Roland Super JD (JD990)

Condition

Used. Case scratched from rack mounting. LCD has a small amount of bleed. Please see photos. Works perfectly. Sounds brilliant!

Features

This Unit Has Vintage Synth Expansion Waveform ROM Internal Expansion Daughter Board!!! Expanding the PCM memory to 14Mb!

·       The JD-990 is an enhanced module version of the JD-800 and was the top o' the line JD-synth. Its rack-mount design and impressive power and functionality within the studio paved way for the hugely successful JV-series rack modules which lead, ultimately, to the XV-series monster-modules! The JD-990 is a digital synth with 6MB of ROM sounds with "analog-like" edit parameters and features. These include lowpass filtering, ring modulation, osc. sync, frequency cross-mod, etc. The JD-990 is also compatible with JV80 and JD800 expansion boards.

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The JD-990 has a large LCD display which makes editing very easy and intuitive, you can actually see the envelopes and LFO rates. There's an on-board multi-effects processor with Delay, Reverb, Phaser, Distortion, Chorus, and EQ. For the studio, the JD-990 has MIDI IN/OUT/THRU and eight outputs in four stereo pairs. The JD-990 can hold one internal expansion board and the best choice is to put the Vintage expansion in it because that gives you about 512 patches (Only 255 from JV-series!) of which 256 are specially programmed for the JD-990. It is used by Vangelis, The Prodigy, Apollo 440, ATB, and Mirwais

The JD-990, also known as Super-JD, had the following features which were not available on the JD-800:

·       Expanded wave ROM (6 MB vs. 4 MB)

·       Ability to use a 8 MB expansion board

·       4 additional outputs

·       True stereo engine

·       Oscillator sync

·       Cross-modulation (FXM)

·       Oscillator structures that allow ring modulation and serial dual filters

·       Additional LFO waveforms

·       MIDI CC control of parameters

·       Tempo sync delay

·       Polyphonic portamento

·       Performance memories

·       Additional multitimbral slots

·       One patch can keep full effects in multi mode

Includes

Unit, Power Cord, Manual on PDF is available.

Caveats

Some scratches and LCD bleed. Does not impact functionality at all.

Manufacturers URL

http://www.roland.com/

Info URLs

http://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/jd990.php

http://www.synthmania.com/jd-990.htm

http://www.kidnepro.com/KN/Roland/JV1080/JVXPMain.html

Weight

5.4 kg + packaging. Contact for shipping dimensions.

Warranty

1 months repair or refund minus postage in the event of failure. Return postage at cost of buyer.

Our Reference

EB200919