May, 18 - Happy Birthday Rick Wakeman!

May, 18 is the birthday of Rick Wakeman.

Master Rick used a JD800, sadly I´ve not yet found a picture using it.

Thanks for the music Rick!

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Reply received:

Thank you for taking the trouble to email me with birthday wishes! I have been so inundated with such an astonishing amount of wonderful e-mails from people like yourself, that it is just not possible to reply to them all, but rest assured that I read each and every one. I hope you understand and thank you once again.

Cheers
Rick Wakeman

Roland JD-800 guitar solo with Wah-wah and Distortion pedals

The Roland JD-800 have some famous distorted guitar sounds.

Here another good video showing the Guitar patches of the Roland JD-800 with Wah-wah effect pedals.


The videos was performed by Leonardo (Space4Keys)  with MXR pedals.

The Nord Lead is used as controller for the JD-800 because the JD keys was broken.
In this previous post of the same player this can be seen.






Part II: In this part, at 1.09s the player show the pedals being added to the resulting efect.

Some frequently serviced parts

The Roland JD-800 and JD-990 sometimes will need repair and new parts.
 
Most often keybed and painel parts need replacement. 

Here the service manual pages with part numbers and the how-to´s.
 

Front Panel Switches Parts list

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Image by mike.partington


How to remove individual keys

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Image by sensitivedragon
 

 
How to install individual keys

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Image by sensitivedragon


Parts list and diagram of individual keyboard keys  

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Image by sensitivedragon


The complete manual, with all part numbers are here: Manuals: Owner and Service - JD800 and JD990

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How To Enter the JD-800 Internal Test Mode

Select Multi-Mode

Press and hold:

Cursor Left, Cursor Right and then Exit buttons.


When you enter Test mode, the right LCD show the current ROM version.


To choose the different tests press Exit and a Bank or Number Button.

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From MATRIXSYNTH: Roland JD-800 in Fancy Dress

Another beautifull modified JD like a SCI Prophet-VS.

I found this at MATRIXSYNTH: Roland JD-800 in Fancy Dress. That´s a nice blog to everyone who love synths or are ready fall in love.

This was done by Customsynth.co.uk, the same company who made the "Gandalf , The White".


Edited:  More from this nice machine!



The nice people from Customsynth have more pics at flickr too.

See this and the Yellow one! It's a Waldorf and Lamborghini style!

 Click the link to the Flick album with all pics:

Customsynth at Flickr


Thanks for the great work! 

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Great demo. Pressures, waves, tecno, the monster breath.

A very nice Roland JD-800 demo by Fischek.

Roland JD-800 and JD-990 Factory Reset

The factory reset function will clean all your editings and restore original internal memory.

Use with caution. If you do this by mistake, there´s no way to undo this action.

JD-800: 

• Press data transfer.
• Page up to select factory preset.
• Press yes

JD-990: 

• Hold exit and press utility.
• Press F6.
• Press F5.