Burnout has still persisted insofar as music making, sadly. Will do my best to keep everyone in the loop there.
That said, however, I'm happy to report that I've successfully dumped all of the SL-JD80 cards and, even bigger, successfully merged into one SR-JV80 ROM, complete with the PN-JD80 presets for each, formatted for the JD-990. The time saving approach between tests also revealed that removing a few duplicate samples across the first three volumes proved unnecessary for storage capacity: there's still some space left in the card after squeezing in all of the waveform data, and all 512 JD-formatted presets as well (which busts the myth that the SR-JV80 ROM's were limited to 256 per supported model)!
The biggest caveat with this approach, other than the method JD-990 owners are used to of no support for bulk dumping patches from these boards, is no rhythm sets. Unfortunately, while I admit my knowledge of the rhythm set format is limited, all attempts to get my 990 to read the four across these eight cards directly from the board failed, my suspicion being it's due to the limitations of the 990 OS (only patches and multisamples are clearly available when installed, and even for the former, only individually).
This in mind, to save people some effort if they do manage to get it installed, the bottom of this post includes a small archive of SysEx dumps, including for the rhythm sets. These will only sound the way they should with my ROM because of the specified multisample numbers, though by all means, feel free to do what some 990 owners did with the SL multisamples versus presets in the past and mixmatch them with other SR-JV80 cards to see what happens, such as SR-JV80-04, and if you're saavy enough with a hex editor, you can also try tweaking the dumps for SL-JD80-02 sounds onwards to get the right SL-JD format number, provided you have the right waveform card already. As for my ROM itself, out of respect for Roland's copyright for the underlying samples, I have no plans to host that on this website, though if I do somehow get clearance from them in the distant future, that may change for the better later.
That's all for now.
That said, however, I'm happy to report that I've successfully dumped all of the SL-JD80 cards and, even bigger, successfully merged into one SR-JV80 ROM, complete with the PN-JD80 presets for each, formatted for the JD-990. The time saving approach between tests also revealed that removing a few duplicate samples across the first three volumes proved unnecessary for storage capacity: there's still some space left in the card after squeezing in all of the waveform data, and all 512 JD-formatted presets as well (which busts the myth that the SR-JV80 ROM's were limited to 256 per supported model)!
The biggest caveat with this approach, other than the method JD-990 owners are used to of no support for bulk dumping patches from these boards, is no rhythm sets. Unfortunately, while I admit my knowledge of the rhythm set format is limited, all attempts to get my 990 to read the four across these eight cards directly from the board failed, my suspicion being it's due to the limitations of the 990 OS (only patches and multisamples are clearly available when installed, and even for the former, only individually).
This in mind, to save people some effort if they do manage to get it installed, the bottom of this post includes a small archive of SysEx dumps, including for the rhythm sets. These will only sound the way they should with my ROM because of the specified multisample numbers, though by all means, feel free to do what some 990 owners did with the SL multisamples versus presets in the past and mixmatch them with other SR-JV80 cards to see what happens, such as SR-JV80-04, and if you're saavy enough with a hex editor, you can also try tweaking the dumps for SL-JD80-02 sounds onwards to get the right SL-JD format number, provided you have the right waveform card already. As for my ROM itself, out of respect for Roland's copyright for the underlying samples, I have no plans to host that on this website, though if I do somehow get clearance from them in the distant future, that may change for the better later.
That's all for now.
sldj80_sysex_v2.zip |