NDLR with 1 synth ?

[Darryl]

While I've not used a JD-XA, it is one of those super synths that seems to do everything. The key here is that it is 4 part multi-timbral with 64 voices.  It looks like you can assign a MIDI channel to each of the 4 NDLR parts. By default, the analog parts are monophonic, so those would make good NDLR motif parts. You can assign the PAD and drone to digital parts.

The manual is pretty dense, and I didn't see how to do this but I'd be surprised if you can't do a keyboard split to try playing 4 different parts at once. That is, assign each JD-XA part to a seperate part of its keyboard. Then you can get an idea of what it would be like for The NDLR to be playing those 4 parts.

Here is how to set a zone for each part, from page 16 of the JD-XA manual:
Press Part On [01]–[04] + keyboard twice (to specify the lower and upper limit) Specifies the key range of each part.

Is it implying there are only two zones? Or you can do this once for each of the 4 parts? I'm not sure.