I'm gonna play on a gig in a few months, simply called "80's". I can get hold of DWGS 6000 for about 50$, will it give me the real sound of the 80's, or can a make better sounds with my Roland JV-1080?

personal i think that a dw8000 would do better but $ 50,00 is not a lot of money for that kind of synth (well.. here in The Netherlands its realy cheap)

If the synth looks well and if its still working like it should, i think i would do it.
even when it was only to get away from "the sample playing mases"

Please let us know what you did.

I've got the DW-6000 right in front of me, nice piece of a synth. My only problem is that the left-output is damaged. But I can always use the Phones or something. The sound is not the most impressing I've heard, but OK.
How do you reset the memory of it??
yogi

Yes the DW6000 would be great for that fat 80s sound and it can create very complex digital sounds as well. It was called the baby PPG in the mid to late 80s. Sampled attack partials and digital wave form generators finished the waveform and then voltage controlled filters , amplifiers , and KORG's 6 stage envelope generators. How could you go wrong?????

Can the parameters on the DW-6000 (cutoff, resonance etc.) be controlled via MIDI control no's ?? Will the synth respond to Program Change signals?

Only if the MIDI system supports SYSTEM EXCLUSIVE . But being of the mid-80s , it's not likely . You will have to look over to the right of the keyboard and look at the MIDI parameters , if their is nothing mentioned about SYSTEM EXCLUSIVE or MIDI program change - than it will not . But it's a great synth anyway !!!

Although it might sound a bit strange, the DW-6000 responds to the most important messages, including Program Change, note data(of course), and CC's like volume, breath, modulation + + +. And it can be programmed to responding on all 16 channels (not simultaneously, though) and it also responds to note data exceeding its own 61-note keyboard!
Cool synth!
yogi

yes it is a cool synth , you really couldn't go wrong with that one .