I'm David from Roland, and this is
the JX-08.
Now the classic JX-8P is
the lesser known big brother of our
famous JX-3P synth, and it
was released in 1985.
It was a little difficult to program
without the optional hardware
controller, but it still had an
iconic, warm, and smooth analog
sound. Now, in our new Boutique
format version, we've added plenty
of real-time control, as well as
several other added features like
bi-timbrality, giving it twice the
power of the original
JX-8P.
And apart from the original and
famous JX-8P chorus, we've
also added a reverb section and
plenty of other new effects.
And as usual, with the Boutique
series, it comes with a very sweet
onboard sequencer that also has a
trigger input and even an
audio and MIDI interface via USB-C.
OK, so let's talk about the sound.
So the JX-08 comes with multiple
original JX-8P presets and
has a 256 part storage
capacity, so there's plenty of room
for sound design.
And with its big, warm, and
smooth sound, it's very capable
of generating all kinds of
electronic sounds like big basses
and
smooth polykeys, pluck
sounds.
And, of course, really nice and warm
pad sounds.
And loads more.
But now I'd actually like to talk
about real-time control.
Now you have access to plenty
of sound design options directly
on the panel, of course.
And I just want to show a few of
these using my apreggiator
as a backup.
So here we have the cutoff
frequency,
resonance,
individual LFO depth for both
oscillators, chorus switch
Yeah.
And Reverb.
And loads more. But if you want
something a little bit more
advanced, you can of course use the
sequencer, so I'm going to do that
now. And I've actually kind
of made a fake drum kit
with a single sound on one of the
channels. So let's listen to that.
So here's my fake drum kit,
and I'm going to play around with
the envelope a little bit.
Maybe some filter?
Cool. But now I also want to add
some bass to this.
And that's actually possible because
I can add another sequence.
So I'm going to select my second
part.
I'm going to go into the sequencer
and just program a few notes
manually like this.
Maybe one more.
And we can't have a listen to them
together.
Maybe one octave up here.
And also we can start recording
some parameter changes too,
like that.
And now I want to change the order
of the sequence as well.
So we're going to keep the drums the
same and I'm actually going to,
for instance, reverse the bass
line. So we're just going
to playback direction and I'm going
to choose Reverse.
And now it's playing backwards.
And of course, my favorite as usual,
which is Random.
But now I'd like to actually take
this one step further because I have
connected my TR-06
to play along with us here.
And you can do this within any
drum machine essentially that has a
trigger output or anything else that
has a trigger output. So we're
going to hook this up.
So I'm going to use one of these
little cables.
Take it to the trigger output, one
of the trigger outputs of TR-06,
and hook into the JX-08.
So I'm going to program a bunch of
notes here.
Just a bunch of random notes that I
think kind of fit together
for
something like this and we'll play
it back.
OK, so now we have a bass line, some
drums.
And I want to explain the important
difference between MIDI
synchronization and triggering.
So, MIDI synchronization just means
they're synchronized.
But in this case, I'm triggering
the sequencer step by step
from the TR-06.
So what I'm going to do here is
remove some of the steps on the
TR-06 and see what happens
to the bassline.
Maybe we want to add a few steps as
well
or change up the rhythm,
and maybe we'll change the
playback direction again to Random,
play with some
parameters.
But
as mentioned, we also have two
sequencers in here, so I'm going
to go to my next track and add a
little melody and this one I'm
going to use slightly differently.
Maybe something like that, for
starters.
And now we can add a few more steps
again.
One more.
Break.
More steps.
So as you can hear, you can
just leave this running for a really
long time and have it jam
by itself.
And that is the JX-08.
Check it out.