Roland JV-80
Multitimbral Synthesizer (1992)

 

Successor of the D-70 last of the "D" series, the JV-80 is the first machine of the successul JV line.

KEYBOARD 61 velocity keys with aftertouch.
Main panel features a 40 x 2 lines display, 58 push buttons and 8 sliders for real-time parameter control (cutoff, resonance, tune, pan).
On the left section a single pitchbender / modulation controller and 3 sliders for volume, presence (cutoff-resonance) and assignable function.

Rear panel terminal connectors:
- Midi interface
- main signal out
- headphones out
- 2 slots for PCM and data cards
- damp pedalswitch input
- 2 assignable pedal inputs for sustain / program change / others

 

TECH main core IC H8/532 (Hitachi hd6435328f) + DAC Burr Brown PCM69AP .
System manages up to 28 voices polyphony or PCM TONES.
A basic JV-80 patch is composed by 4 tones (or PCM samples) with individual settings:

- keyzone assignment - pitch tuning - gain amount - stereo panning position - delay start time - crossmodulation FXM Hear

WAVETABLE inernal 4 Mb ROM contains 129 PCM samples at 16-bits resolution, mainly a wide selection of bread and butters for all kind of music and tastes.
TIP: The internal ROM can be expaned using either SO-PCM cards or SRJV cards.

The ROM table is basically organized into 3 categories: - acoustic - basic waves - drums and percussions Hear ALL internal waves

EXPANSION the JV is expandable fitting 2 kind of expansions:
- PCM card inserted into the frontal slot (SO-PCM series 1/2 MB)
- SRJ-V board (usual size is 4 or 8 MB).

SR-JV LIST

SO-PCM LIST

SR-JV80-01 POP   SR-JV80-02 ORCHESTRAL   SR-JV80-03 PIANO   SR-JV80-04 VINTAGE SYNTH   SR-JV80-05 WORLD   SR-JV80-06 DANCE   SR-JV80-07 SUPER SOUND SET   SR-JV80-08 KEYBOARDS OF THE 60's & 70's   SR-JV80-09 SESSION   SR-JV80-10 BASS AND DRUM   SR-JV80-11 TECHNO COLLECTION   SR-JV80-12 HIP HOP   SR-JV80-13 VOCAL COLLECTION   SR-JV80-14 ASIAN   SR-JV80-15 SPECIAL FX Collection   SR-JV80-16 ORCHESTRAL II   SR-JV80-17 COUNTRY Collection   SR-JV80-18 LATIN Collection   SR-JV80-19 HOUSE Collection   SR-JV80-98 EXPERIENCE promotional board. SR-JV80-99 EXPERIENCE 2 promotional board. NOTE: There are 21 SR-JV available with different instrument styles, but only the first 3 were projected for JV80/880 series mainly for the structure algorithm and the EFFECT DSP that improved JV series with the following model JV1080.

SO-PCM1-01 Piano Selections SO-PCM1-02 Guitar and Brass SO-PCM1-03 Rock Drums SO-PCM1-04 Grand Piano SO-PCM1-05 Accordion SO-PCM1-06 Baroque SO-PCM1-07 Orchestral FX SO-PCM1-08 County/Folk/Bluegrass Note: SO-PCM cards are also compatible with: - Roland JD-990 - Roland JV1080 - Roland JD-800 (only PCM, not programs)

 

 

ENVELOPE each TONE features 3 EGs:

- EG1 AMP: segments + 3 times, 8 velocity curves + key follows option. - EG2 FILTER: 4 segments + 4 times - EG3 PITCH: 4 segments + 4 times, Keyfollow + random Pitch ratio

 

LFO up to 2 delayed modulators, 7 shapes with adjustable symmetry offset : triangle, sinewave, sawtooth, trapezoidal, random1 and random2 - sample-hold.
The LFOs destinations are: TVF filter, TVA amplitude and stereo panning.
Some extra modulation functions are note retrig and sync to LFO.

Hear all LFO shapes Hear LFO symmetry offset range Hear random1 vs random 2 mode

 

FILTER digital resonant TVF - Time Variant Filter - provides 2 modes: lowpass + highpass.
The TVF features also keyfollow function with +/- 200% harmonic content cutoff over octaves.

- TVF lowpass Hear Lowpass on white noise - TVF highpass Hear highpass on white noise

 

PERFORMANCE the JV engine is multimbric and manages up 7 parts (+1 drum) parts each with assignable parameters:

- Midi channel assign - keyboard zone assign - stereo panning - volume gain - effect amount - pitch tuning - variable tuning scale: equal, just and arabic. - portamento set - analog feel function Hear Hear two parts multitimbric (synth+bass)

EFFECT digital DSP features basically 2 kind of effects that can be edited with minor parameters:
- reverb: 8 presets 2 ROOM, 2 STAGE, 2 HALL and 2 DELAY Hear
- chorus: 3 presets of choruses/flanger with variable rate and depth Hear

 

MEMORY:

- RAM 64 patches - RAM 16 performances - RAM 1 rhythm set - ROM 128 patches - ROM 16 performances - ROM 1 rhythm set. TIP: RAM doubled using l Data card model Roland M 256 / M512.

 

 

EDIT some programmers for computer:

-Soundquest (MAC/PC, $$$) - JV Tool (PC + Linux) FREE URL

MAINTENANCE I did personally had troubles with tact switches that were getting hard to push.

standard tact switches replaced!

RELATED FAMILY:

	JV-880 rackmount version with same characteristics + extra AUX outs
	JV-30 (1992) simpified JV80 oriented to GS-GM compatibility
	JV-35 (1993) 28 voices - updated JV-30 with bigger memory and some extra features
	JV-50 (1994) 61 keys, 28 voices. Same as JV 35 with sequencer and floppy drive
	JV-90 (1994) 76 keys - 28 voices - updated JV-80 synth series
	JV-1000 (1994) 76 keys - 28 voices- workstation with sequencer JV keyboard series then replaced by XP series
	JV-1080 (1994) 64 voices - rackmount modules updated then to JV-2080.

 

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