All about the Roland Jupiter-series

-----Original Message-----
From: geek. [mailto:krisa@...]
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 10:16 AM
To: M.Strijbos
Cc: Analogue Heaven (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [AH] JP-8 and more


> I've already gathered loads of relevant info from the AH archives and
other 
> online resources but i was wondering if anybody knew how many of these 
> monsters were actually built? I remember reading an interview with a
senior 
> Japanese Roland official who stated that the actual sales of the JP-8 had 
> been very disappointing for such a critically acclaimed model. Anyone know

> the score???

I'm kind of curious now that VA and Analogue are coming into favor, if it
would be feasable for Roland to actualy recreate some of their better
synths part by part.  I'm sure if Roland dusted off the schematics for the
JP-8, polished it with full MIDI, and put it to market, it would have to
sell. 

Those who keep mint JP-8's in a box waiting to make a cool 2K would be
kind of pissed if I could go down to the local music store and pick up a
brand new one.

Or maybe start from scratch and go head to head with Alesis and come out
with a Jupiter 20. :)