Well it’s a bit weird… but basically it’s a box that has loads of audio inputs, plus HDMI, usb blah blah.
It has a touch screen interface to a unix based OS which allows you to basically change the purpose of it as you wish. Load a keyboard app and you have a touch screen keyboard. Put it into guitar effects mode and it’s an effects box etc.
The cool thing is you can make apps for it to do what you want, and you can chain the effects etc, just drop them into the chain like in Ableton. They had a version of Camel Phat ported over to it for example.
Really this thing has lots of potential, especially when they open the SDK and developers can make it into whatever they want.
Just thought I’d post this, cos I was like What-the-fkking-FKK?!!
Roland Jupiter 80
Will be interesting to see what the craic is with it. It looks like those Fantom workstations.
The vid doesnt get too deep… but its a Digital / Virtual Analog / Rompler.
Wonder how it’ll compare with its predecessor in the history books? Doubt it’llbe as legendary as theJ8.
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I don’t know…I loved Roland’s stuff in the past, but this thing looks like marketing gone bad–slapping the Jupiter colored buttons on a Casio. If you want to sound like acoustic instruments, hire studio musicians–if you want to get an idea of how to score, then this really didn’t fit the bill.
Alas, I don’t think they know their market for the J8…I would never buy this
Thanks James for the vid - looks like it could very well be sitting in my studio for that price if it includes Serato and with Serato’s bridge and Ableton - seems to be a solution I may be very well looking for as a live set up