So this is where some of the old music from TTTE comes from. Very fitting since the music sounds very 80’s and retro and Thomas first came out in the 80’s.
The Jupiter-6 might just be my favourite synthesizer ever. I'm just in love with how much "weirder" and "darker" it is compared to other synthesizers - especially on the bass chords. While the Jupiter-6 isn't as like as beautiful or bright sounding as Jupiter-8, it still manages to sound majestic in its dark and warm way.
I’ve always recognized this as the Thomas instrument, I’m surprised it’s capable of doing some crazy shit like making Goonies styled music and even Galaga. This should’ve been used on more 80’s movies.
I am happy still owning and playing one ! This thing cost me a fortune at the time i bought it in the beginning 80's. I never regretted it and it's still sounding great. If people think VST's are better, they should check they're ears. Analog is analog, and digital is digital. Physically proofed
Beautiful instrument. I owned one in the late 80s. I couldn't figure out how to make it work. They didn't have RU-vid back then. After hearing this, I am sorry I sold it for $100. after paying $5000 for it.
Eevee What will it be like if Pokémon took place in the 1979s and 1980s? If so, the characters would be dressed in retro outfits with hairstyles from the decades, experience real events including the Vietnam war, the Watergate scandal, the Cold War, disco, Motown, AIDS, the Berlin Wall and more and tackle complex issues including sexism, racism, hair politics, nazism, communism, corruption and bigotry. That would’ve been excellent in my opinion.
I have a friend who has one of these and it sounds amazing. He also has an Oberheim OB8, an ARP Odyssey and a Korg Mono/Poly. Cool stuff. I play guitar but I think synths are cool as hell.
This is an absolutely excellent demo! Just the fact that you turned off the added FX so we could hear this gem as is was brilliant! Great job!! And thanks!
Yeah, this is an excellent demo of the Roland Jupiter 6. I just found this in a pawn store. It's really amazing. I really love your patches. They sound great. :) Take care, Sam.
Lovely demo. I sold mine as I couldn't afford to maintain it. I had a voice fail. Saying all that it's an amazing instrument. If anyone's after a similar sound, I think the JP8X8X get close.
@ I needed rent money at the time... sometimes "life" wins... It's ok. I learned SOOO much from it - all in my head... several albums, dozens of tracks and many live performances. I used and honored it's abilities well - made hundreds of sounds/textures.
Wow ! That thing sound amazing ! I would like to have one of old Roland Jupiter synth ! I'am fun of electric 80s music and I want to compose that music !
they actually did use this instrument for old thomas the tank engine from the 1980s. how did i know this. it’s because i heard it from mike o donnel (the person who made every music for thomas from 1984-2003) for the thomas theme, he used a yamaha grand piano, a linn lm-1 drum and the Roland Jupiter 6
Oh..here´s half an answer to my question on the Jupiter 6 (posted it on the "next" video cause I hadn´t seen this one, )...Love the arpeggiator, too! And the variety of sounds!
Polyphony six instead of eight, multi-mode filter on the JP-6, double arpeggiator etc. - best way is to download the manuals for both, and find out all the differences
This uses the 3340 oscillator chips - which I love. The 8 used discrete oscillator circuits. The filter is also is differently configured, or so I have been told.
Hi ! Im looking for the jp6 stock sound of Steel Drum. I think you play it at 11:50 in this video. Trying to get isolated samples of the steel drum. Id pay you for a wav file of samples like every third note played out. Can i pay u for this?
Love it! Roland should have tried to make a true analog successor to the Jupiter line instead of slapping it on a Fantom on steroids. That was an insult to the name.
More "Analog Elitism" bullshit. The Jupiter 80 is an all around fantastic synth, which completely buries its long dead ancestor, the Jupiter 8, where the Jupiter 8 rightfully belongs - in the trash bin of history.
I've never met a musically useful sound that can be created on an analog that I can not perfectly duplicate on one of my digitals. Analogs were great in their day, and they are fun to play around with now, but time marches on, and all things come to an end.
or are you looking for all these while synthesizer are very rare to find, and you have a fairlight? because if you have one you should make a video may be over.
I remember playing Galaga as a kid - it was fun! The sound at 10:18 uses glissando, so it is similar to the sound in Galaga (although obviously Galaga used early onboard computer chips and not a JP-6, which was produced years after the game)
haha..this is so funny with this Galaga Sound. The Arcade games had eproms with onboard sound. So, in our case the Jupiter 6 has the same eprom or the same sound designer like the Galaga :))
biglover70 Nops, not the same eprom or sound designer (although it would be funny if the same designer who did the sound for Galaga ended up working on a Jupiter-6!)... it's just a similar, simple synth sound and most of all, the glissando effect that reminds you of it
One more, if you dont´mind...Can you cover, (or have you already done ) the Roland D-20.. I can´t remember precisely, if it was from the 80's or post... Just remember that I played on it..and I liked it very much=)
I paid 10 dollars at a yard sale for one of these. Don’t think it works though.lights come on when power is turned on but can’t get it to play. I know nothing about these! Any advice on anything? or anybody i should take it to?
Giambu, il Jupiter ha un pomellino per l'accordatura a destra del pannello... se non e' accordato a 440 probabilmente il pomellino era inavvertitamente spostato di qualche millimetro
Where do you get the OB-X info from, Pierpaolo? There are official interviews to Van Halen that clearly state it was the OB-Xa guitarinternational.com/2010/07/06/eddie-van-halen-1984/
Cool synth, I like the Jupiter 6, but it's definitely the cheapest sounding Jupiter. Far from as fat as the 4 or as classy as the 8. And it's the only Jupiter that I think is currently overpriced, because when I hear the new analogs coming out, I can sort of understand why people would pay the going rate for a Jupiter 8 or Jupiter 4. They just sound so much better than the new stuff. As for the Jupiter 6, though... Well, not so much. But it has it's own character, and I wouldn't mind having that character to "sprinkle" over my other stuff, so to speak. Prices these days are too silly for me to even consider getting one, though.
The JP-6 was used by Ray Parker Jr., OMD, Madonna, Trans X, to name a few. If that doesn't drive it home for you that it is suited for Synth Pop, and more than that, was produced during *that time and used for *those type of genre productions, I don't know what to tell you
SynthMania, it’s just my point of view). Btw, can you make something like Phil Collins “Do You Know, Do You Care?” with that synth and Aquarium In Deep Space. It would we amazing. Thank you for your work.
Thank you, I'm making a new version of Aquarium In Deep Space with a singer, it sounds fantastic but the mix is not finished yet, I should be able to post it soon
