The best interface I've seen Roland make to date, nice size screen. Positive: The XV5080 has found a home in my studio. I would sell both XV boxes before anything else-even the old Emulators! So I do have other stuff to make a reasonable evaluation. My other boards are a Kurzweil K2600XS, K2000VP, Roland Jupiter 4 & 8, Juno 60, VP-330 vocoder, Oberheim Matrix 12 and OB-Xa, Yamaha CP-80 and TX-816 and pair of Emulator II samplers. On a positive note, the sounds are extremely clean with a polished sheen and the unit is dead quiet.
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If you strip the junk off patches they become almost acceptable, so I do give Roland some credit. Putting it bluntly, hard to use as stock sounds or completely unuseable. It's okay if your looking for impressive programming by Roland sound designers, but when your building a project one track at a time most of the patches are too much horsepower and not enough finesse.
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Roland dumped an assload of effects on almost every patch in this machine. Guitars-Bad, but I hate all sampled guitars. In a nutshell:Īcoustic pianos-fair, nothing impressive. Turns out the remaining presets were not much better. A fellow keyboardist recommended it, and when an on line retailer was blowing them out cheap as B stock I sprung for two of them, with the intention of buying all the SRX boards and loading them in.Īfter the first user preset came screaching through the monitors I wondered if this was Roland's best effort. I admit I did not extensively audition this box prior to purchase. Since I evaluate synth hardware based primarily on sound quality rather than bells and whistles I am reviewing the XV on the stock ROM sounds only.
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My work primarily involves sequencing supporting tracks for my cover band as well as my solo act. So, to use many cards you need at least two 5080's, but it worths it. I have installed: SRX-11 Complete Piano - one of the best piano sounds among rom players SRX-01 Dynamic Drums - very good acoustic drums, with some outboard processing you can make it sound almost "live" SRX-04 Symphonic Strings - rich, wonderful strings (internal strings are also very good) I also had the SRX-05 Supreme Dance - nice collection of synth sounds, but a little hard. I have over 40 synths (you can look at the whole list at /studio ) but the XV-5080 is my favorite arrangement device, I can do the whole song using only this unit (sometimes I do). great expansion possibilities - ease of use, good display, logical structure - a lot of patches - you can use it as a sampler - and more Cons: - sometimes stops playing and needs to be restarted (not a big trouble though) - if you have one - you want to have TWO!!! :-D Pros: - high quality of all types of sounds - acoustic, synthetic, etc. One of the best universal machines, I use it all the time, virtually in every work.