Roland JX-3P | 32 New Patches Download

[@nicedevices]

Nice gritty pads and leads. I always wondered if i needed a JX3P, being a J60 owner. The answer is, in clear 80s Intercom Voice; Affirmative.

[@FFrrEEddRRiiKK1]

Nostalgic soundscapes again. Love it.

[@danielruppar9315]

I love the JX-3P. Thanks for doing this

[@EspenKraft]

Thanks! :)

[@hoomanganjavi4314]

Thanks for helping me rediscover my JX-3P! You're an inspiration!

[@EspenKraft]

Many thanks for saying, awesome! :)

[@tracyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy]

I could cry

[@SergeGolikov]

Brilliant sounds, I owned this machine in the late 80's, till go it!

[@EspenKraft]

Cheers! :)

[@sP33DyEdOld]

Great work Espen I Will support your work 😉👊🏼

[@EspenKraft]

Man thanks! :)

[@anthonybrett]

Espen...you do realise that I bought one of these this week because of your damn videos! Ive been using the System 8 for a year but it just didn't "look" as cool. My wife now hates you...(Well she will when she sees the credit card statement) I however love you... lol Cheers

[@EspenKraft]

Ah, the wives.... they only care for new curtains, or coffee tables.. ;-) Every 80s synth lover must have a 3P of course, tell her that, from me. :P

[@АлексйУваровъ]

Brett Anthony had same issues and finally got rid of my last wife. Nicely buried in my basement. Now I can buy what ever gear I might want.

[@anthonybrett]

@@АлексйУваровъ lol...Mmm....you've just given me an idea! Now where's that shovel?

[@anthonybrett]

@@EspenKraft lol I'll let her know mate...she wont care haha ...but I'll let her know. ;)

[@cerebralkaos2385]

Another great effort. You really know how to bring out the best in these old classics!

[@CONVEX_MIRROR]

❤️ C13 ... amazing

[@MercuryK52]

Again, stellar sounds! Thank you for contributing to the community! :)

[@EspenKraft]

Thanks again! It's nice to make some new original sounds for these classics. :)

[@johnnydekock]

very nice Espen love C13

[@EspenKraft]

Thanks J ! :)

[@ZoeSummers1701A]

That's so amazing. You're a legend. When you started to play C7 I almost melted in my chair.

[@EspenKraft]

Happy you almost melted. ;-)

[@kiko1935]

Good lord, this makes me miss my jx3p so much 😔 excellent work, these patches have that early 80s funk all over them

[@EspenKraft]

Cheers! :)

[@TheCasalinthesky]

Very nice job love these patches

[@EspenKraft]

Thanks! :)

[@smiljanicn]

Espen Master of synth Kraft

[@christophertodman8254]

Always such a great job!!!

[@J._Campbell]

Awesome demo! Great pad in intro!

[@thriveimagedesign]

Wicked cool patches.

[@EspenKraft]

Cheers :)

[@mikeshannonerickson6343]

sounds great, buddy! i ordered an arturia keylab 88 mkii in may, its arriving today, so excited! I am hoping that with the Analog Lab i can get some of these old school sounds dialed up. not as good as having the originals, but hey, i got it all in one system. :-) Keep up the great tunes, man!

[@EspenKraft]

Congrats and thanks! :)

[@Pm-qp6tb]

The king of 80’s

[@Miicrowahvei]

3:50 Catch The Fox

[@Cyrix2k]

[@ScoopexUs]

Cool stuff, and a raaaare PG-200. :)

[@thedutchgoonie2989]

very good demo, awesome sounds 👍🎉

[@EspenKraft]

Thanks! :)

[@fredscalliet]

Bravo !

[@J._Campbell]

At 4:05 great pad. It would be wonderful to Hold on my heart - Genesis- I think)

[@EspenKraft]

Thanks man! :)

[@danielortizdecaracas]

Really Cool bro

[@EspenKraft]

Cheers! :D

[@RogueBeatsARG]

That intro reminded me of old NFS

[@bloodmapedit]

It's even possible to create PWM by syncing 2 squares having the same octave with the slave OSC modulated by the LFO with a slight mod depth to the OSC. I loved the 3P, eventhough it's fixed on MIDI channel 1 and (if I remember correctly) can't receive tweaking from the PG when MIDI is used.

[@EspenKraft]

That's right, you can't use MIDI and the PG-200 at the same time. Not without some mods.

[@juno6]

Hi Espen, I wonder what's the snare from the (cool) tune at the beginning of the video...

[@EspenKraft]

It's from my drum sample pack "synthpop/Italo Disco Ultimate". I've pitched it up a little in this demo track here.

[@xnonsuchx]

I miss my JX-3P :-(

[@fightclub5066]

Thank you!

[@dougoverly]

Hi Espen, do I need a midi mod to get these patches on to my jx3p? Thank you for all of your awesome, dedicated work. You are the 80s synth man on youtube, no doubt!

[@EspenKraft]

No, this is a tape save /load. Works on a stock 3P. Cheers

[@melkeronia3139]

Keep this up! 👍

[@Chris6741]

Oh, the actual JX-3P not the Roland Cloud version. Sounds great!

[@EspenKraft]

You can program the Cloud version manually though. I've included every patch parameter.

[@SamEwensTrumpet]

@@EspenKraft how do you do this? I have the Roland Cloud version and cannot figure it out or descipher what the text file you include refers to or means... sorry - novice here!

[@OllyDee123]

Sample a “reso revenge” chord and you’ve got yourself a lovely jungle pad. I’ll definitely have to convert some of these patches into the cloud version.

[@jbognap]

Well done. The JX3P gets a bad rap for being thin and metallic, but you managed to include some warm sounds.

[@allanjazzera7630]

I've never heard such a bad rap of 'thin and metallic'. Perhaps beacause people misconstrue the x-mod 'metal' setting as a constituent part of it's overall 'sound'. Just like in the case of the Boss Digital Metalizer.

[@jbognap]

@@allanjazzera7630 Check out KZbin video reviews comparing it to the Juno 6. They complain about lack of low end. Personally, I love it.

[@andreasilvestri1696]

✌️Espen rules ok✌️

[@davidsimons5944]

I was only briefly interested in the JX8P. I remember sitting out in the garden one nice day reading a mag review of the JX10. But I could never decide between a JX3P, MKS30 or the MKS70. To confuse matters even more there was trying to decide between the latter & MKS80. As a result I ended up getting none of them! I always assumed that the main difference between the Jx3p / mks30 and the jx10 / mks70 was the extra envelope on the latter 2. I know that they can also double up to 4 DCO's albeit halving polyphony. Even so I had a sneaking suspicion that the simpler ones possibly had a character of their own. Do you think that is the case?

[@EspenKraft]

I've gone through all that in my JX-8P vs MKS-70 video and the 3P vs 8P video. ;-)

[@killswitchmediastudios]

Why do they keep saying the JX3P can’t do bass?

[@EspenKraft]

I know. Never understood that myself. ;-)

[@pgon9097]

because they never owned one

[@nicholaspower4425]

Hey Espen just wondering if you’ve ever played a Casio Cz or any of their phase distortion synths? I just got a cz-1 and I absolutely love it way more programmable than dx with similar sounds but was hoping to find a video to see how people use aftertouch and velocity when programming as they are new parameters for me. Keep the videos coming great stuff!!

[@nicholaspower4425]

Love the patches btw

[@EspenKraft]

Thanks! Sure, I've played all of them and I have a CZ1000 as well. I don't care much for either velocity or aftertouch myself, and I usually turn this off in patches I make. When I produce music I always edit my sounds to not have any velocity impact on the sounds. The CZ-line is awesome though and highly usable for synthpop. ;-)

[@nicholaspower4425]

I was kind of hoping you’d say that haha! I’ve been turning them off as well but thought I might be leaving some fun on the table by not using them but it seems like it was feature they were trying to push that never took off.

[@chriswareham]

Have you tried the CZounds patches? There's a free set that recreates some of the most distinctive sounds from the Stranger Things music.

[@nicholaspower4425]

@@chriswareham i have not, thanks for the tip!

[@Memory_Blanks]

' Hey Espen, I am having doubts in my M.I.N.D.S.P.A.C.E.|| Was on the fence with a few things...mainly the j3 .....vs the j8 friend told me go with 3...I saw unison mode on 8 now I need professional help. Real talk....there is what kind of reverb on this? Also love the hi-energ ratchet? is that LFO? Thanks ESPEN!

[@EspenKraft]

I only use a custom patch from Valhalla VintageVerb on this. ;)

[@johnny.storm-wolf]

Espen, a slightly unrelated topic, does your JX3-P have a mod on the resonance? It read (and found on mine) the resonance is fairly weak, there are topics on the net to increase it but I am not sure if this is recommended. Thanks!

[@EspenKraft]

I don't know and I don't care. ;-) I'm a bit of a purist. I don't want to change the factory design really. I can tolerate a display change, since you need to SEE what you're doing on a synth with a display, and when the floppy drive goes south I have learned to tolerate I floppy emulator, even if I dont like it. Mods to change the factory setup in terms of the synthesis isn't something I'm very keen on.

[@FakeGlasses]

Any chance you could make a sample pack out of these for those of us without a JX3P? I have a Nord Stage 3 and would love to have these sounds.

[@EspenKraft]

I have a TAL sampler pack where I have some of my best 3P sounds in it, but I am working on a dedicated TAL sampler pack of the 3P that will come out later, and I will release the multi samples as a separate pack as well.

[@hotcue4586]

Hi Espen, great patches! Would they work on a KIWI-3P? If not, I read in one of the comments that there is a patch sheet for them? Where could I buy just the patch sheets in case they're incompatible with the kiwi-3p? Thank you

[@EspenKraft]

I don't know if the Kiwi mod has disabled the tape in/out, but the patch sheet is included in this download anyways so you'll get it there regardless. Cheers

[@aceamadeus]

Espen awesome sounds! Is there a VST or software synth your patches can be loaded into ?

[@EspenKraft]

Many thanks man! I'm afraid you can't do that. The only JX-3P synth in a VST format is the Roland Cloud 3P, but you can't load tape-loads into that. IF you have the Roland Cloud you can of course program the sounds into that as I do provide the complete patch sheet for all the sounds. ;-)

[@aceamadeus]

Espen Kraft thanks for the info, I might try the Roland 🔊cloud, again your patches sound awesome ✌️🎹

[@yournamehere7182]

🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹

[@Sonikbytes]

I prefer Jx8p for that 'soundtrack' type of sounds. Just wondering which cuts better in the mix for your type of sound: JX-3p or poly61? do you have a preference?

[@EspenKraft]

I prefer the 8P for "Soundtrack" myself. The Poly-61 har a very unique sound that no other synth can replicate. I use mine for arpeggios, bells, basses and stuff like that. The 3P excels at strings and bells imo, but both can do so much. As I rely on hardware synths from the 80s for my type of sound I must have quite a few to cover all grounds. I like to sample them though before they go into production. ;-)

[@Sonikbytes]

@@EspenKraft Interesting that you highlight basses for poly61. I like the clarity of the original rather than listen to the sample that goes through so many D/A conversions. Although the grit is often useful tool as well as you have taught us.

[@EspenKraft]

I really dig the Poly-61 for Italo Bass. I just like how a synth sounds sampled. Opens up the mid-80s pop sound where everything was sampled basically. ;-)

[@williamclark1903]

I love my jx3p and even got the pg200, but one of the voices is beginning to fail and I gotta fix that.

[@Howdy606]

Excellent inspiring sounds! Question. Can the 3P save a different sequence with every patch or does it only store one sequence?

[@EspenKraft]

Thanks! No, just that one sequence is stored and can be used on any patch you dial up. This is 1983 after all. ;-)

[@Howdy606]

@@EspenKraft Thank you. I wonder if that up coming Retroaktive PG2K will allow more storage of sequences (or perhaps that is only in the Kiwi upgraded 3P's?)

[@EspenKraft]

I'm not sure actually. I will let you know once I get it. ;-)

[@Nipottaja]

Hey Espen!! Are you making a follow-up patch bank for the 3P any time soon? :)))

[@EspenKraft]

Maybe. ;-)

[@samikalastaja]

4:04 sounds a bit like what you played in Akai S700 sampler video.

[@EspenKraft]

I often reuse bits and parts in gear videos. That chord progression is my favorite for auditioning pad and strings. It also shows how certain 6 voice polyphonic synths cuts off notes if a 7th note is introduced. I use this progression in many of my videos. ;-)

[@nofretzDW]

So great! Wish I could load these into my System 8 😉

[@EspenKraft]

You could use the patch sheet and program them in manually. ;-)

[@Syntox]

Noticed the price for these on the used market went up A LOT over the last few years, and that's without the PG 200...

[@kiko1935]

Yes it's a bummer. Once people realize there are other analog synths besides Junos that tends to happen

[@kiko1935]

I'm looking for an mks30

[@TheCasalinthesky]

I got the original sounds on my System 8 for the JX 3P I wonder if I can load them on there ?

[@EspenKraft]

You cannot load these into your system 8, but I've included the patch sheet for every patch so you can program them in yourself, old school. ;-)

[@funkmachine6420]

Awesome jx3p sounds! I must try and pick one up! What is that snare drum during the opening song??

[@EspenKraft]

Thanks! It's a sample I have, but you can get this from the Korg TR-rack. It's in one of the drum kits there.

[@funkmachine6420]

@@EspenKraft thanks mate!

[@chatdlathune1816]

4:05 ... like a Juno 106 sound... a Pad

[@Krzychu-bh4rl]

Nice! How do you compare jx3p and jx8p?

[@EspenKraft]

Both great, a little different in sound. The 8P smears the the sound more aka more smooth. The 3P is more metallic in sound. The 3P has the sequencer which is awesome. The 8P has none.

[@Miicrowahvei]

I prefer Jx-3p over Jupiter 8.

[@area5196]

Hi! these patches can be loaded into the JX03 Boutique ?

[@EspenKraft]

No, this is a tape-load file, not sysex. Included in the pack are the written patch sheet for all the patches though so you could program them in by hand and then store them.

[@area5196]

@@EspenKraft Ok. Thanks .- Greetings from Chile

[@Bedonius]

How can I import the patches on my JX-3P? thanks

[@EspenKraft]

You have to do a tape load. The manual tells you how. In case it fails I have also included the patch sheet.

[@alancheatley4378]

Have to try loading them from my phone, brother took off with my Tascam Zoom sound recorders, they work much better, still like the old school tape loading like with C64 ect.

[@EspenKraft]

I always use my phone to load patches back where tape load/save is concerned. ;-)

[@lewchootrain]

Espen would you ever consider making samples or loops for artists to use? I’m interested in purchasing some from, do you have an email?

[@EspenKraft]

Sure, I have one out already. More on the way. Link below. My email-address you can find in the "about" section here. I can't display that openly, too much spam will follow- ;-) kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXqWo2WLmpaqac0

[@lewchootrain]

@@EspenKraft I understand, thank you so much!

[@mrfuzztone]

Do the patches work with the virtual JX-3P on Roland Cloud?

[@EspenKraft]

No, you can't install a TAPE-load on a virtual synth. ;-) But included in the download I have the full written patch sheet so you can program the patches manually.

[@coletaylor5296]

I doubt these patches would work with the JX3P Mod? If so i'd totally use these!

[@EspenKraft]

Of course they will work. They will work on any 3P, but to LOAD these into a 3P you must go trough the tape input if they're to be loaded. For any other 3P unable to load through the tape port, I've provided the patch sheet so you can program in every patch if you want to. I show and talk about this in this video.

[@coletaylor5296]

I meant I have the JX3P Kiwi Mod, I don’t think I can upload patches via the tape memory function with that upgrade! It sounds so good Espen!

[@christofferainek]

Sounds great 🤘 - do know if these can be loaded into the new boutique JX3P?

[@EspenKraft]

Thanks! No, this is old school "tape-load" only. But I have provided the patch sheet for all the patches so it's possible to program them into your Boutique manually. ;-)

[@christofferainek]

tape load, still one of my favourite oldschool tech solutions 🤘

[@discodivo]

AWESOME! are these also available on sysex format for us spoiled kiwi3p users?

[@EspenKraft]

No, no sysex of these. Tape load only, but I do provide the written patch sheet.

[@epicon6]

Wearing those shorts is the true test of being German. ❤

[@EspenKraft]

I'm NOT German :(

[@epicon6]

@@EspenKraft With those shorts you are though..

[@EspenKraft]

Nope.

[@studiogalaxiestar1294]

Espen Kraft what is the difference between the Roland JX-8P and the JX 3P?

[@EspenKraft]

Both great, a little different in sound. The 8P smears the the sound more aka more smooth. The 3P is more metallic in sound. The 3P has the sequencer which is awesome. The 8P has no sequencer.

[@PianistErikOsterberg]

I sold mine 10yrs ago :'(

[@Venatt1]

Excuse me Espen, did you made this patches yourself ?

[@EspenKraft]

Of course, every single one. Why do you ask that? ;-)

[@Venatt1]

@@EspenKraft just curious, sorry when I asked the question I had not seen the entire video. It sounds amazing, I have been thinking of buying an Alpha Juno 1 or 2 and a Wavestation. I just learned the Prophet 5 was reissued.

[@EspenKraft]

That's ok. I just found it a curious question to ask when I clearly say in the video these are my patches. ;-)

[@Venatt1]

@@EspenKraft sorry my bad. Sometimes my mind is floating in outer space. It happened many times in school during class.

[@mariopak4817]

Can I load them to the MKS30?

[@EspenKraft]

No

[@TVisTheRetina]

Will these load on the Boutique JX3P ?

[@EspenKraft]

No. You'd have to program them in by hand and save them.

[@danielortizdecaracas]

Sounds like a matrix fat sounds

[@MrMe4444444]

Still going to do something for dss1?

[@EspenKraft]

Not patches no. At least not until I get a decent controller for it that speeds up the process, but that controller will emerge soon. ;-)

[@brobocop8293]

any chance you might want to recreate these for the system 8? i would love you . and also throw money at your face.

[@EspenKraft]

Don't have a system 8.

[@brobocop8293]

@@EspenKraftshould grab one. There awesome. And us system 8 users would love access to your patches.

[@EspenKraft]

@@brobocop8293 I really don't have any desire to have one. It looks awful and that is enough to put me out of any sort of creative mood. ;-) If someone gave me one I'd accept, but I'm not going to pay for one myself.

[@oscarmendez1063]

Tube un teclado y lo arruine y lo deje tirado en un taller de electronica. Extraño este jx3p

[@EspenKraft]

English only if you want me to understand what you're saying. I'm not on a mobile phone and I don't have the time to faff around with Google translate.

[@MSM5500]

JX3P is technically more advanced synth than Juno-106. That's just another proof that crowd is always wrong.

[@revenantx1239]

But it doesn't have PWM

[@karlprall3233]

@@revenantx1239 but you can "fake" pwm with osc sync.

[@MarcioSilva-qe1vd]

You should talk about how you choose your sinths and what cares you have with them.

[@EspenKraft]

Some synths I have becaause I need their sounds, while others I only have briefly, to make videos. I sample them before I give them back to the owners. ;-)