Roland XV-3080

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Yesterday I finally got the SRX-07 Ultimate Keys expansion card. I must say that it is very good! Better than I expected. It has over 450 patches + drumkits.

I had to update my 3080's operating system to support more than 128 patches when using new srx cards. It took about 45 minutes to play 32 midi os update files from logic. Anyway, everything was ok after the update and I could see all the pacthes.

I read somewhere that the srx-07 piano is maybe from the session board and imo it's good for some styles. The card has many electric pianos and organ sounds. I usually don't use that kind of sounds but it's fun to play them and I noticed that many of them could be used in my productions too. The organs and EP's are very good. Then there are tons of acoustic and electric basses and some very good flute/horn-sounds. I have to continue testing but some of them were very usable. Then the pads and strings... The waves taken from both keyboards of the 60's and 70's and vintage synth cards there are some really beautiful and fat synth strings / pads and the card gives you tons of new good waveforms to create your own patches.

I don't know about the other roland xv- or jv-modules but the 3080 must have a good sound engine and converters because all sounds sound very smooth and beautiful, not thin and lifeless. I really start liking even more about the 3080. I will not sell it. It's my no. 1 pads/strings-machine and if I need any real instrument sounds, it's really fast to search one and they seem to sit in the mix very well.

I've been reading about the other expansion cards and next I will try to find a second hand orchestral 1 jv-card.