XV5080 Demos by CoolColJ

"At the start is a flanged pad I made yesterday on the Roland XV5080.
It uses 2 different detuned sawtooth on each side to create a PWM tone, and then flanged, with 2nd wheel/breath controller to flange rate

Then I load up raw JP8 string and later sawtooth waves - 2 variants on a single tone. On the XV5080 some waves have an A, B and C variants, some are just stereo versions of each other, at different phases, others are inverted to create PWM effects when detuned.
I dial in some Analog feel function which creates a detune and makes it all nice and stereo - remind me of my Jupiter 8 in dual mode :)

This is done using 1 of the 4 tones in a patch - each tone can hold up to 2 different waves!
So you don't to waste 2 tones to create a stereo effect or detune

Going through the different filter types with some LFO modulation - bliss!

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At first I didn't quite like the sound of the unit, with the presets and all, but now that I've fiddled with it, it's a keeper me thinks :)
128 voice polyphony, good effects and filters and can load samples for a decent price.
Once my SRX-07 expansion board arrives with more waves and all, it's gonna be even more fun!"



"Loaded a sample that I use to benchmark all my samplers, hardware and software into my XV5080, from a Smartmedia card. Just dropped a wav file into the Roland directory in Windows
and loaded it up on the XV5080

Sounds good, but you only get a 2 octave range on either side of the original key.

Filter is decent, as beefy as the one on my old S-550 at the bottom end, but cleaner, smoother and more refined sounding. And you get way more filter types and can use stereo samples.
Low pass, band pass, high pass and peak - plus in some structures you can use dual filters
Definitely sounds better than the filters in a soft sampler

This 1.5mb sample took 10 seconds to load via Smartmedia - only took 1 second to save on Windows though.... Might be faster via SCSI with a SCSI to Card reader with a 8GB Compact Flash Card

Sounddiver doesn't support the samples you load in unfortunately, well you can't select them from SD. But when I use the Roland XV editor to assign them to a patch, and then have SD request the edit buffer they show up.

So that is one way around it, using both editors togther. I don't like the Roland one much, but it supports everything and is fast so I use it as a remote control of the XV5080 - especially for selecting patches :)

Clip was limited due to the massive volume fluctuations"


"Testing my own drum samples loaded via Smart Media - Recorded via XV5080's digital output

808 kick, sanre and 909 kick, loop and a synthesised kick from Stomper.

Testing out drum samples on the XV5080. I mapped them across the keyboard in a single patch, and the filters get turned on and off. You can use 4 tones/samples in a patch in such a manner, while still retaining the synthesis features.

The 808 kick and snare uses the FXM trick as shown here to add "life" to the static samples

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/nov03/articles/xvjvmasterclass.htm?session=f9f7e5e0282848d9a0f7cd70cc04cd63

I trimmed the sounds right at the very start of the attack snap, and I can't detect the transient being cut off. A problem with the Roland samplers in the past like the S550 and S760!
The XV5080 engine could make a nice stand alone sampler.... if they still existed...

I wonder how the Fantom compares?"