Trend price : 150-200€
One of the most famous digital rackmount expander by Roland, a direct evolution from JV series like Jv-880 with new waveforms and better effect section.
Company: Roland
Model: JV-1080
Class: Module Synthesizer
Rack: 1 unit height
Country: Japan
Weight: 5 Kg
Dimensions: 482 (w) x 281 (h) x 88 (d) mm
Dates: 1994
Display: 40 X 2 lines
Synthesis: PCM rompler
N. Samples: 448 PCM
Resolution: 16 bits
Polyphony: 64 voices
Multitimbric: 16 parts
Filter: LPF / HPF / BPF / PEAK
LFO: 2 modulators
Envelope: 3 EGs
Effect: 48
Midi: IN / OUT / THRU
DAC: 63200GS-E2
CPU: RESNAS HD6437034
Demo: 1
Video: 1
Review: 1
DOWNLOAD: user manual - service manual - 1000 free sounds patches -
Overview
Main panel features a 40 X 2 lines display, 35 buttons, 2 knobs and 2 slots for memory cards
Back panel terminal connectors:
-
Midi interface
- main signal out + AUX assignable out
Voice
polyphony: 64 voices or TONES.
A basic pacth is composed by 4 tones PCM samples
Wavetable
8 Mb ROM contains 448 PCM at 16-bits waves split in 2 families:
- 193 PCM percussive and chromatic one-shot
-
255 PCM instruments
TIP:
JV1080 can be expanded using SR-JV cards in the 4 slots
Structure
the tones can be combined in 10 different signal paths or structures inspired from D50 synthesizer technology -
These are pre-fixed audio patch that connects the 2 pair of tones into variable setups mixed with audio elements such as amplifier, filter and digital processes.
Filter
TVF Time-Variant Filter offers 4 modes
- lowpass
- bandpass
- highpass
-
peaking (the "PKG" emphasizes frequencies around the cutoff value)
In addtion a filter keytrack function with
+/- 200% harmonic content cutoff over octaves.
LFO
2 LFO oscillators, they provide 7 waveforms with adjustable symmetry:
- triangle
- sinewave
- sawtooth
- trapezoidal
- random
- sample & hold
- chaos random
Envelope
- EG1 amplitude: 4 segments + 3 times, 8 velocity curves + key follows option
- EG2 filter : 4 segments + 4 times.
- EG3 pitch 4 segments + 4 times, keyfollow + random pitch
Memory
- 640 ROM patches
- 64 ROM performance
- 128 RAM patches
- 16 RAM performances
External media: 2 different kind of memory cards: model M-512 (32 performances + 128 patches + 2 rhythm sets) and more common model M-256 (16 performance + 64 patches +1 rhythm set).
Review
OK: classic digital / now affordable
NOT : display / some boring JV sounds.
"A classic still after decades, Roland use quite the same JV sound architecture. 1080 is now cheap, and still a valid source for any kind of sounds, especially pads and strings textures."
Text , review, special demos copyright polynominal.com / Eric Pochesci
