All about the Roland Jupiter-series

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From: FibrOptic7@... [mailto:FibrOptic7@...] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 6:08 AM
To: morgan@...
Cc: analogue@...
Subject: [AH] mks80 / mpg80


In a message dated 9/11/00 10:08:20 PM Central Daylight Time, 
morgan@... writes:

<< Why, I almost bought one because I thought it would give me the power of
a
 J-8, and a really cool control pannel? Why would you wan't to dump it?
  >>
 
I had written I was going to sell my roland MKS-80 / MPG-80 very soon @
eBay. 
 :)

The reason....I have WAY too many synths that sound alike now, and I always 
thought I would be thrilled with the MKS-80.  I do really like it, but some 
of my other gear has got the "warm buzzy" sound down well, and perhaps it's 
just me and my laziness in having to press "auto tune" every twenty minutes 
or less.....I dunno.

In that respect, it really IS quite an analog piece.  The thing drifts 
continually, but then again, that'll happen with this type of circuitry.  

ALSO, and a very big "also"......  it's so hard doing chords with analog 
synths.  Seriously.  It gets very heavy, even with two oscillators that a 
three fingered chord becomes cluttered with chorus and drift.  With that, I 
end up using workstations and such because the digital end has a lighter
feel 
to it, and really is great for these issues.  

Analog, truly, is fabulous in a monosynth sort of way.  But when numerous 
keys are combined, it gets too huge...I cannot even imagine what a 
hair-pulling time I'd have with a Memorymoog.  

I've always been the first to antagonize anyone who said that analog is 
better than virtual, but when it comes down to recording, virtuals do not 
compete with or cancel out the other frequencies in a track...they sound
very 
thin and blend quickly.  With my true analogs, this cancellation is always 
happening where I can't use them, but do enjoy owning them.  

I know that that sounds appealing to the analog purist, and it is actually 
appealing were it only me and my mks80 in a track, but fitting the thing
into 
a song is like trying to fit into a size 28 pants when you're really a 38, 
you know?  ;)

Hell, I even had a freaky time working with my old JX8P.  I couldn't blend 
that thing at all.  It would stand out like a sore thumb.  My MKS-70 is 
exactly the same in this respect.

mike