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The Roland XV-5080 was the rackmounted flagship of the JV/XP/XV series of synthesizers. It contains the same sound set as the XV-3080 rack module, which also includes the sounds of the JV-1080 and JV-2080. In addition to waveform playback, it also supported playing samples in Roland S-700 or Akai format and could be expanded with up to 128MB of sample RAM.

Like the XV-3080, it supports two types of expansion boards. It can be expanded with up to 4 SR-JV80 expansion boards and up to 4 SRX expansion boards.

The XV-5080 supports General MIDI Level 2.

Specifications

Year Released: 2000

Polyphony: 128 notes

Multitimbral: 32 parts

Preset Patches: 1252

User Patches: 128

Preset Performances: 64

User Performances: 64

Preset Drum Kits: 21

User Drum Kits: 4

ROM: 64MB (1083 waveforms)

Effects: 3 multi-effects processors with 90 types of effect plus 4 types of reverb and 2 types of chorus, 2-band EQ

Screen: 320 x 80 pixel backlit LCD

Outputs: 1/4" stereo pair plus 6 individual 1/4" outputs

Power Consumption: 25 watts

Dimensions: 482 mm x 281 mm x 88 mm

Weight: 4.9 kg

This is a 2-space rack unit.

User Demo Videos

Rating

File Downloads

Roland XV-5080 Manual

Roland XV-5080 Service Notes

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