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Thanks! There is a bit of wear around the bender unit, and a few scuff marks on the rear and underside. Although it no longer leaves the studio, it gigged with me between 1991 and 2012 and got transported without a bag or flight case. I was obviously extremely careful with it, but yes, it's a miracle it never got any serious damage or wear.

Thank you, I'll take that as a compliment! :-)

@TonyDrake1960 Please do, because to my ears there are many (older) synths that are way more easy to make them sound great. Very thin sounding. I recently dropped my 800 with a friend (Rimela, here on YT) to see what he makes of it.

Haha! I'm South African, so we did not invent the atom bomb. We did do the first heart transplant though, so that should count for something. We are not good at making synths though, so I am happy to settle for the Japanese ones.... :-) ....P.S. We don't have a dog, and my wife is a bass player, so she's worse than me.

I owned an Alesis QS6.1 for a couple of years. It was a great keyboard, I thought, but very different to the JD. More of a 'rompler' in a way, and one had to do some menu diving to edit. I just used the presets really. I used it live a lot, and enjoyed some of the EP sounds (e.g. 'Ray's Rhodes') and a few others.

jd-800 vst is availible on tinternet. free if torrented

I own both and I never saw it this way. The JV-80 IMHO is very good for "acoustic" sounds while still also bearing some signature Persing designs such as Fantasia (which is called JV Fantasia).

There are one or two factory presets, but not all. Some are edited presets, and one or two are downloaded from the net as sysx files.

JD-08 looks like a lot of fun, and you have the essence of the JD800 with more polyphony and some other cool new features. I'm sure you'll master it, and I hope it brings you much joy and it helps you make great music!

34, not 54 :-)

Yes, they were costly in the '80s...

Haha! Thanks man! :-)

If I criticize it while I own one, does that cancel out the "hater" label?

Thank you! Greetings to you to!

I'll need to check that out! I was just jamming and trying to channel my best 'J.S. Bach' hehe. I'll google 'columns on the mega drive' now. :-)

Yup, but I was one of the lucky ones, who contacted the local Roland agent within a grace period (17 years after purchase, astonishingly), and received a brand new replacement keybed from Roland, free of charge!

Thank you for your kind words!

It's the built-in reverb and FX only. I recorded the synth directly into my DAW with no EQ or FX added. For its time the onboard FX were outstanding, especially having an onboard overdrive etc. Pretty standard on many synths these days, but in 1991, you got a basic reverb/delay, and maybe a chorus if you were lucky. The FX unit also featured an 'exciter'/enhancer' which gave the synth a lot of extra 'air' and sparkle as well.

@TonyDrake1960 Well it sounds great and thanks!

It can be a bit painful to programme given the use of the 4 layers/splits, etc, but it's a pretty standard setup. I did play a soft pad behind two of the 'solo' patches I was playing, yes. I was not layering per se, just giving the lead sounds some harmonic context. Well spotted though!

My JD800 did have the red glue problem, yes, but I was one of the lucky ones. I caught it early, when I noticed one or two notes feeling sticky around 2007. Maybe our climate here in SA helped, but thankfully the glue did not get down far enough to damage any circuitry. I contacted our local Roland agent for advice and to book it in for repairs, and they asked for my serial number, and then confirmed that Roland had manufactured replacement keybeds for the corresponding serial numbers affected, and Roland immediately shipped a replacement keybed to me in exchange for my affected one. No charge, No shipping cost either. I guess this was a very fortunate combination of Roland's support, as well as an 'on the ball' local agent who was able to recognise my problem and facilitate the replacement at no cost to myself. Astonishingly, this was circa 2008, some 17 years after purchase. Extraordinary warranty and after sales service, despite the fact that they initially messed up with a bad glue. Sadly (and understandably) this offer no longer exists, for whatever reason.

You make an important point, and one that always needs to be considered when discussing (sometimes debating) the virtues of different types of synthesizers. There will always be differences of opinion regarding the qualities of analogue vs digital, different types of filters and sound generation methods, FM, wavetable, sampling, additive, subtractive, etc. I see a lot of guys sweeping filters and pushing synths to various limits, not unlike car enthusiasts revving their engines in the backyard, tuning, tweaking, pushing, going louder, dirtier, wider, deeper, etc. Then there are others who use their instruments in their daily workflow, from classical musicians to hardcore dubstep and electro-punk artists. Lo-fi, pop, EDM, rock, Hip-Hop, R&B, ambient, house, etc etc. Different strokes for different folks, and it's never a competition. I posted about the JD800 because of my relationship with it, how it fits into my particular workflow, and how much I love it, not because I want to claim that is the best synth around. There is no best synth. There's room for everyone. Thanks for your understanding!

@@TonyDrake1960 Agree fully. I don't understand competitions about who is the best or what is the best. Music is art, there can be no competition with art. You either have an audience or you don't. Even if you don't have a single person who likes your music, if your music makes you better person then so be it. Naturally I hope for an audience just to let me know I am contributing to the joy of the world in the music arts. Not for ego, but for companionship in the sharing and that I have some value. I am only human :)

@@TonyDrake1960 @TonyDrake1960 Agree fully. I don't understand competitions about who is the best or what is the best. Music is art, there can be no competition with art. You either have an audience or you don't. Even if you don't have a single person who likes your music, if your music makes you better person then so be it. Naturally I hope for an audience just to let me know I am contributing to the joy of the world in the music arts. Not for ego, but for companionship in the sharing and that I have some value. I am only human who wants to know I am not alone :)

Digital synths with all physical control are extremely rare. Yes, you can do more with a Fantom, but sound design takes 5 to 10 times longer and is painful compared to physical control synths.

Get the Boutique edition.

Haha! Baie dankie! :-)

I've owned one since 1991. I own 7 of them now! :-) This is an excellent demo, but it's only scratching the surface. The main thing is - all of that control x 4 - so it's so easy to develop layered sound - either the same sound layered 4 times for richness, or 4 fundamentally different sounds, and indeed a single complex sound with 4 components over velocity cross-fading. And it can be anything - a Log lowered 3 octaves for gargantuan / Epic like percussion combined with rich synth / pad textures; a low harp wit a tiny amount of Gamelan with low attack, two octaves down on medium velocities, ...... And as for combining two JD800s - it' can compete with Spectrasonics Omnisphere - at a canter!

Yup, but I guess we all have our favourites! I have a JV-1080, and won't let that go either. Never had a D-50 but wish I had. Regret letting my Juno 60 go many years ago. Had a JX-10, which was nice, but let that one go to get the JD800, which I don't really regret.

@@TonyDrake1960 Lovely! 😍