Here’s an example of what we’re up against by losing that patch memory. Right after the Fanfare, there’s a section of music that sounds like this:
It has no samples in it at all – every sound is coming out of the JV-2080. In this snippet, you can hear six different sounds, but in the entire 3:30 section there are 15 separate synthesizer tracks, which means 15 separate (lost) patches.
Let’s look at one of them more closely. Listening to the snippet above, you can hear a mid-range bassline that sounds a little bit like a TB-303. If you’re not a nerd, it’s the sound that’s kind of going “owp. owp. owp. owp. owp. owp. owp-owp-owp…” Hear it?
This is what the track info looks like in the sequencer:
So very gray…
The program change event triggers patch 43, which defaults to a Harmonium, which sounds like this:
Nope.
The title of the actual snippet is “64 Poly Pulse”, another default patch, but that patch sounds like this:
Mmmm… no.
The track title is “TB303 Saw”, which is the really what the patch sounds like to me, but that was a custom designed patch that is long gone. It won’t be too difficult to get close to the original, but forensic synthesizer programming isn’t really my forte. Especially on a display that looks like this:
Still not a 303.
But at least that’s a clue. Other tracks have names like “DanceStack” and, least helpfully, “Track 14”.