All about the Roland Jupiter-series

Since I first posted, I've done a bit more fiddling to determine that 
my JP-6 has nearly seven octaves of VCO mod range on both the ENV-1 
and LFO sliders, prior to the "WIDE" setting on the bender board. Is 
there anything else that can go that wide? Without a frequency 
counter, I can't determine just how far the combination of max VCO 
mod and max bend goes. Suffice to say that I can't hear it anymore, 
even with VCO1 set at 32C. I can't seem to get nearly that amount out 
of the MKS-80. I agree that the MM VCF is probably one of the coolest 
things going, but I still miss the 2-pole lowpass sparkle my OB-8 
had. Some of the VA's can do a decent job emulating it, but the JP-8 
owners really have a cool thing in the 2-pole switch.

--- In Roland_Jupiters@yahoogroups.com, "modorange333" 
<modorange333@y...> wrote:
> Without an MKS-80 to compare it to, my JP-6 would have to be 
> every bit as versatile as I would want it to be, because of one 
> thing it has that the MKS nor the JP-8 have. The multimode filter. 
> The band- highpass filters available allows for many more 
> interesting sounds, I think.--- In 
> Roland_Jupiters@yahoogroups.com, "asemcken" 
> <asemcken@y...> wrote:
> > Hi :
> > 
> > Not trying to start a flame thread here, just an observation. 
I've 
> > been slowly programming a bunch of my JP-6 sounds into my 
> rev. 5 MKS-
> > 80 and a few things have come up :
> > 
> > 1) I can't seem to get anywhere near the same range out of the 
> VCO 
> > mod section on the MKS as the JP-6 gets. It seems to be 
> almost a full 
> > octave less.
> > 2) The XMOD seems to be acting the same way. On my JP-6, I 
> can XMOD 
> > VCO 1 to match pitch with VCO 2 even when tuned a full octave 
> lower. 
> > The MKS only works as far as a fifth lower.
> > 3) I have not yet been successful in getting similar-sounding 
> > envelopes on both machines. The JP's seem "smoother", 
> especially in 
> > the transition between Attack and Decay.
> > 4) The "wide" bend setting on the MKS is also nowhere near 
> as wide as 
> > that of the JP-6.
> > 
> > I've just recently calibrated the JP-6, and the MKS had the 
> same 
> > treatment less than 6 months ago.
> > 
> > Anyone else notice things like this?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Adam