All about the Roland Jupiter-series

-----Original Message-----
From: OWEN DEVIVO [mailto:ODeVivo@...] 
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 8:47 PM
To: 'analogue@...'
Subject: RE: [AH] MKS-80, Jupiter8, Virus: Are they apples and oranges?


MKS-80 vs. Virus..........

heh, somewhat apples and oranges, unless you'll use the Virus for ONLY a
synth (never using the fx, multiouts or inputs...)

The Virus hands down. Not too mention the wide scope of capabilities the
Virus has.
The Virus is a more modern tool as well....

yup, that's my thought,
Owen the soyboy

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Royce Lee [SMTP:rlee@...]
	Sent:	Friday, March 31, 2000 12:13 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