All about the Roland Jupiter-series

-----Original Message-----
From: Chad Gould [mailto:Chad_Gould@...]
Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 4:08 PM
To: 'analogue@...'
Subject: RE: [AH] Juno-106 vs. JP-8000 (was Jupiter 6 vs. JP-8000)

> I'd assume up-front that there's some original character in the 106

because

> there's SOOO many artists who still use the thing. That plus it sold well
> when new, and it's a reliable synth.

There is character in a Juno 106, too bad the character is very limited in
variety. (:

> Simply put - can a JP-8000 do a reasonable job at the 106 sounds?

Pretty reasonable. Actually the Nord Lead does a better Juno 106, I think. I
don't think the JP-6 does (it can... with work... but it isn't as
slippery-sounding as the 106...)..
__________
CHAD GOULD

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott T [mailto:snoffl@...]
Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 7:47 PM
To: Analogue@...
Subject: Re: [AH] Juno-106 vs. JP-8000 (was Jupiter 6 vs. JP-8000)


Hmm,

Time to chime in here,...

I have both (JP8080) and would not part with either. Both are
completely different animals as faras I am concerned.

The Juno_106 is in demand for good reason. It has increddible sounds
and is really fun to tweak with all those levers. The Juno-106 was my
first synth and what I used while I learned about sound synthesis. If
it was good enough for Bill Orbit and Madonna then it will serve my
needs. Whenever I need a track to sound like a Juno-106, that is what
I use.

The JP8080, I predict, is going to be something that only achieves a
high degree of demand after it has been around a bit. It has been in my
studio for about 6 mos. I would part with it for around $2500 US at
this point and tomorrow the price goes up to $3000. This thing makes so
many fucked up sounds that I find myself wishing there were three or
four of them in the studio. It is an absolute breeze to program and
save user patches. I have never tried to get my 8989 to sound like
anything other than an 8080. Besides being a nice synth with lots of
realtime editable parameters, it is also a nifty sound processor for
other synths and samplers. It
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-----Original Message-----
From: NTaLec [mailto:jwells@...]
Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 7:16 PM
To: Chad Gould; analogue@...
Subject: Re: [AH] Juno-106 vs. JP-8000 (was Jupiter 6 vs. JP-8000)


I think where the Nord products, Waldorf products, and to a degree the
JP-8000/8080 get a bum rap is that people want to try and make them sound
like old synths when they really have strong personalities of their own. I
think it ok to try and duplicate those sounds but when you experiment with
them they can do you can come up with some nice sounds.
A lot of people complain about the zip effect or the digital sound of the
JP-8000 the only problem I had with the JP-8000 was that short keyboard, but
my tracks that have JP-8000 on them were always layered with other synths so
I would get smoother sweeps.

----- Original Message -----
From: Chad Gould <Chad_Gould@...>
To: <analogue@...>
Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 10:08 AM
Subject: RE: [AH] Juno-106 vs. JP-8000 (was Jupiter 6 vs. JP-8000)


> > I'd assume up-front that there's some original character in the 106
> because
> > there's SOOO many artists who still use the thing. That plus it sold
well
> > when new, and it's a reliable synth.
>
> There is character in a Juno 106, too bad the character is very limited in
> variety. (:
>
> > Simply put - can a JP-8000 do a reasonable job at the 106 sounds?
>
> Pretty reasonable. Actually the Nord Lead does a better Juno 106, I think.
I
> don't think the JP-6 does (it can... with work... but it isn't as
> slippery-sounding as the 106...)..
> __________
> CHAD GOULD
>
>