All about the Roland Jupiter-series

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From: Kenneth Elhardt [mailto:elhardt@...]
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 4:33 AM
To: analogue@...
Subject: Re: [AH] jupiter 8 retro fit & missed CS-80 opportunity


david writes:

>>does anyone have any experience with the jupiter 8 midi upgrade fro kenton

>>? is it difficult to install yourself ?<<

A number of people are recommending you also look at the Encore midi 
retrofit.  I just went through this decision myself and compared the 
features of the two using their PDF manuals.  The thing that Kenton has is 
velocity and aftertouch support.  But I later found out it is only 
monophonic velocity.  It would still be nice to have, but the Kenton 
interface with shipping is about $100 more than the Encore.  Tony from 
Encore said he would revisit the JP-8 midi kit later this year and consider 
the possibility of adding monophonic velocity (currently supports breath 
controller).  If you're in the US and mono-velocity isn't important to you, 
then the Encore seems like the easier way to go.  I just bought two of them 
myself.  But I still had to go to Kenton for my soon to arrive Memorymoog 
retrofit.

I noticed your post looking for a CS-80.  A week ago I was about to post to 
the list that I saw one selling for $1499 at 
(www.generation.net/~musicr/Keyboard.htm), but then came all the AOL vs AH 
problems and the list wasn't working right for me.  Now I see it is gone.  
But you should keep links like these around and visit them often to catch 
rare things when the pop up.

-Elhardt

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