Hi

I own a JV1080 for a few months now. I find the piano's very weak compared to others I've heard. Has this been your experience or would the problem be my setup?
I play it using an Alesis QS6.1
Thanks,

Daniel

I've heard better and I've heard worse. Nowadays they've started sampling pianos in stereo. They weren't doing that in the days of the 1080's creation. I've made a piano patch that in my humble opinion surpasses all the stock sounds by a long shot. I'm using an XP-80, which i think has the same sound engine. My patch almost sounds like it has been stereo sampled, due to the EFX and other effects I used. Another thing I did was used one tone for all the notes from the bottom up to F#6. From G6 on up I used a combination of 2 tones with a longer sustain to sound more like a real piano in the upper registers. The G6 on up gradually lessens in decay as you go up the scale, which sounds like a real piano does as the string lengths get shorter and tighter.

[This message has been edited by FAEbGBD (edited 02-14-2002).]

Hi!
The JV-1080's piano sounds are OK!
You don't say what you have compared it to, so it is difficult to understand what the problem might be. But as FAEbGBD says, the JV-1080 was released as early as 1994!

Otherwise I think that the problem could be: -that your keyboard (Alesis QS6.1) is sending too low velocity via Midi to the JV-1080, so that the sounds become weak, loose brilliance and don't sound as they should at all.
Try increasing the keyboard sensitivity value (or whatever Alesis calls it!) in the QS6.1, and see if it helps.

The JV1080 was released back i 1994. Stop complaining. Either save up and get a Session Board (which has a good piano), or trash your JV1080 and get a JV1010 which has the session baord pre-installed.

The JV1080 is a great module, but the thing to understand is that the entire Super JV Series (JV1010, JV1080, JV2080, XP30, XP50, XP60, XP80) are all based on that original JV1080 soundset. Either upgrade (Session board goes for $120 + on Ebay), get a sampler (like my Roland S760) or get a new module all together.

The Infamous Epu.

Take the sound "64VoicePiano" and give it a little bit more reverb (up to a level of about 80 or 90). Then it sounds very good, I think. Same goes with "PianoStrings".

"Nice Piano" is one of my favorite sounds in that instrument. It's 64 voices too, because it uses velocity switching to get the effect from the different samples. I have the session board too, and it IS an improvement, but the stock sounds can be very useful if you fiddle with them.

Hi

I have to agree that the pianos are not THAT bad.. And if you get the Session-board, the piano there is really nice in my opinion.

Actually, I have to confess that most REAL pianos I have heard sound far worse than the Session-piano. To me, the average real piano has a boring, slightly out-of-tune sound where it is hard to spot any details. They have a natural low-dynamics, mono kind of sound, that totally fail to impress or interest me..

What I am saying is that the Session-piano has a richer sound than the real pianos most of us encounter.. It imitates a better and more expensive piano than I have ever played..

Just my opinions..

Stig

Thanks everyone for your replies!

I tried some of your advice and it worked out very well. It's just that I am fairly new to all this synth stuff..
I do own the session board by the way, and yes it's good

DanielD