All about the Roland Jupiter-series

I agree after the Jupiter series I never had a real desire to buy any 
of their synths.
I agree also the Jupiter 8 is definitely the Rolls Royce of Roland.
I did some programming for the factory patches on the Jupiter 6 and it 
didn't have near the warmth as the 8 but it was still a great synth.
Yeah I agree they market these quasi analog machines because they know 
analog is what everyone wants and if they can't get the real thing they 
figure they will settle for anything packaged like the old stuff.
I sure would like to see Roland and other manufacturers do vintage line 
of synths where the rebuild the old stuff close to the same specs.
They could take advantage of new technologies in the areas that would 
not affect the sound.
Look what Moog did with the Voyager and now the Little Phatty.

Good Luck on your repairs and do keep us posted on the progress.
Dana

  Hi Dana,I just returned from Roland Belgium.They are gonna do as much 
as
  they can!
  DID YOU KNOW that the big boss of Roland (Japan) visited the Belgian 
Roland
  factory,and he DOESN'T WANT THAT ROLAND KEEPS FIXING OLD MACHINES 
anymore!!!
  So I was one of the last ones to have an old synth fixed at Roland :-) 
When
  I came in the technician said : Aaahhh,the Rolls Royce of Roland" :-)
  I find it a bit hypocrit : they don't want to fix the machines that 
made
  Roland big but on the other hand they name their new machines 
sh201,MC808
  etcetc....All the same crappy softsynths in different packages :-)
  I!ll keep you informed if my Jupitter survives,if not something inside 
me
  will die :-)
  Cheeersss and thanks for the super info!
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