----- Original Message -----From: Tim WellensSent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 8:49 PMSubject: RE: [Roland_Jupiters] Re: HELP,my Jupiter8 is dying and it's my little child :-(Yes,I know you're right :-) I have alot of old Roland gear
(TB303,TR606,TR707,TR808,TR909,JUNO2,JUNO60,JUPITER8 etcetc) so I admit I
love them.And last year I brought them all in to get them overhauled by
Roland and they did a fine job!
But what I meant is that they should keep on trying to get their old
machines fixed,sure that way they can keep their technicians at work ;-)
Groundbreaking would be that they would release a REAL analague machine
instead of the rubbish groove-box thingies :-) Imagine a new 32osc analogue
monster called the Jupiter16!!!
:-)
>Ehm Ehm ..
>well I have to defend Roland Belgium here !
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>even if it took them 3 months
>they come yesterday to my house in Holland
>to deliver 3 EPROM of the latest OS of my Roland MKS70
>and for FREE !
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>Posted by: "Tim Wellens" timwel@hotmail.com tiwe1975
>Wed Aug 9, 2006 7:56 am (PST)
>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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Re: [Roland_Jupiters] Re: HELP,my Jupiter8 is dying and it's my little child :-(
2006-08-10 by Bill Butler
I have to ask a sort of unpopular question.....I
have had a Jupiter 6 & the MKS-80 & programmer at the same time. I admit
the J6 was nice but overall, I have to stand by the MKS-80 in this end, Anyways,
the question is this....
I do not have room for another
keyboard. Besides, to get a J8 in decent shape, it'll cost over $2K easy! I did
buy the (gulp...) Roland VariOS rack synth. Now, never actually owning the J8,
this module does a pretty decent job of emulating a few of the Juno &
Jupiter patches. It's nowhere near complete, soooo, does anyone know if they
will bring out the complete sound banks of the Jupiter 8 for the VariOS? Reading
the other response, a Jupiter 16 would be fantastic! But I would be even happy
if they could just bring out the entire Jupiter 8 sounds & Juno 106, 60,
etc.. I know...a pipe dream but think about it. It would be the most popular
sound set out there! And to emphasize what the other post said; if they could do
this for the Moog Voyager, why not the Jupiter 8? Imagine this....if a Jupiter 8
has 8 voices, a 64 voice monster could be called the Galaxy 64!!