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A Tone is a layer with two waveforms (hard-panned left and right), two semi-assignable LFOs, one 16-step generator and dedicated envelopes for the filter and amplitude. The Tones are grouped two and two, so Tone 1 and 2 can interact with each other (read Ring Modulation among other things) and Tone 3 with 4. And a Patch is made up from up to four Tones. So, it’s a single part version of the real thing. But, hey! Roland did it because they could. This must have cost a fortune back then since you also had to get eight of the expansion cards as well. Correct me if I’m wrong, but you could stack up to eight of the JV-1080s in a MIDI chain so the voices where distributed across the modules. Yes, I know you can have 128 voices in the hardware version of the JV-1080 (and JV-2080) by buying more of them and using the Stacking mode. But, hey! Roland did it because they can. So having 128 voices per part is just nuts. Those were distributed and shared between the 16 parts if used in the Performance mode as well. The JV-2080 also had 64 voices, so you had to go all the way up to the XV-series to find 128 voices.
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And hope your CPU doesn’t melt.Īnother striking difference is that the Cloud version has 128 notes polyphony which is double up from the hardware. The Cloud version is a single part version - so you’d need to load sixteen instances and, well, manually build your Performace settings. The Cloud version doesn’t have this mode and thus missing the button and front panel text that had anything to do with it. The hardware module had a Performance mode that could stack up to sixteen different patches as the same time. After four or five years of using the JV-1080, I upgraded it in a trade-deal to a JV-2080 so I could fit more expansion cards.
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I still know how it feels, and sounds, using the front panel. I’ve used the JV-1080 so much back in the days that my body still has a muscle memory regarding the buttons and the Value wheel. But, is the Roland Cloud JV-1080 really a JV-1080? Let’s find out! Screenshot of the hardware version embarrassingly stolen from the amazing site.
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