All about the Roland Jupiter-series

Don't know how accurate this is, from here:
http://www.synthtech.com/cem/cemsynth.html
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Jupiter 6
12 CEM3340 VCO
6 CEM3360 Dual VCA
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Roland SH101 and MC202
1 CEM3340 VCO
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MKS-20
5 CEM3360 Dual VCA
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MKS-80 to Serial #511800
8 CEM3340 VCO
4 CEM3360 Dual VCA
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MKS-80 Serial #511800 up
8 IR-3R03 Roland VCO
4 CEM3360 Dual VCA
4 IR-3R05 Roland VCF/VCA
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Seems like none of the Jups used CEM/SSM VCF chips.
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--- In Roland_Jupiters@yahoogroups.com, "drayon6" <drayon6@l...>
wrote:

> --- In Roland_Jupiters@yahoogroups.com, "Verschut, Ricardo"

<ricardo.verschut@a...>

> wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 11:30:00 -0700
> > From: "Cary Roberts" <cary.roberts@r...>
> > Subject: MKS-80
> >
> > >The MKS -80 is a Jupiter 8 not a JX-10,
> > >the MKS-70 is two JX-8P's in a rack, as
> > >is the JX-10, (except it's a keyboard)..
> >
> > No No No. The MKS80 has Jupiter 6 voice boards. It is nothing

like a

> > Jupiter 8 even though they have the same number of voices. Early

MKS80s

> > have CEM3340s for oscillators just like JP6s, and later MKS80s

have Roland

> > oscillators. That being said I think a rev4 is much more

suitable for

> > punchy bass than the rev5. You just can't go wrong with 3340s

for bass

> > sounds. (okay, so discrete is better, but lets not go there)
> >
> > -Cary
>
> So do the later MKS-80's (serial 511801 UP) with the custom Roland

IR-3R03 VCO have

> the same VCF chip as the earlier MKS-80's and JP8's? Remember ALL

the MKS80's, the

> JP6's and JP8's use the same VCA chips. If the JP6 uses the same

VCF chip as the early

> MKS then i would predict the units would sound very similar.

Coincidently, my question

> is raised from this....is, which VCF chips did the JP6 use? The

Curtis CEM 3350 or the

> custom Roland IR-3R05 VCF or some other (SSM perhaps)??