Roland XV-3080: Difference between revisions
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| W × H × D (mm) | 482 × 88 × 281 |
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| Rack units | 2U, full-width |
| Weight | 4.4kg |
| Type | Fully-editable ROMpler sound module |
| Manufacturer | Roland |
| Release date | 2000 |
| Standards | General MIDI General MIDI 2 |
| Parts | 16 |
| Max polyphony | 128 |
| Normal presets | 1152 (total) 768 (128 × 6 banks) 128 (user bank) 256 (General MIDI 2) |
| Drum presets | 25 (total) 12 (2 × 6 banks) 4 (user bank) 9 (General MIDI 2) |
| Expansion | 2 × SRX 4 × SR-JV80 |
| Effects | Reverb (4 types) Chorus (2 types) 1x MFX (63 types) |
| All above information taken from the XV-3080 Owner Manual, pages 21, 36 and 196. |
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The Roland XV-3080 is a 128-voice, 16-part synthesizer in the XV series, released in mid 2000. It is one of the first XV synth ever released, intended as a successor to the popular JV-1080, featuring an upgraded set of MFX, a higher voice polyphony, upgraded engine and the introduction of the new SRX expansion technology.
It features the original JV-2080 banks of patches and performances (PR-A to PR-C, with the JV-2080's PR-E being renamed to PR-D), adding two new banks of sounds to showcase the XV-3080's features.
It is, in addition, also notable for omitting many of the features that made the XV-5080 popular - you don't get its sampler, 16 extra parts, digital outputs or any of the COSM technology, but you do get an upgraded MFX engine that features 23 more effects for a total of 63. The lack of features on the XV-3080 ended up being a point of criticism in some reviews, particularly with Sound on Sound's June 2000 issue, writers Derek Johnson & Debbie Poyser have been quick to mention that it isn't the upgrade to the JV-1080 that it could've been.[1]