Hi JV/XP/XV-people,

I'm Hans from Belgium. I own an XV-88 and an MC-80 sequencer for a month now. I used to have an RD-600 and an E-96 keyboard before. I got rid of them because I needed more sounds and I never really used the music styles in the E-96. With the MC-80 and the XV-88 I can make my own music from the bottom.
I thought the keyboard touch/feeling of the RD-600 was very good, but the XV-88's is better. I liked the RD-600's pianos more though. With the XV-sounds I've got everything I need. Although in some sounds (including the XV piano patches) you can hear some irritating noise at certain velocities, but I hope the piano sounds on the new SRX-03 "Studio" Expansion board will be better...
Yeah, you heard it right: Roland announced a new member of the SRX-family at Frankfurter Musikmesse, probably the equivalent of the SR-JV80 Series "Session" board. There's also a new RD-700 coming up with two SRX-Series expansion slots. I searched the Internet about all this but I only could find information in Dutch/French on the Roland Benelux website at http://www.roland.be/ff2001.html. Check it out!

Best regards,

Hans

Sorry, this link doesn't seem to be working. Try the homepage at http://www.roland.be and you'll get there too after one extra click...

I'm using the XP80 since four years and the Yamaha SY35 for about 5,5 Years. My music could be discribed as some kind of soundtrack-music without films, a little bit like (the grandmaster) Vangelis. The XP80 does a very good job in that case!

XP-30

Superb sounds. The only thing I need to do is purchase an interface so I can hook it up to my computer which has Cakewalk installed in it.

Well I just bought a JV1010. With it I use a Fatar SL880. Also have a Casio WK1800 and a laptop sequencer Voyetra's Digital Orchestrator Plus) all linked together. Also have an Ibanez AW100-CE (acoustic/electric guitar)

Hello, brothers-in-Roland out there in the world.
I live in Rome, Italy, and have just bought an XV 3080 with the Session and the Vintage Synth board; I was undecided between the 3080 and the 5080 and have to thank Chris (a.k.a. Feefer) for his advice. In the past I have had other Roland gear (D50, D550, D70, S750, JV80, R8, R8M). I haven't got any SRX card because neither the Drums nor the Piano board did convince me (I have already all the drum samples I can ever need and own a Yamaha P100 digital piano). So, better wait for future releases.

HJ,
XP60 with Hip Hop,Techno and Vocal Cards.Along with the Korg Triton to back it up..

I have an XP-80, and a BR-8 , roland/boss is the most relyable equipment in the world.

ROLAND XP30,WITH LATIN AND VOCALS CARDS,AMD K6 500,CUBASE 5.32,NUENDO,REAKTOR,GIGASAMPLER

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Hey, I can finally respond to this! I just picked up a Roland JV-2080 and Orchestral board, both well worth the price so far, IMHO, even if the instruction booklets aren't the best on the market. The Orchestral II is probably going to be my next pick-up (I'm doing orchestral/film score style music. Go fig.), and use both Finale and Cakewalk software.

I'm still a relative newbie, and am starting to get my feet wet with sysex functions. There but for the grace of God, etc. etc. and so on. Hope to be able to tell you more soon!