Talking about fx slots.
Can you use all 17 at the same time ?
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No, just one MFX or the Chorus, plus Reverb. I was a little disappointed you canāt have a chorus + delay + reverb
Right, so like I said. 2 FX 
Iām not too disappointed. I rarely use both delay and reverb at the same time. And when I do, I opt for something a bit more dense than zen coreās offerings, like Valhalla with some M4L LFOs.
But 3 FX slots woulda been killer.
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Welp, that didnāt take longā¦ so much for NGNY! Ordered a JX-08 from Sweetwater yesterday but my rep called and said theyāre looking at mid to late February for estimated delivery at this point. Gonna be a long six weeksā¦
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JD in the house! First impressions are itās visually stunning, sounds great and all faders have a nice resistance to them. Gonna jam out tonight till the batteries go dead 
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Nice! Canāt wait to get it! The jx08 is awesome and this looks great too!
Just got my JD-08 - does sound really good. Never owned a JD-800, but in reply to an earlier comment, Iām finding the programming of new sounds really easy with the sliders, buttons etc. Itās really great at evolving, atmospheric pads a la BOC, but it has a really pleasing tone reminiscent of PPGs and 80s Fairlight sounds (think Art of Noise). Loving the size of it and being able to take away and play using the batteries. The lack of sysex etc is a shame, as Iād like to be able to share patches, but itās not a deal breaker for me as I like making my own original sounds. Works great with the Arturia Keystep 37 for aftertouch and the chord feature.
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I was reading the manual and the decision to use the ābackup/restoreā method and no support for external banks/Zenology JD800 banks is a strange decision to make. Itās a deal breaker for me I think. Perhaps they will address it with import/export down the line 
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Damn, thatās a shame. I imagine Iāll do most sound design on the unit itself, on the couch or other place away from my studio, but it would have been nice to have the Roland Cloud version to port patches across for use in DAW. Ah well, Iāll probably mostly use the presets anyway 
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Well Iām going to try and remain optimistic and think that they just havenāt developed that far yet, they have dropped big updates for the tr-6s and an editor, and after watching those interviews on how Zencore was about unifying hardware and software, it could be something they are working towards hopefully.
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Bigger updates for the MC-101. Just bug fixes for the TR-6S.
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Ah ok, thatās what it does. Thanks for posting that. All the demo videos have been awful so far.
Nice to see an example of someone using it as a synth, and not doing the banal comparison lets relive the old days nonsense.
Cheers.
Iām interested now. Haha.
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Ahh yeah they came out after the FM update to the 8S. They got an editor though, so thatās the same ballpark really, the editor already exists in Zenology they just need to be interfaced.
Yes, the editor is nice, and itās too bad there isnāt one for the MC-101 (besides Zenology, I guess, which isnāt free).
I dipped in to sample (in the old-fashioned sense) bits of the video a couple of posts up, but it seemed 90% reverb. I donāt know how you can conclude much from that.
The fact it can load Zenology banks is amazing though, itās definitely the best of both worlds Iād like to see for the JD-08/Zenology JD Model.
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Yes. The distinct lack of electric guitar ārockā solo was definitely a selling point.
Canāt quite understand the appeal of that in 2022. Itās like if people were wetting their pants over a new synth having Camptown Races or Iām Your Venus demo songs included.
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Was thinking the same thing - finally a vid without that god-forsaken electric guitar preset
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@Flood If you are interested in the JX-08, ZZounds has them in stock. Just ordered mine and itās been shipped.
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