Aye, rich RGB feedback, with different color schemes you can pick from, and fully customisable to taste for those who want to dig deeper.

Lights can also be used to show LFO rates, envelopes going through their stages, what parameters is being assigned or affected by another, which are being automated by the sequencer, etc.

Also, JD-XA has this option where you can turn off the LEDs of specific sections/controls, Roland's thinking being that you would just leave on the ones pertinent to the performance. Let's take that further and have the lights MIDI controllable so that you can highlight different part of the synth has the song progresses or just make your own light shows like you can with a Launchpad. It'll stand out on stage.

When you have a wide array of lights like that the whole front panel becomes a screen and a lot of useful information can be conveyed through that.

That can also get obnoxious, particularly with lights this larges, so options to dial down or turn off specific aspects.

Add a light sensor so that the lights can self adjust their brightness to ambient conditions. Tablettes etc do that, never too bright or dark.

Finally add, I don't know what they're called, presence sensor? I know some printers and stuff that'll react when you stand in front of them. Use that to have the synth brighten up when you are in front of it and quiet down when you move away, for ultimate comfort

Beautiful 😄

Are those wood panels from Roland?

Thank you!
Nope, they’re not from Roland…

Custom designed by me
They’re styled towards Jup-8 and Juno-60 shape, and the wood is hand-selected walnut heartwood that my dad, who’s a very skilled hobby carpenter, then cut and sanded to the shape of my template.

They look great!

Very nice.

I make panels & stands for synthesizers for a living & can tell those have been crafted beautifully.

Thank you!
Big compliment from a master of the craft!

Too kind. 1st time I've ever been called a master before