Relive the '90s with the Roland JD800: Factory Presets

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"Roland JD-800 - ALL FACTORY PRESETS

The Roland JD-800 is a digital synthesizer that was manufactured between 1991 and 1996. It features many knobs and sliders for patch editing and performance control — features that some manufacturers, including Roland, had been omitting in the name of streamlining since the inception of the Yamaha DX7. The JD-800 thus became very popular with musicians who wished to take a hands-on approach to patch programming. The introduction in the manual states that Roland's intention with the JD-800 was to "return to the roots of synthesis".

Technology
The JD-800 employs Linear Arithmetic synthesis (introduced and made famous by the Roland D-50), which combines sample playback with digital synthesis. The JD-800 has 108 built-in waveforms, which can be expanded via PCM cards. The waveforms span a variety of categories such as analog synthesizers, acoustic instruments, and voices. Many of these waveforms are very short and are used primarily for the attack portion of a sound, while longer ones are used for the sustained part of a sound. The JD-800 was Roland's first instrument to have its core presets developed entirely in the United States, under a short-lived branch of its R&D-LA office in Culver City, California. The core sampled waveforms and factory presets of the JD-800 were created by Eric Persing.

A patch, or single sound, in the JD-800 consists of up to four tones. As every tone consists of an almost completely independent synthesizer voice, a patch could be considered a combination of up to four different synthesizers. In Single mode the JD-800 plays one patch at a time, but in Multi mode it is possible to play five different patches over MIDI, plus a "special" patch. The special patch has different waveforms assigned to the 61 different keys on the keyboard, so is used for drums and percussion sounds. The JD-800 has one effects section. In Single mode, seven effects can be used simultaneously, in series, so all tones in a patch go through the same effects. In Multi mode, three effects can be used at the same time, with all patches sharing the same effects, though any of the patches can be routed to bypass the effects.

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64 Factory Patches

Timecodes
0:00 - Intro
0:27 - 11 – Millennium
0:45 - 12 - Massive Pad
1:57 - 13 - Crystal Rhodes
2:35 - 14 - Synthadelic Bass
2:48 - 15 - Wailing Guitar
3:19 - 16 - Fantasia 90's
3:49 - 17 - Spun Glass
4:16 - 18 - Mother Afrika
4:28 - 21 - Swimotion
4:49 - 22 - Classic Sweeper
5:31 - 23 - LA MIDI'ed Piano
5:46 - 24 - Meaty Bass
5:57 - 25 - Stratomaster
6:26 - 26 - Perc-Vox Stack
6:37 - 27 - Killer Pad
7:41 - 28 - Waveblower
7:53 - 31 - Sci-Fi Groove
8:23 - 32 - Mr Brass
8:43 - 33 - Bruiser Tines
9:11 - 34 - Wet Bass
9:21 - 35 - Throaty Clav
9:43 - 36 - Rockin Wire
10:02 - 37 - Iceman
10:15 - 38 - Ming Dynasty
10:29 - 41 - Planetarium
10:38 - 42 - Pulse Pad
10:57 - 43 - All Stops Out
11:09 - 44 - Fusion Solo
11:16 - 45 - MIDI Guitar
11:28 - 46 - Pain&Injury Keyz
11:44 - 47 - Deep Breath Pad
12:04 - 48 - Harlequin
12:24 - 51 - Hearts of Space
12:51 - 52 - Analog Brass
13:09 - 53 - Ac Piano 1
13:36 - 54 - Modular Bass
13:43 - 55 - Clavinut
13:59 - 56 - Vocostrat
14:06 - 57 - Invocation
14:18 - 58 - Ethnic Logs
14:27 - 61 - 2-way Slide
14:40 - 62 - Macho Swell
14:58 - 63 - Sunday Best
15:18 - 64 - Synth Pipe Solo
15:26 - 65 - Nylon Choir
15:37 - 66 - Scrapeing Bone
15:47 - 67 - Hybrid Strings
16:25 - 68 - JD-Bells 1
16:32 - 71 - 1974!
16:45 - 72 - Polysynth
17:07 - 73 - Metallic Rhodes
17:14 - 74 - Face Bass
17:19 - 75 - Velo-Crunch
17:28 - 76 - Stack Attack!
17:47 - 77 - Girlish Vox
17:56 - 78 - Shakuflute
18:06 - 81 - Aurora Borealis
18:14 - 82 - Pulsation
18:22 - 83 - Waveola Keys
18:27 - 84 - Tekno Funk Bass
18:35 - 85 - Backwards 60's
18:41 - 86 - Chinkvox-Bass
18:54 - 87 - Bottle It
18:59 - 88 - Doo Pipes

Features
Year of release: 1991
Polyphony: 24-voice
Presets:
Rhythms:
Keyboard:
Responds to velocity: yes
Sound generation method: PCM
MIDI: in, out, thru
Sound expansion capabilities: cards
Effects: yes
Controls:
Outputs:
Display:
Misc:

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