Why I don't collect Roland SRX cards

How do you guys feel about SRX cards? let me know in the comments below!

[brainburst]

this applies to any card. I like having a core group of high quality sounds that work without a computer, that will never need to be rebuilt after a computer crash.

[project-]

Not interested in collecting cards per se, only maxing out 5080 with the best sounds available and no overlap. To that end it helps to know which SRX cards contain new waves that aren’t on the original SR-JV80 cards - e.g. Supreme Dance, Classic EP’s… Since the SR-JV Romulator is a thing, it's cheaper to flash your own SR-JV cards and go that route. It has to be said, demand is still high in 2023 for old Roland expansion cards, the Integra 7 and Roland cloud has done little to make them less desirable.

[meilstone]

That's some valuable insight, thanks! I feel like the piano sounds on SRX-02 and 11 are great and it's still hard to find any affordable piano sound module now, so it's a close call (if you go hardware-only). Otherwise, I agree that the VSTs are cheaper and provide you with everything you need at a lower cost.

[rolanddeer]

Can't forget Zenology, as much it can be costly and taxing on hardware resources, feels like an Integra-7 in software form

[marcusholder]

I love and collect all of the jv and srx cards

[MichaelSouhoka]

Well, they are now as VST plugins. But in certain point of view you're right. There are a lot of pretty good sounds found in many synths other than Roland. There are Yamaha, Korg, Moog, Nord, Oberheim, and some software like Arturia collections. The world of electronic music is not just about Roland.

[OlafChristofSchuppler]

Mention: The samples of all SN-U110 cards are included in the Roland SR-JV80-07 Super Sound Set Expansion Board 😊!

[pcuimac]

I bought a Trance and Dance card when Roland UK was dissolved for 79£ a piece. I bought also a XV5050 to put them into. When I started lusting for more cards (must be the hunter gatherer gene) I bought an Integra 7. That made hunting for more obsolete. The John Lord Rock Organ would be fun to have thought, but since I own a VR-730 there is no real need for it.
Now I got an XP-30 I repaired myself and have two slots to fill. I guess the hunt is on again.

[Mista]

I'm on the fence as to whether I should start purchasing some of the SRX instruments.
I've been producing music with FL Studio for the last 20 years and have been really getting
bored with Nexus and Omnisphere. I don't exactly *NEED* some new VST's, but it would
definitely help with inspiration. With that said.. should I purchase the SRX VSTs for FL?
The price seems great at $70 dollars per. I'm shocked today was the first time hearing
about these SRX plugins! Producing music has been my career since I was a teenager
and I can't believe I've never heard of these plugins prior to today! They sound fantastic!

[evertmeurs]

I just bought the srx-12 because I need it.

[talldarkstrangerpr]

on point regarding the benefits of Roland Cloud.

[audiolego]

Get a sampler man like the EMU ESI32 or E4xt or Elektron Octatrack 1 or Akai mpc one or live or X. Just sample it.

[MrChrisMiner]

I have an rd700 which had an SRX 02 and I wasn't impressed with that at all so I ended up selling it. Should I go by an SRX 11 or is there a better option?

[ram-]

Question, does anyone here know: since the SRX boards (or "cards") bundled all the waveforms from the previous gen SR-JV80 boards, would it be possible to somehow get the SRX presets working using SR-JV80 boards? Could they be in Sysex form somewhere? I've got a hardware XV-5080 loaded with those, but don't have any SRX boards.

The Cloud option is really convenient, though. All the waveforms are even searchable in recent versions of Zenology Pro, which is REALLY convenient.

[LittleRichard]

Maybe in the future I might get an Integra 7, that's personally the way I would go if I wanted SRX cards plus there are also a
ton of Supernatural sounds as well as all the XV-5080 stock sounds. Even with the SRJV cards out of all the cards I have bought
the only ones that really gelled with me are the Orchestral card and Bass and drums. I recently sold Session as many of the instruments
on my SC-88 Pro are based on samples from Session and I honestly prefer how they sound on my SC-88 Pro. I only bought World because it
came with the tools and I might sell Country as the SC-88 Pro's guitars are from there as well as the SC-8850's drums. I have also stopped
collecting PCM cards for my U-220 and CM-32P because my SC-55 also has sounds from a few of those cards including it's harpsichord
and clarinet but to be honest I mostly use the SRJV Orchestral card and Emu Proteus/2 for what my U-220 doesn't have. For now I have decided
not to bother with Roland Cloud.

[SteveAstronaut]

Why not just get an Integra 7? LOL, have you seen the price!

[RaquelFoster]

LOL this is a lot of random rambling. The SRX cards are questionable because SRX 1/2/3/4 are really specific limited expansions to fill a niche, and everything after SRX-05 is repackaged SR-JV80 cards. But that doesn't make them bad. The SRX cards are 64 MB, and they went back to the original source and put multiple SR-JV80 cards onto a single card in higher quality. SRX-07 Ultimate Keys is repackaged waveforms, but Spectrasonics went back and made new patches out of them on the newer XV hardware. That one's worth a lot.

But a lot of that stuff is really stupid. SRX-12 is a bunch of repackaged EP sounds, and most of them are just adding different effects. Nobody needs 50 different types of Wurlitzer + flanger/chorus waveforms when the XV modules all had multiple MFX flangers with every possible parameter, even an arp-y step flanger, and even more chorus options. I think even SRX-04 is repackaged. Not from an SR-JV80 card but from older Roland CD-based orchestral samples. But it's really good if you want strings.

The SRX-09 World sounds are just awful. Half the patch names are pretty cringe, and I think maybe the sounds were just aggressively overused in the '90s because to me it all sounds worse than anything on the 1991 Proteus/3 World.

The only SRX card I actually want to use is SRX-05 Supreme Dance, because that was all new sounds for 2002, and it was done by Spectrasonics who did all the best Roland sounds. The Platinum Tracks card is much more dated because it's the repackaged overused '90s cards, so it mostly sounds like a worse version of an E-Mu Planet Phatt. If you want good retro '90s sounds you'd want to get the SR-JV80-06 Dance or M-DC1 Dance which was discontinued for copyright reasons so it wasn't repackaged as an SRX but it's easy to find.

[davshan]

Because SRX series sound worse than SR-JV80 series