From: lclarke@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Lee Clarke)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth,comp.music
Subject: Re: JD800 Cards?
Date: 5 Oct 92 13:57:11 GMT
Reply-To: lclarke@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Lee Clarke)
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>
>As far as I know, there are *NO* wave cards available from third party vendors.
>The Roland cards come as bundles (1 wave card, 1 sound settings card), and the
>wave cards mostly contain drum samples (that's why the Roland cards are titled
>"Rock" or "Wave" or whatsoever (can't remember), not 'cause of the synth
>sounds, but 'cause of the drum and percussion samples). IMHO, the Roland cards
>are not very useful, unless one wants to use his sampler & JD-800 as a drum
>computer (but in this case, the drum samples of the "Rock" card set are
>*really* great).
>I use the SoundSource "Stage&Studio" and "Hybrid Textures" cards. Useful
>sounds, but no that overwhelming.
>
>BTW, does anybody know whether the Valhala "Screamin' B3" card is available
>for the JD-800?
>
>Bye
>        Ron
>        scharf@lrs.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de


WRONG !!! BZZZTTT !!!

The JD800 is NOT an Alesis D4 or whatever !!!

It IS a subtractive synthesis'playback' keyboard with excellent sonic
qualities and and a robust DSP engine.

Just the opposite of what this poster has stated, the Roland cards are
entirely useful, and they are NOT 'MOSTLY' drum samples !!!

The drum samples that Roland does provide both internally to the JD800
and on external cards such as the the SL-JD80-01 Drum and Percussion
Standard are clear and
are excellent stereo 16-bit 44.1 kHz sampled sounds, as are all the
sounds provided on the Roland SL-JDnn series.

But the JD800 internal sampled sounds are in about 4 categories:
1) Analog Samples (sine, square, triangle waves, etc)
2) Digital Samples (impulse functions,
3) Instrument Samples (nylon acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano,
   fluegelhorn, human voice, etc)
4) Percussion Samples (steel drum, gamolin, dijery (sp?) doo, wood block,
   steel pipes, wind chimes, etc)

My 2 favorite Roland card sets are:
1) SL-JD80-04 Strings Ensemble (and NO percussion !!!! surprise !!!)
   The strings are definitely worth getting for the JD800.
   The accompanying patch card has in addition classical arrangements
   for orchestral music, but also has configurations for the inclusion
   of the JD800's internal harp, acoustic guitar, etc as layers for
   the strings.

2) SL-JD80-05 Brass Section
   The trumpets on the wave card are very convincing. I played the trumpet
   for 10 years and I can appreciate the effort that went into the sampling
   of these brass intruments and of the layering in the patches.

   On one patch, the harder you strike the key, more the embeshure changes
   due to the way the layers are designed. Roland uses this approach
   on several musical instrument immulations on the JD800.

   The trombones, fluegelhorns, and saxaphones are excellent, also.

These 2 cards are a 'must have' for the JD800.

Oh, by the way, any 'ROCK' references to patch names don't automatically
refer to percussion...they refer to eletric piano, clavichord, electric
guitar (mostly electric guitar).

Lee Clarke
lclarke@oasys.dt.navy.mil
"Opinions are my own etc..."
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