I'm selling a Roland SR-JV80-05 World Expansion card for Roland JV, XP and XV Synth series, in excellent condition.

SMD capacitor was changed by me, according to Roland Service Bulletin, in order to prevent future damages by fire hazard.

From Synthmania:

Number five in Roland's large sound library for JV/XP instruments, the "World" expansion board is dedicated to sounds, instruments, loops and musical effects from all around our planet.

The board opens with the spectacular "World Tour!", a spectacular offering of loops from different continents, and from there, it's a wild ride between Africa, Asia, the Americas, and even a little bit of Europe and Australia.

The loops sound absolutely authentic, as I'm sure many of them were recorded on location.  There are also a few patches that "mix and match" the loops to create new, original ones (how's a Brazilian cuica on top of a Moroccan loop?).

Another great thing about this board is the creative use of digital effects to augment - and in several cases, create new - instruments and loops.  Several "ambient patches" are based upon the ethnic samples in ROM, but sound like they came out from something like Spectrasonics' "Distorted Reality".

The single instruments are also great fun to play, and using the pitch bender and modulation wheel is possible to mimic quite well the sonic character of the original instruments.

Finally, a few surprises at the end, where we even meet the dinosaurs at Dinosaur Park.