analogika wrote:Did you just call the Jupiter 8 a "
mediocre analog poly"?
Wow.
Yes
I Never really understood the hype over the JP8,I had one back in the early 90's For a couple years,before prices started to rocket along with a JP6/JP4,I found the JP8 and JP6 rather bland after a while,it didn't help that my JP8 spent most of the time in the repair shop,so this kind of skewed my experience and relationship with it,even some years later playing a friends JP8 I was still not excited by it,but I think first impressions always stick with me so perhaps why I have a stigma with the JP8 so in the end I decided to cut my losses and sell it,thankfully I got more for it than I paid so was happy to sell it on,but in a way kind of kicking myself now over the money that is changing hands for JP8's but you win some you lose some!!Hindsight is a wonderful thing!!
I always wanted a Prophet 5 but never managed to get one at a sensible price,now they are just crazy and not worth the chase,I'm so glad that DSI have made the Prophet 6 which for me is a better option than the P5.
My Favourite Jupiter is the Jupiter 4,I gigged with this for a long time before it completely failed,I was absolutely gutted but by this time the VA Wave of the newer generation synthesisers had started with the original Nord lead so I was sold on this and what it could do so have been hooked on Nords Ever since and shortly after the JP8000 came along,I replaced the JP4 with a more modern JP8000 and never looked back,although it never really sounded as warm or phat it was able to emulate a lot of the sounds I used on the JP4,I always wanted to get another JP4 again and have been tempted on several occasions,but I have lost the bug for Vintage analogs nowadays since we have so many other modern Analogs,I don't want to have to keep these dinosaurs and the upkeep that comes with them financially,Nowadays I satisfy the lust for Analog with a modern DSI Prophet 6 and a Hybrid DSI Pro 2 and those are ample for my Analog fix.
