House Patches on the XP80

[dennis_ake]

Hi!
I want to make some kind of live performance where I record and loop each part of each song live in my XP80 sequencer. I will probably try to make synthwave and house, probably mostly deep house. But first I need to load patches into a performance. Being pretty new to house I don't really know what kinds of sounds to look for.

Are there some specific patches on the XP80 that would be a good place to start for deep house? I guess an electric drum kit, a pad, a bass and some kind of lead, but is there usually more to it then that, like a lot of layering for example? It sounds like there are often some kind of sound effect type sounds in deep house as well. And some voclas but for that I guess I'd need a sampler or just learn to sing myself. Is there something that could be used as a riser or white noise that I could filter to make a riser? And is there any way to create sidechaining in the XP80? For synthwave I figure I just look for 80s sounding synth sounds and drums.

[dennis_ake]

Btw I'm not new to music. I've been playing piano and guitar for many years. Mostly rock and jazz though. I've only been making electronic music for a few years though and at a pretty slow rate since I haven't had a lot of time.

[Foksadure]

This belongs to the "JD, JV, XP and XV series" subsection.
viewforum.php?f=50

Anyways, is your XP-80 stock, or do you have any waveforms expansion board inside? The synth engine is good enough, but the factory ROM is pretty weak when it comes to EDM drums. You can judge by yourself by listening to the DanceKit demos, that are using internal waveforms only.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSVUjl ... OVWLWbXM7w
You can get the floppies images here, to try the patches and the sequences: http://www.nathansheldon.com/xp-80/index.html

On the other hand, Roland released several specialized SR-JV80 expansion boards, to cover a wide array of music genres:
http://www.planet-groove.com/roland/expansion.html
You can hear the kind of sound you can get from these @synthmania, just edit the links with the board number.

The Session board is a fine enhancement of the stock ROM, with bread and butter sounds that suits any genre.
https://www.synthmania.com/sr-jv80-09.htm

For EDM, the classics were the Dance (06), Techno (11), HipHop (12), and House (19) boards
https://www.synthmania.com/sr-jv80-06.htm
https://www.synthmania.com/sr-jv80-11.htm
https://www.synthmania.com/sr-jv80-12.htm
https://www.synthmania.com/sr-jv80-19.htm

Bear in mind that given the single MFX in the XP-80, only one patch per multi-timbral performance will retain its effects.
https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques ... ips-part-1
https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques ... ips-part-2
https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques ... ips-part-3

But fortunately the XP-80 has assignable external outputs that you could use with an external mixer and fx processors to effect some parts.

Hope this helps.