All user reviews for the Roland JV-1010

Bought it at Guitar Center in Arlington, TX for $399.99 . Was in need of a sound module for a couple of years. This was the only thing I found in my price range atthe time.

The unit has a lot of really cool synthesizer patches. I have written 8 new songs in the last few months since obtaining the module and still have many varieties of unused sounds. The sustained sounds on it are great. It only takes up a half rack space making it more portable as well. It is easily expandable by purchasing sound expansions cards that come in various genres/instrument sets.

My favorite sound sample it just doesn't have: The double bass string hit sound. I can tweak the midi for max attack and set sustain to 0 and set reverb to 1/2 depth and still can't get a good low string hit. Of course it has a pizzicato sound but that is just a plucking sound. There is only one cymbal crash sound which is lacking for use of a metal or hard rock drum set. Should I decide to get more than one expansion card the unit only accepts one at a time and to change cards the top cover has to be dissassembled making it inconvenient to switch. I had a yamaha cs1x keyboard with better drum sounds.

It is sturdy, made out of steel, so it will be able to stand a little unnecessary knocking around.

Overall, it has plenty of good high tech sounds and brilliant sounding instrument sets. It is expandable, and I may be able to find the string section sounds I am looking for on one of the two orchestral expansion cards.

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As my first midi related purchase, I was going to buy a keyboard like most people do. Instead I decided to buy a sound module and a midi keyboard (without sounds) for more flexibility. Together they costed me about $800 and I'm pretty happy with the result. The sound module is the relatively new JV-1010, the younger brother of the famous JV-1080. It's been more than a year with me and I can tell you that I haven't listened to all the good sounds yet, and I use it a lot! Let me tell you that it contains 5 preset banks (128 patches each), 1 user bank which one can edit (128 patches) and the JV Session card (another 256 patches!) that add up to more than a thousand patches. All these patches are Roland standard and this unit also has space for another JV Card.

If you like to write tunes on programs like Cakewalk or Cubase and your soundcard isn't enough anymore, this could be a great solution. The JV-1010 is great for the purpose of having a really good quality thousand instruments at your disposal at a very affordable price.

The one thing that annoys me is the lack of knobs on the unit itself for editing sounds. It has only 4 knobs which are minimal like volume and category change. So if you absolutely need knobs to control (especially in a real-time situation) then the JV-1010 is not for you.

The construction is very robust and very small for the sounds it has. Some people that saw it here thought is was a compressor or a rack fx processor. The quality is standard Roland if you know what I mean.

This unit helped me in finding the sounds I had in my head. It's very affordable and as I said, a computer music writer will find it a great tool for recording music with the loads of great sounds it has.

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I will be brief: yes jv1010 the report is INTERESTED level quality / price for amateur players (including myself). So for beginners and do his arms computer music is nickel.
BUT, over time, it is clear tjs I use the same ten sounds, and many of them, even if they are sometimes trs utiliss are rarely beautiful.

Attention will be released on roland xv2020 that will replace the jv1010 a little patience before getting out your wallet ...

UTILIZATION

Voil

SOUNDS

DSOL not

OVERALL OPINION

prcis be more ...

A thousand sounds, it's bcp ... Add nothing compared to the other except that it's more a box that sounds "real" synth but it's all good to start ...

UTILIZATION

The audio edition is not intuitive trs (via the software to configure only damage ...), though it is a little galre I sometimes it does not rpondait more in performance mode when I use Cubase, but nothing major ...

SOUNDS

The sounds: trs good, but especially the synths sounds "natural" ... It's ok ...

OVERALL OPINION

I have since 1999 and I plan might be me but it made me Sparer good service ...

Small half rack including total sound of the Roland JV-1080, the JV-2080 and those of the SR-JV80-09 session.
64 voice polyphony, 16 multitimbral (midi in / out)
1 output jack sro 1 / 4
and a place for extensions disponnible SR-JV or 19 choices

UTILIZATION

Difficult to use live but facilitated by the software provided via a computer
but this is all of the same interface can practice for sound editing (patch, performance and kit drums)
digital display 3 characters limit.

SOUNDS

This is the roland JV, therefore very good quality despite his age, Polyval and robust, have likes and dislikes are, I personally find it very well
only concerns the lack of audio output dB, the quality of the converter is lower than the XP-60

OVERALL OPINION

Very good machine not taking up much space and very affordable, the amount and quality of these sounds and these performances, he can feel comfortable in this style all composting or recovery demanding.
So apart from the cot for handling edition which is quite cold, the rest is nickel

SynthModule 1/2rack sound format with over 1000 sounds (expandable via card SRJV).
All sounds are ditables Sound Diver with the software provided, but you can also fiddle with the main CHARACTERISTICS through clever combinations of keys very easy mmoriser. Everything is described on the machine!. The Software is only for the Fast Fashion approffondie.
Connectivity: Audio Output Jacks 2 6.35, 6.35 + Jack for headphones.
Trio MIDI In / Out / Thru.
Ordi making Mac / PC very practical for not mobilizing a MIDI port and more.

UTILIZATION

Trs simple configuration. The manual is comprehensive enough for this little machine incredibly full sound.
The edition by the machine itself is direct and sufficient or even Live in Home Studio. Rather good potato overall.
To fundamentally change the sounds or CRER Fully must actually go through the Sound Diver optimized supplied with the machine. And it's thunder!: Routing effects, choice of waveforms, placement of sounds in space, etc.. Booked solid. In fact we can CRER its sounds, store them in the bank and remember USER trs quickly to a live performance or other.
A search mode sounds per bank (+ GM) and a family mode (Piano, Synth, FX, Drums, Orchestral, Organ, etc.) as well say rs short effective.

SOUNDS

SOUNDS! ! : An extremely comprehensive range.
Some pianos made me afraid to beginners, but they emerge plutt well in a mix.
Flutes sounds are superb, organs trsrssis! Varis, stamps, cute as hell.
Trs some good orchestral sounds (including wood), but all Ingal.
The synth sounds are well understood in the intrt JV1010. Beautiful ground movements, squence, drones, atmospheres, from vintage, contemporary, all of everything! The lead at all aggressive and gentle, full!
The drum kits are pretty, some kits even electro sound beautifully.
Dpannent electric guitars in a mix, some acoustic guitars are trsralistes.
The beautiful acoustic bass and bass synthetic sharp enough.
The electric pianos (Rhodes / Wurlitzer) trs are beautiful but sometimes drown in pieces.
The ethnic is well enough INTERESTED rpart, but not many.

Like all synths, the spectrum is wide trs, so attention to legalization in your songs. Live example (I use it often), with a guitar and a bass, some frquences which the timbre of a sound disappear a little. But it is a history of management.

For models with against it is quite sufficient as the sounds are complmentaires and Varis.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for about 8 years and I love the fast ACCS all sounds (a knob Crant and endless wheel!)
What I like least is the price of expansion cards (a part of time, and again ...) but are JV dj trs well supplied with card-board session e. I have other models and I also tried a lot in store. Most successful NS5R a Korg, a report qualitprix unbeatable, even now. For beginners who want a range or complter for cheap is the right choice.
It can take anywhere.
Live it in practice, although lighter than 2U forcment! !
It is strong enough, the little rubber under the chassis mtal provide good stability.

I think I do it again this kind of choice in the same context. That said now my choice is to wear a coat over a MODEL, because my requirements are volumes but it will be a MODEL JV or XV, at least in this SERIES l. on the other hand I think I'm evil Sparer all of the same ...

Using fairly simple. The supplied software does not work great but there are a free internet.

I had better luck with this software:

http://www.mossgrabers.de/Software/ChangeIt/ChangeIt.html

UTILIZATION

RAS

SOUNDS

has not only serves to veil the face to all that is copper or sounds any instrument that is not played with a keyboard, can be used for a dpanner but nothing extra.

The shame of this product RSID especially the sounds of Rhodes and organ. Certainly it's an old thing but he always winds expensive for what it is.

Roland offers expansion cards quoting twice the price of jv1010 for one of these sounds drinking has not called a scam this practice?

OVERALL OPINION

2 months of use
product too expensive

At one era may be worth a go. Now all the keyboard sounds that are found on any piano numrique are certainly better than the jv1010.

After some can justify its use in the context of pop music, but this time the good sound card and good software would be a more economic and more I think INTERESTED

- Is this a model rack or "rack"?
rack 1 / 2
- How many sounds, effects? What styles?
5 presets + bank card session
- Are they edited? Via a utility Mac / PC?
Publisher supplied on CD
- Are there any extensions?
expansion cards too expensive
- What connection (Audio, MIDI ,...)?...
no separate outputs / channels

UTILIZATION

The direct use of the rack is limited to its simplest form: choose a midi channel, bank and sound. The rest is virtually impossible given the display 2 * 7 segment. But this is not what is asked;
Editing sounds with software is relatively simple. It should not be mistaken, the JV is not a simple "box's" but a real synth.
The manual is quite clear as we enter not into programming sounds.

SOUNDS

Sounds are now dated. Some are based on samples, however, still widely exploited in the mix. others are on the street (electric guitars).
Good points for the synth pad, still valid, so good marks for sound "techno" typed too late 90's and really bad. Some rhodes piano sounds are pretty long to turn the internal effects and processing in audio sequencer.
Overall, it is used in a mix, but not alone.
Among the drum kits is to troubleshoot or models, except perhaps the electro that can do well in a mix.
- The effects can be exploited to help out (delay, distos, eq) except the couple reverb and chorus that I find really appalling.
Overall, it is best to avoid them and save all "dry" to address behind.

Good expression and support of CC, there are Mixermaps and other control surfaces that control everything easily.

OVERALL OPINION

- How long have you use it?
I have this unit for almost 10 years (I started with the JV-1010, a 16-bit ISA card Guillemot (mouahaha..) Berhinger and mx-2004A (re-mouhaha.) I still have the JV and the behringer (it is unmarketable, lol).

- What is so special that you like most and least?
The (+):
- Some really troubleshoot the synths to quietly support a few games.
- The synthesis part is worth some attention around with an editor software.
- Simplicity in the selection of sounds (with banking and dials types of sounds)
The (-):
- An output level too low (a preamp catching a little time, but also brings the breath).
- 7 segment display that generates buzz light (which changes according to the display: I told you, it's a real synth)
- Breath (nostalgic MT-32, JV-1010 is for you)
in comparison, the sound quality of a Wavestation SR is much higher, although older.

- Have you tried many other models before buying it?
at that time my reference was a D-10 and GM synth sound card, so ....

- How would you rate the quality / price?
very good at the time. Now for 200 € of okaz must be better.

- With experience, you do again this choice?
in the context of the time, yes.

Half-rack model
4 banks of 128 sounds, plus an expansion card session of 256 sounds
A bank to use backup
Indeed standard noon edition via the editor provided (SoundDiver)
Connection Midi In / Out / Thru

UTILIZATION

French manual for proper use
For editing, it's warmer

SOUNDS

Many are now sounds dated or overtaken by current apps.
Strengths

The worst
Synthesizer: a few presets are good, most are bland and dated. We prefer virtual instruments, even free (P8, ...)
Brass: blah, just right
Guitar: a nylon and 1 or 2 power is correct as a working basis
Electric piano: dull (to be replaced by a vst)

The good
Low: few bass sounds (finger) are correct, or good
Drums: The drum sounds are very correct. OK, plug-ins are better dedicated (BDF ,...).
PAD: large library of highly accurate ground
Organ: good organs, alas too few.
Piano: piano sounds good. I prefer the sound of piano JV NI Kore2 or Pianoteq. Compared to Pianotek the JV sounds more analog, although not the pulse and the reflection of the game Pianotek.

OVERALL OPINION

I have 11 years and I always use.
All Maoist must have a sound module and I am always happy. I use it at least 50% of my time, either to play or to compose, because it is easy and immediate use, even without a computer (the keyboard live on the expander).
I also have a Boss DS-330 DrSynth, and JV1010 is much better.

11 years ago, I do it again the same choice today I am not aware of the news on this type of product
In time, the price / quality ratio seems to me still interesting for hardware

It will delight the guitarist begins to computer music, with tablecloths, organ, bass and drums.
It also satisfied the young pianist who tries to modern composition, with its large library of sound and ease of use.

The Roland JV-1010 is a smaller rack mount unit that was used a lot many years ago. This model is older and outdated, but some of the sounds still hold their weight. I have never been a fan of a lot of the products that Roland releases especially the keyboards and sound modules. But I must say this one is pretty good, it has midi connections as well as audio connections. This module isn’t the most complex module that I have used but the Roland JV - 1010 is still sort of difficult to get used to no matter what module or equipment you are coming from. You will need to pick up the manual and do some reading on the Roland JV -1010 before you will be able to navigate through the module itself.

UTILIZATION

The thing that didn’t sit right with me is the effects, there aren’t many effects to choose from when you want to add a little creativity to sounds.

SOUNDS

I had to use my DAW to add extra effects to the sounds which really isn’t that big of a deal, but when I purchase equipment I like it to be able to do everything that I need on that equipment not having to route it through another mixer just to add more effects. This can be a hassle and interrupt my workflow.


OVERALL OPINION

Overall the Roland JV- 1010 module is and was ok, but like I said Roland’s modules aren’t the best. This module is out dated and no longer produced so if you purchase it from a third party beware because you wont get much support from Roland at all on an item that is no longer sold and or produced. Definitely look into just fishing out more money and getting a more up to date module with high quality sounds that are ready to go, and with more effects for you to use.

Format 1 / 2 Rack
1000 + sounds
edition of sounds through a software "Emagic SoundDiver"
1-port expansion card
Audio out L / R + Midi in / out / thru + connection pc / mac

UTILIZATION

Easy to use, everything is done by a switch and a rotary knob.
but no direct access to a No sound, all must scroll which is quite tedious in the long run.
edition + complex, I am not yet considered the editing software.
complete and clear manual, quick start.

SOUNDS

Sons piano and strings ok, some good bass sounds + analog synth sounds. Cool. The rest is fairly realistic.

OVERALL OPINION

6 months of use.
ok for the basic sounds (piano, strings ... etc.). and synths.
bp. editing sounds unclear.

The Roland JV-1010 is a MIDI sound module that consists of a variety of different sounds. It's an older model, but still compares well to today's sounds and is a good bargain when you buy a used one of these. In terms of general characteristics, it isn't rack mountable as it's about the third the size of a single rack space. It has connections for MIDI input, output, and thru, as well as 1/4" stereo outputs and a computer port of some sort that I didn't need to use since I was using it via MIDI.

UTILIZATION

In general the Roland JV-1010 is a pretty easy little sound module to use. Once you've made the proper connections, operating it and getting the full scope of the sounds it has to offer isn't too hard. I've only used this on a handful of occasions, so there are definitely aspects of the sounds to it that I've yet to explore. Getting it's basic sounds and presets as it has scrollers for getting to the presets and for saving your own. Once you get the hang of it I think you'll find it to be pretty simple, but if you're thinking you might be lost it might be a good idea to have the manual to get started with.

SOUNDS

The sounds on the Roland JV-1010 are definitely realistic enough in my opinion. While they aren't earth shattering, they'll give you a nice handful of basic sounds and beyond here. I like synth and organ sounds the best, as they seem to come off as the most authentic to me. I've certainly heard better sound MIDI sound modules by today's standard, but also considering that this is a bit older, it's definitely got some cool sounds.

OVERALL OPINION

While not the best sounding MIDI module out there when compared to those of today, the Roland JV-1010 is a great little box that is easily transported and has a plethora of sounds. There are plenty of these hanging around out there to be bought, so even though this is older and is no longer being made, it should be easy enough to find one at a reasonable price from somebody. If you're interested in something like this, it's definitely an option worth exploring as a portable MIDI module.

This unit is designed to be a table top unit, but it is also rackable if you get a rack plate (its actually considered a 1/2 rack unit, meaning you can find another unit and place them side by side into one rack space, I had this along side a Korg x5dr). This unit has over 1000 patches ( 1,023 I believe is the actual number) of everything from keyboards, to world instruments, to drums, to horns, to synths to crazy sound effects. It also had over 40 effects including Reverb, chorus, and delay. This was made to be used across many styles of music. I used it mainly for the sweet sound effect/pad sounds for ambience and dance. Yes, you can edit the patches/effects and store them, which is really nice, especially for the delayed patches (you can dial them in to the tempo you desire). Yes, you can edit the device with a computer and a cd rom program that comes with the unit. I never actually hooked it up to a computer though, I bought it used and didn't get the cd rom (I bet its easy to find on the web though) and its pretty easy to edit on the device. There is a very sought after expansion pack for this unit too, it is called "session" and it adds over 150 patches. I never got the expansion, but I know if you have it installed and are trying to sell it, it goes for three times the cash compared to not having the expansion ($150 without, $450 with) so that has to mean something special. As for connections you get Midi in/out/thru, a computer cable jack (pc and mac) and stereo audio out. Also a headphone jack on the front panel.

UTILIZATION

General config is pretty simple. Plug in midi controller and start playing. Navigating through patches is very simple. All the knobs on the front or adequately labeled and make it really easy to find what you are looking for. Sound editing is not as easy, but with the simple guide printed on top of the unit (very nice), you should have no problem doing so. I have had bad experiences using Roland manuals in the past (i.e. Roland VS 1880, worst manual ever!!) but this one is not to bad. Its pretty thick, but it should answer all your problems. One thing thats awesome about Roland is its customer service dept. You can call up and talk to a real person who will get whatever unit you are using in front of him and guide you through any problems. I called them a lot with the Roland VS 1880 and they were great.

SOUNDS

I loved the very unique synth/pad section. Over 300 crazy awesome sounds that you can tweek to your liking. I also liked the ethnic instrument section too, not too bad in the way of realism. Overall though, the "real" instrument samples like pianos and organs were not really good. This Unit is over 10 years old though, so you can't expect to much realistic tone. Just like my review of the Korg X5DR, the unit lacked in warmth and tone, but not nearly as much as the Korg. Its pretty much the same with the effects, lets face it, if the sound before effects is weak, internal effects aren't going to give you to much either. I have some Moog effect pedals that would always spice up the sound of this thing though, and that always made for some sweet noise/tone. The expressiveness is good, I didn't notice much difference between this unit and my Korg TR Workstation which came out a decade after the JV 1010. As with most older sound modules, I have no use for the piano/keyboard patches. They are all too weak sounding for anything I am into. What I did like very much was the synth/pad section. I spent hours going through this section just writing down patch numbers so I could remember which ones I really liked...which was a long list.

OVERALL OPINION

I had this unit for about a year and a half, but I recently sold it on Ebay to help purchase a laptop. You just can't beat the sound quality and options on todays computer based sound programs. Other than the weak keyboard/piano patches, I really enjoyed this unit. It gave me all sorts of background sounds for my recordings and made for some interesting layers when I ran it with my Korg X5DR on the same midi channel. Like I said before, I had the Korg X5DR and a Korg TR Workstation. The TR was leaps and bound better in all ways (also a hell of a lot more money) but the Roland was much better than the X5DR which was around the same price. If you are on a budget and cannot afford a computer and computer programs, this thing is pretty sweet for the price ($100-$150 on Ebay). If I could go back in time a year and a half ago, I would probably pass on this purchase.