The Roland JV-1080 – The Bread & Butter Synthesizer From The 90s Is Now Available As Plugin

Big news comes from the Roland Cloud. Shortly before Christmas, Roland has released the December update and it extends the plugin collection by another well-known instrument. The Rolad JV-1080, the bread & butter Synthesizer from the 90s which was based on the linear arithmetic synthesis technology is now available as plugin in the Roland Cloud.

Now it’s possible that Roland will release the JV-1080 also as a Boutique Synthesizer in the future because they revived this year the D-05 as a plugin as well as a hardware Synthesizer module.

This holiday season, the folks at Roland Cloud have been working extra hard to bring you a giant dose of holiday cheer.  For starters, we’re overjoyed to deliver the highly-anticipated, Roland Cloud software adaptation of one of the most popular synthesizers in history: The Roland JV-1080. The most famous of the Roland PCM powerhouses, the Roland JV-1080 is the ‘down to the circuit’ inspiration for the Roland Cloud JV-1080 software plugin. It was a huge success with artists and producers, and eventually lead to even more powerful models in the series such as the JV-2080 and XV-5080.

While the Roland Cloud JV-1080 has the look, feel and factory patches of the original, it has the expanded effects, additional waveforms, and increased polyphony of its successors.   It’s like the JV-1080 you know and love, but enhanced to go toe to toe in your DAW with any contemporary software Synthesizer.

Features

PCM Heaven

Throughout the 1990s, Roland digital synthesizers based on PCM sampled waveforms formed the basis of music as diverse as R&B, pop, hip-hop, new wave and film scores. Some of these sounds, originally meant to mimic acoustic instruments, became so iconic themselves that they’ve become a permanent part of the collective musical sound palette. Some say it’s the most recorded sound module in history, and lately artists have been utilizing these sounds again, in new and modern ways.

The JV-1080 is the most famous of the Roland PCM powerhouses, and the inspiration for the Roland Cloud JV-1080. It was a huge success with artists and producers, eventually leading to even more powerful models like the JV-2080 and XV-5080. While the Roland Cloud JV-1080 has the look, feel and factory patches of the original, it has the expanded effects, additional waveforms, and increased polyphony of its successors. Bottom line: this is the ultimate in 90s-era Roland sound—now in a modern plugin for your DAW.

More of everything

The Roland Cloud JV-1080 has everything artists love about the original hardware plus new capabilities from its successors. Including the 448 waveforms of the original, the JV-1080 plugin has over 1000 waveforms to combine and mutate into fresh, original patches. Effects are an integral part of the JV-1080 sound and here the original 40 MFX types have been expanded to 78, along with more reverb and chorus algorithms. The Roland Cloud JV-1080 also features double the polyphony, two additional time-variant low-pass filters, a step LFO and enhanced Matrix Control functions.

Prime Digital

Dripping with retro-cool stabs and effects, iconic guitars and strings, and evocative plucked and ethnic instruments, the JV-1080 is also a deep, programmable synthesizer capable of some neat digital tricks. Layers of meticulous PCM samples, two LFOs, multiple time variant filters, a flexible modulation matrix and effects galore make the JV-1080 a formidable weapon for those who know how to wield it. The Roland Cloud JV-1080 has full graphical control of parameters making tone-crafting feel new and exciting, whether it’s adding authentic 90s vibe to a track or reimagining these sounds in new ways.

Other News: Roland Cloud Payment System 

Due of problems with signing up for the Roland Cloud Core Membership in the past, Roland have completely redesigned the previous billing system to offer the users more payment options (including PayPal), a simpler and secure checkout experience, and pricing availability that supports many regional currencies. Also the complete received a complete redesign for a better experience.