The cost for the year is £185 which you could easily spend on a single virtual instrument. The sound engines (synth and effects) are the same, as I know. 5080 can load and play samples in Roland S-700 and Akai S-1000 formats, it has 128 voices and a bigger screen. Far more than you’d think was possible on a PCM based synth.Įvery time I write one of these releases up I keep thinking that it’s about time we all subscribed to this amazing resource of sounds. I would avoid the 5050 as it has 64 voices and no sample playback abilities, unless you get it for real cheap and money is important for you. Find used Roland Xv 5080 for sale on eBay, Craigslist, Letgo, OfferUp, Amazon and others. You have editors for the filter section, amp section, LFO with stepped modulation, rhythm modulation and the synthesis structure. Use the UP and DOWN CURSOR buttons to select PATCH.
Rotate the VALUE to select the SCSI drive that contains the samples.
But you don’t have to be frustrated by that annoying sound module style rack-mounted interface, oh no, this has a fully programmable patch edit window so you can get stuck right in. To load a sample patch from a SCSI drive, use the following procedure: 1.
Building on the success of the earlier JV-1080, this rack-based multitimbral beauty offered a massive stash of PCM-based sounds, modulation features aplenty and a slew of effects, and was versatile enough to appeal to a wide range of producers. By Eric-9.bjH, Januin Keyboards & MIDI Overall. You need to buy many expansion boards to get (its true) very good sounds that easily compete with cd roms. In the virtual version, the 900 original presets that built the sound of the “naughties” are all there right inside your DAW. Released in 2000, Roland’s XV-5080 was billed as the company’s ultimate sound module, and with good reason. Because when I discovered all the quality you find in programs made of samples, I realized the XV 5080 still sounded too 'synth' for me on the acoustic side.
It had an immense amount of sonic power, driven by PCM-based multitimbral synthesis, a modulation matrix, huge effects and compatibility with all the SRX Expansion Boards. They designed it to be the ultimate sound module, the logical evolution of the 1994 JV-1080 to be the best of everything Roland had done up to that point.