Hi all-

I read on this site that a 19th board called 'guitar and drums' will be released.

I contacted Roland Australia and they had no idea of any such release!! Actually I was told it could even be an untrue rumour!!!!

If this is the case, can I just ask 1 question-

Are some net users out there so bored with their lives that they wish to spin crap on sites such as this just for a thrill???? To these people I say- GET A LIFE!!!!!!!!

Anyway, if it is true that Roland will be releasing such a board, please respond with any further information as I have a spare slot in my XV3080 just begging to take such a board!!!!

Well remember, I am the one who "started" that thread here on the BBS. I told you that I heard some Sam Ash and Muzic Center employees talking about it. Those stores are at least 20 miles apart, so I figured that there had to be some truth in it.

Also, people were talking about this on another recording site (I believe it was homerecording.com).

I really do hope these rumors are true. I would be the first in line to buy such a board. More so, I'm more interested in that SRJV80-20 Sammple ROM Expansion Board. That sounds real good.

All we can do is pray Korgasm. I also heard someone else on this BBS say something about one of these boards.

The Infamous EPU.

Hey EPU- I hope you didn't think I was implying my above comments towards you! I certainly wouldn't as you seem the sort of person who wouldn't do such things as spread false rumours.

This has however happened on the net before! I must say that one big disadvantage of finding out info on the net is that often it seems that the information is so preliminary that even if a product is being announced, it is so far off that by the time it is released, you have already gone and bought something else.

Here in Australia, we are a bit behind when it comes to getting new products on to our shores.

For example, Steinberg have announced Cubase VST version 5 but it wont be available for another few months. Emagic have announced Logic Audio 4.5- it was supposedly to appear after May 1st this year but it doesn't seem to have made an appearance yet! Yamaha have already been touting their (awesome looking on paper anyway!) AW4416 hard disk recorder. I'm busting to check one of these puppies out but some music shops in Australia don't even seem to know that such a product is in the pipeline (?).

I believe that companies are announcing their product releases way too early just 'to be the 1st kids on the block!'- so those who are so inclined may wait (just a little bit longer) and buy their product rather than their opponents product! This kind of practise by our manufacturers is pointless and stupid IMHO! I wish they would simply hold off such announements until they are sure that the product or software update is definetly ready for release.

Anyway, just my 2 cents worth! Cheers.

Trust me when I say this, but the USA gets the same thing when it comes to lateness in products. Companies like Roland tend to test their products elsewhere before releasing it in the USA.

Examples of this being the Roland VS840GX and VS890. Those were introduced in Feburary. We won't get them until October!

The Infamous EPU.

Same with Europe, that little continent at the end of the world :-)

Before the XV was just presented over here, people over there (your place) already started talking of "getting an XV soon". On the other hand, a European soudn designer was on presentation tour for the XV, so we don't have a shortage in Roland people offering test keyboarder jobs I suppose.

hi, I'm quite new in this businez with expensionboards. I am the "luckely" owner of an XP30. If it is the truth that there WILL come a board20 with sample possibilities, can it also be added in my xp30?? and how does it work? can you just load samples from your comp. to the card and then load it up to the synth???
THAT would indeed be great, for a simple synth like the xp30 series!!!
Francesco Z / ICQ 28161810/AOL Joco ono

I work at a music store and I haven't heard of a Guitar and Drums board. I don't think they'd do that combination since they have Bass and Drums

I would definitely buy an expansion board with excellent quality guitar sounds (both electric and acoustic). Also Roland needs to develop a board with excellent brass and saxaphone sounds

I think Roland officials should be issued with little bags of salt so you can take a pinch of it with everything they say - a while back I asked Roland UK about when they were going to release a new line of synths, and was told they were not planning on doing so any time in the near future. A month later the XV range was announced.

I expect they have plenty more expansion cards in the pipeline, but they're just keeping quiet for now.

Pete

Hi,

It also shows how roland employers don't really mingle with the crowd on support sites like mine for example..

I called Roland alot and they generally have a "no trespassing" kind of mentality regarding new things..

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I sure wish they would come out with those SRJV19 and SRJV20 Boards. A guitar only board would do so much good. A lot of the internla waveforms can do well, but they are all missing something. And it's not like the ones in the XV are any better.

Want some really good guitars? Check out Roland's SC880 and SC8850 guitars. Those will knock you away. Especially the ones in the [CLEAN GUITAR] category.

Now if Roland did release that SRJV20 Sampling ROM expansion that I've heard so much about, we may be in good hands. Thisway, if we don't have a great sound, WE COULD GET IT ANYWHERE.

I would buy a S760 if I had the money, but for $250, I'd be able to get my hands on 8MB of Flash ROM that will play whatever I want it to.

The Infamous EPU.

Hi Epu and all,

So what are you going to do if/when Roland releases a "guitar only" SRX (and not JV) board? Are you considering upgrading to the XV-88/3080/5080?

I recall reading somewhere that Roland considers the JV board library to be 'complete', and will be focussing on expanding the SRX line now.

Regards,
Chris

Pity Roland have only seen fit to give the XV3080 and XV88 2 slots for SRX boards!!!! They've committed the same blunder that Korg did with their Triton keyboard- only give it 2 slots for expansion. Geez are these manufacturers out of their minds????? Do they expect us to turn our boards around/unscrew our racks each time we want to change boards- far out brussel sprout!!!!

You know, there are going to be people who wil upgrade to the new XV3080 and 5080 regardless of what comes out for the aging JV and Super JV series.

The bottom line is that if Roland at least released a SRJV20 Expansion board, is that they would make money!

There are also people out there who will not upgrade to the newer XVs. But at least Roland could continue to make money off of them and satisfy them.

Think about this, even if Roland offered us a 8MB Flash ROM, the XV5080 will still have 120MB more than us. Also, this could add 8MB (yielding 520MB) on the XV5080.

Think about this.

The Infamous EPU.

Hey all. After looking at the patch content of the Latin expansion board, perhaps what was thought to have been the SRJV19, may just as well be the latin.

The Denmark site states that the majority of the patches on the Latin Expansion Board (SR-JV80-18) are dedicated to Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Brassand Percussion. As a matter of fact, there are 57 Acoustic Guitars, something like 20 or more Brass patches (Ens & Solo) and lots of auxiallry percussion.

With Roland's improved sampling techniques and implementation of the 8MB available, I can't wait to check out these new sounds.

In truth however, it seems that there is a SR-JV80-19. This board will be called the "House" expansion board. However, I know nothing of this board becuase it's listed only on the Japanese site - I can't read japanese.

The Infamous EPU.

Epu
Could you give us the exact site address for the Latin board patch list I have gone into Roland.dk but could not find the list.
If there are so many guitars, why would they create a guitar only board, doesnt that seen redundant? (out in November hopefully)
Of course many of us with XVs are waiting for the (mythological?)new 68mb orchestra board!

I just happened to breeze past this site. I'm about to head out to school, so I'll post up the exact URL later. Also, the Roland Canada site (www.roland.ca) has a similar patch list.

When I say patch list, I infact mean Patch Map. This lists a general layout of sounds for all 18 boards on a grid (similar to the one in the 1998 RUG Magazine). It gives a general decrpition of the quantitiy of each sound category, not the individual patch listings.

The Patch Map (as I will now call it to not confuse anyone) says that it has 57 guitars.

The Infamous EPU.

I'll be back here later.