Roland XV-2020

Roland's XV2020 is an affordable spin-off from their flagship 3080 and 5080 sample-based synths, providing the same type of high-quality additive synthesis based on internal ROM sampled waveforms, and further tonal expansion via a pair of SRX expansion slots. In many ways, the XV2020 mirrors the way the JV1010 was derived from the JV1080/2080 machines, as it shares the same 1U, half-rack packaging, and is based on presets with very little front-panel editability, although a software sound editor is included which can be run on both Mac OS and Windows machines (OMS or FreeMIDI are needed for use with a Mac, but both are supplied on the CD-ROM).

Like the JV1010, the XV2020 has only stereo outputs, and the front-panel display is numeric only, but it also includes a USB interface, as well as conventional MIDI connectivity