The JV-1000 is essentially a combination of the Roland MC-50MkII sequencer, and the JV-80. You could now expand the memory to about 600 patches in addition to the one slot for the expansion boards. Roland shortly followed up with the JV-90, which was pretty much like the JV-80 with 76 keys and more memory. Roland did a great job with the programming and these boards can be a great addition if you have an old JV in your rack. A couple of the outstanding boards which are still sort after today are the SR-JV80-08 'Keyboards Of The 60's & & 70's', which have some amazing Rhodes and Wurli Pianos and SR-JV80-04 'Vintage Synths', which include a great mix of analog synths. This was the first time you could do this since the only way to expand a synths memory up until this point was to use PCM, RAM or ROM cards which held much smaller amounts of data.Įach of the boards is in a different style, which makes it easy to fit the board you buy with the type of tracks your producing.

Each board can hold an additional 8 megs of sounds so you could greatly expand the JV's memory and easily swap out boards as you needed them. The most notable feature in the JV's were the addition of 'SR-JV80 expansion boards', in which Roland released a whopping nineteen boards. The JV's can hold 192 patches in it's ROM and additional 64 patches in RAM. They were 8 part, multi-timbral synths with an odd number of 28 voices.

The JV Series of synths were now digital based with 4 Megs of PCM samples in it's ROM. Released in 1992, the JV80 Keyboard and JV880 rack brought Rolands synths into another direction from the 'AL Synthesis' they had been producing since the release of the legendary D50. Some data cards are dependant upon the waveforms in addon boardsĪdditionally, its possible to use cards from the jd SL-JD80-SERIES SOUND LIBRARIES with the jv, each in this seriesĬonsists of a waveform SOPCM card, and a DATA card that contains the patch informationįor info on the JD-800 sound libraries series click here: so u can equip/use one of each at one time

(Selecting Internal and SR-JV80 Sounds Via MIDI ) The jv880 can be expanded in THREE (3) Ways.

Roland jv 880 patches