SR-JV80-01
Pop
Sound Expansion Board
| This is the first in the long line of expansion boards that Roland produced in the course of several years. The SR-JV80- Pop expansion board came out at about the same time as Roland's JV-80 synthesizer and JV-880 module, and was designed to enhance those devices, thanks to new waveforms that were missing in their internal ROM. The JV-80 and JV-880 only had room for one expansion board, but since the cards were successful, Roland started adding room for more than just only one - case in point, when they produced the incredibly successful module JV-1080 (that was considered and still is, an "industry standard for ROMplers"), they offered room for four expansion boards. Just a few years later, Roland offered eight slots in their JV-2080, the successor to the 1080. |
The Pop board is often underestimated because, being the first offered, contains waveforms that were added in the standard ROM of the instruments that followed, and people who own later models such as JV-1080, XP-80 and JV-2080 don't think they need "more of the same" bread and butter sounds: but even if that's the case, this board contains certain waves and patches that are not available anywhere else.
"Pop" is the name of this wave expansion board, and certainly it does a good job of providing all the staple instruments used in pop, such as pianos, bass, organs, saxophones, choirs and strings. It's also noteworthy the addition of a few waveforms in D-50 style, brief attack of very characteristic sounds, such as breathy flutes, pads, even PWM waveforms - from which to start molding your sounds.
Even though this board doesn't receive the acclaim of other more famous boards in this series - i.e., the Session, Orchestral, Vintage or '60s & '70s, it still is a valid tool for any musician who owns one of the JV/XP series of instruments.
Stream all the audio examples below
| Patch name with audio demo | My Comments |
| Gorgeous concert grand piano in stage setting. 770 refers to Roland's then top-of-the-line sampler, the S-770. The waveforms used for this patch were probably taken by samples developed for the 770. | |
| Beautiful example of the "LA piano", a mix between acoustic and FM electric piano. Definitely a staple of pop ballads. | |
| A nice Wurli | |
| Sparkly Fender Rhodes with plenty of nice effects | |
| Superb Hohner Clavinet patch! | |
| Charming, clean Hammond patch - several of these types of organ waveforms were contained in the standard ROM of later XP/JP instruments. | |
| Nice Leslie effect, in stereo | |
| Nice and woody | |
| Classic Vox/Farfisa | |
| Nice. The aftertouch controls the volume. | |
| Stupendous preset! Mixes the pipe organ with the new choir waveforms of this board. | |
| Reminds of early sampled sounds in the 80s. | |
| Accurate and warm sampled jazz contrabass | |
| Classic Jaco Pastorius style fretless Fender Jazz bass sound | |
| Based on the new synth saw waveforms, a classic House bass | |
| Interesting synth bass | |
| Outstanding classical guitar! | |
| Warm hollow body | |
| Very nice, very nice... | |
| Here we start with the more esoteric sounds... this Shakuhachi would work well for New Age | |
| I love the sound of this instrument | |
| aka Mbira | |
| Cool velocity programming, great for ethnic styles | |
| A nod to the sitar's most noted performer, Ravi Shankar | |
| More ethnic goodness from this board | |
| Very expressive, useful for many genres | |
| Extremely accurate sampling | |
| Nice attack | |
| One of the best sounds on this board!!! A classic breathy jazz flute | |
| Hypnotic clarinet | |
| Very clean, inspired, and realistic | |
| Realistic | |
| Very powerful! | |
| Classic cowboy campfire sounds | |
| An excellent accordion | |
| More special fx, this time they took inspiration from the movie Blade Runner | |
| Huge and powerful!!! | |
| Martial synth | |
| Millennium synth - beautiful, with an excellent filter sweep | |
| Gorgeous new age pad, with crystals floating all around | |
| Incredible patch inspired by the famed Korg Wavestation, this is a beautiful, evolving pad that brings in and morphs sound elements. | |
| Classic Fairlight style vox pad | |
| Amazing synth solo that utilizes Roland's FXM | |
| Lead from 808 State's classic song? | |
| Solid, fat poly, very 1980s | |
| Ominous fx pad | |
| Star Wars sounds | |
| Typical early 90s drums, plus Tablas |
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