JV-2080 | |
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Manufacturer | Roland |
Dates | January 1996–2000 |
Price | 1399 UKP |
Technical specifications | |
Polyphony | 64 tones |
Timbrality | 16 part multitimbral |
Oscillator | 4 tones per voice |
LFO | 2 per tone, with eight waveforms |
Synthesis type | Sample based |
Filter | 1 TVF (Time Variant Filter) per tone, with resonance and its own envelope. 4 filter types (LPF, BPF, HPF, Peaking) |
Attenuator | 1 TVA (Time Variant Amplifier) per tone |
Aftertouch expression | Channel and Polyphonic |
Velocity expression | Initial and release. Editable crossfade and key range |
Storage memory |
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Input/output | |
External control | MIDI (in/out/thru) |
The Roland JV-2080 is a rack-mount expandable MIDI sound module and an updated version of the Roland JV-1080. Produced by the Roland Corporation, released in 1996 and built on a sample-based synthesis architecture, the JV-2080 provides a library of on-board sample material and a semi-modular synthesis engine.
The JV-2080 ("2080") is a sample + synthesis synthesizer with support for 768 internal patches, including General MIDI. In addition to the synthesizer, it also includes a multi-effects module, with 40 effect types, of which three can be used simultaneously. The 2080 is expandable via proprietary modules that contain both sample-based waveform data and patch information. The internal memory of the 2080 is divided into five sections.
The JV-2080 can also be 'stacked' with up to eight units ganged together to increase polyphony to achieve a 512 voice multitimbral performance.
The JV-2080 has three on-board demo songs. The demos are:[1]
The core sampled waveforms of the JV-2080 were developed by Roland R&D-LA in Culver City, California. Some of the factory presets and expansion board sounds were created by Eric Persing of Spectrasonics and Ace Yukawa.
In common with other Roland instruments, the JV-2080 could be expanded with SR-JV80 expansion boards,[2] and could accept up to eight of them at a time.[3]
Notice: Due to copyright problems Roland no longer distributes the Dance expansion board.
Artists and producers from a broad range of genres utilize the JV-1080 and JV-2080. In 2001, synthpop artist Thomas Dolby once remarked that he didn't find the JV as immediate in usability as his older synthesizers.[6] The JV-2080 has featured in the studios of Tidy Trax Records, a Hard House record label based in the UK.[7] Australian Electro band Gerling used the JV-1080 on their album Children Of Telepathic Experiences.[8] LTJ Bukem and Photek have also used it in music production and film scoring, respectively.[9] Other users include Midge Ure,[10] Gary Barlow,[11] Armin van Buuren,[12] Glen Ballard,[13] Jimmy Douglass,[14] London Elektricity,[15] 1 Giant Leap,[16] David Frank,[17] and Máni Svavarsson.[18]