The sound "3 Osc Brass" is amazing and I have never found a better patch in any of my synths for "Toto - Africa" I still like this rack synth a lot and will probably never sell it as it has such pure sound quality and is so quiet."Nice Piano" with all effects removed is actually pretty good but I don't usually use it for acoustic piano but more for synths & has seems to have a lot more in this category than my Motif rack and it's 128 note polyphonic also.you can find these on Ebay for about $300 - $350 all the time.I appreciate rack synths that have their own storage for sounds you make.make sure to buy a 128 MB Smart Media card.that is the biggest they make and it will hold a lot of sound banks.this synth also takes 2 SRX and 4 SR-JV80 expansion boards.this synth is 2 rack spaces (the big brother to this is better, the XV-5080 because of the larger display and it holds 2 more SRX boards and it samples but they usually ask too much for those used).sound-wise, they sound about the same:īoth have all the sounds from the JV-1080 & JV-2080 plus more.here's demos of some of the JV-2080 sounds so you can get a better idea: Here's a trick with the Roland XV-3080: On the Smart Media card create a folder called "Roland" and put all your sound banks in ing the A-H bank buttons you can access the first 8 banks of 128 sounds on the card WITHOUT LOADING them.that's 1024 sounds that can be ANYTHING.pretty cool.