Roland Jupiter X - Jupiter 8 Sounds Demo

A short demo showcasing just a few of the abilities of the Roland Jupiter X synthesizer. In this video I focus more on the filter, polyphony, and Jupiter 8 model sounds, stacking them in different ways and playing around with the envelopes. Other than a few quirks, Roland definitely hit a home run with this.

The beginning of the video shows how you hear very minimal stepping between the values when you adjust the filter. The sweeps are very smooth and under control. You may find this to be repetitive, but it shows off the entire range. After that I try to demonstrate how the voices seem to play out indefinitely because of the voice/polyphony headroom. I tried to hold certain notes while adding on extra notes to see if you could hear any voices dropping out. I couldn't hear any drop.

I probably should have disabled the onboard delay that was playing and just used the reverb, and tried to stereo pan the voices out during the quad-stack portion better, just to showcase how powerful this keyboard really is. Another thing you'll find, which I thought was cool, is how you can even get the voices to pan around, just as if it were a real analog synth with dedicated voice cards, with internal trim pots for the stereo field panning. That they recreated that through software is an awesome touch. Sit down with this synth and press the same key over and over on certain models/patches, and you'll hear what I mean. Definitely a fun synth to play around with and worth the money.

In my opinion the only way to make the Jupiter X better would be to make the screen slightly larger, and to replace some of the faders with encoder knobs. The faders look more like the Jupiter 8, but encoders in their place in some areas would be more usable, especially for the Amp Level adjustment.