All about the Roland Jupiter-series

--- In Roland_Jupiters@yahoogroups.com, "Verschut, Ricardo" <ricardo.verschut@a...> 
wrote:
> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 11:30:00 -0700
> From: "Cary Roberts" <cary.roberts@r...>
> Subject: MKS-80
> 
> >The MKS -80 is a Jupiter 8 not a JX-10,
> >the MKS-70 is two JX-8P's in a rack, as
> >is the JX-10, (except it's a keyboard)..
> 
> No No No.  The MKS80 has Jupiter 6 voice boards.  It is nothing like a
> Jupiter 8 even though they have the same number of voices.  Early MKS80s
> have CEM3340s for oscillators just like JP6s, and later MKS80s have Roland
> oscillators.  That being said I think a rev4 is much more suitable for
> punchy bass than the rev5.  You just can't go wrong with 3340s for bass
> sounds.  (okay, so discrete is better, but lets not go there)
> 
> -Cary

So do the later MKS-80's (serial 511801 UP) with the custom Roland IR-3R03 VCO have 
the same VCF chip as the earlier MKS-80's and JP8's? Remember ALL the MKS80's, the 
JP6's and JP8's use the same VCA chips. If the JP6 uses the same VCF chip as the early 
MKS then i would predict the units would sound very similar. Coincidently, my question 
is raised from this....is, which VCF chips did the JP6 use? The Curtis CEM 3350 or the 
custom Roland IR-3R05 VCF or some other (SSM perhaps)??