The Roland JD-800

I've had my JD-800 since about 1997. It's a great-sounding synth which is also beautiful to look at.

1. Patches
   • Info is forthcoming
2. Using the JD-800 as a Slider Box

   • I haven't been able to resist trying to use the JD-800's large number of controls to run other stuff, mainly Native Instruments' Reaktor software. Since the JD-800 will only send System Exclusive messages in response to its slider movements, it is necessary to somehow turn these into regular MIDI Continuous Controller or Polyphonic Aftertouch messages to drive panel controls in Reaktor.

     1. Using Keykit
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          I was able to come up with a decent JD-800 control translator using the KeyKit MIDI programming language by Tim Thompson. Here is a ZIP file containing my code and instructions for using it: (9K ZIP)

You can download a JD-800 owner's manual here.

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Last Updated on 09-16-2006 at 13:45 pm
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