Roland System 8 AIRA Plug Out Synthesizer Updates | Gear4music Overview 

Had mine for 2 weeks and i'm literally blown away at how good this synth is. Every time i use it i create new and interesting sounds that i have never heard before. It's an awesome synth and i would go so far to say it's the best on the market at the moment. (April 2023.) I've had quite a few synths, i'm not new to the scene. It's quite easy to use and there is no limit to what you can create with it. I've created sounds that you only hear on top end Synths/workstations..! Beware that prices are strong.. (Around £1200 in the UK. Used.) Folk are starting to realise what this synth is capable of.!!

This update really was a game changer for the System 8 for me. Especially the FM update.

Love the system 8, it's got endless possibilities, I've had it for a year and I'm still learning what its capabilities are. I love it and thanks Andy!

Great to see you've done well Andy. Love my System 8 too. Hope you're well.

Great video that shows the new update possibilities v. 1.30 This really made me want to buy this System 8 and I now have one. Great sound quality and unbelievable possibilities of creating new sounds. I love this synthesizer !!

Love the improvements

Nice update

Excellent presentation!

It would be really great if Roland could come out with a System-32 that has a 61 notes keyboard with aftertouch, allows 8 to 16 PLUG-OUTs to be loaded (like being able to load the Jupiter-8 2 or 3 times, each with a different collection of patches). Allowing 8 to 16 PLUG-OUTs to operate as polyphonic instruments simultaneously on separate MIDI channels would be awesome!

I just think is so cool how you could create sounds that are all your own by getting creative with the variables!!!! You can't do that on any other instrument!!

Great machine ( I have 80+ synths 😁), will keep until they release a replacement

Very cool synth. Please add another LFO and more destinations to modulate... while you’re at it slap it in a rack!

Looks like I'm going to pick one of these up. Do I have to pay for a Roland Cloud membership to get other plug outs like the System 100 Modular or can I just buy whatever one I want and how much is that?

hammer teil

Yeah, really like my S-8; it is very approachable and fun to play. Still, there are 3 big BMC chips for the sound-engine (one in S1 and that is not the same chip but an earlier rev.) there was much hubbub about how powerful these new chips are but no pushing out an 16voice synth-engine? Even if it would lack some bells and whistles of the full S8 engine a plugout for a simpler 16voice synth would be nice - or are the chips not as powerful as the market-sales guys suggested ;)

we cannot change the range of the arpegiator with just one finger , you have to play each chord or are they a function that you dont show us ? thanks

I think you are using sounds here that are not standard? The A2 system 8 gives a BD Runner Brass (1:03) but with me there is SQ Star Spiral and further on (9:31) you use A1 system 8 that states FM Chorus EP as with me there is a System 8 SAW. Could you tell me what patches those are, or if they are available somewhere? Thanks in advance.

Does System 8 have a capacity of 64 patches/program on each Plug out? System 8 + 3 x Plug Out = 64 patches x 4 ? = total 256 patches ??

Prospective buyers: the critiques with the System 8 are valid, but the pros far outweigh the cons

A question : which is better, system 8 or Jdxa ? What are the differences between both ? I'm planning to buy my first synthesizer 🤓 Thanks !

I nearly bought one, until I found out that you can not use the expression pedal to control the filter sweep, or anything other than output volume. Deal killer for me, because my playing style involves using my foot, to modulate filter sweep, or other parameters, while I am soloing. So many things it should be able to control. like tap tempo, filter sweep, oscillator color, sequencer start stop, etc, etc. Could be fixed in an update, but I will not buy, unless it is.

As an owner of a Juno 106 (with Kiwi mod ) & a previous owner of Juno 6's I sometimes wish Roland would bring out gear that models in whole or in part, a Juno 6 / 60. Not sure how they would have named a JU06 based on it though.

For nonowners, you don't know what you are talking about. Next gen synth are maybe Moog One which no one can afford, and the versatility on this system 8 is endless, it's blasting and it's easy to carry around, looks like a star wars star destroyer to inspire you any day, full hnads on control, and better yet, probably the easiest synth to plug into to your daw and control EVERY ff'in thing!! You just gotta try it for awhile and you'll love it..

How do you update it?

this is all fine but only 8 voices polyphony? come on guys.. :(

Flagship synth without aftertouch...

I really like my System-8, but to call it a 'flagship'?! A 4-octave keyboard with no aftertouch, external PSU and a plastic case? This is Roland's 'Flagship'?! The S8's sound is fantastic, the concept is fine, and the updates are welcome, but it really needs the right hardware to do it justice.

Intriguing synth, perhaps very capable both live and in-studio. I might pick one up soon to put next to my V and JP-8 - or more likely, to take out for gigs/jams. But please stop trying to kid us, Roland. I hear little if any of the depth and sweetness of the JP-8 VCOs in this demo. The squirty action and over-driven harmonic of the filter is lacking, as ever...please just stop pretending to offer "tHe jUpitEr - 8" in digital form. "Jupiter-X" is the same sort of hubristic folly, upped even further. Hey, It is what it is = _Digital Everything._ Sys-8 generally sounds like a slightly-improved V-Synth, and essentially the same as a JD but for some of the benefits of newer processing speed. Which is fine in itself, but 'analog behavior' it isn't. [e.g. I suspect they don't even model a single iota of the TDK compander inside the JP-8. And if they did, it isn't doing it's job.]

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Flagship?... Ehm, what about the JD-XA then which is actually described as flagship synth on the official Roland website then? Personally I don`t like the System-8, it looks cool, but the sound of it ... Roland Inc., guys and girls, the NI Reaktor ensembles sounds more alive and interesting. Software synth studio. Seriosly! I played on this synth many times in the shop and it`s just didn`t amazed me with it`s quality. Maybe the functionality only. For the live it`s a cool instrument, for the studio... Well... I`d never change my JP-8000 with it.

the sounds are like the ones synthesizers had 30-40 years ago. Nothing has changed with these things. They just have different lighted dials and knobs.

Synthesizer doesn't do it justice a more proper title would be sound designer