous high profile lawsuits, etc. It was the only "recalled" Roland product that I'm aware of. Major headache for everyone in Roland Sound Development in those days. We stopped doing third party stuff the same way after that nightmare.

Using the samples on that board on a commercial release is quite dangerous it turned out! So although it's highly prized these days, watch out on using it because it got a number of Roland end users into lawsuits.

I learned a lot about copyright law from having to deal with that problem though....very useful info for my later adventures into my own sound business.

Is Roland JV1080 still worth buying?