First post, by jwt27
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As I said in the new hardware thread, I now have a Roland JV-1010 😀
According to vintagesynth.com,
The Roland JV-1010 Synth Module may look like a weakling, but it kicks sand in the face of a lot of synths twice its size! This half-rackspace killer has the full sound set of the professional JV-1080 and 2080 modules (at slightly reduced quality). With 640 preset and 128 user patches, that's a lot of phat sounds in a skinny package. Plus, all 255 sounds from the Session wave expansion board are included.
And if you want to add more muscle, the JV-1010 has an expansion slot for any JV80 Series board (Asian, Orchestral, Hip Hop, Techno, Bass & Drums, Vocal, Country, World, etc.). In total, you can get over a thousand patches out of the box and over 1,200 when expanded - all in a 64-voice polyphonic, 16-part multitimbral unit with dedicated Reverb, Chorus and Multi-effects.
... and it's GM compatible, too!
The default GM patches are.. not all that great, unfortunately. So here I'll post my attempts to improve them.
So far I've only really touched the overdrive/distortion guitars, here's what I got so far:
Doom: before, after
Blood: before, after 😵
This preset patch sounds kinda neat too, but doesn't really fit in (and turns into a panflute on the higher notes): https://app.box.com/s/xy1x688j65bpbyi7q68e
Let me know what you think, and if anyone else has one of these synths, maybe we could exchange patches and make the best GM bank ever 😀