MATRIXSYNTH: The Sound of the Roland Jupiter-4


Friday, January 09, 2009

The Sound of the Roland Jupiter-4


YouTube via retrosound72

"vintage synth demo by RetroSound

Roland Jupiter-4 Analog Synthesizer (1978);
For me the Jupiter synth with the most interesting sound. Four voices. These are nearly always „out of tune , them are never correct. But makes for one possible so outstanding musical sound."

6 comments:

  1. thank heavens he's wearing a wedding ring -- at least he's got a fallback if his music career fails.

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  2. Funny. I play like that quite a bit myself. The Jupiter-4 does sound massive. The beginning reminded me of early Human League.

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  3. Something about playing the black keys only...

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  4. black keys only is the key of "B" right?

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  5. I love the JP-4 as well.

    I'm all for playing just black notes, but you can still write catchy and interesting things using a pentatonic scale, in fact it's easier.

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