FYI on the JV-880 Emulator Plugin is absolutely amazing
It runs with the actual JV-880 System ROM and the ROM files for all the expansion cards and is literally generating a real JV-880 rack unit in your computer
It is available for Mac OS and Windows: I got it to work on both Intel Macs and Mac mini M2 Pro Silicon:Windows:This thing is amazing and has ALL the card ROMS also, like the vintage syth
I have recorded about 100+ patches (20 second clips) and A/B the results to the original hardware. I must say, this is amazing ! Hello from southern CA USA. I own the hardware version of the JV-880, hardware XV-5050, Korg TR-Rack, Roland cloud 5080, and many more. I have always preferred external gear to plugins. Since my teens, I was raised on real Korg and Roland synths, and for some reason, many high-quality plugins still sound "thin" or "toy-like" to my ears. This plugin is revolutionary, the only thing to note is that my ears are very sensitive to white noise, and when comparing the hardware to the JV emulation, I noticed that there is "white noise" on the emulator that gets generated along with the sound, For instance, take a patch like "MIDIed Grand" a favorite of mine, and you can clearly hear the white noise just follow the note, as you hit the controller harder, both the note and the noise are amplified. After running the output of both the hardware and software thru many eqs and frequency analyzers there are some differences and I am guessing Roland put a "white noise" reduction circuit before the output on the hardware. I ran an instance of Waves "X-Noise" as an insert and BAM, virtually identical to the hardware tones can be achieved. FYI the waves settings are: Thres:0, reduction:70, Attack:30, release:220, Freq: 1415, gain:0
