SR-JV80-11
Techno Collection
Expansion board
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Here's number 11 in the vast SR-JV80-series of Roland
expansion boards. This board is obviously catered to producing classic, 1990s Techno music, but - as the subtitle implies - is also very useful for Jungle, Drum 'n' Bass, Ambient, Acid-House, Trance, Gabba, Industrial... and more. This is really a solid offering from Roland, and if you dig deep, you'll find that this board is really good for a myriad of other genres besides the ones listed above... The board opens with a series of superbly-produced loops... many of them also have synths programmed on top of the loops... it's easy to play along in an arrangement, and they can be synched to MIDI tempo. |
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There is a vast offering of incredibly beautiful pads, and the TB-303 emulations are also in abundance, and realistic enough to base a tune upon. Bass patches abound, and synthesizer patches come in much variety... in solo, and ensemble versions. The special fx patches also do a great job of emulating analog synths... and as usual with Roland, switch to MIDI channel 10, and you will find a superb selection of all the drum kits you need to produce electronica. The kits sound really great, and hardly need to be tweaked to sit in the mix. |
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| Patch name with audio demo | My comments |
| A superbly powerful Techno loop, with Kraftwerk-style vocoder vocals. | |
| Nice Trancey arrangement, liquid synth. | |
| Classic '90s Jungle/D 'n' B, with obligatory sine sub-bass. | |
| Fast House loop, Tribal style. | |
| Dirty and aggressive | |
| Beautiful arrangement, laidback loop, and mega-cool synth | |
| Triggers horn hits. | |
| Groovy and bumpy | |
| Atmospheric ambient-dance. | |
| Marvelous collection of all loops on this board. | |
| Beautiful gated-arpeggio synth, perfect for Trance | |
| Stupendous pad, note the powerful filter opening. | |
| Nice and ambient sample-and-hold pad | |
| Deep atmospheric pad | |
| Roland's classic TB-303. Velocity-switch adds typical overdrive. | |
| Sweet TB-303, set at saw waveform. | |
| Nice TB-303 with typical glide, set as square waveform. | |
| Nice synth bass that reminds of Yamaha 4-operator FM synths. | |
| Nice filter-velo action. | |
| Very nice vibrato bass that also works as lead synth. | |
| Typical Roland "squiggly" bass. | |
| Sounds surprisingly analog. | |
| Reminiscent of Roland's own SH-101. | |
| Reminds of certain sounds used by French band "Air". | |
| A full patch dedicated to vocoder sounds, probably obtained from Roland vocoders. | |
| Guttural fun. | |
| Nice synthesized vox. | |
| Marvelous synthesizer... probably inspired by the character of older ARP instruments. | |
| Another great-sounding, spacious square-wave synth. | |
| The purest waveform of them all. | |
| This reminds suspiciously of the synth used by Daft Punk in "Around The World". | |
| Typical '90s Techno-Rave sound | |
| Soft hoover type sound. | |
| Typical '90s Euro saw. | |
| Modern and interesting lead synth. | |
| Very famous mid-'90s lead synth, used in House. | |
| Warm Roland filtered synth | |
| Powerful | |
| Beautiful and majestic ambient-tronica pad. | |
| Excellent Jupiter synth passed through a band-pass filter | |
| Gorgeous mega-pad | |
| BEAUTY. | |
| Superb filtered pad, cutoff controlled by mod wheel/joystick. | |
| Lush pad. | |
| Cool pad, with sirens. | |
| Beautiful, pensive pad, perfect for moody soundtracks. | |
| Mega-ravishing analog pad, bathed appropriately in reverb. | |
| Awesome, lush pad... the high resonance provides the secret melody. | |
| Steamy and jingly pad | |
| Nice Jupiter-6 impression. | |
| Classic electronic sound often used in the '70s Cosmic Music. | |
| Nice velocity action. | |
| Powerful and raw | |
| Classic early 1990s Techno lead. | |
| Farfisa'ish | |
| The classic Robert Miles' "Children" sound. | |
| Very popular electronic sound in mid-'90s dance. | |
| Inspired by groundbreaking song "Insomnia", by British group Faithless | |
| More '90s classics. | |
| Warm and nice | |
| Naughty, very naughty! | |
| Great filter action. | |
| Even a little bit of electric guitar is thrown in. | |
| Nice | |
| Ambient | |
| Raw and rhythmic | |
| Very cool sci-fi sound fx | |
| Ok | |
| Nice rhythmic synth | |
| Nice, reminds me of the sound used by Benny Benassi. | |
| Nice and digital, taken from Roland's JX-series | |
| Quirky | |
| 001 TR-909 SET | The classic Techno/Trance/Dance drum machine. |
| 002 TR-808 SET | The classic Pop/Electro/Rap/Hip-Hop drum machine. |
| 003 TR-606 SET | The 808's cousin. |
| 006 Jungle SET | Classic Jungle/Drum & Bass kit. |
| 007 Gabba SET | Typical Gabber kit. |
| 008 Indust.SET | Typical Industrial set. |
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