I am somewhat weird in many things, when it comes to Synths, I overwhelmingly prefer the sound and sonics of digital and sample based Synths over analog ones. I am also old AFBy the way it’s absurd that they have two products which are the same but with a different UI (jv-1080 and xv-5080). Who does that. These and the sex’s should obviously be in a single product, like Korg does.
For many many years I made extensive use of the Roland JV and XV hardware. The JV1080 has a piano patch called "64 Voice Piano" which for me is the iconic 90s Rompler Piano patch. It's a marked improvement over things like the earlier M1 piano, but not quite realistic enough to a real piano compared with what was to come later. It however remains quite the achievement for Eric Persing to pull off for the JV1080. I keep the half rack sized JV1010 around just for that preset and have it permanently attached to my interface for the sole purpose of that patch
When the XV5080 came out the patch is there and sounds exactly the same only it got a new name "128 Voice Piano" to reflect the improved polyphony of the XV5080
When I first tried the JV1080 plugin that was the first sound I immediately went for, when I saw that it's there and called "128 Voice Piano" Roland gave the same away it's just simply absurd you are right
BTW as an aside 64/128 Piano layered with the classic Fantasia patch from the D50 and/or the Full Tines patch from the DX7II or any other FM electric piano sound if you don't have that is amazing
Statistics: Posted by IvyBirds — Sun Dec 15, 2024 5:22 pm