Roland Jupiter-8

Unfortunately, on this one, but the cool thing about it is you can um assign the pitch bend to just do oscillator one for instance, so you can hear on...

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It's just not that great as a performance instrument. Great in a studio setup great, if you're just going to keep it in one area, but not really a por...

It was created during a time when synthesizers were defining all new genres of music and it was a synth that was designed with no expense aired with a...

I'm pretty happy with my JP-08. I always wanted a Jupiter 8 but once I accepted that I'll probably never own one I jumped at the chance to get half of one for a few hundred bucks. I also have the Roland Cloud Jupiter which is pretty good but the JP-08 has a tactile, tangible, a bit smallish but still a manual interface, and we all know knobs are good so I like both my non-Jupiter 8's. My second favourite is the JU-06.

I am also fortunate enough to have BOTH of the expansion cards, the vocoder one is probably worth quite a bit by itself now. Imo the v synth will become a classic synth in the same vein as the Jupiter 8, it’s such a shame Roland didn’t develop it further.

I have a JP-08 and I really like it. The great thing about it is that it's so easy to pull great sounds very quickly. Every control is on the front panel, plus the Jupiter approach to subtractive synthesis is so ingrained and conventional that the whole thing feels instantly familiar.

Personally, I'd probably go with a Jupiter 8? It sounds good, incredibly well made, 8 voices, reasonably portable relative to the competition, stable tuning, patch memory... ... In today's world, I'd be happy to have one, but I'd much rather have something more modern with wilder synth features. That or, as someone else said, TONTO or a comparable modular system... but I think I might be frustrated by the space it would take up in my life.