NOT NAMM: New Roland Jupiter-4 Interface with full MIDI in the Works

via sequencer.de via covariance on The Roland Jupiter Series BBS

"Feature list:
- Faithful emulation of the original Roland Jupiter 4 programmer chip
- Memory is expanded to 32 patches and internally stored in non-volatile memory
- MIDI In and Out connections
- All 16 sliders and 9 switches are sending and receiving MIDI control messages
- MIDI channel change from control panel (press MANUAL + PRESET switches)
- Modifying stored patches is now possible
- Sending and receiving MIDI Program Change messages
- Patch dump

Planned features:
- Firmware upgradable thru MIDI
- Patch copy
- Patch morph
- LFO on any parameter
- Randomize parameters
- Elektron TurboMidi compatibility (10 times faster MIDI communication)

The second board is a usual MIDI interface that has the following features:
- Polifonic MIDI Note messages
- Pitch bend control
- VCF control
- Volume control
- Portamento control
- Arpeggio rate control
All these controls are parallel with the JP4 performance controls."

Update: a link to the user's manual is now posted at the thread on the BBS.