Roland XV-88 synthesizer demo

Most of the Roland XV-88 demo videos on YouTube are either eye-wateringly badly videoed, or useless for getting to know the instrument; usually both. So I decided to make a demo video of me noodling on an XV-88 that I recently serviced back to full playability.

I selected the patches pretty randomly, though I began with the PremierGrand piano from the SRX-02 Concert Piano expansion card. Gotta begin a synth workstation demo with the grand piano, right?

The XV-88 was Roland's flagship keyboard synthesizer before the release of the first Fantom series. It's essentially the keyboard version of the XV-3080 module. The 88-key weighted keyboard features channel (not poly) aftertouch, which you'll hear in this demo. It also has the Roland D-Beam controller, which modifies the sound when you wave your hand over the detector.

I hope you enjoy the video - thanks for watching!