via this auction"The Roland Jupiter 8 is one of the best sounding and most playable analog polyphonic synthesizers from the 1980's. When it came time for me to purchase my first poly synth I played them all: Prophet 5 and Prophet 10, Rhodes Chroma, Yamaha CS70M, Memorymoog, Oberheim OBXa, everything I could get my hands on. I kept going back to the JP8. It has a great fat sound, live performance playability, relatively stable tuning (after she warms up any drifting is musically realistic and adds to it's warmth), and a voice architecture that lets your creativity stretch beyond it's contemporaries.
Being an avid programmer I found it more flexible than the others with such things as: continuously variable oscillator mixing (unlike the Oberheim), cross modulation, envelope inverting, dual mode filter plus a high pass filter, full featured oscillator modulation, and a very musical arpeggiator. This unit is one of the early ones, purchased in 1983 and well taken care of. It is pre midi and the only modification done to it was to install a detachable power cable. I would assume it to be a 12 bit model due to it's age, which I understand is desireable and reputed to have a thicker sound. The serial number is 141263"
how is this 12 bit?
ReplyDeleteIts not a sampler...
link and specifically link
ReplyDeleteNote the first link is a search on Jupiter-8 and 12bit while the second is a link to a post listing out the different versions. It's the DAC that's 12bit.
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