JD-800 is a Roland’s digital synthesizer launched in 1991. The instrument provides 24 voices when one tone is used and reduces the polyphony to 6 notes when 4 tones are active (a patch can include up to 4 tones). The synthesis is based on proprietory...
At the moment it’s clear that this first analogue modeling synthesizer by Roland has had a firm grip on its place among the cult instruments produced by the Japanese corporation. The ability to reproduce the sounds of analog synthesizers of the past...
The rackmount version of Roland JP-8000 differs in polyphony which was increased from 8 to 10 voices, the number of presets and user program memory were more than doubled, new effects were added - flanger and distortion, voice modifier Voice Modulator...
If Jupiter-80 seems to be unaffordably ponderous anyway - weight, price, and richness of functions, the full research of which requires more than one week, Roland Corporation offers to opt for Jupiter-50. This is a performing instrument that is focused...
Roland didn’t try to make Jupiter 8 out of Jupiter-80, but we can’t deny that the instrument failed to keep the famous name at the proper level. The 100% digital sound engine of the new Jupiter is based on Supernatural technology, sampling every note of...