Roland JV-880 Analog Synths
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- No typical 90ies stuff, no pianos, no whistles, no mallets and bells.
Just great emulations of analog and classic synths of the 70ies and 80ies, like Minimoog, Mellotron, Solina, Prophet 5, CS-80, OBXa, Jupiter 8, Juno and only typical sounds, like Basses, Leads, Pads, Strings, Brasses, Sequences and so on.
I only recorded one patch at the same time, no performances and no overdubbing. I used only the JV-880 with the Expansion Card JV80 4 Vintage Keys.
There are only custom sounds and some sounds from this expansion card. Everything is played life without midi. There are no additional effects and mastering.
Of my opinion the JV-880 is the best sounding synth from the complete JV series and a really great very underrated synth.
I am so happy there are still some great "vintage" synthesizers in the market, that come in the disguise of a cheap digital rompler. I just completed my collection with a Roland W-30, D-110 and JV-880 (for about 10% the price of a Juno 106 or 1% the price of a Jupiter 8).
There are a lot of great bargains, like an extremely warm sounding Korg 01/Wfd I bought for 110€ or a Yamaha w-5 for the same price. Sound is better then the new romp,er’s have, just less functions and bad display.
Yes totally True, Even a D10 ( or better even D110) can get you some really warm and fat sounds. I got a D20 for 25€ last week. Looking out for a cheap JV-880 now.
When you put it in % terms like that, it's pretty impressive. And of course it wasn't that long ago that people looked at things like the Juno as dated. and no one would have believed how much people are willing to pay for them now. Who knows, in 15 years you may be sitting on a goldmine when all of these digital bargains become cool again.
I just bought one today for 165€ in excellent condition and I'm happy.
I remember when the JV80/JV880 was launched. Everybody loved it for the emulation of strings and guitars. It was a solid "truth" that the filter was cold and that it could not do analog synth sounds very good. It was also more expensive than analogs at that time so I ignored JVs cause I preferred analog sounds of MKS series. No 30 years later I like the dreamy pads and string emulations in the JVs cause they have a special "glow" that real analogs does not have in the top end. Funny how things change.
Would have been great if you had shown the actual preset names in the video or list them in the post.
Thanks. The presets are from kid nepro most of them. I find the filter very nice sounding and the synth has a nice warmness
@@vintagesynths Thank you. It was a suggestion about making the videopart in the video a bit more useful as well if the text in the display had matched the sounds. I was a overwhelmed by the amount of low end bass in some of the presets on my machine. It was really too much. Have you experienced the same?
This is truly a gorgeous sound module. i like its sound even more than the 990's more digital sound
Now I know what I bought by accident in a package of gear, there was a jv880 without knowing how good it is! I also have the 1080 and love it!
Same here!!!
I tried to sell mine incl. the Vintage Synth Expansion but I'm glad no one wanted to buy it. 😅 It's got a very nice low end.
got the JV-880 with the vintage synth card too, excellent sound quality. The later XV-5050 /5080 alsmost sounds like a steril vsti in comparison
agreed, the jv synths were the last of the un-compressed, dynamicly fat digital romplers
@@layzer80 What about the Holy Grail, JD-990?
@@bobcatt2294 what about it? its the rack version of the JD-800 different from the JV synths, but great in their own ways.
Hi Layzer80, The question was to rightfully put in place the depth and quality of the JV / XV along side the JD. I am hearing either better samples on the JD or perhaps a combination of other things which makes me always go to the JD rather than the JV-880
@@layzer80 a lot more than the jd800 mate... in fact it can also load the JV expansion boards, etc. with the vintage board you hear now you get 255 patches designed especially for th 990 PLUS the 255 designed for the JV series... and 990 sounds better than 800
Hi, i own one of these and im really happy with it. Unfortunatly, you didn´t posted a list of the sounds, you used. I have the "Vintage-Synth"-Card in and that´s great too. Maybe you can post a list in cronological order, what sounds you played and at what time. Thanks !
10:59 Genesis - The carpet crawlers :-)
sauermusicDE yesss 👌
He dare call us? Well we gotta get in to get out.
Wow! Thanks a lot. After listening to this awesome Pad sound @ 13:13 I went straight away to reconnect my old JV880 that was catching dust somewhere in another room for a few years now. I also have a JV 1080 that I love and use a lot, because I am a big fan of the Roland Sound of that decade. But it's true, the JV 880 has got something special to it, especially for the pads.
Greetings from Berlin :-)
basspartout Danke schön. Viele Grüße aus dem Süden Deutschlands
Aha, ein Synthbegeisterter aus gleichem Lande... schöner Kanal, wird gleich mal abonniert :-) Beste Grüße aus Berlin!
Ich komm aus dem schönen Odenwald, aber Berlin ist immer eine Reise wert! Es war geil dort!
best Roland module
alex gavel soundwise for sure the best JV. The JD-990 is more flexible
just found one on craigslist for $50 buck's Canadian how could i say no?pairing it up with a U-220 SC-880 XV-5050 and a pr of A-880's now going to end up spending more on the JV-04 card....lol
well a follow up all the other romplers have gone but the jv-880 and a whole host of bigger Roland brothers have joined another jv-880 2x jv-2080 ,2xJD-990's ,fantom XR, Integra,V-synth XT, V-synth 2.0,MC-909,JD-800,Juno Alpha-2
I bought one brand new when it was released. I always like its overall sound at that time. Then, after several years, I moved to Yamaha... So I packed it in its box during few years and I tried to sell it last year because it's still in mint condition with all documents and papers. So, I decided to take some nice photos in order to sell it, cleaned the hardware and then I plug it to check the sound... Wow that unit still sounds amazing! It has LOTS of punch, very strong presence but it lacks of good effects. The JV-880 never sounds flat, it has a STRONG character but deserves a bit of help on external effects to deliver its true voice. Damn... pads are surreal! JP-8 patches are beautiful on this machine. It's also a pretty easy to use unit, simple and intuitive. So instead of getting some cash with it, I built a new home-studio desk to reinstall it 😂
Good choice to keep it
I love those sounds!
WoooW!! This is the most reached Internal Users sound i found at the time in youtube!! Thanks for Share! I agreed with your opinion of JV-880 indeed
Love my 880!
The texture of 880 is incredible, it sounds best of all.
great selection of sounds. i like that cheap synth. good filters and good waveforms!
Cheap no longer, sadly. Espen Kraft just reviewed it. :) :(
16:17 - Is this a preset? Been looking for that sound for a while. It's used in the intro of this: th-cam.com/video/bV-hSgL1R74/w-d-xo.html
I visited that link you gave and saw nothing about the JV-880.
Sampled from Tangerine Dream, or perhaps straight from the E-mu sampler libraries.
th-cam.com/video/3xKyBrS8ySo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Mh51Ir-ICPeGMzTP&t=1203
I have owed one since 1992, great synth.
I had this for years, of course I sold it and miss it.
I've got 2 of these to add to the polyphony and replaced the screens with the white letter over blue background, just visually great. I also have the JD-990 and a lovely Korg M3R among others. I am now into synths as I have gotten my collection of romplers
Bobcatt22 Where did you get the screen?
@@BeefyTime1 Check Reverb.com & eBay for replacement screens. They're not terribly expensive.
Hi BeefyTime - sorry about this late response, did not see this. I have just looked over at Ebay where they were purchased and see nothing. I did contact a seller of other Roland LED displays and ask if they were available. The ones I purchased were new not used. Will post back the seller's response.
@@BeefyTime1 Found it: www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Blue-LCD-Display-Part-for-Roland-JV-880-JV880-U-220-U220-Rack-Synth-Repair-/132527641901?hash=item1edb43552d
Bobcatt22 thank you. I appreciate your effort.
This sounds like $ 20.000 worth of gear in a hardly known box you get used for 1 % of that amount - and even better than most VST-emulations!
That’s true
@@vintagesynths Recently got this card and it is stunning, just have to replace the capacitor before it's too late...
Your excellent playing style really brings out the beautiful emotive quality of your chosen sounds.
Thanks a lot, mate
WOW 😱To my ears sounds better than the JD990 😬 I thought this was a Jupiter
Omg I’m completely sold. I gotta get me one of these!
Xp30 was my first synth, with the vintage and keyboards expansions... I kept it for 17 years. I'm having a serious gas listening to this. There's a jv880 around here for a low price but I have no more space and don't feel I should keep playing these same sounds after all this time and more than 10 albums playing them... Trying to focus on my D-05 module now.
XP30=JV 1080
@@yavamaystudio8045 No, an xp50 has the same motherboard as a 1080. An xp30 has bad outputs and cheaper connections. Sound not so warm. This one doesn't sound good and lots of problems. Comparisons can be found on the internet.
Thumbs up on the music you selected. From which film score is the music?
It’s just improvised and no film score
Hi: I only can save 64 presets of the exp card to my data card. When I write the next 64 presets, it will always rewrite the first 64 sounds. How can I save the total 255 sounds to my data card?
sounds pretty epic. is it possible to edit these things from the front panel?
Yes, it is, but it is very painful. There’s already an iPad controller from Patch Base
Wow, goosebumps! 11:29
using the vintage card ?
Ward de jager yes
@synthlegens - so these are no factory patches i suppose?
No, only some, but most are not
Nice Sounds here
Hola que tal sería muy amable en me sacar una duda. ¿Cómo tengo acceso a la expansión en ese módulo, ya que solo tiene el Bank A, B, C, I? Muchas gracias
nice démo!!congratulation,did you play with a 61 key??
Wow nice machine
I got one of these for really cheap on eBay a few months back with an extra drum module. It's awesome. I have the Beatstep Pro controlling it and I don't need an extra drum machine anymore. The piano sounds and pads are great too.
Is that the "bass and drum" module? How does it sound in that unit compared to being in a JV1080?
I suspect, it will be a bit more crisp and have more "Kick"?
@@oupahens9219 It's the PCM1-03 Rock Drums module. Not a bass and drum module as such but it sounds really good. It covers most of the drum sounds you would hear in 80's and 90's pop music.
Wow what a great sounding tool even today. Thanks so much for that demonstration! Well played! Could you please post a list in cronological order of the sounds you played, maybe even from where they are (the custom sounds). That would be awesome!
Thanks so much. Unfortunately I don’t remember which Sounds I played and also don’t know the order. I just played tons of sounds and Laster on I mixed them to a nice session.
JV 880 as the same processor than the jv 80-90!!
Do you have this set for sale??? This sound set sounds very very good. How much for the sysex dump?
Unfortunately not. These are sounds from kid nepro, some internal and from patch king I think. You need also the vintage card. Thanks
Amazing sound! Thanks!!
any chance for these patches man? Will praise you all my life... will pay some money for them as well
Thank you these aren't my patches. They are form KidNepro Vintage set and Patch Base, also there are some of the internals. I also used the vintage expansion JV-04 card for this demo, this is necessary for it.
How do you save custom presets on the thing? I have one but I can’t figure it out
There is a user bank you can save 128 patches. First you have to go into global Menü and disable write protect.
6:25 Marillion - Jigsaw
highestbuilding yes it is. It was the idea, when I played it. Mark Kelly used a minimoog 1983.
@@vintagesynths Are you sure about the minimoog? I think it was a PPG in Jigsaw, you can see it here:
th-cam.com/video/JDO_O1CS6d0/w-d-xo.html
Hi, are these presets standard or do I need extra expansion card?
Standard from some libraries like from kid nepro, but you need the vintage expansion board
Your style of music, like mine brings up a question, which PCM card do you use for the 880?
Bobcatt22 I use Ukraine vintage board
@@vintagesynths Must you live in Ukraine to purchase one? I've never seen one.
Nasty polyphony cut on the sound around 2:00?
RAM4 the JV-880 has 4 parts, in this sound I activated in the beginning 2 parts (oscillators), then I switched on parts 3 and 4 also.
Cool! Makes me want to revisit mine .. unfortunately the LCD back light is almost gone .. very dim and dark. Looks like yours is doing ok .. did you replace the back light?
@joe curtin That is for 'Contrast', not 'Brightness'.
@Atlsynth If you can solder a cable to a board, you can buy the LCD itself for under 10bucks, glitch science has insane markup on an otherwise cheap part.
Great video ! Thanx 4:11: What is the name of this preset ?
Thanks a lot. I don’t remember the preset. I sold the vintage card. I played various patches from different commercial sound banks.
@@vintagesynths This preset really sounds like the "Expensive Stack" or "Liquid Stack" found on both Emax & Emulator . Originaly it was a Yamaha DX sound .
Presets or own patches?
Don Solaris miscellaneous. Buyed patches from kid nepro, patchman and some of the card. I still have no programmer for the 880.
I have seen a MIDI programmer for the JV-880 but it was like 200USD for all the features which seems a bit steep. Where did you buy those patches? And I assume you meant JV08-04 Vintage Synths expansion?
Looked a bit further, this might work? jvtool.sourceforge.net/
ThaTyger thanks for the link, unfortunately not for Mac. I have an als Atari Editor.
Wow that sounds great
Thanks
Does this machine support general midi?
Ji Luan no GM
@@vintagesynths I would like to know more, so I can't use this to play standard midi files or older DOS games like Doom?
@@jiluan6758 get an SC-88
20:11 24:28
The price of those expansion cards is completly crazy :-(
@Atlsynth any chance you could snap a photo so I know what I'm looking for. I've been hunting for this card in an ocean of crap.
Yes, buy a integra and you save 2000 dollar :-)
Do you have these patches still and would you be willing to share them?
Barry Norgaard I bought them on kid nepro site
synthlegends thanks!