Summary: The rackmount midi version of the Roland Jupiter-6 and Jupiter-8.
Sonically not always as impressive as the Jupiters, but with more 
programming flexibility and impressive midi implementation (including
velocity sensitivity and sysex control of all parameters).


Synth: Roland MKS-80 Super Jupiter.
Review by: Mike Perkowitz (map@cs.washington.edu)
Years Made: ? through ?
Polyphony: 8
Multitimbral: bitimbral
MIDI: yes, including sysex send/receive on all programmable parameters
Other external control: a knobs 'n' sliders programmer is available
Patch storage: 128 internal, more on a cartridge, dump via midi sysex
Voice architecture:
	VCO: 2 VCOs, with standard waveforms, pulsewidth, extensive cross-mod
	LFO: rate, delay, waveforms (incl random)
	VCF: HPF
	     LPF with freq, resonance, env mod, kbd mod, lfo mod
	ENV: 2 ADSR
	  Modulation routings are more extensive than either of the Jupiters,
	allowing many modulations to be inverted at the destination
	Patches can be split/layered/used bitimbrally in performance memories
Sequencer/Arpeggiator: none
Keyboard/rack: 2-unit rackmount
Accessories:
	MPG-80 programmer. has pots/buttons for every parameter,
	rackmount or tabletop.
Related synths/gear:
	Jupiter-8: thicker sound than the Jupiter-6 or MKS-80. Big monster
	  keyboard, no MIDI (later models have DCB; can be converted to MIDI)
	  less control and modulation than either the Jupiter-6 or MKS-80
	Jupiter-6: sounds very similar to the MKS-80 except with a single
	  multimode (low-pass, high-pass, band-pass) resonant filter. Like
	  the JP-8, also has an arpeggiator. minimal midi, but is bitimbral.
	MKS-70: actually a rackmount version of the JX-10. Perhaps comparable
	  to the MKS-80 in programming power, but a very different sound.
Comments:
	good midi implementation, sysex control of params very nice.
	In many ways the apex of the Jupiter line, but some people prefer
	the sound of the older units.