Trend price : 500€
Rackmount version of the keyboard synthesizer JD-800 with many great enhancements, of course no more real-time controls galore.
Overview
(weight: 5 Kg) 2 units. The main panel features a 320 x 80 pixels display, 34 button and a rotary data wheel.
Terminal connectors:
- headphone out
-
2 slots for data and PCM cards
- main stereo output
- 6
aux outputs
- Midi interface
Voice
24 digital oscillators or voices.A
single patch is composed by 4 PCM layers by the JD WG "wave generator" that can be interconnected into 6 different algorithms modes
Algorithms
the tones can be combined in 6 different signal paths or structures. These are pre-fixed audio patches that connects the 2 pair of tones into variable setups mixed with 3 audio elements: amplifier, filter and ringmodulation
Wavetable
6MB ROM contains 195 PCM waveforms roughly organized in 4 different sub categories:
- basic waveforms inspired by analog synthesizers like fatsquare, synsaw or fatsaw
- mathematical transients and overtones inspired from D-50 L.A. synthesis
- one shot percussion acoustic samples
- samples from acoustic
Filter
a digital resonant filter is assigned for each PCM layer with independent parameters:
- mode: lowpass / highpass / bandpass
- cutoff.
LFO
2 delayed modulators with variable depth and note retrig mode with fade IN time.
The modulators are
interchangeable and they do provide 8 modulation shapes with variable offset : triangle, saw, square, sample & hold, random standard, random chaos, trapezoidal and sinewave
There are 4 destinations: matrix, amplitdue, cutoff and pitch
Envelope
there are 3 EGs for each PCM layer:
- EG pitch: 3 segments level + 3 times
- EG filter (TVF) : 4 segments + 4 times
- EG amplitude (TVA) 4 segments + 4 times
Effect
Delay, phaser, chorus, distortion, EQ and reverb.
Memory
-
64 RAM patches
- 128 ROM patches
-
16 RAM performances
- 32 ROM performances
- 1 RAM rhythm setup
- 1 ROM rhythm setup
Audio demo:
Video Clip:
Review
OK: great sweep pads / srjv-slots
NOT : polyphony / memory
"Roland at digital top: great digital sound pads and sweeps, best money can buy especially with vintage XP. For me it is way better than JD800 for both sounds and reliability "
Text , review, special demos copyright polynominal.com / Eric Pochesci