Free CD - Music for Starry Nights - A work on the JD-800.

This is our new CD:  Music For Starry Nights

It was done by a sort of brazilian and european musicians.

My music in this collection is "The Inner Side of Mirror". It was done using ONLY the Roland JD-800 without any external effect.

It´s a nice demo of the great capabilities of this synth.



Free Download: 
http://music-for-starry-nights.bandcamp.com/

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Roland JD-800 test after cleaning 56 sliders

A nice demo showing is always good take care of your instrument!

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.

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

A very nice Roland JD-800 demo by Fischek.

Roland JD-800: Some factory sounds

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.

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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Roland JD-800 Filters and Aftertouch

Two videos by moretacos1. Visit is page at Youtube, there are lots of good material.

Mean while, I selected two:

Great Filters. Program or just move the sliders as you want.




Atertouch:

Much more than the demo, much more than pads

If you want to listen some other uses of this synth, like playing some guitar leads and stuff like that then watch this until the end.

Roland JD-800 Synth Demostration, performed by S4K (Space4Keys)
Note: The the keys of his JD are broken, so he uses other keyboard as master controller.

Roland JD-800 and JD-990 Movies and great sounds at Youtube

Youtube have many movies with the Roland JD-800. Some have best sound qualiy, others not.

Remember, the JD-800 is a massive sound machine so don´t be cheated if some video have not all that quality we expect. Go after the best demos you can and use the best audio players, like headphones or good speakers.

Of course, the JD-800 is a fine top level synthesizer. You can listen to other machines, like the JD-990 module, or similar quality machines, like the Roland V-Synth and Phantom, the Korg Triton, the Nords, etc.

I will start with a good movie from that great people from Retrosound.de.



Vintage Roland JD-800 synth demo by RetroSound. See the machine in action. Some typical sounds from the Roland JD-800 Synthesizer. Not so good audio quality, but very impressive.

See more Youtube synth videos from Retrosound.





Next, two better audio demos:

Audio part I - Analog and digital type pad sounds:




Audio part II - Wow! Some of the JD like pads!: