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#25843 - 07/13/00 08:24 AM
Re: XV-5080 Watch
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Member
Registered: 01/25/99
Posts: 149
Loc: Port Moody, BC, Canada
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Hi,
I was at my dealer yesterday and saw the XV-5080 in the metal (as opposed to flesh). He does not have any stock but the Roland rep was in the store demo-ing it to store employees. I was told by the rep that the XV-5080 should be in my dealer's store next week sometime. For the first few months, it will ship in limited quantities. Expect them to be readily available in September.
While it contains many of the sounds from the JV-2080, it certainly sounds quite a bit better. I did not do an exhaustive listening test though as the rep was in there for only a half an hour or so while I was there.
I will probably be looking at selling my JV-2080 in September to pick up one of these babies. I have an extensive Roland sample library and this can take the place of 2 modules for me (a sampler and a synth). The beauty of this thing is that you can buy a 128 MB smart media card for it and load a 128 MB bank without connecting it to a CD Rom or hard drive.
I was a little disappointed in the piano 64 MB card. The rep had both the piano and the drum card installed in it. Let me qualify my disappointment though. The piano card really sounds fantastic if you're doing classical or mellow music. It lacks the bite and brightness IMHO for onstage rock or pop styles. It's really too bad. I would have preferred two 32 MB pianos on the card - a classical, mellow piano and a brighter (a-la Yamaha) piano sound. I may buy the card anyway and brighten it up a touch with some internal fx for onstage.
After all of the talk about the drum card, it also did not blow me away as I thought it would. Maybe it was the listening environment. While they were expressive and weren't bad, they didn't have that punch, in-your-face type of sound I look for in drums. I'll be listening again though when they are in stock.
So, the recap: Don't expect lots of these units to be around and available at stores for a month or two but you should see some by the end of the month for sure.
Fernando
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