This Roland Jupiter-8 is fully functional, fully serviced and in amazing condition. Includes Midi I/O retrofit. This thing looks and sounds incredible.

The crème de la crème of all Roland Synths (and some would say the best synth period). The Roland Jupiter-8 is a powerful, flexible, and fully fledged instrument of magic and electricity. The Jupiter-8 has been a swiss army knife for modern electronic artists like deadmau5, Legowelt and Calvin Harris; As well as legends like Michael Jackson, Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder and Haruomi Hosono. To say the Jupiter is versatile is an understatement. Where most flexible synths exceed in specific corners and applications, the Jupiter blows every sonic aspect out of the water. Leads, Pads, Rhythmic Motif's; You're set. Whether you're scoring the next Michael Bay film, producing for Beyonce or capturing the heart and soul of classic Eno; The Jupiter can swing it into a home run. This is an instrument with no cut corners. No punches pulled. An near endless sonic wonderland.



From Vintage Synth:

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 / , 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 , 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.

Specifications

• Polyphony - 8 voices
• Oscillators - 2 VCO's per voice (16 oscillators's!) switchable between triangle, sawtooth, pulse, and square waves plus noise on OSC 2
• LFO - 4-waveform (sine, tri, ramp, random) LFO
• Filter - Low pass filter with 2-pole (12 dB/oct) and 4-pole (24 dB/oct) modes, Env Mod, LFO MOd, Key Follow. Separate 6 dB/oct high pass filter.
• VCA - Standard ADSR and mixer to balance oscillator levels
• Memory - 64 patches and 8 patch presets
• Keyboard - 61 note keyboard
• Control - DCB Roland to Roland sync/interface on some models
• Date Produced - 1981 - 1984