All about the Roland Jupiter-series

Yeah, I'll go along with that. The Oberheim 2-pole sound is 
certainly hard to acheive with a 4-pole LP filter. 

In Roland_Jupiters@yahoogroups.com, "asemcken" 
<asemcken@y...> wrote:
> 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