MATRIXSYNTH: Roland Jupiter 4 with Mods


Sunday, January 16, 2011

Roland Jupiter 4 with Mods

via this auction
"It is not a VCO on a chip... The VCOs are discrete (it actually uses the same kind of electronic piece as the early revision Minimoogs), rather than the on-chip design so many others went for soon after (Like the OB8, Prophets, Memorymoog etc). This gives it a really monstrous analog sound.

This unit was outfitted with a brilliant mod that allows CV/Gate control over each of the four voices. This is much more useful than simple midi as you can control this from analog sequencers, drum machines, a modular, or if you'd like, a midi to cv unit or silent way. I used this unit with Ableton Live and Silent Way running through a MOTU Ultralte MK3. I recommend using this with Silent Way as you have full control of each voice allows you to do things like apply LFOs to detune each voice. Nevermind what I said earlier; the most powerful sound is running CV/Gate into each of the 4 voices, dropping 2 voices down an octave and having LFOs subtly modulating the pitch on a few of the voices, therefore turning this into a 4 VCO discrete monosynth! It's astonishing the amount you can do with this. There are switches next to each set of CV/Gate so you can turn on and off the feature if you'd like. Sometimes, I'd like to just run one voice into the CV/Gate for a bassline and use the others to play melodies and such..."



1 comment:

  1. "The VCOs are discrete (it actually uses the same kind of electronic piece as the early revision Minimoogs)"

    No. It uses uA726 chips. The same type chip the LAST revision of the Minimoog used.
    The early version of Minimoog VCOs used no such chips.
    Still sounds good either way.

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