Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: All about the Roland Jupiter-series

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Perkowitz [mailto:map@...]
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 6:16 PM
To: Kay
Cc: analogue heaven
Subject: Re: [AH] Re: +AFs-AH+AF0- eBay: JP-8...mks80 / mpg80

> Why, I almost bought one because I thought it would give me the power

of a

> J-8, and a really cool control pannel? Why would you wan't to dump

it?

>
> MKS-80 is the rackmounting of J-6+ACEAIQAh-

it definitely isn't. the two are more similar than either is to the jp8,
probably, but there are important differences. the most thorough
discussion of all three jupiters is probably still this:

http://machines.hyperreal.org/manufacturers/Roland/Jupiter/info/roland.JP6.J
P8.MKS80.txt

ive been in a studio with all three and they're three related but
significantly different machines. buy all three! :)


m


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