All about the Roland Jupiter-series

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From: Royce Lee [mailto:rlee@...] 
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 7:13 PM
To: analogue@...
Subject: [AH] MKS-80, Jupiter8, Virus: Are they apples and oranges?



I know this may seem like a tired issue, and it was to me until I came up
with around 800$ and started to think about which synths to buy.  Does
anybody own both an MKS-80 and a Virus?  What are there relative strengths
and weaknesses?  If you only had the money for one, which would you go
for. . .or rather, which would you go for first?

I've heard some people complain about slow envelopes on the MKS-80 and
sloppy sequencing.  If that was that, I wouldn't even consider it further,
but I know these kinds of complaints are often related to computer,
interface timing problems.  

Any input would be appreciated.

-royce