" This Roland XV88 Is My Favorate All Time Keyboard ! I Have Purchased 5 of Them In The Last 15 Years and Still Own 2 along With My Roland RD 2000 ,Yamaha Motif XF8 & MX88 ! My 3 Roland XP80 & 2 XP50 Boards and FantomS 7....
I love my XV88, bought it in 2000 and it needs servicing. Some hammers need to be fixed, which I do. It isn’t hard. I would like to replace the keyboard with a Fatar keyboard, but that might be too costly. Thank you for your video.
Beautiful instrument. I had mine serviced, too. Had to glue back in a lot of the key weights. For some reason, the plastic weight holders became brittle. Now, I just need to figure out what to do with the whine of the LCD screen. Other than that, the instrument is as close to perfect as they can get.
Yes, these Roland key weights do eventually snap off due to the plastic going brittle. I've seen that with the RD series too. A lot of plastics do that - it's due to the gradual evaporation of the esters, which are a class of chemicals used to make plastics more flexible. Glad you like your XV-88! Mine's still here, though I've had it listed for sale for a while. I don't need it - I have a Korg M3-73 as my main synth. :)
@@danbennett4192 I have two XV-88's. One from new since 2001, which had developed LCD screen whine. The other I got recently from Ebay, which sounds absolutely perfect; however, as I said before, a lot of key weights had fallen off, and I had to glue them back in. Consequently I end up paying the A-80, which hasn't had any issues yet. I like the new Fantom 8, but I haven't bought it yet, for the obvious reason, the price. :) Korg Nautilus 88-key version is also very nice.
These sounds hold up pretty well. V-piano is still their best offering but still pretty inaccessible price wise. Ive been using Supernatural Integra7 piano for years, still happy with those even though v-piano is still better. Roland just announced a new "Earth piano" so it will be interesting to hear that. Maybe a more affordable v-piano?
@danbennett4192 it's unfortunate that you don't demonstrate those sounds because most cover bands, including artists that write, arrange, and produce music use, strings, horn sections, and organ in their sessions. The piano is a given. I have an acoustic piano for recording sessions. Besides, most keyboards have a decent piano. In my band we play a lot of old school R&B, classic rock, disco...etc...so the main sounds we use are string, horns, organ and piano. Since you're demonstrating a keyboard, you shouldn't be prejudice against sounds you don't use. That's like if a band went out to play and got a request for a song, and the leader says, "we don't play that cause I don't like it." "Well sir, do you have anything in that genre of music?" No, cause I don't like that style of music." You're demonstrating that keyboard to the world when you post on RUclips. And your video may be the only one posted demonstrating that keyboard.
for the strings and orchestral sound you can have expansion boards like srx6 and srx4 that you might appreciate. in general orchestral sounds are ok. I really liked the soprano sax on mine
With an Ultimate cloud membership I certainly have access to all these sounds, however it did not come with a talented pair of hands as we see here.😁🎶🎹🎶Play On
Not quite. The XP-30 is based on the JV synth engine, whereas the XV-88 is basically a keyboarded version of the later XV-3080. So I guess it's one generation newer than the XP series keyboards. But having said that... you're not far wrong with that assessment. :) This web page goes into a lot of detail: www.donsolaris.com/?p=404
Oh, and one more thing: The XV-88 has aftertouch, which I don't think the XP-30 has. And the XV-88 has the D-Beam too, which is also not present on the XP-30.
" This Roland XV88 Is My Favorate All Time Keyboard ! I Have Purchased 5 of Them In The Last 15 Years and Still Own 2 along With My Roland RD 2000 ,Yamaha Motif XF8 & MX88 ! My 3 Roland XP80 & 2 XP50 Boards and FantomS 7....
🔥 cool
SRX-02 is a great add on for XV-88. Cheers
How many of your own sounds can you register in to it's memory, ??!!.
Please how many layers can you layer this keyboard
16 patches multi-timbral. Each patch can have up to 4 tones,....
I love my XV88, bought it in 2000 and it needs servicing. Some hammers need to be fixed, which I do. It isn’t hard. I would like to replace the keyboard with a Fatar keyboard, but that might be too costly. Thank you for your video.
No conocía este modelo de Roland,alguien sabe de que año es? Que belleza de sonidos ❤ felicitaciones al gran pianista 👍
Beautiful instrument. I had mine serviced, too. Had to glue back in a lot of the key weights. For some reason, the plastic weight holders became brittle. Now, I just need to figure out what to do with the whine of the LCD screen. Other than that, the instrument is as close to perfect as they can get.
Yes, these Roland key weights do eventually snap off due to the plastic going brittle. I've seen that with the RD series too. A lot of plastics do that - it's due to the gradual evaporation of the esters, which are a class of chemicals used to make plastics more flexible. Glad you like your XV-88! Mine's still here, though I've had it listed for sale for a while. I don't need it - I have a Korg M3-73 as my main synth. :)
@@danbennett4192 I have two XV-88's. One from new since 2001, which had developed LCD screen whine. The other I got recently from Ebay, which sounds absolutely perfect; however, as I said before, a lot of key weights had fallen off, and I had to glue them back in. Consequently I end up paying the A-80, which hasn't had any issues yet. I like the new Fantom 8, but I haven't bought it yet, for the obvious reason, the price. :) Korg Nautilus 88-key version is also very nice.
These sounds hold up pretty well. V-piano is still their best offering but still pretty inaccessible price wise. Ive been using Supernatural Integra7 piano for years, still happy with those even though v-piano is still better.
Roland just announced a new "Earth piano" so it will be interesting to hear that. Maybe a more affordable v-piano?
Does it not have brass, trombone, trumpet, sax, tenor and alto sax?
Yes, it does. However, I usually don't use those sounds (on *any* synth!) so I didn't bother playing them in this demo.
@danbennett4192 it's unfortunate that you don't demonstrate those sounds because most cover bands, including artists that write, arrange, and produce music use, strings, horn sections, and organ in their sessions. The piano is a given. I have an acoustic piano for recording sessions. Besides, most keyboards have a decent piano. In my band we play a lot of old school R&B, classic rock, disco...etc...so the main sounds we use are string, horns, organ and piano. Since you're demonstrating a keyboard, you shouldn't be prejudice against sounds you don't use. That's like if a band went out to play and got a request for a song, and the leader says, "we don't play that cause I don't like it." "Well sir, do you have anything in that genre of music?" No, cause I don't like that style of music." You're demonstrating that keyboard to the world when you post on RUclips. And your video may be the only one posted demonstrating that keyboard.
for the strings and orchestral sound you can have expansion boards like srx6 and srx4 that you might appreciate. in general orchestral sounds are ok. I really liked the soprano sax on mine
Fun demo. Great sounds.
Thanks!
So, half of the times the FX do nothing.. I'll just stick to my Fantom, even though, I suspect, this has a better keybed..
Love saund
tengo ese mismo teclado, es buenisimo
Tenho um teclado desse, e ainda estou aprendendo a mexer
With an Ultimate cloud membership I certainly have access to all these sounds, however it did not come with a talented pair of hands as we see here.😁🎶🎹🎶Play On
May Yahweh bless you i love this keyboard
ITS JUST A WEIGHTED XP30 RIGHT ?
Not quite. The XP-30 is based on the JV synth engine, whereas the XV-88 is basically a keyboarded version of the later XV-3080. So I guess it's one generation newer than the XP series keyboards. But having said that... you're not far wrong with that assessment. :) This web page goes into a lot of detail: www.donsolaris.com/?p=404
Oh, and one more thing: The XV-88 has aftertouch, which I don't think the XP-30 has. And the XV-88 has the D-Beam too, which is also not present on the XP-30.
@@danbennett4192the xp30 has an aftertouch but it's so insensitive that it's useless.
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