I bought mine this year, new and cheap in a physical store! But I haven't moved into the new house yet, so I haven't had a chance to dive into the features. But I've already had good experiences with the analog part. The only other synth I was interested in replacing it with was the Korg Prologue 16, but my criteria also included a sequencer like this one from JDXA, aftertouch and more waveforms options. As my first synth on which I learned a lot was a Minilogue, 4 analog voices don't bother me so much. Even more so since I can include one or two digital voices to amplify them if I need to on the Roland. At worst, it will help me avoid Alzheimer's because of the need to exercise my brain. At best, this exercise will help me get the best out of it. That's the point for me. I have an RC 505 MK2 loopstation that I want to clock to receive it, along with my guitar setup with pedals, and send it all to an analog mixer, along with my Casio XW-G1. Yes, this last is a groovebox sampler that can divide its 5 octaves into layers, samples, etc. It's also bureaucratic like the Roland, and I thought about selling it. But I liked so much what it could do, things that to offer me the same thing would have cost me almost 10x its price to pay for 3 other gears, that I decided to do as I do with people: Appreciate them as they are, learn from our mutual limitations, and grow together with what each one has to offer, but which not everyone is interested in knowing and recognizing the value of. I vote for more videos. Thanks a lot!
Thank you .I think that instead of a knob with the effects selector it should have buttons to select effects .I believe that Duan Duran used two of these at the Queens jubilee concert .Maybe because they had presets set for each instrument .
Honestly I had one. It was a love and hate relation. But one thing I certainly regret that Roland doesn't do, why not make an 18 voice or 16 voice double layer synth completely analog as the JDXA? But I'm glad I have the fantom (ex) now, and some Waldorf machines. I found the JDXA overly complex. But intriguing. And Roland....please consider a full analog flagship synth...
I don't have a specific sentiment to full analog synths but I do agree that seems like the logical progression from the System-8 and something that a lot of people want. And they do have the building blocks with the JD-XA. But they seem pretty hell bound on their "Zen-core" hybride approach. Although admittedly the Jupiter-X looks like a much more useable synth than the JD-XA. The biggest downfall I think for the JD-XA is what you mentioned the complexity. But especially hiding the complexity behind a simple more "traditional" front panel. This makes the control very awkward and unintuitive. And ultimately limits the potential power. But it's definitely an intriguing idea. I somewhat hope they ever make a follow up, but I highly doubt it will happen.
@@SyntheticFuture the problem I found with the JDXA was indeed complexity, really needs a touchscreen then like my Fantom and Quantum. Then the digital engines are sort of sample based like Zen. But the analog part had such a distinctive sound, it had beautiful features which would make a flagship analog. I owned the system 8 to, now i use it as vast. I think one of the best VA synths around, could easily match up sound wise to my Prophet 8. And when i now have the fantom with ex why is there JDXA? But the analog part was great. Roland is now completely stuck in Zen country. Either ACB or Zen, it's kind of sad, despite of a lot of Roland bashing they can sure make good synths. We have a saying in Dutch "it's neither flesh or fish" and that's a little bit JDXA. But the menu diving killed the fun for me.
I do like the analog side of the synth the most as it feels like that's what the engineers wanted to make. The digital side feels a bit awkward and tagged on by comparison 😅 It's probably the last "true" analog poly by Roland isn't it?
@Dingdongbillybong I highly doubt it will become all that collectable. At least not soon. Stores still have them but seem to struggle to sell them. They sell poorly on the second hand market. They made a lot of these things. Will probably take well over 40 years for these to become any form of rare 😅
Got a love-hate relationship with mine. That's because of roland's bad design. I'm just curious how many roland actually made, and if they did a second production run, or if this is just the first production run, they're still trying to sell off, it probably has to be one of the worst synthesizers ever made for the price
@@Dingdongbillybong it's definitely a synth they regret having made it. One software update and that's it. Wouldn't surprise me if this is all from the first run. I'm also surprised the price is still what it is.
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Its a great synth.
I bought mine this year, new and cheap in a physical store! But I haven't moved into the new house yet, so I haven't had a chance to dive into the features. But I've already had good experiences with the analog part. The only other synth I was interested in replacing it with was the Korg Prologue 16, but my criteria also included a sequencer like this one from JDXA, aftertouch and more waveforms options. As my first synth on which I learned a lot was a Minilogue, 4 analog voices don't bother me so much. Even more so since I can include one or two digital voices to amplify them if I need to on the Roland. At worst, it will help me avoid Alzheimer's because of the need to exercise my brain. At best, this exercise will help me get the best out of it. That's the point for me. I have an RC 505 MK2 loopstation that I want to clock to receive it, along with my guitar setup with pedals, and send it all to an analog mixer, along with my Casio XW-G1. Yes, this last is a groovebox sampler that can divide its 5 octaves into layers, samples, etc. It's also bureaucratic like the Roland, and I thought about selling it. But I liked so much what it could do, things that to offer me the same thing would have cost me almost 10x its price to pay for 3 other gears, that I decided to do as I do with people: Appreciate them as they are, learn from our mutual limitations, and grow together with what each one has to offer, but which not everyone is interested in knowing and recognizing the value of. I vote for more videos. Thanks a lot!
Thank you .I think that instead of a knob with the effects selector it should have buttons to select effects .I believe that Duan Duran used two of these at the Queens jubilee concert .Maybe because they had presets set for each instrument .
Honestly I had one. It was a love and hate relation. But one thing I certainly regret that Roland doesn't do, why not make an 18 voice or 16 voice double layer synth completely analog as the JDXA? But I'm glad I have the fantom (ex) now, and some Waldorf machines. I found the JDXA overly complex. But intriguing. And Roland....please consider a full analog flagship synth...
I don't have a specific sentiment to full analog synths but I do agree that seems like the logical progression from the System-8 and something that a lot of people want. And they do have the building blocks with the JD-XA.
But they seem pretty hell bound on their "Zen-core" hybride approach. Although admittedly the Jupiter-X looks like a much more useable synth than the JD-XA.
The biggest downfall I think for the JD-XA is what you mentioned the complexity. But especially hiding the complexity behind a simple more "traditional" front panel. This makes the control very awkward and unintuitive. And ultimately limits the potential power. But it's definitely an intriguing idea. I somewhat hope they ever make a follow up, but I highly doubt it will happen.
@@SyntheticFuture the problem I found with the JDXA was indeed complexity, really needs a touchscreen then like my Fantom and Quantum. Then the digital engines are sort of sample based like Zen. But the analog part had such a distinctive sound, it had beautiful features which would make a flagship analog. I owned the system 8 to, now i use it as vast. I think one of the best VA synths around, could easily match up sound wise to my Prophet 8. And when i now have the fantom with ex why is there JDXA? But the analog part was great. Roland is now completely stuck in Zen country. Either ACB or Zen, it's kind of sad, despite of a lot of Roland bashing they can sure make good synths. We have a saying in Dutch "it's neither flesh or fish" and that's a little bit JDXA. But the menu diving killed the fun for me.
Where's the full vid? 😊
I WANT ONE SO BAD❤
I think you should sell it since its mostly digital ;)
@@dodgingrain3695 it's modern(ish) digital though 😉
Largely analog with a Jupiter style architecture - dating 40+ years ago; today: beefy, crisp and uniquely sounding - love mine!!!.
I do like the analog side of the synth the most as it feels like that's what the engineers wanted to make. The digital side feels a bit awkward and tagged on by comparison 😅 It's probably the last "true" analog poly by Roland isn't it?
Im holding on to mine hoping it becomes a collectors item . It is the last analogue made by them
@Dingdongbillybong I highly doubt it will become all that collectable. At least not soon. Stores still have them but seem to struggle to sell them. They sell poorly on the second hand market. They made a lot of these things. Will probably take well over 40 years for these to become any form of rare 😅
Got a love-hate relationship with mine. That's because of roland's bad design. I'm just curious how many roland actually made, and if they did a second production run, or if this is just the first production run, they're still trying to sell off, it probably has to be one of the worst synthesizers ever made for the price
@@Dingdongbillybong it's definitely a synth they regret having made it. One software update and that's it. Wouldn't surprise me if this is all from the first run. I'm also surprised the price is still what it is.