Roland XV-5080 (VST Instrument)
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| Type | Fully-editable ROMPler VST Instrument |
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| Manufacturer | Roland |
| Release date | 2019 |
| Parts | 1 |
| Max polyphony | 128 |
| Normal presets | 896, with unlimited user presets |
| Drum presets | 16, with unlimited user presets |
| Expansion | None |
| Effects | Reverb, Chorus, 1× MFX |
The Roland XV-5080 VST is a virtual recreation of the XV-5080 module released in 2019. It is very similar to the JV-1080 VST, however it includes all of the XV-5080 banks by default, has a new interface resembling the actual XV-5080 unit, with extra controls exposed on the front panel UI.
Users can either purchase a life-time key for the virtual instrument, or commit a subscription to Roland Cloud to obtain it alongside many other instruments Roland offers as part of this service.
Notable differences
- As this is based on the INTEGRA-7 engine, it features 128 voices of polyphony, but unlike that synth there is only one part available. Users wishing to use performance presets will need to load multiple instances and tweak the effects accordingly.
- Because of the above, some effects are drastically different - the pitch shifter effect sounds much grainier and less pleasant overall (most notoriously in PR-C: 100 Vanishing), as an example.
- There are less effects incorporated than the XV-5080 hardware features. The hardware unit implements 90 effects, while the software only implements 78.[1][2] Incidentally, this is more than the XV-3080 implements.
Oddities
- Unlike Korg's VST recreations of their own products, which typically include all expansion content, this VST does not include any of the SRX expansions included. These are available via separate purchases/VST plugins via Roland Cloud.
- Despite its name sake, it actually incorporates the XV-3080 waveforms, just like the JV-1080 VST. This means that some of the waveforms are of lower fidelity than what was available on the XV-5080 or XV-5050.
- Banks are stored in a quasi-proprietary file format. Although there is rudimentary protection to prevent loading these banks into another compatible synth, it can be bypassed by hex-editing the file header to mimic another instrument's header. This applies to the JV-1080 VST, XV-5080 VST and all the software SRX recreations.
- It cannot load SysEx patches designed for it, users will need to meticulously recreate the patches by hand or use a script that converts SysEx to the .bin format used by this instrument.
- The "size" parameters is used to determine how the plugin gets scaled up for HiDPI devices. Notably, it limits the choices available depending on the pixel density of the panel - normal 1920x1080 panels will have a limit of 125% resolution.