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The COSM sections are surprisingly fun – they can be utterly filthy, like busted smashed up piece of crap you found at a hock shop filthy. MFX includes some pretty wack effects – the tape delay is great and the 3D panning is curious. Unlike the Fantom, you can’t pass sounds through the three MFX units in series. That is, you could stack three sounds each with their own dedicated treatments before hitting the mixer and its two send effects. There’s plenty of performance modes and three MFX sections before you get to the chorus and reverb. It feels more like a ROMpler that will pay for itself at a studio. It feels different to the earlier JVs, although it’s not that different really, somehow the weirder material is masked by endless pianos and string sections. The interface is very much about calling up a class of sound quickly. Helicopter gunships, romantic interludes, dwarf parties – no problem for the 5080.
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It’s a film score machine, it has the breadth and the facility to make any reasonable Hollywood score by itself. It has 128 voices, most patches having 2 voices you are seeing about 64 notes at any time coming out multiple stereo pairs and digital interfaces. It is a haughty machine, it has some reason to be, but also some some surprising failings. It is so important that it has returned as the ghost that fuels Roland’s latest thing – Zen Core. Any interest in Sword and Sandals will lead here, as it leads to the D-50 at the other end: the Great Men at the sides of A History.
#Roland xv 5080 static series#
It arrives as the pinnacle of the XV series and has a twinkle in the eye that says it will soon breed a lot of Fantoms. Behold, resplendent in gold grey trim, the big walla of 2000.