Typical two osc saw bass line on JV-1080 will essentially sound and look different with each note due to phasing and you can see different wave shape on each note. Not only you can hear it but you can see it on waveform display. Speaking of smooth, which is trademark for JV-1080, the XV-5050 can't produce JV style bass lines neither, but for other reason i mentioned earlier. And as soon as you add reso on any synth patch or a bass, or even resonant pad, you end up in harsh clipped sound. Unfortunately JD behaves as it is permanently set at +12 dB. Even if you make it distort, you can reduce the waveform gain (avail: -6dB, 0dB, +6dB, +12dB). You don't know what you're missing.ĭoes a JD-990 user profit from JV-1080 and in what way (apart from obvious things like polyphony etc)?JV-1080 can produce smooth bass and synth lines, because there's no distortion issue with the filter. For less than $200, it's just not worth getting rid of.įor those of you who have never owned and used the JV series line of Roland yourself a favor and pick up a 1080 or even a 1010. Even if I walk away from music again one day, it's staying in my closet just in case. The presets on this machine and it's expansion cards have been used in countless hits and the machine just oozes with class in my eyes.
The 1080 just embodies that classic 90's Roland sound in every way. I know it's a slightly less of a sound quality rendered (32khz vs. There's something about the 1080 that's so damn special.
It also only took up 1 rack space, and also allowed me to save some analog TRS spots on my interface by using the SPDIF on the 5050.īut the sound just wasn't there. It had many more patches on board and could use the SRX expansion boards which the 1080 can't. So a while back I dumped my JV 1080 because I thought that buying an XV 5050 would be an upgrade and I would be able to sell the 1080.
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