ROLAND JD-08 BOUTIQUE One Last Chance

[@runestone1337]

I knew the little JD would shine after you ironed out the kinks. It sounds AWESOME... well done Woody! 👏

[@RobertFisher1969]

With so many synths-beyond the workstations and arrangers-the majority of the demos are playing with 25 to 37 keys or just sequencing them. I really appreciate that you demo them in this sort of context, Woody!

[@WoodyPianoShack]

thanks for appreciating that, yes, there are many mini synths on the market that are worthy of 61 keys, at least!

[@ConwayBob]

@@WoodyPianoShack -- I don't EVER expect to play my little JD-08 with any fewer than 49 keys, and yes, 61 keys are better still! Thanks for showing us some of this little box's great potential, Woody. It sounds glorious in your capable hands, no matter the genre.

[@covett]

Live To Tell is a beautiful song. Nice choice to demo those specific sounds.

[@fugamantew]

This little Boutique is a PAD monster!! Its polyphony is insane.

[@davidmartin123]

Ah the 90's! Sounds good. Glad you got it to Talk Talk and Live to Tell another day ;)

[@Bloor005]

Sounds great now! A 90s soundtrack and session monster!

[@dessiplaer]

I've had that happen to me. You get equipment with lackluster performance which gives you a bad opinion of it. Then you figure out why it was not performing well, fix the problem, and viola, a wonderful piece of gear that you fall in love with. I glad everything worked out for you. Great demo!

[@randytellez2451]

That was some epic sound creations.

[@thesequencer4971]

Hi Woody nice 👍My JD-08 is now over a year in my studio: Love & Hate relationship...programming is fiddling and you got quick lost...but you can get great results even by accident.....i combined it with D-05 on top of my Masterkeyboard ...what a fantastic Duo👍

[@Sandelec-gm2cl]

Yes..me too have the D-05 and JD-08. But the lack of midi sysex is bad. With D-05 I can use the same software controller of D50 and send/receive patches with computer.✌🏻

[@thesequencer4971]

@@Sandelec-gm2cl Cool...sounds good...theres a (expensive ) hardware controller too...wanna try it soon...cheers

[@Sandelec-gm2cl]

@@thesequencer4971 I have an editor/controller for the D50/D-05 for Windows.. that's fantastic..!! I download it for free and there is a virtual PG1000 inside✌🏻😅 And you can copy-paste every single patch of a sysex bank..😏 Cheers...

[@Acrimonious_Snake]

This video needs to be longer 🙏🙏🙏🥹 I need part two!!! ❤️❤️❤️

[@WoodyPianoShack]

glad to hear that, many viewers don't make it past the first 30 seconds! pretty normal for yt, so thanks for making it to the end

[@Acrimonious_Snake]

@WoodyPianoShack I often watch some of your performance videos on repeat (JD-Xi, Wavestation under the moon, now this) 🤗

[@randytellez2451]

@@WoodyPianoShack when I listen to something of interest it's too the end... as long as it stays on topic and not filled with constant irrelevant banter. You're now one of my fav content creators.

[@wildandbeautiful]

These tracks are so smooth i love these sounds!

[@ZZEROO99]

Every time I hear the Classic sweeper patch, I hear those two notes of the playstation 1 startup sound.

[@quantumsheep]

I have this little guy! Need to spend more time with it! :)

[@funnzie]

A fantastic creative synth even today. Each patch can have 4 oscillators and 2 patches can be layered and panned in the stereo field for a gigantic sound of 8 oscillators moving in stereo. Such a wonder synth for $400US.

[@Angelstarscotland]

Great demo. IMHO the best "sonically" synth I own

[@mrz80]

I purchased a JD-08 some months back. After a couple weeks of fiddling with it it just didn't gel with me, so I sold it. Made more than I paid, so that was cool, but I was *immediately* hit with the hardest case of seller's remorse I've ever felt. So naturally I turned right around and bought another one, and there ain't a snowball's chance in a warm place that I'd ever sell again. Having that much synth in something I can toss into my backpack with a little MIDI keyboard or drive from my guitar synth is a complete and total win.

[@giancarlolagonegro2643]

Loving the cover of The Midnight, sounds great!

[@ElijahRock92]

It's nice seeing it played with a keyboard and not just sequenced. I use mine as an extra voice layered with my keyboard at home or with the keyboard at my church. Once you work around the bugs, it's a nice compliment to a keyboard or auxiliary sound. And it's more than just a pad and bass synth, too. It takes tweaking, but you can make some patches that bmenhance grand pianos and EPs. I'm glad to see you gave it another chance. 👍🏾

[@thesequencer4971]

The great thing is it sounds so digital...and it can do things no one else can do so good in one synth: From Insomnia to Thunderstruck.....try that 90s Pizzicato Trance Sounds created with Waveform #85 "PIZZ" Bellissima/Insomnia ect....the Distorted Lead Guitar A15 is one of the best Lead Sounds ever on a Synth good for Prog Rock.........From 70s Genesis Watcher of the Skies to Dub Techno, Hip Hop Lead, Funky Bass & Leads everything is possible...Btw an Original JD.800 was my first Synth...sold it long time before its afterglow 😅

[@entropybentwhistle]

I dunno…I kinda found the swearing and disgust of the previous attempt equally entertaining. ;)

[@RonWesterbeek]

I Learned my lesson well ...😅✌ ( will check back when home 🤸‍♀️🎶) cheers Woody.

[@xp50player]

Nice to have this engine and patches in the Fantom now.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

oh wow, did not know that! i guess we are at the stage where we can sell all our boutiques and get the model expansion for the fantom instead.

[@xp50player]

@@WoodyPianoShack- It is part of the EX upgrade. Both blocks of effects are there, stored with the patch, but only for the lowest part instance of it. Any additional simultaneous instances, you only get block A effects and have to use the Scene reverb.

[@ShotecMusic]

10:52 Kids are sad... Nice version ;) Amazing video Woody!

[@nancydrew7288]

Wow Woody looked like you were really enjoying that. Great selection of song demos. Live to tell is one of my favourites as well as it's my life by Talk Talk. I love my jd-800 for the hands on tweak ability. I was very lucky to purchase the JD with all 8 patch & waveform expansion cds and also thrown in was a 3rd party hybrid textures patch card which l never even knew existed. Anyway thanks for the excellent showcase on what the jd is capable of. Perfect

[@WoodyPianoShack]

oh wow, not every day you meet a jd800 owner, congrats!

[@TINProjects]

Roland ROMpler my thougts 1990. I was addicted to EM-U's. Anyway, have to admit a JD-800 "hidden" in my basement. :)

[@alienzardsketter.9076]

Love arrangers and synths together , I have had my synths and arrangers stored for several years , I need to get them all back out and plug them all back up , I have been playing guitar with my 82 year old brother , taking song he suggest and learning them and trying to turn him on to Brand new songs to him like Jimmy Summerville ,,Baltamora he has never heard of ABBA , He plays Peddel steel guitar ,,and guitar and He loves Old time Music and Im am trying this experiment by working with him he only plays classic country ,,Merrel Haggard , Curley Chalker LLoyd Green ,,Gene Watson ,and I Love Diamanda Galas Vince Clark ,,its a work start I will see how far it will go ,,,I have plans I want him to get a Moog and play it he is a very talented musician he will be 90 in seven years...I want to I Love the old style Classic country guitar leads over synths He and I am the very last two in all our family left alive after that Opps! all gone ...Woody your a coolie ...wear the red hat the magic is in the hat , Its where you Pull a rabbit out of it and every one is Amazed...Oh yea they hide a receding hair line to ,,,great balding cover ,,,for magic men of music that are not 18 years old anymore ,,but a few thousand years old ,,hair starts to thin.

[@neoinfinity]

Kids! Great tune. Sounds very nice Woody.

[@ZenithMusicNet]

The Boutiques have their limitations, but they're just so much fun!

[@Sandelec-gm2cl]

Limitation..?!? Thanks to their little dimensions I can have 5 monster synths on a table..😅

[@Acrimonious_Snake]

The Roland JD-800 is a genre-defining synth, along with the Korg Wavestation. Instant NewAge vibe!

[@ChrisP3000x]

Nice.

[@TheUnfinishedSynth]

Loving a bit of slowed down Maid Of Orleans, Woody!

[@sulgypolo]

the main thing is using that CLR AL button ,and then wen you get the sequence going its fine ,its actually realy easy to use ,but it was sending me crazy because roland has the built in beats /melody that place on everything in every sequence pattern unless you get this sussed ,..and i bought the small 25 mini keys to go with it ,about 6 months tho untill i was able to use it ,,1 hr a week ,because its a complicated looking bit of kit ,,..it can be ,,..but its also not ,its just getting your flow going that takes time

[@Lunolux]

great video thx

[@montazownianr1]

Opening Madonna was great :)

[@Dbentzjr]

For quite a while I have owned the FA08 and the older DGX 500 and the newer DGX 670. I still have several other boards, but the main goto setup that I have been having the most fun with is the Arturia Minifreak and the DGX 500 hooked up as a controller for the Freak. I can spend hours on this setup without getting bored. The Minifreak standing on its own is an exceptional little piece of quality kit. Despite not the best keybed, the dgx 500 and the Arturia Minifreak are a formidable team. Someday Ill hook it up to the DGX 670...

[@WoodyPianoShack]

great setup! well, you will struggle to connect any other gear to 670 since no midi ins and outs.

[@Dbentzjr]

@@WoodyPianoShack yeah Midi overall has been a terrific pain for me and its largely why I gave up trying to make my own stuff. Its just easier to play without that extra midi lag anyhow. I do wish there were still easier, cheaper, affordable options like we used to be able to buy 2 machines and connect them but now we need a separate box and more wires and yeah, thats the modern midi masterpiece in a nutshell. For this reason, I was especially bummed out that the DGX 670 did not have audio in routing for its internal effects engine. I bet that would have been amazing with the minifreak and dgx670 combo.

[@ruikazane5123]

Redemption!

[@annother3350]

6:20 - whats the original song? thanks

[@CurvedVacuum]

Souvenir by OMD - my favourite song of theirs :)

[@annother3350]

@@CurvedVacuum Oh of course -- thanks for that! I like 'Messages' but this is a classic too

[@edjones3390]

Was racking my brain too!, thanks for asking 👍

[@cjadams7434]

Great sounds and track! - what reverb’s do you tend to use?

[@WoodyPianoShack]

no added effects! just whatever the hardware provides in the presets.

[@YotamPiano]

I dig the vintage D-50 sounds ! I wonder which one would you pick between DX7 and D-50 in terms of sound?

[@WoodyPianoShack]

tought one! d50 shines because of its fx. put the dx7 through great effects and it probably wins.

[@jenslempke7883]

Sounds like Madonna's best song ever there in the beginning "Live to tell"?

[@dykodesigns]

Yep. One of my all time favorite tracks by Madonna. That song has a lot of DX sounds in it I still have to find out which ones particularly as they are blended in the mix. The patch on JD-08 is pretty good fit, it has that kind bell like sparkle of the original in it.

[@codfather6583]

Exactly!

[@camilleotrakji]

This sounds great ... the added layer of synth sounds to the backing styles of the SX925. Does it fit on top of the left speaker of the SX925? .. too bad there is no aftertouch

[@WoodyPianoShack]

no, the boutiques do not fit. aira compact does tho.

[@camilleotrakji]

@@WoodyPianoShack too bad … another reason why I wish the sx925 had 88 keys … there would be space for so much to add on top, to the left and to the right

[@Recommendable]

And one more question, except for this boutiue which other machines fathfully emulate 80/90's sounds in your opinion?

[@WoodyPianoShack]

most of them.... check out modx, fantom-0, fantom, nautilus, nord, arturia etc etc

[@asleeds]

The D-05 Boutique is the 80s in a little box.

[@Jason75913]

​@@asleeds in a little box that looks like it came from an '80s sci-fi movie

[@ipainthouses3084]

I realy that mafonna song at the start , gonna look for a tutorial

[@charthers8903]

It works like an arranger?

[@WoodyPianoShack]

the arranger below it does

[@korshm]

@WoodyPianoShack And if SX920 had had an audio interface onboard, you wouldn't have needed the external red box, I suspect. 🙃

[@WoodyPianoShack]

true, although the red box does give me 4 inputs... for mixing in DAW

[@caleb5780]

0:18 he's giving a look like; you better not go out of tune

[@GizzyDillespee]

D-05 or JD-08... which do you prefer? Assuming you don't have an add-on controller for the D-05.

[@GizzyDillespee]

Also, just comparing the sound, and not the functionality... which?

[@WoodyPianoShack]

jd is much better, it is far superior to the 05, except of course for those magical patches, but one can tire of those.

[@codfather6583]

Getting this mad Madonna vibe

[@midinotes]

Beautiful chords in that Madonna track, would love to know them!

[@WoodyPianoShack]

me too... :D

[@VladoT]

Great sounds!!! However I am searching for the real thing for my synth collection and I could not find a good deal yet 😊

[@ihasmdb389]

Pretty sure that was a little Maid Of Orleans in there

[@geoffk777]

I love the JD-800. But I'm not convinced by the Boutique form factor. The tiny controls and mini jacks just don't seem professional to me. I think people are better off with the JD-800 VST from Roland Cloud or the JD-800 engine on the Fantom for professional use.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

you're not wrong, i will discuss this when doing the review later

[@ChrisP3000x]

Just curious, but what exactly do you mean by "professional"? Are you a "professional"? Thanks in advance, friend!

[@geoffk777]

@@ChrisP3000x No, in the sense that I don:t make my living by performing or recording. But I try to ensure that all of my gear is the kind of equipment that I'd want to use of I did perform. This means that it should be reliably constructed, use standard inputs and outputs and give decent output with low noise. It should also fit well into a standard rack or stand. Controls should be easy to see and use on a dark stage or while playing. The Roland Boutiques fail nearly every one of these criteria, whereas something like a Fantom passes easily. In building my studio, I have to be selective about what I buy since my budget and space are not unlimited. Anything that fails these tests, I am likely to dismiss a a toy or potental trouble source and reject.

[@ChrisP3000x]

@@geoffk777 so your definition of "professional " is only regarding live performance. And anything not for your future live performances are "toys".

[@geoffk777]

@@ChrisP3000x No, my definitional of "Professional" is "The standard of quality that a professioal musician would expect from their working equipment". Someting that's not a professional-quality instrument msy be musiclly useful. But you can't rely on it to work reliably over a long period or to integrate smoothly into yr setup. That may not matter fo a particular recordng or performance, but it does matter when you're deciding what new gear to buy.

[@buraktokgoz41]

i have one. i am very lucky. strongly advice you to get it....

[@Skippersboss__]

Inspired by Cindy Woody ? 😂

[@WoodyPianoShack]

cindy, cindy, who the "&!@ is cindy? :D

[@Recommendable]

Woody does this Yamaha include all the pipe organ section that is present in Genos (I guess it starts from subpage 4 in genos)?

[@WoodyPianoShack]

i have no idea if it includes all the stuff from genos, i think you need to do a cross-check of the data list pdfs, have fun ;)