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Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world's most hated audio tools. Today we are going to talk about the Roland JD08. Is this digital synthesizer, member of the Roland Boutique family and miniscule version of the somewhat legendary Roland JD800 a worthwhile alternative to the 1991 original? Did they emulate the red glue too? Is this synth just ridiculous ?

Thanks to Klangfarbe for helping me out with one of their Roland JD08 :
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I carpe diemed the hell out of Beeple's public domain VJ loops in the finale:
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro tune
01:07 Overview Roland Boutique JD08
01:45 Palette Faders
01:54 Displays, Menus, Differences to the Original
02:21 Polyphony, Engine, Tone Layers, Multitimbrality
03:03 Waveforms, ROM expansions (or lack thereof)
03:27 Filter (Roland Zenology)
03:52 Envelopes
04:19 LFOs, Additional Features
04:35 FX Section
04:52 Patches (Sound Examples)
05:22 Sequencer
05:45 Arpeggiator, Clock Input
05:53 What else??? (Noise Issues, Rear Panel, Pricing, Thanks)
06:22 Hate
06:47 Jam 1
07:40 Jam 2
08:41 Finale
09:16 Verdict