Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

On Sep 28, 2006, at 10:30 AM, Mauricio Balma wrote:

>   the Rolnad JP 8080 is one of the best VA synths ever.  It has a  
> great sound, it can process external audio throught audio inputs,  
> it has some kind of vocoder, and it has sequencer incorporated.   
> The amazing JP8080 is around $600.

I agree wholeheartedly with this assessment. The JP sounds great and  
is also rather shallow, i.e. most of the sound parameters have a  
slider or knob, so there's not too much digging around in menus a la  
the Virus (which sounds great but ick what an annoying interface). I  
had a Novation Nova for a while as well - nice sounding synth with 6  
channels and full effects on each channel, but it was menu-based and  
the filter/reso controller numbers are over 100, which my XP (tops  
out at 99) and the XL (tops out at 95) can't control. The JP  
fortunately uses 74 for cutoff (standard for Roland). Also, the  
SuperSaw and Feedback oscillators are hard to beat for great  
electronic tones.

The vocoder isn't bad either. :D

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Mibrilane





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