Roland Jupiter-6
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| Jupiter-6 by Roland | |||
| Synthesis type: | Analog subtractive | ||
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| Polyphony: | 6 voices | ||
| Oscillators: | 2 VCOs | ||
| Multitimbral: | 2 | ||
| VCF: | 1 resonant multi-mode (lowpass/bandpass/hipass) filter | ||
| VCA: | 2 ADSR | ||
| LFO: | 1 sine/triangle/sawtooth/sh | ||
| Velocity sensitive: | No | ||
| Aftertouch: | No | ||
| External control: | MIDI | ||
| Memory: | 48 tones/32 patches | ||
| Onboard effects: | None | ||
| Produced: | 1983 - 1985 | ||
The Roland Jupiter-6 (JP-6) is a synthesizer manufactured by the Roland Corporation introduced in 1983 as a cheaper complement to the Roland Jupiter-8. The Jupiter-6 is widely-known as a polyphonic analog synthesizer workhorse, producing a wide variety of sounds. It has 12 analog oscillators (2 per voice), and was one of the first synthesizers on the market to utilize MIDI, a brand new technology at the time of its introduction. The Jupiter-6 is bitimbral, allowing its 6 voices to be split into two sounds - one for 4 voices, and one for the remaining 2 voices (either split 4/2, or 2/4 mode), or monotimbral for a single sound across all 6 voices (whole mode). The Jupiter-6 is notable for creating ambient drones, pads, leads synthesizer lines, and techy blips and buzzes. Users of the Jupiter-6 have always hailed its reliability and easy, but sophisticated programmability.
'Synthcom Systems' offer Europa, a firmware replacement which adds a number of modern enhancements to the instrument's MIDI implementation, user interface and arpeggiator.
