Roland JV series

The Roland JV series is a line of PCM ROM sample-based (ROMpler) synthesizers, mostly in sound module form, produced by Roland from 1992 onwards. While containing similar underlying synthesis technology to the prosumer Roland Sound Canvas series, they target a more professional market, with most models being full-width rack units, and having a focus on high-quality, fully-editable multi-layer synth patches and expandability, and less of a focus on multitimbrality. Some units have basic General MIDI support, but none have Roland GS support (TODO: wait, what is the JV-50 then??).

It was succeeded by the Roland XV series, which replaced mono sample layers with stereo sample layers, and switched from 32kHz to 44.1kHz sampling.

Notable models:

• Roland JV-80 (first model, keyboard)
• Roland JV-880 (module version of the JV-80)
• Roland JV-1080
• Roland JV-2080
• Roland JV-1010 (half-width, cost-reduced version of the JV-2080 with minimal panel controls and built-in Session expansion)