"Roland Jupiter 8 in good condition. The face of the unit has a few marks as well as 1 hole plug and another hole plug on the right end cheek. The unit otherwise is in pretty great shape and his been restored comprehensively inside. It features Encore midi, the best midi available for the Jupiter 8 in our opinion."
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"Here's a super clean 8 voice OB-Xa which was recently completely restored by the fantastic Synth Tailor Electronics in Ohio. This one has Encore MIDI and sounds amazing, as you would expect from an OB-Xa."
"This listing is for a vintage Roland Jupiter 8 analog synthesizer. Rare 14-bit version, also referred to as the "JP-8A". It was serviced a few years ago, and fitted with Encore MIDI on the rear panel. This synth performs great and sounds incredible - ready for your next recording project."
"Great working condition, all eight voices work, all knobs, keyboard, outputs , levers, stereo panning etc. Note that as all vintage OB's synths, sometimes when you turn it on you might have one or two voices not passing autotune - this happens to most of them, and as you keep it turned on and it warms up, then, hit autotune again then they go away and you have all eight voices functioning properly. Good cosmetic condition as well (original owner painted the top and sides black, the rest is stock). Has Encore MIDI interface mounted on, which is also tested and working. Also comes with professional heavy-duty hard case."
"rare oberheim obx. 8 factory voices. restored with original components and calibrated, it works like a Swiss watch. encore midi edit with many functions and 120 memories. the synthesizer looks perfect always kept in a maniacal way."
"This one is in excellent cosmetic condition and working 100%. It has just been professionally serviced and with quite a bit of restoration. As the title says, it has Encore Midi plus the new Techsmechs TM-8 Keyboard. This keyboard is a huge improvement compared to the original. Please check the Encore Electronics website for the midi specifications."
"Fully refurbished Oberheim OB-XA synth from 1982, expanded with Encore MIDI kit and original printed manuals. All electronics service repairs and parts replacement was done in between Aug 2019 - May 2021 by professional tech shop."
"A real time recording of the Moog Subharmonicon, EH Canyon Looper, Empress Reverb, Encore Frequency Shifter, a custom RADIO module for the 5U large format modular, Dove Audio WTF VCO, synthesizers.com Q150 filter and Echo Fix EF-X2 tape delay. The radio module is voltage controlled by a Q119 step sequencer from synthesizers.com. It is run into the frequency shifter and a mix of several noise and stored random voltages from the Sputnik West Coast Random Source (a Buchla Source of Uncertainty clone) is modulating the frequency center. This is then run to an STG Post Lawsuit Low Pass Filter and on to an Oakley Audio state variable filter in band pass resonant mode. I am playing the center frequency of this filter and sending the signal on to the Echo Fix tape delay. The delay is voltage controlled from a Mega Ohm Audio LFO2 module from the 5U modular with a very slow rising ramp wave. As the voltage drops off the tape delay motor sweeps back down with a wonderful gliding effect. The Subharmonicon is clocked from another Mega Ohm Audio LFO2. The output of Sequencer 2 is sent to a Dove Audio Window Transform Function VCO and gated to a Q109 Envelope Generator as well as run through the Q150 Transistor Ladder filter by synthesizers.com. A separate instance of the Subharmonicon was previously recorded to the Electro Harmonix Canyon pedal looper. It is faded up at the last portion to add momentum to the piece. The Empress Reverb pedal is adding some nice modulated reverb to the SubH and Canyon. What I really enjoyed was the glorious runaway feedback of the tape echo. It was fun to balance out the moving swells at the same time as playing the sub oscillators on the SubH and Oakley filter. As I moved about the antenna of the radio varied in how strong the signal picked up the AM radio stations. This lended another modulation and random aspect to the waveforms injected into the piece. A fun exercise."
"A live performance with the 5U large format modular synthesizer.
Starting with an Encore Electronics frequency shifter and Yusynth Arp 4072 filter. Modulations to the frequency shifter from a Sputnik WCRS, and an Ian Fritz DDVCO in harmonic sequence mode.
The bass sequence is driven by the STG Soundlabs suite with two VMS and one TMS, a pair of EG's, a Switch module and the Time Divider. Clock timing from Cubase via dinsync to the Time Buffer. Four synthesizers.com Q106's into a Q150 transistor ladder filter and an Oakley SVF.
The melodic sequence is a pair of Q960 sequencers to a pair of Q106's through an STG Sea Devils filter and Q107 SVF.
The percussive tick sound is a Sputnik voltage controlled slope.
Delays and reverbs include Behringer DD400's, Empress reverb, Strymon Blue Sky, Electro Harmonix Canyon, TipTop DSP with Valhalla Shimmer and Modcan 73B.'
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"OB-XA in excellent condition. Works like original. Maintained by Boomer of SynthCo in Los Angeles. Has a Encore MIDI kit installed. Its the better of the two MIDI kits available for OB-Xa's. Exterior in excellent condition other than a few minor scratches on the top (see pics). Includes rare OB-Xa studio cover. Comes with pedal. Has been used rarely in smoke free studio."
"The Source Midi Kit gives expanded memory, MIDI in/out, and other capabilities. The memory has been expanded to a total of 256 patches - 16 banks of 16 patches each, accessed from the front panel.
See the manual here, but keep in mind I think this is an earlier firmware for the SMK upgrade so some details may not be exactly the same as described.
Note: The output of the Source in general is very hot. Maybe the hottest of any synth I’ve ever used. This is partly by design as Moog designed the signal path hot to drive the OTAs into subtle distortion (fat bass tones), but there is a faint oscillator bleed when gained high on the mixer."
"Vintage Oberheim OB-Xa programmable polyphonic analog synthesizer in excellent condition with Encore MIDI and Memory expansion. This synth has been fully serviced, calibrated, tuned, and has also had new key bushings installed. Works, looks, and sounds amazing. Shipping anywhere within the USA will be $225.00. The price includes full insurance and custom packaging so that the synthesizer arrives safely to you.Please contact me if you are located outside of the USA and would like a shipping quote. Local pickup is welcomed and much preferred. I have lots of other vintage and newer musical gear for sale. Please check my other listings."
You'll find the full list of editors for sale here. Note these do require the APPLE LOGIC audio/sequencer program (formerly Emagic Logic). To use the editors you MUST have a valid copy of LOGIC on your computer as well as a MIDI interface which connects your computer via MIDI cable to your hardware synthesizer.
This software CANNOT be used as a stand alone application under any circumstances. It will NOT run in Ableton, Reason, VST, AU or any other host - it is not a plug-in but two importable layers of the Logic environment.
New programmers include the JP-8000/8080, Prophet VS, JD-800 and JD-990, and OB-Xa with Encore MIDI (pictured in order here).
