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I picked up a Roland JD-XA for a price I couldn’t pass on last week, so home it came.
It’s a bit bigger physically than I wanted, and I wasn’t totally into the colour scheme with all the red, but thought it would cover a lot of ground.

I didn’t realise until this weekend that it has had the matte overlays fitted already, instead of the glossy reflective surface that everyone was up in arms about.

The first few times I messed about with it I was thinking I was probably going to sell it on quite quick… all the presets seemed very OTT, and not really my thing. I got some Axial downloads, same thing, I just wasn’t feeling it.

Then I took a different approach to the same presets and started messing just with the parts, and it suddenly came to light to me how good the JD-XA actually is, and how usable.

I know look at it like an Analog Four and 4 separate VA poly synths in one unit, it’s pretty incredible.
It works/blends/mixes really well with my A4 and Peak to.

A desktop/module version of this synth would have been amazing.

Curious how many other people are digging the JD-XA?

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