Another video from Retrosound.de with nice sound quality.
Someone told you Roland JD-800 and JD-990 are great for pads? Yes, but there are more than pads there.
Meanwhile, enjoy this samples from the factory sounds.
sexta-feira, 19 de fevereiro de 2010
Gandalf - The Roland JD-800 Custom White Synth
This is a very nice customization.
Jeff Toman of Customsynth.co.uk artistically created a beautiful new all-white look for Dave´s Roland JD-800, in the style of a classic '80s SH-101 synth.
You can see it at Dave´s site.
Also see the 29-image Flickr set showing Randel's synth barn in Essex, CT, adding custom parts onto an otherwise stock synth..
There´s a video of the Gandalf in action: a must see!
And here is Gandalf, The White:
Jeff Toman of Customsynth.co.uk artistically created a beautiful new all-white look for Dave´s Roland JD-800, in the style of a classic '80s SH-101 synth.
You can see it at Dave´s site.
Also see the 29-image Flickr set showing Randel's synth barn in Essex, CT, adding custom parts onto an otherwise stock synth..
There´s a video of the Gandalf in action: a must see!
And here is Gandalf, The White:
And the studio:
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quarta-feira, 17 de fevereiro de 2010
A Roland JD-800 Synth Repair Video
This guy diagnosed and discussed these common issues:
Video at Youtube by Moretacos1
- Battery replacement
- Dead keys
- Clanking keys
- Missing weights
- Glue
- Velocity stuck at max value
- Bad buttons
- Jumpy sliders
- Part numbers included
Video at Youtube by Moretacos1
Marcadores:
Maintenance
Software and Patches for the JD-800 and JD-990
There are very good professional software supporting the Roland JD-800 and JD-990, but if you want a non-pay choice, these are the best.
The JD-800 Patch Organizer created by Laurent Lecatelier-Dudec (France), was released as freeware in 24/04/1999 (date in original author´s site) and is no more available from the programmer´s site.
In more recent years, Gwydion Elderwin (Australia) created a JD-800 Randon Bank Creator and a Jd-800 to JD-990 Bank Converter.
About the patch banks here.
The first I found many years ago, was compiled by Stephen Drake, the guy who kept most of JD material available for years. This site is proud to pay him our tribute. Thanks Stephen!
The first internet banks are so-so grouped, thus makes some sense.
Gwydion also have done a strong work removing duplicates from hundreds of patches, adding lots more and creating a library for each synth. Still is missing time to classify all that stuff into categories.
Missing all you my friends, I know business and daily life take time, but I would be happy to receive some news.
The bank files are in .rar format. You need Winrar or compatible to extract it.
Also:
Christian Morency released a Beta version of a VST Patch Editor for the Roland JD-800 and JD-990.
See the following post with some info, links and video tutorials:
JD-800 JD-990 VST Patch Editor VST for CTRLR
Downloads:
JD800 Patch Organizer 230 Kb
JD800 pach banks organized by Gwydion Elderwin 499 Kb
JD800 Path banks internet collection 407 Kb
JD800 randon bank creator 512 Kb
JD800 to JD990 Bank Converter 177 Kb
JD990 Patch Organizer 230 Kb
JD990 Pach banks organized by Gwydion Elderwin 544 Kb
Roland SL-JD Cards Patches Not waveforms 62Kb
Roland JD-800 SE Especial Edition Patches (a Brazilian version not in the factory presets). This was an interesting remarkable work from great Brazilian musicians with new exclusive patches. Most people forgot to save that and lose the patches made by Roland's Brazil people. Some (few) requires the Strings card.
The JD-800 Patch Organizer created by Laurent Lecatelier-Dudec (France), was released as freeware in 24/04/1999 (date in original author´s site) and is no more available from the programmer´s site.
In more recent years, Gwydion Elderwin (Australia) created a JD-800 Randon Bank Creator and a Jd-800 to JD-990 Bank Converter.
About the patch banks here.
The first I found many years ago, was compiled by Stephen Drake, the guy who kept most of JD material available for years. This site is proud to pay him our tribute. Thanks Stephen!
The first internet banks are so-so grouped, thus makes some sense.
Gwydion also have done a strong work removing duplicates from hundreds of patches, adding lots more and creating a library for each synth. Still is missing time to classify all that stuff into categories.
Missing all you my friends, I know business and daily life take time, but I would be happy to receive some news.
The bank files are in .rar format. You need Winrar or compatible to extract it.
Also:
Formats supported: JD-800 SysEx dumps (SYX, MID)JD-990 SysEx dump (SYX)JD-800 VST / Zenology patch bank (BIN)JD-08 patch bank (SVD)ZC1 patch bank (SVZ)
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Christian Morency released a Beta version of a VST Patch Editor for the Roland JD-800 and JD-990.
See the following post with some info, links and video tutorials:
JD-800 JD-990 VST Patch Editor VST for CTRLR
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A new post is added with a user created for the Logic Studio platform on Mac:
Mac Logic Studio: a little Roland JD800 Environment
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Downloads:
JD800 Patch Organizer 230 Kb
JD800 pach banks organized by Gwydion Elderwin 499 Kb
JD800 Path banks internet collection 407 Kb
JD800 randon bank creator 512 Kb
JD800 to JD990 Bank Converter 177 Kb
JD990 Patch Organizer 230 Kb
JD990 Pach banks organized by Gwydion Elderwin 544 Kb
Roland SL-JD Cards Patches Not waveforms 62Kb
Roland JD-800 SE Especial Edition Patches (a Brazilian version not in the factory presets). This was an interesting remarkable work from great Brazilian musicians with new exclusive patches. Most people forgot to save that and lose the patches made by Roland's Brazil people. Some (few) requires the Strings card.
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Keep Your JD-800 Clean
Just be careful with the Roland JD-800, clean it very often.
Dust in the sliders, button and circuits can provoke a typical JD-800 berzerk (auto-programming...).
This effect is like a ghost acting in the synth. If you don´t use to change program while playing, turn off the banks edit mode. (just press bank A-b-C-D to light off and then save the patch.
You will also note, when some parameter is changed because dust, a "point" will light in the painel, like if you have done it.
Dust in the sliders, button and circuits can provoke a typical JD-800 berzerk (auto-programming...).
This effect is like a ghost acting in the synth. If you don´t use to change program while playing, turn off the banks edit mode. (just press bank A-b-C-D to light off and then save the patch.
You will also note, when some parameter is changed because dust, a "point" will light in the painel, like if you have done it.
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Marcadores:
Clean,
Maintenance
Differences between JD-800 and JD-990
Don Solaris - Roland JD-990 info and synthesis examples
Marcadores:
JD990,
Specifications
The Original Internal Sound Demos
Here’s how to hear the “ROM Play” demo songs built into the JD-800.
Each mode (Single/Multi) has one demo song.
Select Single mode Or Multi mode.
While holding EXIT, press INC/YES.
Press YNC/YES and playback will begin.
Press DEC/NO and playback will stop.
Press EXIT once again to return to Single mode.
* During ROM Play in the Single mode, the informations of phrases are appeared in the display.
* It is not possible to play the keyboard during ROM Play.
* The ROM Play data is not transmitted from MIDI OUT.
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Bellow a record of the demo songs.
The sound files here are recording from the Roland JD-800 internal sound demos. Copyright by Roland Co.
The JD-800 have two good internal demos, one for each mode (single or multi-timbral).
Mode | Server 2 (Ok, at Google Docs) | Size | Time | ||
Single Mode | Part 0 | 977 Kb | 1:02 | ||
Single Mode | Part 1 | 707 Kb | 0:45 | ||
Single Mode | Part 2 | 1097 Kb | 1:10 | ||
Single Mode | Part 3 | 641 Kb | 0:40 | ||
Single Mode | Part 4 | 566 Kb | 0:36 | ||
Single Mode | Part 5 | 533 Kb | 0:33 | ||
Multi Mode | Multi Demo | 660 Kb | 1:36 |
Note: This are 128kbps mp3 files, so I reduced the overall quality. I want upload better quality sound files, but have been short in time. Anyways, the sounds are great.
See the movies in the other posts. They have great samples of what great sounds this synth is capable.
Edited:
SynthMania posted a nice video with the the 64 classic factory patches! Thanks!
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