After looking at the pictures posted, I think that both the Touch Screen and the 4 Buttons beneath the Screen would be capable of giving enough Real Time Controls. At least I hope so :->Jupiter8fan wrote:My first impressions of the Jupiter 80 were, to be honest, not that great. However I did a bit of research and watched some of the demo videos of the Jupiter 80 and must say it's sounds impressed me a great deal. I think Roland are on the right track with their modeling technology. I was disappointed mainly with the lack of real time controls, especially when in comparison with the Korg Kronos. But I'm sure it's something I would get used too. Also I think the coloring and design would need some time before I warm to it.
Fully agree !!!Jupiter8fan wrote: In terms of usage of the name "Jupiter", I think a lot of people don't realize that at the time of the Jupiter 8's release it represented the best Roland had to offer. So I think that they are justified in releasing this new Jupiter under that name. I think there is a lot of unnecessary hype over analog synthesizers these days. What a lot of people don't understand is that they were very restricted in sounds they could produce, had unstable tuning and many other flaws. Don't get me wrong, some analog synthesizers are great, but this ignorant opinion that goes around at the moment; everything digital is "crap" is ridiculous.
Back in the 80's (1983), I ran a small company that produced Professional Mixers, PA Amplifiers and Rack and Floor Effect processors, and our last product, that never saw the light of day, was a Polyphonic Digital Synthesizer, with Key Touch Sensitivity controlled by a 8047 Intel Microcomputer, and with three sections - A Poly Part that emulated Pianos, Clavs and Strings, where all waveforms for the Tone creation were digitalized sampled waveforms from real instruments. An Organ Part, made using an High Stability Oscillator (Cristal Controlled), and Digital Dividers to produce all the Octaves (8), together with Digital additive filtering to produce the Bars, and Analogue Filtering for Tone adjust. And finally a third part - the Analogue part, that was initially really analogue, but due to the instability and drift problems, we decided to go for an all Digital, including the Oscillators, LFO's, DCF's, DCA and ADSRs, so I really know what you mean :-).
Due to the hard competition from the big brands and no money to invest, was too much for us and we decided to shutdown the company, before we started to lose money. The synth never came out from the prototype boards...
Don't think the JP-80 is what you're looking for then... maybe the Kronos, that is more similar to your "dream machine" :-)Jupiter8fan wrote: That being said, my dream workstation/synthesizer would be one that combines VA, Modeling, Analog, FM, Sampling etc. all in one keyboard.
Take care
Paulo