KVR Audio

Gonga · Post by **Gonga** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 4:10 pm

Harry_HH wrote:
beely wrote:
Gonga wrote:IMO, that's the way to go - get the 2080 and fill it with expansions.
Better still - the XV-5080, filled with expansions (both SRX and the regular JV ones).
The 5080 has a better sounding engine and more synthesis options, will load all the 1080 and 2080 patches, has a lot of the JD990 stuff in it and it's response to MIDI is a lot better with dense parts. Plus you can bung 128MB of sample ram and use your own samples too...
Exactly the same setup as I still have. BTW, someone mentioned the Quadrasynth, which I also own, including some really nice expansion sample cards. H.

Weird, as I have an original QS8! It was my first midi keyboard when I came back into making music after starting my career. I have 6 cards and the famous Expando card. The only one I don't like is RapTechnoDance. It depends on what you want though. I also have Sanctuary, Classical, Jazz Piano, World Ethnic and Vintage Keyboards. Mine still works, though I'm getting ready for a battery failure any day now. It's my 88-key piano-action midi controller at this point.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 4:36 pm

Ol'man Numan bigs up QudraSynth also: http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/gar ... ed-587143/

I didn't know it was slated before?

Vectorman · Post by **Vectorman** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 2:20 pm

I bought a used Quadrasynth circa 1995 and remember not being very enthused with it at the time, apart from a handful of patches (I think one of them was a brass patch that worked well for that trumpet-esque lead that Keith Emerson favored in the late '80s on tracks like "Touch and Go"). But I didn't have it very long and quickly traded it away towards the then-new Kurzweil K2500. Lately I seem to have developed a fascination with retro PCM synths (I'm on a bit of a Wavestation kick again), so if I had a QS/S4 around again, especially with some expansion cards, I'm sure I'd probably find some things in it that I liked. At least the ROMpler/PCM-based synths are one category of "vintage" synth that can still be had for a fraction of their original prices.

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 2:33 pm

I've always been a sucker for those new age evolving layered sounds and the Quadrasynth S4 module takes me back to those times. Of course something like Sampletank just blows it away but there is something about these older hardware units I find comforting. Perhaps it's just nostalgia. I programmed a Combi on it which they call a "Mix" and by the time I was done my neck was killing me.........

I do miss my editor librarians and really appreciate the ease of patch design in softsynths......

Gamma-UT · Post by **Gamma-UT** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 2:36 pm

Numanoid wrote:Ol'man Numan bigs up QudraSynth also: http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/gar ... ed-587143/

I didn't know it was slated before?

When it was launched, the analogue revival was building up steam. But the Quadra didn't have resonant filters, which ruled out doing a lot of analogue-style sounds. They simulated filter sweeps IIRC using a kind of wavetable approach. (I think you couldn't actually play a sweep as such, just program in notes with different amounts of simulated resonance.) Ensoniq's synths suffered for much the same reason.

I used to have an S4, the rackmount version, but as I've got an Ensoniq ZR76, it was pretty much duping the sounds available from the keyboard so I sold it. One notionally useful thing about the S4 was that it could play user samples. But it involved messing with an unfriendly editor and could only cope with one rare type of PCMCIA memory card.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sun May 24, 2015 3:05 pm

I'm tempted to get the QuadraSynth story refill, just €15 now

http://www.reasonbanks.com/refill_Quadra_spec.html

Fleer · Post by **Fleer** » Mon May 25, 2015 4:13 am

Still have a new original QuadraSynth lying around. Maybe should start playing it after 22 years

And there's an untouched Fusion next to it. Man, those working days were all about purchasing dreams but never using them.
Since this is a JV1080 thread, I have to admit I never even launched that beauty of a module. And a beauty it is, much more than its 2080 or 5080 successors. There's something about the JV1080's looks that makes you go weak around the knees. Got to link 'em all together and start playing, even though Numan doesn't do hardware anymore.

Woody Aki · Post by **Woody Aki** » Wed May 27, 2015 10:38 am

The XP-50 was the first synth I owned, back in '95. Mine is armed with the Techno, Vintage and Dance cards, and resides at my parents back home in Malta.

The sequencer was a bit of a pain to use, but was rock solid in a live environment, whilst editing sounds with that screen was equally as painful, but rewarding. I wouldn't call it a must have (a ROMpler is a ROMpler), but it is an amazing pads/strings machine when coupled with the Vintage card...so much that I want to restore it.

The last I checked it some 4 years ago, there was no output, the alpha knob and the buttons under the LED functioned at their own leisure, and I'm sure that the C1/C2 faders need to be replaced. On top of that, I'd like to transfer my discs onto an SD card and replace the floppy drive with one of them SD readers. I'd like to hear from you if you had any similar issues, where you repaired them/where to send it for repairs around Cambridge/in the UK, and more tips about swapping that floppy drive.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 2:34 pm

There is a new pack out for Live 9, based on the Super JV, 3.1GB in total

https://www.clustersound.com/product-detail.php?id=146

extracted from the JV-1080 factory waveforms plus 3 expansions boards : Vintage Synth - Techno Collection - Pop.

MFXxx · Post by **MFXxx** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 2:37 pm

Didn't realise roland allowed licensing of their waveforms. Saying that you can pick up the real deal for about 50 to 80 on ebay. Lots around.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 2:39 pm

MFXxx wrote:Didn't realise roland allowed licensing of their waveforms.

Yeah, I also was a bit surprised when I saw the product ad this morning.

Costing just €29, they can't have paid Roland much in case to license the factory content.

beely · Post by **beely** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 2:41 pm

MFXxx wrote:Didn't realise roland allowed licensing of their waveforms.

If they are selling that at such a low cost I doubt they are paying a license to use the recordings. Most likely they are just resampling the romplers because they can and can use the name to make some money, just like all the other low priced sample "devs" that do this.

Gamma-UT · Post by **Gamma-UT** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 2:46 pm

I don't think they got the memo about Roland's legal team.

Yet.

The last D-50 sample set was up for about five days. I wonder how long this one has.

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 2:50 pm

MFXxx wrote:Didn't realise roland allowed licensing of their waveforms. Saying that you can pick up the real deal for about 50 to 80 on ebay. Lots around.

You can buy mine...............

Let's see how fast the high priced Roland lawyers work this time..........

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 3:18 pm

Teksonik wrote:
MFXxx wrote:Didn't realise roland allowed licensing of their waveforms. Saying that you can pick up the real deal for about 50 to 80 on ebay. Lots around.
You can buy mine...............

Let's see how fast the high priced Roland lawyers work this time..........

They have to know that something exists first. You probably did the digging job for them

Roland JV 1080