All about the Roland Jupiter-series

I got the Europa mod in the mail, very promptly sent, I might add. 
In the beginning of the installation manual it say's "if you're 
unsure, don't do it!" so I took it to my local electronics tech. He 
installed it, it was easy for him, and now I have the JP-6 with 
Europa. There are many extras the Jupiter 6 now has, including 
expanded arpeggiator functions(a cool one is polyrhthm where 
the arpegiator clock is subdivided by the number of notes played, 
but this is only scratching the surface). I will have a learning 
curve on this. The only complaint I would possibly have, or really 
a criticism, is that the Jupiter seems less intuitive to operate, 
because now things can be altered to a much greater extent. 
This is, however, sure to be a short-lived gripe, as I'm sure once 
I get to know everything Europa adds to this synth, it will become 
intuitive once again, only on a higher scale. --- In 
Roland_Jupiters@yahoogroups.com, "modorange333" 
<modorange333@y...> wrote:
> Well, I called Synthcom and spoke with Jeffrey, and told him my 
> limitations with a soldering iron. He said I should be able to 
> install the update easily, and if I had problems, I can call and 
> they'd help troubleshoot it or, worse case scenario, I could 
send 
> my board and the kit back to them and they'd install it for the 
$30. 
> 
> That seems like a great deal but when you add the 
shipping(and 
> I am not hip on sending this unless it is protected by a 
> hardened-steel case)--I just decided to give it a try myself. I am 
a 
> MIDI moron but want the expanded Arpeggiator and 
sequencer, 
> and also have the open-ended MIDI for use later. Plus I think I 
> got a really good deal on this JP-6, so I'm re-investing my 
> savings with this upgrade. Jeffrey answered every question I 
> had. It is really a rare thing to have available a 
> backwards-compatible upgrade like this specific to the JP-6. 
> They are doing it out of their love for the JP-6, I believe, 
because 
> obviously this isn't a huge cash cow for them or anything.