The SRX are a series of expansion boards produced by

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. First introduced in 2000, they are small boards of

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with 64MB ROMs containing patches (

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s) and

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sets (

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s). They are used to expand certain models of Roland

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, and

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s. Predecessor formats include the 15 SN-U110 PCM cards (U-110, U-20, U-220, D-70, CM-64 and CM-32P), 8 SL-JD80 PCM card/preset RAM card (JD-only) sets and 8 SO-PCM1 1-2 MB cards (both JD-800, JD-990, JV-80, JV-880, JV-90, JV-1000 and JV-1080), 22 SR-JV80 expansion boards (JD-990, JV-880, JV-1010, JV-1080, JV-2080, XV-3080, XV-5080, JV-80, JV-90, JV-1000, XP-30, XP-50, XP-60, XP-80, Fantom FA76, XV-88) and others.

Expansion boards

* SRX-01 Dynamic Drum Kits * SRX-02 Concert Piano * SRX-03 Studio SRX * SRX-04 Symphonique Strings * SRX-05 Supreme Dance * SRX-06 Complete Orchestra * SRX-07 Ultimate Keys * SRX-08 Platinum Trax * SRX-09 World Collection * SRX-10 Big Brass Ensemble * SRX-11 Complete Piano * SRX-12 Classic EPs * SRX-96 World Collection and Legendary XP Essentials (special SRX board 2008) * SRX-97

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's Rock Organ (special SRX board 2007) * SRX-98 Analog Essentials (special SRX board 2006) * SRX-99 Special Wave Expansion (promo released mid-2004)

Compatible hosts

According to Roland,
Roland US. Retrieved 2012-02-15. the following products accept SRX expansion boards. The number in parenthesis indicates the number of SRX boards each unit can accept. * Fantom workstation (2) * Fantom-S series (4) *

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series (4) * Fantom-XR rack unit (6) * Juno-G (1) * Juno-Stage (2) * RD-700, RD-700SX, and RD-700GX (2) * V-Combo (2) * G-70 (1) * E-80 (2) *

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(1) * SonicCell module (2) * XV-88 (2) * XV-5050, XV-3080, and XV-2020 modules (2) * XV-5080 (4) * V-Studio 700 (1) Some later SRX cards, for example the SRX96 and 97 do not work in the XV3080 host synthesizer module nor in the XV-88 keyboard synthesizer.

References

External links

Roland website
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SRX Expansion Board Demo

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