From andrea@sihp03.si.estec.esa.nl Sat Apr 9 23:14:55 1994 Date: Wed, 9 Mar 94 17:52:43 MET From: Andrea TONI To: analogue@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Subject: -- JD800 -- Hi, .. well the board is certainly worth the money .. IMHO .. mainly because .. I payed 1500$ for mine (with 5 card set .. and I strongly advise you to get the string one Wooow .. womderful ..) I was thinking a lot about a Jupiter8 and the MIDI kit and the multifx .. but in the end the JD .. was just more affordable (not better ARGHHH!) 1- it's the only digital machine with a "human" interface" .. it's very easy to program for an oldtimer analog-freak ! 2- the internal multifx sounds wonderful .. 3- the lfo's are great .. speed/delay/fade/trig+- and they are 8 (8!!) per patch 4- the digital filter also sound great the only one with the SY99 .. IMHO again to have a semi-real resonance .. BUT ... 1- the JD is a pretty stupid mastercontroller .. even my K5 (from 1987 !!) will do better .. 2- it's not a beast of multitimbrality .. you just have to use it in single .. unless you will waste the wonderfxs .. (well some of them !) 3- despite the nice panel .. we are far from one key/slider/knob per function .. so still pleanty of tweaking is required .. and it's not always obvious were you are ! .. but Hey guys .. what do we have on the today's market to compare with .. ?? NOTHING ! 4- the architecture is a bit stuck .. to DCO-DCF-DCA .. if you want more exotic things go to the JD990 (croos-modulation, FM etc ..) and loose the panel .. or just get both (hihi !) and still the new features of the 990 will not be accessable by the 800 panel . 5- the slider send sys-ex .. (and tons of them .. ) so with a nice swirling opening/closing filters and resonate .. you will give a real hard time to your midi rig .. and btw how much do I need to put an engine in every sliders so that they automatically move to the real value when I change patch ?? It's a lovely machine i like it a lot but it certainly doesn't sound analog a nice sample player with lots of ENVSandLFOS .. a wonder filter a super Fx section (chorus and phaser Yumm ..) Ciao, ------------------------------------------------ENV---ENV---ENV---------------- Andrea TONI (andrea@sihp03.si.estec.esa.nl) | | | Solar System and Space VCO-->VCF-->VCA--> DUCATI 900SS Science Division (SO) | | | ------------------------------------------------LFO---LFO---LFO----------------