The Roland JD-800 Buyer’s Guide for Dummies

Another GREAT contribution from MidnightHabit from Texas, USA:


Important note: the author's guide have done updates to this material, so please, verify the last update date as this changed the update link.


This is The Roland JD-800 Buyer’s Guide for Dummies! 

It's a nice work where he compiled the needed information to buy and found additional resources for the JD-800.

Also, very usefull updated information about some maintenance sometimes needed and this is good to be aware when you buy your own classic vintage JD-800.



Click at the link to view or download it:  

==> ROLAND JD-800 BUYER’S GUIDE for DUMMIES  (pdf)

Download link changed: Last update in 24/april/2015

Thanks!

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Using the Four Palletes in Real Time

A new great video from Marko Ettlich of RetroSound.




A note about: starting at 0:09 we can see the real time use of the four pallete sliders.
Each patch can have up to four individual tones.
This is a resource many new synths like to show at their demos but this often go unforgotten on the JD-800.
So it is possible to create a path with four different tones and choose what you want play in real time.
But just to remember, the effects are unique for all. Because this the only I miss at the JD are a set of sliders to real time control of the effects area (one of the best for decades).

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Power guitars

The JD-800 have some very nice guitars to play with that become classics.
 
Here, two nice examples.


MidnightHabit from Texas, USA, sent this solo with the velo crunch guitar voice 



And here, recorded by Kemodesh, Italy, the keyboard solo from Dream Theater album Awake (1994) with Roland JD-800.
This is the same sound as the original used by Kevin Moore for recording session!