Will never forget my 106 in the 80's.And the emotion upon opening the box and actually pluggin it in and starting rehearsel with brand new great keyboard.
waow. Best demos of the system 8, by far and so usefull for me. I bought this synth, but i am not a real keyboard player. Your vidéos show the real sounds of this machine, very inspiring, good patchs. Thank you so much, from France.
it really sounds nice .. nice playing and i love my System 8. This is the only synth keyboard I have and will only have for years to come.. I don't need any other synths now I have 4 synths inside this awesome machine.
I love the sounds of you playing and patches. I've been watching the Ed Diaz videos and designing my own patches. Your video is very informative too. Thanks for uploading it. Take care, Sam from machiwoomiapoo channel. :)
i was contemplating buying the roland boutiques, but the 4 note polyphony kind of put me off. so if you buy this system- it's basically 3 roland VA synths in one?
I have to say some of these sound utterly amazing. I love 80s synthpop and New Wave, and I am torn on whether to get an alpha Juno 2 for the physical 80s connection and the 61 keys, or this for the extra features, effects and direct connectivity.
I love this thing. As I already have a Kiwi 106 I'd possibly appreciated if they'd included the Juno 60 architecture instead ,or all features from both even better, but still. I've been battling to decide between this & the JDXA but my decision meter is beginning to swing towards the system 8! It looks gorgeous IMO too.
Definitely the best demo I've seen for this. I was doubting the System 8 and leaning more towards the Prophet Rev2 because every demo on this synth has sounded over-compressed and lifeless, but this is keeping me interested. Is this just going straight from the synth into the computer, no processing?
Mike, the jam starting around 5min mark, specifically, 5:33- on-LOVE IT whats the song? or are you just jamming? & the pitch bend so cool, I have 2 juno 106s ( well, one i got in the USA was called a synth plus 60. The Juno 106 was my 1st new synth i bought the floor model in japan. Thanks for your demo and your playing. Can't get that tune outta my head what do you call it?
Thanks Viva F, that’s an original tune I came up with - have since fleshed it out into a full tune - will post soon! Juno 106s are beasts - great sounding synths - enjoy!
Mike Pensini cool tune can't wait to hear it please post full song, and don't change it too much! So refreshing to find new instrumentals nowadays that stay in my head. --viva
Cool demo, is the audio quality better than the Roland cloud plugins also with the plug outs can you use the effects in the system 8 or is it just what the original synth had thanks
Hi Evan, I don't have the Roland Cloud plugins so I couldn't give you a direct comparison. I imagine they would sound fairly identical with the exception of any colouration difference between the D/A converters in the synths and the D/A converters on your sound card. Each engine has its own effects options - you can't mix and match at this stage as far as I'm aware.
The Roland Cloud versions should sound identical as long as you don't use the "Reduce CPU Usage" setting (which appears to enable 96 kHz oversampling internally). They use a TON of CPU though, and in most cases they don't sound that different with the setting enabled. The System-8 always runs in the high quality mode. Of the three effects, the first one (labeled "Effect") has different options for each model. The Jupiter-8 had no effects at all, so the Effect knob has all the same effects as the System-8 engine. On the Juno-106, two of those effects are replaced with the Chorus 1 and Chorus 2 of the original. On the JX-3P, one of the effects is the JX-3P chorus. The other two effects (Delay/Chorus and Reverb) are the same for all four synths.
@@maccagee693 I ended up not selling it, but it's only for very specific situations for it's own sound. After I ran into through my tube gear, it brought it to life a little bit. Also what changed my mind is the mad possibilities of synthesis. Still wish I would have went with the fantom though.
The boutiques are based on the same ACB (analog component behavior) modeling and also sound great. The format works really well for drum machines and mono synths like the TB-03 and SH-01A. I can't recommend the polysynth boutiques though. The four voice limit is a real bummer, and the tiny controls are really cramped and hard to use (especially the JP-08). The System-8 is a much better choice for polysynths. The rest of the boutiques are excellent.
The free "included" ones should be freely available to download from Roland. The extra optional ones can be downloaded with a Roland Cloud subscription I believe.
i thiunk the biggest difference between JU-06/System 8/And the real Juno 106 is the output capability. Which is on the low end very Weak on the boutique system 8 is better but still compressed. Sadly But system 8 is not bad, but might go with the JDXA which has more output.
if this would have been a desktop/rack/nonkeyboard version or a version with more keys it would be a no brainer, but how can one emulate these synths and give only 49 keys?
I use everything through an 88 key midi controller and started as a piano player so even 73 keys is a travesty to me, the classic versions of these synths had 61 keys I think and even less than that seems inconceivable.
Solomon Jenkins I feel your pain. I'm constantly playing in the bass end, so when 73 key keyboards only go to a low E (which is generally the case) l have to shift the patch down an octave. It's a shame tho, because then I have lost an octave at the top in trying to gain a few notes at the bottom. When it comes to synths, I tend to think 5 octaves (starting at C1) is the perfect number for being able to voice a full chord the way I want to. If I need more than that, I can always midi into a full sized keyboard.
It sounds good, but it doesn't sound like a 106.. The real 106 didn't even have an arpeggiator. The plugout still doesn't have the low end, the wideness, or aggression (VCA) of the real 106. The low end of the plugout distorts and fizzles out when on the real thing, the low end is very present and near speaker-ripping.. The SYS-8 sounds great, very clean and polished. It's very much a high-end VA synth with very nice sounds.. But the 106 plugout comes nowhere near a real Juno-106. I thought the JP-8 plugout sounded much closer to a real JP-8 than the 106 plugout sounded to a real 106.
To me it sounds pretty much identical to a real Juno-106, but the addition of an arpeggiator, sequencer, and velocity sensitivity actually makes it even better than the original IMO. You can disable velocity when you don't want it, but it can make a sound far more expressive.
@@st0rmchild Some people don't get the difference. People have different ears. To me, I can absolutely tell the difference between digital emulation and analog. Roland's emulations are great, but they are not identical. Not if you have ears. Again, it's fine if you can't tell the difference, more power to you. But that doesn't mean there isn't one.
No one is more motivated to believe an emulation of a classic synth sounds nothing like the real thing than someone who owns the original (confirmation bias protecting the cherished belief that the original is made of magic pixie dust and can never be recreated). I've used real ones many times. The plugout version sounds practically identical.
