XV-5080 SF2 Sample Library

[djmino02]

Anyone know of a good XV-5080 SF2 Sample Library?

[BertKoor]

Anyone know of a good XV-5080 SF2 Sample Library?

Roland is known for its trigger happy legal department, issueing cease&desist letters to anyone breaching their copyright. Which is their good right. But it might explain why you have troubles finding libraries labeled as sampled from a XV-n080 or JV-n080, those models are for 90% the same samples.

Roland has a cloud thing you can look in to. Or buy such a rompler beast second hand, quite affordable and totally worth it for such an instrument. Or rent one for a day and sample the patch you need. Yes, that is legal as long as you don't sell it off in a library.

[djmino02]

Gotcha! I'd like to get the xv5080 but don't have the rack space really. The plugin may be more suiting but I heard the Roland plugins were cpu hogs.

[planetearth]

Gotcha! I'd like to get the xv5080 but don't have the rack space really. The plugin may be more suiting but I heard the Roland plugins were cpu hogs.

Some are more resource-hungry than others, and the initial versions of the "Anthology" series were rather piggish, but the latest versions weren't too bad on my aging system. I could run a couple of instances each of D-50, ProMars, Jupiter-8, Juno-106 and XV-5080 in one project. If you haven't tried them in a while (or if you've never tried them), you might be pleasantly surprised at how much work Roland has done on them.

Steve

[djmino02]

Cool! Thanks!

[djmino02]

I read online that the 5080 plugin doesn't have a Multi-Partial sample capabilities like the 5080 hardware and S-7x Series samplers used.

I'm not familiar with Multi-Partial sample capabilities. Is that like granular wavetable synthesis or like a keymap on Kurzweil?