[net.music.synth] Akai AX-80 vs. Roland Jupiter 6

dikiw@mmintl.UUCP (Diki Wozniak) (12/09/85)

        Thanks to the person who sent in the long posting on the Akai AX-80,
        Roland Juno 106 and Korg DW-8000 (did I get all those number right?)

        A friend has the 106 so I was most familiar with it, but went to
        look at the Akai while I was at the music store shopping for something
        else.  It is nice.  I liked the  SOUND of the keyboard better than the
        106.  Fuller and richer.  The salesman, who was not the stores keyboard
        expert, said it had two oscillators, as opposed to one for the 106.

        The editing scheme probably does give you more information than the
        Juno's , but I found it a little weird.  Somehow I feel like I can
        control a pannel of sliders better, but perhaps I am hopelessly old
        fashioned.

        Now, another question for the net.  What is the general opinion of the
        Roland Jupitor (6 I think).  I liked the SOUND of it even better than
        the Akai.  It seemed better able to produce "Space sounds"  (noise
        generator) and other stuff.  I forgot to ask the price, do you know
        it?  I guess it shares the problem the 106 has of sliders not showing
        the setting of the current preset.

Learning and Listening....

Aloha

mjm@abic.UUCP (Mark Medovich) (12/13/85)

   The Roland Jupiter series sound so good because of the following:
        1. Stereo Output
        2. Built in Chorus Circuit(probably a BBD)
   If you check out all the presets you like, you'll probably find that
the chorus circuit is ENGAGED.  These comments are not to slander the
Roland Jupiter 6 in any way (I have a Planet-S, which is the rack mount
version of the JX3P and am pleased with it) but to simply state the facts.
If you find another synth you really like but you think the Roland still
sounds better, try piping the "other" synth through some signal processor
(like a delay line) and compare them under these conditions; or if you
can't do that, try to edit the patch on the Roland and disengage the
chorus circuit. You will find that with chorus OFF the jupiter is average.
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