Roland JV-80 Multi Timbral Synthesizer (#2)

This is the 2nd JV-80 that I bought. Just as the first one this one has a lot of problems with the keys. Red glue everywhere and a handfull of black keys cannot even be pressed. Apart from that it seems to work fine. A few buttons don’t work so I’ll fix that along the way. Lets dig in…

Roland JV-80 Multi Timbral Synthesizer (#1)

I bought a Roland JV-80 synthesizer that was advertized as not working correctly.

It’s a 1992 synthesizer that lay the foundations for the JV-1080, JV-2080 and the XP-series synths.  It’s got 61 semi-weighted keys and 28 note polyphony.