The front face of the unit is in good condition with very little cosmetic wear and all buttons and rotaries present. Expected wear and tear on the chassis of the unit from living in racks. Comes with GC-8 Graphic Controller, however, the GC-8 may need the internal battery replaced.
Unit does not come with a ROM card.
The R880 is a two audio input, four audio output reverb unit with input A feeding outputs 1 and 2, and input B feeding outputs 3 and 4. Inputs and outputs appear as four different types of connectors, namely balanced cannon, unbalanced jack, coaxial digital (SPdif) and Roland's proprietary optical digital. The front panel has 12-segment input level LEDs for each channel, applicable only to analogue inputs, and channel 1-4 output metering of a similar nature. A MIDI channel selector and display, and analogue input rotary are the only other front-panel controls. The rear panel houses the connectors, MIDI sockets (in/out), RRC DIN sockets (for connection to the GC8 remote control unit and daisy-chaining to other R880s) and a unigain switch for level matching (-20/+4 dBm).
The GC8 is a Graphic Controller capable of controlling all the functions of up to 16 R880s operating on different MIDI channels. The panel of this remote consists of five function keys with a shift button; four brown cursor keys for moving around the display and two white cursor keys for changing to upper and lower levels of pages; a numeric pad; four keys labelled Help, Control, Cancel and Enter; and five unlabelled multi-purpose rotaries. The 255X63 character display will show up to 99 internal memories and card memories (using D256/128 cards). The unit uses software booted up from a ROM card (allowing future improvements to be made).