I'm David from Roland, and this is
the JD-08.
Now in celebration of the 30th
anniversary of our iconic JD-800,
we've now added the JD-08
to our Boutique series.
And as you can see, it has plenty of
onboard control of its four tone
layer patches, and it's also
bi-timbral, meaning you can have two
patches loaded at the same time.
On top of that, as usual with the
Boutique series, it also comes with
a very sweet onboard sequencer that
even has a trigger input.
And it also has a built-in audio and
media interface via USB-C.
So let's have a listen.
The JD-800 is known for having some
very crunchy sounding PCM wave
forms and a great multi-effect
section. And the JD-08
comes with all of the original
JD-800 patches and effects and
more, with a total storage capacity
of 256 patches,
so you can easily get sounds ranging
from the classic JD-800 piano
to big, ethereal pads, through
raw basses to
plucks and bells.
All the way to something very
important for the JD-800, which is
really nice guitar-style distorted
sounds.
Let's have one more of those.
OK, so now I'd like to talk about
something very special with the
JD-800, which is one
aspect of the real-time control.
So of course, you have all the
typical parameters available
directly here, but we also have
the palette controls. And the
palette controls are basically kind
of like assignable controllers for
each tone separately.
So these allow me to actually
control, for instance, the level of
each tone separately.
So if I just choose the level here,
I've actually made a little drum kit
with the four tones. So these are my
sounds
so we can play these at the same
time now.
That's the kick level.
That's the snare level.
That's the whatever that is.
And this is the hi-hat.
So now we can actually use this as a
little mixer for my drum
sequence that I've already
pre-programmed.
So a little mixer for my drums
there, but also, of course,
the JD-08 has two sequencers
and two channels. So I can actually
just go to my second channel here
and I have a
second sound and I can actually
sequence this on top individually.
I'll start with doing some simple
programming.
So we have a couple of simple notes
there, but I can also directly
jump into real-time record.
And now we have a little bit of a
nicer bassline.
So let's try to play around with
this in different ways as well.
For instance, we'll go back to the
palette control, but this time with
a cutoff filter and for the new
sound. I
actually like this one.
So I have a nicer, slightly nicer
sound, I think, and I'm going to
change the sequence as well.
So this is a really cool thing
with this sequencer because it can
actually play in different
directions like many of our
sequences.
So I can play it in reverse
or even in random mode.
So let's try it in reverse at first.
So a completely different groove,
just using the same
sequence, but in reverse.
Now
let's try it in random mode, which
is my favorite because it gives you
constant variation with one single
sequence.
We can even actually record
parameter changes as well into the
sequencer.
So that's a very cool and easy way
to get nice variations using a
simple sequence and some basic
parameter recording.
OK, and now I'd like to take the
sequence a little bit further.
So what I've done here is I have
a sound split into four different
sounds with different key ranges,
and I've made one sequence using
all the four sounds sequentially.
So let's listen to what that sounds
like.
So you can hear the sequence going
through the four separate sounds
sequentially. But I want to again
take this a little bit further and
experiment with a sequence.
So I'm going to, at first,
I'm going to change the direction
again, so I'm going to change it
into Random mode.
So now you will hear different bits
completely randomly and just get
constant variation.
OK, so this sounds a bit chaotic
right now, but I'm actually going to
remedy that by using
my TR-06 drum
machine, which is hooked up right
here. So, the TR-06 has
multiple trigger outputs.
And of course, you can use
essentially any drum machine that
has trigger outputs.
So I'm going to use the TR-06 in
this case, and
we're going to hook it up with a
trigger output. So
I'm using actually the accent output
as my trigger.
We hook it up to the external in
clock inputs of the JD-08.
And now when I played back, it's
going to sound essentially the same
right now, but with a bit of
a shuffle
now, there's an important difference
between MIDI synchronization and
triggering because MIDI
synchronization is just
synchronization.
However, triggering is actually
triggering each step of the
sequencer separately so
I can be in complete control of
the rhythm from my TR-06.
Like this. And
maybe we'll just play around, you
know, add some repeats,
play around with some effects,
some parameter changes.
And that is some of the fun you can
have with a JD-08, so check it
out.