it was a little revolution in a time where almost all digital synths had one knob and several buttons only. Roland made a come back to the interface like their analog poly synths. But on sonic side, it is just a digital synth.
@@jean-louispech4921 Indeed. I felt disappointed when I used it for the very first time. There was acoustic sounds in it... 😬 Many years after that I started working at a studio that had 990 and that was a more sophisticated machine, with hard sync, fm, ring mod etc. I ended up buying a DJ-70 for 50 bucks which have the same filter chip.
Merry Christmas and happy new Year! Oh wow, you finally found time and mood to make it.. Really sums nicely the sound of JD/JV synths and exactly shows why they are both liked and hated. Crystalic, clear and perfectly pronounced, such an epitomy of late 90's and 2000's electronic music sound.
@Sandelec-gm2cl it's nice to have that vintage analog card and memory expansion card but analog sound can now be easily obtained through a plethora of cheap analog synths that Behringer is doing for exmple in my opinion
@@SonikbytesThere are a few tricks in the 990, like the ability to give each note a different panning. And it sounds massive and cinematic and with huge polyphony. But with the Vintage card in it it will drain your expenses (buying a card seperately is even worse).
I recently purchased a JD990 and the Vintage expansion. It’s currently my favorite sounding synth in my collection. My Poly Evolver and Hydrasynth are used just as much. Plug-in synths can sound equal or better than all my hardware but they don’t inspire me to create.
Great song AND sound with a great synth. 4 layers of synths with different layers of: envelopes, filters, levels, LFOs, and many other parameters, plus the 8 stage envelope rarity, and you have a synth even today that is fantastic and powerful. Back in the day I had bought a new Ensonique EPS16+ and Mackie 16cMIxer, just before the JD800 was introduced, the same money I would have spent on this synth. Today, through the magic of Roland I am experiencing the JD-800 in my Roland JD-08 for the first time. Plus I have added polyphony and panning to add to the power. Magic because it only costs $300 today.
Well into several negotiations for selling the JD-800 from a collection of synths that most would prefer over this one, Rimela showed interest in exploring it. More interest than me anyway: other than the 800 being a giant controller for the JD-990 I'm not particularly moved by its characteristics, though even lettuce can become etable if you hide it in between enough avocado, feta, salmon and pepper. But Rimela does it all with just that, lettuce (and sparse Ableton revs), and after only 2 months of introduction it's now loaded with 64 patches. And I even like the guitar ones. 2 out of the 5 parts feature this crafty variable-delay-like sequence, and I was taken aback by the decent guitar harmonics in part 4. The 800 still sounds much more corporate than the D-50, and doesn't make me smile as much as the 50 does too. I still wouldn't recommend buying it.. but I decided to keep it. Being proven wrong in music is a joyous expense. Great stuff, Rimela, and it was my pleasure entirely. Can't wait to see what's next.
The 800 is of an above average quality build: if you get one where the red glue problem is solved, the only thing you need to mind is the left (bender) cover panel: it's inducive to cracking when handled improperly (like storing it in a not high enough rack like I did..).
@@74goldenjet I know what you mean. It’s a capable synth, but you have to know what you want out of it. It’s not inspiring in itself but it delivers. This was my challenge, actually maybe this was the most challenging demo so far. The distortion effect though (with the nice overtones) is something I haven’t yet experienced this exciting in any other synth. Thanks for your comment.
@rimela it's a nice challenge, absolutely. I had a couple of jv-2080s back in the day. They were nice for Robert Miles type dance/trance stuff 😄 Now I think they sound like video games, mostly.
@ You have to use more tones at a time, so that frequencies start to intervene, you’ll discover this when you investigate my patches. You can play with this (tone color) using different intervals.
Love that late 80's/early 90's digital sound! Great compositions as always
@@Emiel1983Schoonoord Thanks Emiel
Sonically, probably not my favourite synth, but visually... oh my lord.
it was a little revolution in a time where almost all digital synths had one knob and several buttons only.
Roland made a come back to the interface like their analog poly synths.
But on sonic side, it is just a digital synth.
@@jean-louispech4921 Indeed. I felt disappointed when I used it for the very first time. There was acoustic sounds in it... 😬 Many years after that I started working at a studio that had 990 and that was a more sophisticated machine, with hard sync, fm, ring mod etc. I ended up buying a DJ-70 for 50 bucks which have the same filter chip.
Merry Christmas and happy new Year! Oh wow, you finally found time and mood to make it.. Really sums nicely the sound of JD/JV synths and exactly shows why they are both liked and hated. Crystalic, clear and perfectly pronounced, such an epitomy of late 90's and 2000's electronic music sound.
@@DestroyER82 Thank you M! Merry Christmas to you too and happy new year! Thanks for your lovely comment.
JM Jarre used that in his live rig during his concerts.. that says alot!
My jd-990 rack will stay with me for good.
Also on the Chronologie album 🎉
JD990 is the best rack synth of the 90's..😅
But with expansion cards..😏
@Sandelec-gm2cl it's nice to have that vintage analog card and memory expansion card but analog sound can now be easily obtained through a plethora of cheap analog synths that Behringer is doing for exmple in my opinion
@@SonikbytesThere are a few tricks in the 990, like the ability to give each note a different panning. And it sounds massive and cinematic and with huge polyphony.
But with the Vintage card in it it will drain your expenses (buying a card seperately is even worse).
I recently purchased a JD990 and the Vintage expansion. It’s currently my favorite sounding synth in my collection. My Poly Evolver and Hydrasynth are used just as much. Plug-in synths can sound equal or better than all my hardware but they don’t inspire me to create.
Thanks for the Christmas gift 🥰
You’re welcome Lania
Great song AND sound with a great synth. 4 layers of synths with different layers of: envelopes, filters, levels, LFOs, and many other parameters, plus the 8 stage envelope rarity, and you have a synth even today that is fantastic and powerful.
Back in the day I had bought a new Ensonique EPS16+ and Mackie 16cMIxer, just before the JD800 was introduced, the same money I would have spent on this synth. Today, through the magic of Roland I am experiencing the JD-800 in my Roland JD-08 for the first time. Plus I have added polyphony and panning to add to the power. Magic because it only costs $300 today.
Well into several negotiations for selling the JD-800 from a collection of synths that most would prefer over this one, Rimela showed interest in exploring it.
More interest than me anyway: other than the 800 being a giant controller for the JD-990 I'm not particularly moved by its characteristics, though even lettuce can become etable if you hide it in between enough avocado, feta, salmon and pepper.
But Rimela does it all with just that, lettuce (and sparse Ableton revs), and after only 2 months of introduction it's now loaded with 64 patches. And I even like the guitar ones.
2 out of the 5 parts feature this crafty variable-delay-like sequence, and I was taken aback by the decent guitar harmonics in part 4.
The 800 still sounds much more corporate than the D-50, and doesn't make me smile as much as the 50 does too.
I still wouldn't recommend buying it.. but I decided to keep it.
Being proven wrong in music is a joyous expense.
Great stuff, Rimela, and it was my pleasure entirely.
Can't wait to see what's next.
I love the look of this synth so much. But i fear to buy old stuff. Thank you for the amazing Music.
The 800 is of an above average quality build: if you get one where the red glue problem is solved, the only thing you need to mind is the left (bender) cover panel: it's inducive to cracking when handled improperly (like storing it in a not high enough rack like I did..).
❤❤❤❤❤👏👏👏👏👏👏
Take these broken wings... :)
@@AaronFoltz Hi Aaron, haha indeed, I couldn’t help myself 😄
I'm selling my JD-800 in excellent condition. If you live near Athens come and check it out. Athens, Greece that is. Local pickup only.
the first one has the vibe of jazz jackrabbit background music 😁👌
Not working with vsti
@@gilo7171 Thanks for mentioning this. I only tested loading the sysex file with the JD-800.
Does it work with the JD08 too?
@@kagg8994 According to Roland the 08 and 800 are not compatible.
I really don't like this synth. I had one, sold it rather quickly. Well done creating this music on such a cheesy instrument. 👍🏻
@@74goldenjet I know what you mean. It’s a capable synth, but you have to know what you want out of it. It’s not inspiring in itself but it delivers. This was my challenge, actually maybe this was the most challenging demo so far. The distortion effect though (with the nice overtones) is something I haven’t yet experienced this exciting in any other synth. Thanks for your comment.
@rimela it's a nice challenge, absolutely. I had a couple of jv-2080s back in the day. They were nice for Robert Miles type dance/trance stuff 😄
Now I think they sound like video games, mostly.
That's the sounds of the early 90's..😅
I have the boutique version..amazing near the D50..😏
@@rimela I forgot to ask: how do you trigger the overtones?
On the guitar those are indeed like nothing else I've heard.
@ You have to use more tones at a time, so that frequencies start to intervene, you’ll discover this when you investigate my patches. You can play with this (tone color) using different intervals.