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I'm pretty sure that sound is from the JV-1080 and related modules or XP-80 and related keyboards.

I keep seeing this and nobody has answered after months so I will.
Nobody goes nuts for them.

It has a handful of nice, usable sounds but it's pretty limited as a 30 year old synth that was entry level in its day.

Yes, both have all the same sounds. The sound engine is the same.
XP-50 adds keyboard and sequencer. The JV-1080 has multiple outputs.

I have had my XP-50 since it was released in 1996(?). Pretty decent key action. I bought several Fantom series along the way, mostly nice key actions. But user interface never worked for me. Then the FA-06 came along. I bought it immediately and I use it as my main performance synth a couple times a...

I had come to the conclusion that Roland was not going to release any more Plugouts. It has been that story time and time again over the past 20 years. They come up with a cool new platform, so much promise and possibilities for expansion, then dead end. But I came to same conclusion about System-50...

I wish the Rotary effect would work properly in mono. It sounds good in stereo (basically the same as my VR-09) but terrible in mono. (The VR-09 sounds good in mono).

I wish the current blinking pad would blink in time with the current tempo clock.

Are you connected in Stereo or Mono? The Leslie effect sounds great in stereo. But it sounds terrible when connected in Mono. It's a bug in the FA as far as I'm concerned. I have a VR-09 and the effects sounds basically the same in stereo but the VR-09 works fine in Mono while the FA does not. Years...

Give the rest of Roland a chance to catch up. This is probably an initiative started by Roland US. The other countries might make the same offer in the near future, like they did with the other overlays. I sure hope so. I want a set for mine here in Canada.

iixorb wrote:... And it's a shame that they've kept the same 16 slot limitation of the JX3P...

Actually, the JX-3P has 32 memory locations, 16 in Bank C and another 16 in Bank D.
The JX-03 should have at least 32 IMO.

Thanks. Now I just need to find an OC-8 kit to install. ;-)

There is a lot to like about the FA. Great sound overall and a great feature set. I have a few gripes. The patches taken directly from XP-50/80 are thin. They sound noticeably fuller on my XP-50. EQ helps to solve most of that. The rotating speaker effect is terrible in mono. In stereo, it sounds ve...

Get used to web based synthesizer editors. A lot more editors and other music software will be done that way. It is so much easier to develop a Web MIDI API based editor than making an App for Windows and an App for OSX. Only Chrome works for now but Firefox implementation is probably to come soon. ...

Comments on this forum could keep you busy for awhile.
There are some discussions on gearsluts.

There are online sound editors that work on Chrome browser here:
http://www.breadandbuttersounds.com

pzhuravel wrote:Hey guys literally had them for one day bought them brand new, jx03 wasn't even opened

You didn't even try the one that sounds best of the 3.