The Jupiter-8 was Roland's first truly professional analog synthesizer. The Jupiter-8 features 16 rich analog oscillators at 2 per voice, eight voice polyphony and easy programming! At eight voices you can get some pretty thick analog sounds. Easy and intuitive programming via front panel sliders, knobs and buttons for all your tweaking needs. The legacy of the Jupiter synthesizers is due to their unique voice architecture and design, creating sounds that were so unreal and amazing that they have to be heard! No other synths in the world can create analog sounds as cool and authentic as these.

The Jupiter-8 was the biggest and fattest of them all (Jupiters and Junos)! It was one of the first synths to allow its keyboard to be split and layered - it's eight voices of trance heaven! Cross-mod, oscillator sync, a great LFO and a classic arpeggiator are also on-board. There's also a killer resonant analog low pass filter, same as the Juno-6 / 60, with the added option of choosing 2-pole (12 dB/oct) or 4-pole (24 dB/oct) modes as well as a separate high-pass filter. Unfortunately for the earlier models, tuning was very unstable but that seemed to be resolved in later models. Unlike its smaller counterpart, the Jupiter-6, the Jup 8 does not feature MIDI, only Roland's DCB sync can be found on some models. However, MIDI retro-kit's are available from various companies. Patch presets can store keyboard splits, arpeggiator settings, voice assign mode, hold, portamento and modulation settings.

The Jupiter-8 has been used by Tangerine Dream, Orbital, Future Sound of London, Moby, Duran Duran, Underworld, Vince Clarke, Überzone, Jean Michel Jarre, Roxy Music, OMD, A Flock Of Seagulls, Depeche Mode, Rush, Meat Beat Manifesto, Banco De Gaia, Josh Wink, Thomas Dolby, Howard Jones, The Cars, Prince, Gary Wright, Jan Hammer, BT, Adrian Lee, Heaven 17, Kitaro, Elvis Costello, Tears for Fears, Huey Lewis and the News, Journey, Moog Cookbook, Toto, Yes, Devo, Freddy Fresh, George Duke, Greg Phillanganes, Jonathan Cain of Journey, Greg Johnson & Kevin Kendrick of Cameo, Stevie Wonder and Simple Minds.

Manu

November 21, 2012 @ 2:33 am

yea you can take it seriously @Riga check the cd sleeve again: it contains the jp8 sounds....

riga

November 21, 2012 @ 2:30 am

i don't know if you can take this site serious, but the sounds from future Music issue 52 where from the Jupiter 4 and not from the jupiter 8.

http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=492291

Polyboy

November 20, 2012 @ 6:40 pm

i own and use the JP-8 professionally since the 90s. I got the JP-8080 a few months ago. I like both, many classic JP-8 sounds can be programmed on the 8080 and sound great. If you want gut wrenching bass, both instruments won't get you there. For pads, sync sounds, experimental, fm, drones, both highly recommended!

ajs

November 16, 2012 @ 3:01 pm

super synthesizer, you can only understand it if you actually own it, if not play a jp 8000 or the like

nodroG

November 16, 2012 @ 7:24 am

Easy to play and everything sounds great. costs alot? What did you expect, open it up, tell me if it was made with great ease, there is alot inside.

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