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Roland M-DC1 DANCE
Sound Expansion Series

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About

Roland M-DC1 DANCE belongs to the Sound Expansion Series - JV-880 module with the ROM waveforms replaced with the SR-JV80 expansion cards. M-DC1 uses most of SR-JV80-06 DANCE card, which is discontinued because of copyright conflict issue..


Roland M-DC1 (1995)

M-DC1 Overview

JV-880 engine.
8MB ROM (which contains allegedly 16MB-equivalent waveforms), based on SR-JV80-06 DANCE card. It contains breakbeats, drums, percussions, raps, hits and some interesting synth loops.
44 waveforms of DANCE card omitted, and replaced with JV-880's internal waveforms. As such, M-DC1 can be seen as compacted version of JV-880+SR-JV80-06.
4 oscillators can be layered. The sound architecture - warm JV filter, 2LFO, FXM etc - are all inherited from JV-880.

Sound Examples

Here are some .mp3 examples of M-DC1.
No external effects are used.

Analog FXM (553KB)
Bass waves (744KB)
String loop (707KB)
Drums (986KB)
Organ (659KB)
String gliss (533KB)
Chord vox (397KB)
Square saw (674KB)
Guitar (369KB)
Gabba kick (419KB)
Swing (736KB)
Stereo Swing (385KB)
Scratch (464KB)

Sound Comparison with JV-880

M-DC1 and JV-880 sound nearly the same when the same waveforms are used.
M-DC1 sound is shown at the left, and JV-880's at the right. I tried to use the same patches and the same sequences, but the sequences and the effect settings have changed in the editing process since I made the JV page. And please note that my JV-880 examples are recorded in monaural. So the condition are not exactly the same, but you'll see they have the same sound quality.

See JV-880 page for more sound examples.

JV Analog Pad	M-DC1 Analog pad (1.4MB)
JV Triangle mod	M-DC1 Triangle mod (319KB)
JV Wavescan	M-DC1 Wavescan (308KB)
JV Saw decay	M-DC1 Saw decay (395KB)
JV Noise pad	M-DC1 Noise pad (312KB)
JV Square decay	M-DC1 Square decay (312KB)
JV FXM saw	M-DC1 FXM saw (747KB)

Related Models

JV-80 is the base model of all JV variations and the Sound Expansion series. M-DC1 is based on SR-JV80-06 DANCE expansion card for JV, Super JV / XP and some XV series.


Roland JV-80 (1992)


Roland SR-JV80-06 (1995)

There are other models of Sound Expansion series; M-VS1 (Vintage card), M-OC1 (Orchestra), M-BD1 (Bass & Drums). Unfortunately, there's no version with the World card, etc. M-GS64 uses same box but it's the rackmount version of SoundCanvas SC-88.

Roland M-VS1 (1995)


Roland M-OC1 (1995)


Roland M-BD1 (1995)


Roland M-GS64 (1995)

The idea of these genre-focused modules is related to E-MU synths in the 90s. M-DC1 may be related to E-MU Planet Phatt and Mo'Phatt. They made many genre-focused modules, based on the Morpheus engine.

E-MU Planet Phatt (1997)

Links

Roland US Roland Manual download
Synthmania Sound examples of the DANCE card

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