MATRIXSYNTH: The Stranglers' Roland JD800 Digital Synthesizer


Sunday, June 19, 2016

The Stranglers' Roland JD800 Digital Synthesizer

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"Classic vintage digital synth used by Dave Greenfield for many live shows between approx 1998 - 2006.

This was Dave's backup JD800 which has seen many miles of road and gigs. Being his 'number 2' it is in surprisingly good cosmetic condition due to the fact that although it traveled to every show it rarely came out of the flight case. It was, however, used many times by Dave and as you can see by the pics still contains all his programmed patches for various songs for the live set with that keyboard rig.

PLEASE NOTE
Over time, however, it has now developed some faults:
It has 6x dead/sticky keys which is a common symptom of Roland synths of that era.
One of the edit faders (TVA Envelope Release Time 4) has now become temperamental when trying to select a value.
A couple of the buttons need a harder press than they used to but still do work.

All these faults are mechanical and can be repaired if someone is willing to put the effort in but it does still function perfectly over MIDI."


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