Roland JV-880

Roland JV-880
MultiTimbral Synthesizer Module

Roland JV-880

	The rack version of the ground-breaking JV-80, Roland's flagship synth of 1992
Classic Roland sounds of the early 1990s

Roland JV-880 factory demo songs:

1-1 Intro	Music by Marvin Sanders Copyright © 1992, Marvster music
1-2 Guitars
1-3 Synthony
1-4 Piano Hop
1-5 String Thing
2 Lost Weekend	Music by Mitsuru Sakaue Copyright © 1992, Roland
3 The Race	Music by Chas Smith Copyright © 1992, Roland UK

Roland JV-880 audio demos in mp3:

INTERNAL PATCHES

01 JV Strings	Beautiful orchestral strings, in the typical Roland sonic signature of the '90s
02 BrightGuitar	Gorgesus acoustic guitar with steel strings, using the excellent on-board exciter / eq effects
03 Von Greece
04 Brass Sect
05 SA Rhodes
06 Pan Pipe
07 Slap
08 DooWah Diddy
09 A.Piano 3
10 Turbo Sax
11 Orch Stab 2
12 Analog Pad 1	Gorgeous synth pad
13 Great Church
14 Rubber Bs 3
15 Analog Brass
16 X-Y-Z
17 Lumber Jacow
18 Nylon Gtr 2
19 YASURAGI
20 House Hunter
21 Mighty Pad
22 SAW Lead
23 Ice Hall
24 Organarimba
25 Spr Trumpet
26 Mix On Mute
27 P-P-P-Puff
28 Fantasia JV
29 Glasswaves
30 El
31 Jazz Organ 3
32 5-Strng Bass
33 Mute TP mod
34 JV Heaven
35 Tria Bells
36 Analog Bs 2
37 THE STRINGS
38 Hammer Bell
39 Fine Organ
40 Stackoid
41 Huff N Stuff
42 Autumn Breez
43 Toy Box
44 Analog Horn
45 Orch Stab 3
46 Reincarnate
47 Wave Bells 2
48 Whistle Lead
49 UTAKATA
50 Analog Pad 2
51 Dist Line
52 Super Vibe
53 Stratosphere
54 Voicey Pizz
55 Black Brass
56 Glass Pad
57 Reso Pad
58 Hardy Winery
59 Steel Pizz
60 WhistlinAtom
61 ChuChu Vox
62 Arctic Winds
63 DistanceCall
64 REVERSE MAD

PRESET A PATCHES

01 A.Piano 1	Excellent grand piano patch
02 A.Piano 2
03 Mellow Piano
04 Pop Piano 1
05 Pop Piano 2
06 Pop Piano 3
07 MIDIed Grand
08 Country Bar
09 Glist EPiano
10 MIDI EPiano
11 SA Rhodes
12 Dig Rhodes 1
13 Dig Rhodes 2
14 Stiky Rhodes
15 Guitr Rhodes
16 Nylon Rhodes
17 Clav 1	Superb Hohner Clavinet D6 emulation
18 Clav 2
19 Marimba
20 Marimba SW
21 Warm Vibe
22 Vibe
23 Wave Bells
24 Vibrobell
25 Pipe Organ 1
26 Pipe Organ 2
27 Pipe Organ 3
28 E.Organ 1
29 E.Organ 2
30 Jazz Organ 1
31 Jazz Organ 2
32 Metal Organ
33 Nylon Gtr 1
34 Flanged Nyln
35 Steel Guitar
36 PickedGuitar
37 12 strings
38 Velo Harmnix
39 Nylon+Steel
40 SwitchOnMute
41 JC Strat
42 Stratus
43 Syn Strat
44 Pop Strat
45 Clean Strat
46 Funk Gtr
47 Syn Guitar
48 Overdrive
49 Fretless
50 St Fretless
51 Woody Bass 1
52 Woody Bass 2
53 Analog Bs 1
54 House Bass
55 Hip Bass
56 RockOut Bass
57 Slap Bass
58 Thumpin Bass
59 Pick Bass
60 Wonder Bass
61 Yowza Bass
62 Rubber Bs 1
63 Rubber Bs 2
64 Stereoww Bs

PRESET B PATCHES

01 Pizzicato
02 Real Pizz
03 Harp
04 SoarinString
05 Warm Strings
06 Marcato
07 St Strings
08 Orch Strings
09 Slow Strings	Bedautiful orchestral strings, typical Roland of the era
10 Velo Strings
11 BrightStrngs
12 TremoloStrng
13 Orch Stab 1
14 Brite Stab
15 JP-8 Strings
16 String Synth
17 Wire Strings
18 New Age Vox
19 Arasian Morn
20 Beauty Vox
21 Vento Voxx
22 Pvox Oooze
23 GlassVoices
24 Space Ahh
25 Trumpet
26 Trombone
27 Harmon Mute1
28 Harmon Mute2
29 TeaJay Brass
30 Brass Sect 1
31 Brass Sect 2
32 Brass Swell
33 Brass Combo
34 Stab Brass
35 Soft Brass
36 Horn Brass
37 French Horn
38 AltoLead Sax
39 Alto Sax
40 Tenor Sax 1
41 Tenor Sax 2
42 Sax Section
43 Sax Tp Tb
44 FlutePiccolo
45 Flute mod
46 Ocarina
47 OverblownPan
48 Air Lead
49 Steel Drum
50 Log Drum
51 Box Lead
52 Soft Lead
53 Whistle
54 Square Lead
55 Touch Lead
56 NightShade
57 Pizza Hutt
58 EP+Exp Pad
59 JP-8 Pad
60 Puff
61 SpaciosSweep
62 Big n Beefy
63 RevCymBend
64 Analog Seq

RHYTHM DEMOS

Internal Rhythm demo

Features at a glance
Year of release:	1992
Polyphony:	28
Presets:	3 banks of 64 patches, plus performance banks and rhythms
Rhythms:	3 drum kits
Keyboard:	n/a
Responds to velocity:	yes
Responds to aftertouch:	yes
Sound generation method:	PCM
MIDI:	in, out, thru
Sound expansion capabilities:	yes, SR-JV80 series expansion boards and PCM/DATA cards
Effects:	Yes
Controls:	buttons
Outputs:	stereo pairs + aux stereo pair
Display:	LCD, backlit green
Misc:	the rack version of the JV-80

Roland JV-880 photos (click on thumbnails to enlarge)

Roland JV-880 manual

available at www.rolandus.com

Links

Roland JV-880 review with audio demo, June 15, 2014