Mellotronists

on 12/21/03 1:19 AM, Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com at
Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> 
>>> A question - is
>>> the Roland unit available in rack-mount or is it strictly a keyboard
>>> or expansion card unit?
>> 
>> The M-VS1 is a 1U rack mount, fairly small.  Basically it's a power supply
>> and output stage around the contents of the "Keyboards of the 60's/70's"
> (I
>> think!) JV-series card.
> 
> It's actually the 'vintage synth' card. 'Keyboards of the 60s/70s' features
> a load of other sounds, including more 'Trons.

Just to fill in the complete details.  All of these Roland expansion board
sounds, and the module sounds, are a subset of waveforms which can be found
on CD-ROM, the L-CDX-02 Keyboard Instruments CD.  (Also includes Rhodes,
Wurly,  Clav, B3, ARP strings, etc., in addition to Tron. The Roland CD will
work with the XV-5080 or a S-700 series Roland sampler.)

But to get back to hardware, since that was the original poster's focus, the
tron sounds from the Vintage Synth and 60/70s JV expansion boards are also
available on a single SRX expansion board, the "SRX-07 Ultimate Keys" board.

 The SRX series exp. boards are 64MB and work with the XV line of synths.
They contain the equivalent of FOUR JV expansion boards in one.  So you
could get an XV synth and the SRX-07 and get all the tron sounds and more!

Here's a quote:
<< This 64MB card contains all the waveforms from Roland's popular
SR-JV80-04 "Vintage Synth," SR-JV80-08 "Keyboards of the 60's & 70's" and
SR-JV80-10 "Bass & Drums," plus selected waves from SR-JV80-09 "Session" and
SR-JV80-03 "Piano.">>

Best,
Babz