The style is what you would expect from a synthesizer of this size. At the same time, I would have preferred a few more buttons and knobs for direct feature/properties control.
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There is no way that Roland could have made the screen (much) bigger, but the layout could have been more clutter-free, and the buttons could have been designed to each serve multiple purposes in order to free up real estate on the board. I know, it couldn’t be much bigger given this is a small synthesizer and not something like the Yamaha Montage 8, which is obviously an 88-key synthesizer. The menu interface on this particular keyboard could be better and the LCD screen is quite small. In fact, the opposite is usually true modern synthesizers are generally very simplistic in their designs and practicality is at a premium. The vast majority of synthesizers I come across have no issues in regards to their UI. Fortunately for Roland fans, this is not the story with the JD-Xi, and as far as I’m concerned this is not the story with any synthesizer by the brand. Not these in particular, but many smaller synths you find online are not really worth purchasing, and the musical versatility they provide is very limited. It’s more comparable to something like the OP-1, Korg MS20, or Korg MicroKorg.
The Roland JD-Xi is a mini synthesizer, nowhere near the size and weight of something with 88 or 61 keys. The verdict on those? They were both fantastic, but you can read the reviews for more on those. We all know Roland to be one of the big players in the industry with the Moog’s and the Korg’s of the world I even had the chance to review both the DS88 and DS61.
The Roland JD-Xi is a very capable instrument, and it is one of the very few ‘powerhouses’ on the market that come at an affordable price.
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