Due to its library of high-quality sounds and multi-timbral capabilities, it became a mainstay with film composers.

From the factory, the JV-1080 comes with hundreds of patches, and several rhythm kits (8 megabytes total).

The core sampled waveforms of the JV-1080 were developed by Roland R&D-LA in Culver City, California.

Many of the most well-known Factory presets and Xpansion board sounds of the JV-series were created by Eric Persing of Spectrasonics and Ace Yukawa.

[12] Notice: Due to copyright problems Roland no longer distributes the Dance expansion board.