Roland JD-800

The Roland JD-800 is a discontinued digital synthesizer. The synthesizer featured many knobs and sliders for patch editing and performance control - features which some manufacturers, including Roland, had been omitting in the name of 'streamlining' since the inception of Yamaha's DX-7. The JD-800 became very popular with musicians who wished to take a 'hands on' approach to patch programming. In the introduction to the manual, it is stated that with this synthesizer, Roland intended to 'return to the roots of synthesis':

Roland JD-800

The Roland JD-800 is a discontinued digital synthesizer. The synthesizer featured many knobs and sliders for patch editing and performance control - features which some manufacturers, including Roland, had been omitting in the name of 'streamlining' since the inception of Yamaha's DX-7. The JD-800 became very popular with musicians who wished to take a 'hands on' approach to patch programming. In the introduction to the manual, it is stated that with this synthesizer, Roland intended to 'return to the roots of synthesis':