Let me join the club of proud JX-8P owners! This was the first synth that I bought myself way back in high school when it was new and I still have mine from 1985, including the receipt from purchase, which I made with a USS A-frame stand and a Peavey KB-300 amp, which was a beast of an amp that got me through many years in that era when powered speakers weren't as sophisticated as these days. I added a PG-800 a few years later and still have it.Mr_-G- wrote:I have a JX8P which only had a cleaning of the aftertouch strip several years ago (which improved it). It still has the original battery (!) and plays fine.
I regret not buying the original PG-800 at the time (could not afford it). There is also a hack described somewhere in the net where changing a single resistor makes the aftertouch more sensitive.
My JX-8P has held up pretty well. I had the aftertouch worked on and battery replaced (I think) at some point in the early-mid '90s. I also stock-piled some spare keys as I started breaking them after too many gigs. Mine is very careworn, with a lot of the finish worn off around the pitch/mod stick. A few of the keys are a little sketchy and I have it set up permanently in my home music room, on top of my CP-80. I have my Prophet-6 MIDI'd to it and find that I like the mix of these two things, played from the P6 keyboard.
Back when I was looking into the JX-8P, I was completely enamored by Nick Rhodes' keyboard rig in Duran Duran, which prominently featured the Jupiter-8. I couldn't afford a JP8 at that point. My girlfriend had a Juno-106, which I loved and thought I'd want to get. Then I tried a JX-8P and I was sold on the dual DCOs and touch sensitivity + aftertouch. Way more complex timbres were possible. I used it faithfully for many years.
