Used for composition in Kay's Chillington studio, as stated by mix engineer Rick Pope and programmer Paul Stoney in this December 2000 Sound On Sound interview transcribed in the official Jamiroquai website forums.

The most recent addition to Jay Kay's current set up is the digital suite, which is equipped with a Sony R100 console and a Roland VP9000. Programmer Paul Stoney, who worked at Real World and Nomis before moving to Chillington, operates this room.

"It was Jay's idea to build a digital room, and he also chose the new desk," Rick Pope explains. "He saw a review of it in one of the pro audio magazines, and decided to take a closer look. We'd already decided to buy a digital console, and had looked at Mackie and the Yamaha O2R, but we felt this one was the right choice because it had all the features we wanted without being hugely expensive. Now that we have had a chance to play with it we know we've made the right decision. It has significantly speeded up the recording process, as well as making writing and experimenting so much easier."

Much the same can be said for the Roland VP9000, as Paul Stoney explains: "We're currently using it for writing and for guitars, using a few basic grooves that enable us to experiment when we don't have a guitarist in the studio. We play guitar riffs and Jay gets his guitar ideas down really easily to MIDI. It's very handy because you don't hear the sound difference when you play it across the keyboard."

Stoney adds that the Roland VP9000 has also proved very easy to use. "It's amazing. If you're dealing with an awkward drum loop, for example, you can mess about until you get it exactly how you want it. There are also some very good effects and, above all, it is simplicity itself. So far we've got some great sounds from it. We just did a Kool & The Gang track for their new album, taking all the brass they'd given us and using the Roland to speed it up. It handled this easily without losing any quality. Having a piece of equipment like the VP9000 changes everything because you can use material you wouldn't normally be able to use, and this gives you an opportunity to put down ideas that might previously have seemed impossible."

"I bought a VP9000 and I've been a little bit disappointed, because I had this idea from the hype that they might have made audio completely elastic, which is what I want it to be, but it isn't quite there yet... One thing I will say for it, though, is that it's got great effects." - from March 2001 issue of Sound On Sound magazine.

At the 1:20 mark in the "Studio Tour with Todd Edwards" video, Todd Edwards shows the Roland VP-9000. This video, reuploaded by Setrki Is Five, was originally part of the Scion Musicless Music Conference 2011.

Eric Persing has had a unique and influential relationship with Roland Corp for two decades. He started as a product demonstrator in 1984, showing some of Roland's first MIDI instruments. He quickly became involved in the R&D side with Roland Japan, earning the title "Chief Sound Designer", and began contributing his design ideas, real-world studio experience and sound design expertise. Persing's skills have left their mark on countless classic Roland instruments.

He is the originator of many legendary Roland sounds that have become part of the vocabulary and lexicon of musical sound. These include the Factory D-50 sounds such as Fantasia, Soundtrack and Digital Native Dance, a majority of the JV/XP/XV series Classics, all the Factory JD-800 sounds, the original Juno "Hoover" sound and thousands of others.

Here is a partial list of the Roland instruments that Eric has contributed his sound design, sampling and design consulting skills:

Juno-106 Alpha Juno 1&2 JX-3P JX-8P JX-10 Jupiter 6 Super Jupiter D-50 D-550 D-110 D-10 D-20 D-70 MT-32 U-110 U-20 U-220 Sound Canvas JD-800 JD-990 JV-80 JV-90 JV-1000 JV-1080 JV-2080 XP-10 XP-50 XP-60 XP-80 XV-3080 XV-5050 XV-5080 Fantom JP-8000 JP-8080 S-10 S-220 S-50 S-550 S-770 S-760 S-750 MC-303 MC-500 MC-505 VP-9000 MSQ-700 MSQ-100 MKS-20 MKS-30 MKS-50 MKS-70 MKS-80 R-8 R-5 DR-660 DR-770 R-70 V-Drums V-Drums expansion board SRV-2000 DEP-5 RSP-550 R-880 SRV-330 SE-50 SE-70 VS-880 VS-1680 SR-JV series expansion boards SRX series expansion boards Sound Canvas Project series CD-ROM libraries Archives series CD-ROM libraries Composers series CD-ROM libraries

In this video at 3:13 we can see Roland VP-9000 VariPhrase Processor

David Newman's main workstation in the composition room, with no fewer than three computer screens and two video displays. Visible in the rack are (from left), Korg Triton Rack and TR-Rack modules, Yamaha CS6R module, Mackie line mixer, Emu Proteus 2000, Audity 2000 and Planet Earth modules, Roland XV5080 module and VP9000 processor.