@@georgegeorgio1751 he actually plays some korg workstations but during his 50 years of keyboards he had loads of polys: dx7, juno 60, 106, a B3, a Jaguar, a Rhodes, many italian string machines and combo organs. He's not the "boring piano" one ;)
I bought mine brand new just after it was released. Havent played it in about 10 years, so I will have to see if it still works? Great video, brought back so many memories.
The JX-8P has a mellow and kind analog sound. Sometimes I get the feeling that people talk about how they crave analog “warmness”, when in reality they want the in your face feeling from the THX intro (I love the THX intro btw).
Bubbles. I was 17-18 and this was the first synth I put my hands on at the music store, probably after buying whatever piece of drum equipment I could afford that week. I will always remember smiling when I played the 'Bubbles' patch. It began a long fascination with synthesizers I have till this day.
Most underrated synth ever. It was trying to compete with the DX7 with its factory sounds. If you programmed your own sounds it was as lush and fat as anything else out there. One of my favorite synths.
The JX-8P came out at an interesting time in synthesizer history. You can see where Roland was going at the time and if you look at the old advertisements for this, Roland is clearly targeting the DX-7 crowd with this. They marketed it as if to say "Sure, you can go ALL digital with no filters and have ONLY that type of synth, or you can get our JX-8P and have the best of both worlds!" Of course, the JX is not a true digital synthesizer as it has digitally controlled ANALOG oscillators...... which is what DCOs are. (People think that DCOs are purely digital, but this is untrue. They're analog, but are kept in perfect stability and tuning digitally) Still, I would say that Roland was perhaps a tad bit overzealous with the whole "best of both worlds" marketing. The only real way the JX can sound digital (as in DX digital) was through the use of some cleaver oscillator cross-modulation functions. This was to the JX as Poly-Mod was to the Prophet-5, and is critical to giving the JX that extra harsh-digital edge. I think of the JX-8P as a sort of "1985 edition" of the Jupiter-8 from 81', as it is powerful, very functional and has a wealth of sound crafting facilities that even the Jupiter-8 didn't have. The keyboard is a pleasure to play as it it both velocity and touch sensitive, though the latter doesn't quite respond as easily as I would prefer. The one area in which the JX-8P doesn't impress is the difficulty in accessing its synthesis parameters. It is of course possible, but without the optional (not included - totally separate product!) PG-800 programmer, have your rebreather ready, cuz' you'll be doing lot's of menu diving..... on an 80s-style LED screen. Now, that aside, the JX-8P is a fantastic and VERY playable synthesizer which, when placed in the right hands, can be fuckin' awesome. :D
+michael jagger DCO are analog IMO. Digital implies digital computer implies software generating waves or playing back waves from memory. Only thing digital about DCO is that it probably uses chip that counts to keep the oscillator in tune. Well, that's digital in the sense it's dealing with discrete values, and probably uses logic gates. But it's not a hybrid like the Prophet 12 which generates waves with DSPs and filters them with analog circuits
What an incredible synthesizer. Sounds almost digital! Just goes to show, with some good programming, an analog synthesizer can create sounds you never thought possible! Bells voices and pianos, that, although cheesy, actually manage to be pretty true to life. Well done Roland, and thankyou SynthMania! :)
I recall 1999 when I first met my music mentor who'd been given a JX8p by his protégé. Though both my mentor and his protégé were first-rate pianists, neither really knew much about synthesis. In quick succession, I knew more about what was under the hood of this undervalued monster than I did about how to play it well. One thing my mentor never learned about it is that you couldn't erase or overwrite the first 64 patches. They're read-only patches. He was just so terrified to lose them. P. S. I might've already written all this from a different TH-cam account at a previous time. P. P. S. It's a treat that the aftertouch on yours is fully functional. I received my mentor's model after he passed away, and its aftertouch is all but non-functional.
For those of you who are confused a DCO synth is an analog synth that is programmed digitally. The DCO synth quantizes analog parameters so they can be set digitally (recalled from memory). The sound path is analog.
This is not true, there are plenty of VCO synths with full digital recall as well, and pretty much any poly synth needs to have a computer component if only to scan the keyboard and assign the voices. DCO refers to what is generating clock signal for the analog oscillators - because clock is being generated digitally they're inherently less prone to tuning issues vs a VCO, but as you said the audio path is still 100% analog.
That second piano preset is so perfect. It sounds like the elevator music in some old point-and-click adventure game like Beneath A Steel Sky or Leisure Suite Larry.
It's interesting to see how the soundtrack patch evolved. On the JX-8P it's a relatively conventional dark-sounding strings sweep, but on the D-50 it's more expressive - it almost sounds like a cross between soundtrack and the psycho mellow preset. The JX-8P's version is very reminiscent of Tangerine Dream's Legend soundtrack.
Absolutely! I had one, sold it, bought one again just for Soundtrack, and finally bought another one that was defective just for spare parts. Best Pad ever. I did slightly tweak it tho.
I don't know why so many people complain about the JX's factory presets. Some of them are quite nice and have aged beautifully! They may be a bit overused, but they're certainly worth studying, IMO.
SiliconBassist It's a great synth, but i think the problem is that the factory presets sound too much trying to replicate real instruments. That's probably why so many people hate it, they look no further than the presets and they fail to see the full capabilities of this synth. Since i'm using the PG8x vsti i want the real deal (or a JX-10)!
P13 music box is why i bought mine back when. And adding wind chimes to a reverb and straight analog (moog) randomly modulated wind sound was the second reason. I sure miss mine. I sold it and my korg poly61m to a musician at abc tv who did tunes and such for soap operas. Lol
Nice! I've had a JX-8P since the late 80s. It's a great sounding keyboard. Great brass and string sounds. It's also underrated as far as I'm concerned. Too bad the PG-800 programmer costs more than the synth itself!
with one of these you either liked them or you didnt. i do because it didnt sound like any other synth at all. synths with just button and a slider instead of knobs and sliders are harder to program but once you get the hang of it its good. this is one synth id buy in the future
The JX-8p was the first true analog synthesizer which I had the pleasure of playing regularly. Mine came to me from a "traditional" classical/Jazz musician who didn't understand that you could have fun with the 64 presets, but you couldn't save the changes. Its original owner bought it blindly back in 1985, without doing the right research to find out that it was the one for him. Its DX-style interface probably distracted this guy. I've owned other analog models (including a JX-10), but this one still holds that "special place" for me. I'm convinced that P8 was used in the theme from X Files. And, I didn't know you could do what you did with the aftertouch using P20.
@@SynthManiaDotCom Actually, no, it isn't there, and that is strange... is it possible that Roland changed the factory presets at some point in time? When I bought the JX-8P. it was just released, so mine must have been an early one.
I married a 3P to my 8P and was over-awed by the sounds I was able to get from these machines. Sold both a long time ago. However, now that I'm trying to use vintage sounds, I have to go in search of another 8P. I had so much fun using it, especially with the editor. The 8P was also touch sensitive. I was hoping that this demo would have displayed more of that. The 'soundtrack' position is great when using a bit of feel.
Excellent video! This is the synth that defined Roland's future! Yes the JX 10 was a God! But this little baby stole my heart back then and still sounds amazing! Then came the D-50, and damn..... :)
This was used a lot by bands in the 80's kinda has an FM sound for the most part for the factory patches but lovely nice analogue Jupiter type strings sounds. Recently that FM type sound is in fashion again. (until the big names find something else to 'recreate' from the past).
you can buy nowadays a kiwi patchprogrammer and it adds the possibility to take an external cv signal (expl. LFO) and to route it to a other parameter...nice feature!!!
Got one of these downstairs in the garage; a few keys are dead. A few years ago I pulled it apart to clean under all the metal contacts but some keys still wouldn't work.
i couldn't produce a dx7 electric piano from jx3p back then but when i bought a used jx8p ... i was surprised!!! it's not super FM like... but it was pretty close!
Wow, most of these sounds are just so inspiring; sure some are cheesy, but who cares. I love the church bells, the electric bass is pretty convincing, & a fair number of these would be great for sound design (the Bubbles reminded me of the atmospheric noises of Dagobah from The Empire Strikes Back lol). Excellent demo!!! All the horsing around I want in a demo & none of the horsing around I don't want in a demo lol
Someone said the Music Box patch P13 on the JX8P is the source of the bell on Jaydee Plastic Dreams! But others say it's the Tibeten Bell Patch on the MKS70. Yet, no one on the internets have demonstrated it! Would you be so inclined to make a demo showing for once and for all where the Jaydee Plastic Dreams Bell sound is from? ❤
Ive got one and havent played it in years, Think mainly because I dont like going through menus to adjust stuff, Id love to get my hands on a PG-800 programmer so I could change things on the fly, the preset sounds sounded awesome though plus the previous owner had some saved
1 KIKO yes exactly, you press the 'parameter' button, select the number which corresponds to the effect you want to adjust, and use the editing slider next to the volume and after touch to adjust the levels.
@@testohtoby Its very close, not quite there on bass or brass and lacking a bit or movement in the sound but in a mix cant really notice much. If Roland did a boutique it would be even closer.
This synth sounds better than Jupiter 8 in my ears. You can make complex sounds with Jupiter 8 and good lead sounds, but not fat brass sounds and fat pads. Roland JX 8P looks ugly, but sure sounds great. Combine JX 8P with the PG 800 controller and you would not miss the Jupiter's 8 knobs and wheels.
For some reason, I never really caught on to Roland's pitch/ mod wheel combo. I don't think it gives as much control over the modulation, but maybe that's just me. Great demo! Regards, 808
Refreshing hear a demo video that features an actual keyboardist. As for the Jx, it definitely has a sound signature. The E Bass is really nice whereas, the Synth Bass patch suuhucks.
Nice sounding Roland synth. But they should have called it JX6P because the voices stealing is painfully evident on long release patches (at 5:28). I've never understood why they didn't give it 8 voices like the Korg counterpart DW8000 that came out the same year for about the same price... After all, wasn't this JX8P supposed to have followed in the footsteps of the Jupiter 8 ? Anyway, thanks for a very nice demo with high sound quality.
I don't think it has any common parts... but they can sound very alike at times. The JX is actually more versatile, and has a touch sensitive keyboard, the Jupiter doesn't! It would've been a even better synth though, had the envelopes been a little faster, it came with an arpegiator and PWM!
Thank you, Franco! I am 90% an autodidact. I studied classical piano for a few years when I was a kid, and again a year or two when I was a young adult, but yeah, mostly I just learned by myself.
The voices patch is pretty cool. Soundtrack is a nice pad. Some other stuff was good too. But can modern 2 oscillator analog synths do what this could do? I understand there will be some differences due to filter. I also suspect this thing's sawtooth wave might sound better than some other synth's sawtooth based on some of these patches. But sawtooth differences always sound subtle to me.
Ciao Paolo, anzitutto complimenti per i tuoi video, sempre estremamente esaustivi e completi: un piacere guardarli 👍🏻🙂... Ho da poco scaricato il PG-8X e mi chiedevo se tu sapessi se siano disponibili in qualche sito i preset banks del Jx 8p.. Ho già acquistato i presets di Espen kraft ma sono solo i primi 32.. Sapresti nulla a riguardo? Grazie e ancora complimenti! Andrea
Thanks for putting the presets here. I guess Piano 1 and 3 were supposed to imitate the DX7 E. Piano 1, right? The aftertouch on yours seems to be more sensitive (6:30 ish mark) than any other Roland based on the mid/late 80s action. I'm puzzled as to why they called it JX-8P when it only had 6 voices, though. 3P made sense: Programmable Preset Polyphonic = 3 P's.
Does anyone know if the Roland Cloud for Zenology consists of all 64 original preset patches? I recently purchased the JX-08 boutique synth and was disappointed that it doe not have all the original patches. (Going to sell it) thank you for advance , I appreciate any input / help . Thank you guys
Sounds like this synth was conceived for fighting the DX7 in the market... listen those factory presets... they sound like an Analog Substractive synth in FM Disguise... But if i remember well, the oscillator section of this synth offers several sub oscillator waveshapes much more closer to additive synths than earlier roland synths (juno alpha i believe is the first one with those strange harmonic series)... so... maybe this is roland version of the 80's trend in sounds... Sharper Attacks (not that sharper in this case) Glassy, Plucked and Bell-like sounds... even so, this synth sounds more alive and warm than the DX7... I hope i'm getting it right about the oscillator section, if not... somebody shine a (synthy) light on my confusion! ;)
Yeah, the alpha juno... I guess Roland tried to make their filters and oscillators to sound the cleanest possible (less vcf and vca distortion etc...) to sound "hip" when the 80's came along... and that election made the last Roland analog polysynths sound weak, steppy, shinny, like a bad interpretation of what the 80's should sound... DX7 palette went be from soft, mellow to bright, sharp and agressive... Thanks for the answer!!! We are synthnerds so... ;)
I had a JX8P back in 1987 through to the mid 90s. A great synth... good basic sound but I often wonder what kind of sounds could be had if it had multiple LFOs and more flexible modulation routings. I have a JX10 now and the PG800 and use it mainly in 12 voice mode.
My elementary school teacher just texted me he's going to give me his old JX-8P. I just can't believe it !!! My first analog poly 😍😍😍
Nice, how much do they normally go for in price
"sell"
He probably prefers boring old piano sounds.
@@georgegeorgio1751 he actually plays some korg workstations but during his 50 years of keyboards he had loads of polys: dx7, juno 60, 106, a B3, a Jaguar, a Rhodes, many italian string machines and combo organs. He's not the "boring piano" one ;)
@@testohtobyThe only people I know that give away synths are mostly boring Piano or Organ guys, you're were lucky on this occasion.
I bought mine brand new just after it was released. Havent played it in about 10 years, so I will have to see if it still works?
Great video, brought back so many memories.
Last night I bought this synth. Waiting for the delivery. Happiness is an option.
Who cares? Why brag about it in the TH-cam comments section? Try playing it instead of fetishizing it.
@@NachtSchreck13 Dear! Don’t tell me what I can’t do.
@@NachtSchreck13 sound like someone’s jealous they don’t have the synth lmao he wasn’t bragging he was just happy he has it😂
@@Snnddkdkdken222 The funny thing is, he's replying to a comment from 3 years ago. And I bet he still plays it
@@NachtSchreck13 Nah this dude deserves to. That’s a cool ass synth.
The synth mainly responsible for the final countdown synth riff. It was layered with a Yamaha TX816 to achieve that iconic sound.
The JX-8P has a mellow and kind analog sound. Sometimes I get the feeling that people talk about how they crave analog “warmness”, when in reality they want the in your face feeling from the THX intro (I love the THX intro btw).
Roland D-50 digital native dance ?
The warmth is more of a "hotness" presence. Now a days, its just loud and missing harmonic information.
Bubbles. I was 17-18 and this was the first synth I put my hands on at the music store, probably after buying whatever piece of drum equipment I could afford that week. I will always remember smiling when I played the 'Bubbles' patch. It began a long fascination with synthesizers I have till this day.
Most underrated synth ever. It was trying to compete with the DX7 with its factory sounds. If you programmed your own sounds it was as lush and fat as anything else out there. One of my favorite synths.
Agreed, however much of its sound is really at its chorus. Take the chorus off and it loosed much of its power. But so also the Juno 60 ;)
The JX-8P came out at an interesting time in synthesizer history. You can see where Roland was going at the time and if you look at the old advertisements for this, Roland is clearly targeting the DX-7 crowd with this. They marketed it as if to say "Sure, you can go ALL digital with no filters and have ONLY that type of synth, or you can get our JX-8P and have the best of both worlds!"
Of course, the JX is not a true digital synthesizer as it has digitally controlled ANALOG oscillators...... which is what DCOs are. (People think that DCOs are purely digital, but this is untrue. They're analog, but are kept in perfect stability and tuning digitally)
Still, I would say that Roland was perhaps a tad bit overzealous with the whole "best of both worlds" marketing. The only real way the JX can sound digital (as in DX digital) was through the use of some cleaver oscillator cross-modulation functions. This was to the JX as Poly-Mod was to the Prophet-5, and is critical to giving the JX that extra harsh-digital edge.
I think of the JX-8P as a sort of "1985 edition" of the Jupiter-8 from 81', as it is powerful, very functional and has a wealth of sound crafting facilities that even the Jupiter-8 didn't have. The keyboard is a pleasure to play as it it both velocity and touch sensitive, though the latter doesn't quite respond as easily as I would prefer. The one area in which the JX-8P doesn't impress is the difficulty in accessing its synthesis parameters. It is of course possible, but without the optional (not included - totally separate product!) PG-800 programmer, have your rebreather ready, cuz' you'll be doing lot's of menu diving..... on an 80s-style LED screen.
Now, that aside, the JX-8P is a fantastic and VERY playable synthesizer which, when placed in the right hands, can be fuckin' awesome. :D
+Adam Borseti this is a digilogue synth
michael jagger Yes it is.
+michael jagger DCO are analog IMO. Digital implies digital computer implies software generating waves or playing back waves from memory. Only thing digital about DCO is that it probably uses chip that counts to keep the oscillator in tune. Well, that's digital in the sense it's dealing with discrete values, and probably uses logic gates. But it's not a hybrid like the Prophet 12 which generates waves with DSPs and filters them with analog circuits
Michael Bauers It's one of a kind though.
Id love to midi a DX7 to one of these.
What an incredible synthesizer. Sounds almost digital!
Just goes to show, with some good programming, an analog synthesizer can create sounds you never thought possible! Bells voices and pianos, that, although cheesy, actually manage to be pretty true to life. Well done Roland, and thankyou SynthMania! :)
Ha Ha - this brings back memories - this was my first synth. I had in the end so many carthridges full of sounds I had programed. Great fun indeed.
I recall 1999 when I first met my music mentor who'd been given a JX8p by his protégé. Though both my mentor and his protégé were first-rate pianists, neither really knew much about synthesis. In quick succession, I knew more about what was under the hood of this undervalued monster than I did about how to play it well.
One thing my mentor never learned about it is that you couldn't erase or overwrite the first 64 patches. They're read-only patches. He was just so terrified to lose them.
P. S. I might've already written all this from a different TH-cam account at a previous time.
P. P. S. It's a treat that the aftertouch on yours is fully functional. I received my mentor's model after he passed away, and its aftertouch is all but non-functional.
For those of you who are confused a DCO synth is an analog synth that is programmed digitally. The DCO synth quantizes analog parameters so they can be set digitally (recalled from memory). The sound path is analog.
This is not true, there are plenty of VCO synths with full digital recall as well, and pretty much any poly synth needs to have a computer component if only to scan the keyboard and assign the voices. DCO refers to what is generating clock signal for the analog oscillators - because clock is being generated digitally they're inherently less prone to tuning issues vs a VCO, but as you said the audio path is still 100% analog.
The frequency of the DCO is controlled digitally, the actual DCO sound generation is pure analogue
My dad had one of these. I remember playing with it when I was like 4-5 years old, I remember these sounds like I heard them yesterday!!!
Whoever is doing the demo'ing is a tasteful player. I like that guy.
It is Paulo, owner of the SynthMania channel
That second piano preset is so perfect. It sounds like the elevator music in some old point-and-click adventure game like Beneath A Steel Sky or Leisure Suite Larry.
Such a warm and rich sounding synthesizer. Very underrated! Great demo as always! Looking forward to Part 2! Bryan
I just bought one for 100$ , but it needs some cleaning! Fantastic synth!
whenever I wanna watch a demo of a keyboard I just come here or to synthartist69 you 2 have every good keyboard and make fantastic demos of the sounds
P 8 Voices wow what stunning synth programming...... a gorgeous gorgeous patch !
it's 6 voices bro
@@davidsiau3350 patch number 8 … preset 8 …. Human voice patch … named as voice on the JX 8 p 👍
It's interesting to see how the soundtrack patch evolved. On the JX-8P it's a relatively conventional dark-sounding strings sweep, but on the D-50 it's more expressive - it almost sounds like a cross between soundtrack and the psycho mellow preset. The JX-8P's version is very reminiscent of Tangerine Dream's Legend soundtrack.
this synth is worth having just for soundtrack alone
Nah soundtrack over rated many better sounds in the 8p
@@georgegeorgio1751 disagree, soundtrack is one of the best pads ive ever heard
Absolutely! I had one, sold it, bought one again just for Soundtrack, and finally bought another one that was defective just for spare parts. Best Pad ever. I did slightly tweak it tho.
Love mine. Had it since 1986. We need to get a cable for the PG-800. I think it sounds exactly like the Jupiter 8.
I don't know why so many people complain about the JX's factory presets. Some of them are quite nice and have aged beautifully! They may be a bit overused, but they're certainly worth studying, IMO.
SiliconBassist It's a great synth, but i think the problem is that the factory presets sound too much trying to replicate real instruments. That's probably why so many people hate it, they look no further than the presets and they fail to see the full capabilities of this synth. Since i'm using the PG8x vsti i want the real deal (or a JX-10)!
+Timecop1983 timecop! 🙋
Timecop1983
I don't normally use factory presets when recording. I just like to listen to and study them. :)
It comes alive when you program it.
Ive been using PG-8X and managed to create some good pads and bass sounds. It does a great brass sound too.
P13 music box is why i bought mine back when. And adding wind chimes to a reverb and straight analog (moog) randomly modulated wind sound was the second reason. I sure miss mine. I sold it and my korg poly61m to a musician at abc tv who did tunes and such for soap operas. Lol
Nice! I've had a JX-8P since the late 80s. It's a great sounding keyboard. Great brass and string sounds. It's also underrated as far as I'm concerned. Too bad the PG-800 programmer costs more than the synth itself!
with one of these you either liked them or you didnt. i do because it didnt sound like any other synth at all. synths with just button and a slider instead of knobs and sliders are harder to program but once you get the hang of it its good. this is one synth id buy in the future
Alone for the presets "Voices", "Soundtrack" and "Music Box" the machine is worth the money.
Jam and Lewis used this in Janet Jackson's Control, Alexander O'neals "Hearsay" (Especially on "Fake" and in New Editions NE Heartbreak Album
Someone is selling this for $180 in my area. Should I buy it?
PharaohsKingdom You have to. They're worth twice that amount
PharaohsKingdom Don't let it get away!
YES!!!!!!
Yes! @@rorschach1
I bought this for 20 bucks yesterday. And you woudn't believe, what I found inside! 20000 bucks! True story
The JX-8p was the first true analog synthesizer which I had the pleasure of playing regularly. Mine came to me from a "traditional" classical/Jazz musician who didn't understand that you could have fun with the 64 presets, but you couldn't save the changes.
Its original owner bought it blindly back in 1985, without doing the right research to find out that it was the one for him. Its DX-style interface probably distracted this guy.
I've owned other analog models (including a JX-10), but this one still holds that "special place" for me.
I'm convinced that P8 was used in the theme from X Files.
And, I didn't know you could do what you did with the aftertouch using P20.
I remember a Steeldrums preset in my JX-8P but I can not find it here.
maybe it's in part 2 of 2
@@SynthManiaDotCom Actually, no, it isn't there, and that is strange... is it possible that Roland changed the factory presets at some point in time? When I bought the JX-8P. it was just released, so mine must have been an early one.
Maybe you remember the P12 TIMBALES patch. It sounds like steel drums rather than timbales.
A piece of the 80's...
My heart.
I married a 3P to my 8P and was over-awed by the sounds I was able to get from these machines. Sold both a long time ago. However, now that I'm trying to use vintage sounds, I have to go in search of another 8P. I had so much fun using it, especially with the editor. The 8P was also touch sensitive. I was hoping that this demo would have displayed more of that. The 'soundtrack' position is great when using a bit of feel.
Came here because of the Produce Like A Pro video on 'Slave of the Rhythm' by Grace Jones on which apparently preset 18 Fat Fifths was used ;-)
fabian quintiero of soda stereo and juan del barrio of los abuelos de la nada used that synth
Excellent video! This is the synth that defined Roland's future! Yes the JX 10 was a God! But this little baby stole my heart back then and still sounds amazing! Then came the D-50, and damn..... :)
Found one on Craigslist.
Buying it.
I had a JX8P & PG800 between '88 and '92. It's the only synth I regret selling. That 'Voices' patch was one of my favourites.
it was my first 'big ' synthé i was 16 y old . i still got it ..)- and still ove it ;)
This was used a lot by bands in the 80's kinda has an FM sound for the most part for the factory patches but lovely nice analogue Jupiter type strings sounds. Recently that FM type sound is in fashion again. (until the big names find something else to 'recreate' from the past).
you can buy nowadays a kiwi patchprogrammer and it adds the possibility to take an external cv signal (expl. LFO) and to route it to a other parameter...nice feature!!!
P31 Bubbles the intro of Midnight Star - Midas touch
This was used with a Yamaha TX816 for the song Final Countdown!
These piano stuff sound like they come off of a DX7 almost
i have the jx8p and the jx10 with pg 800. i love that synths
Got one of these downstairs in the garage; a few keys are dead. A few years ago I pulled it apart to clean under all the metal contacts but some keys still wouldn't work.
damn it really does sound great; the filter's so nice; got this kinda 'juicyness' to the resonance. Thx
Yeah. The filter is really underrated, I think.
quarkyzarky
A fact? It's subjective, buddy. I do want a JX-3P, though. I think the IR3109 and IR3R05 have different strengths.
i couldn't produce a dx7 electric piano from jx3p back then but when i bought a used jx8p ... i was surprised!!! it's not super FM like... but it was pretty close!
Wow, most of these sounds are just so inspiring; sure some are cheesy, but who cares. I love the church bells, the electric bass is pretty convincing, & a fair number of these would be great for sound design (the Bubbles reminded me of the atmospheric noises of Dagobah from The Empire Strikes Back lol). Excellent demo!!! All the horsing around I want in a demo & none of the horsing around I don't want in a demo lol
IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
Someone said the Music Box patch P13 on the JX8P is the source of the bell on Jaydee Plastic Dreams! But others say it's the Tibeten Bell Patch on the MKS70. Yet, no one on the internets have demonstrated it!
Would you be so inclined to make a demo showing for once and for all where the Jaydee Plastic Dreams Bell sound is from? ❤
Lovely sounding synth.
stab brass was used in we need protection by Picnic at the whitehouse
One of the key songs of my youth. The JX-8P also shows in the video of the song.
psycho mellow freaks the hell out of me
Most of you probably disagree but the JX-8p is more versatile and have a broader sound spectra than the Grand Old Daddy himself Jupiter 8.
P17 Soundtrack is perfect for the intro chords from Crockett's theme by Jan Hammer. 👍
P17 Soundtrack...feel like I just watched an spisode of Hill Street Blues. lol
Best Vintage Keyboard
Ive got one and havent played it in years, Think mainly because I dont like going through menus to adjust stuff, Id love to get my hands on a PG-800 programmer so I could change things on the fly, the preset sounds sounded awesome though plus the previous owner had some saved
+moogmanXanders apparently there's an app you can run on iPad that simulates the PG-800 functions. I don't own one of these but plan to acquire one.
Not the worst synth out there for sure, but the pg 800 makes it soooo much better.
Getting aftertouch working is a case of disasembling the keys, and cleaning off the oxidised films that meaure the aftertouch.
Amazing instrument
Soundtrack: to die for.
Smoothest Brass in de Roland catalog!
7:30 that alone is worth the price!
Jan Hammer loved his Junos!
People are beyond lazy when it comes to programming this thing without the pg800... it's very straight forward
Is it anything like the alpha juno? You find the parameter and raise it?
1 KIKO yes exactly, you press the 'parameter' button, select the number which corresponds to the effect you want to adjust, and use the editing slider next to the volume and after touch to adjust the levels.
I think i buy the new Jupiter X,i mean the JX-8P is inside it !!!!:-)
or you could save thousands of bucks just downloading the Pg8x which is a 1:1 digial copy of the 8p ;)
@@testohtoby Its very close, not quite there on bass or brass and lacking a bit or movement in the sound but in a mix cant really notice much. If Roland did a boutique it would be even closer.
This synth sounds better than Jupiter 8 in my ears. You can make complex sounds with Jupiter 8 and good lead sounds, but not fat brass sounds and fat pads. Roland JX 8P looks ugly, but sure sounds great. Combine JX 8P with the PG 800 controller and you would not miss the Jupiter's 8 knobs and wheels.
@Rafal Rudawski The Jupiter 8 sounds quite close but lacks the chorus, if it had that then it would be able to replicate the 8P.
nice demo - warmer and darker than the new Boutique JX-08 but it's not a bad copy for most things
hmm. i have thoughts about the things i would trade for one of these with a programmer..
For some reason, I never really caught on to Roland's pitch/ mod wheel combo. I don't think it gives as much control over the modulation, but maybe that's just me. Great demo!
Regards, 808
Refreshing hear a demo video that features an actual keyboardist. As for the Jx, it definitely has a sound signature. The E Bass is really nice whereas, the Synth Bass patch suuhucks.
Nice sounding Roland synth. But they should have called it JX6P because the voices stealing is painfully evident on long release patches (at 5:28). I've never understood why they didn't give it 8 voices like the Korg counterpart DW8000 that came out the same year for about the same price... After all, wasn't this JX8P supposed to have followed in the footsteps of the Jupiter 8 ?
Anyway, thanks for a very nice demo with high sound quality.
Amigo el sonido Low String con que esta combinado que suena como un pad tambien. Me fadcina el sonido del poly brass.
Are there any VSTs (or modern synths for that matter) that can emulate the 'Soundtrack' patch? I think the Roland Alpha Juno had a similar sound ...
PG-8X.
The fact it has a J and P in the model name, does that mean its related to the JUPITER family ??
I don't think it has any common parts... but they can sound very alike at times. The JX is actually more versatile, and has a touch sensitive keyboard, the Jupiter doesn't!
It would've been a even better synth though, had the envelopes been a little faster, it came with an arpegiator and PWM!
@@lundsweden
Thanks a lot. I have never seen or played on one before.
and also the arco low and high strings sound like van halen strings
Dont forget the Final Countdown hymn sound. Jx8p on the album
Love my JX8P . I also have a Jupiter 8, An Oberheim Matrix 12, and a Yamaha DX5 to name a few in my collection.
Really great sounds! :-D
Nice sounds
Ciao Paolo ! Thanks for all your great content !! Amazing piano skills ! Are you self trained or did you study piano ? . saluti da Parigi !!
Thank you, Franco! I am 90% an autodidact. I studied classical piano for a few years when I was a kid, and again a year or two when I was a young adult, but yeah, mostly I just learned by myself.
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Isn't the patch "Voices" were the patch that played at the beginning of Elton John's "Japanese Hands"? Sounds like it.
+Po Kamnuandej Played by Fred Mandel, right? On the Reg Strikes Back album.
You know your stuff don't you?
Yes. It sounds in Japanese hands and also in I fall apart and Highlander (Leather Jackets album)
Elton once used it live midi'd to his RD1000 piano when doing Candle In The Wind on The Two Ronnies Christmas special christmas 87.
Wow i really like it :)
Maybe P11 Pipe organ + shimmer effect would probably sound like the intro of "where the streets have no name" of U2
Two oscillators in stereo , vcf , vca and a chorus versus one mono sound ... 8 operators with algorithms structures mmmh!!!
these sounds remind me of (old) Tangerine Dream
The voices patch is pretty cool. Soundtrack is a nice pad. Some other stuff was good too. But can modern 2 oscillator analog synths do what this could do? I understand there will be some differences due to filter. I also suspect this thing's sawtooth wave might sound better than some other synth's sawtooth based on some of these patches. But sawtooth differences always sound subtle to me.
Is 5:07 from a song, or did you improvise that?
Fucking beautiful - reminds me of the intro theme of Tales From The Darkside (80s horror show)
Ciao Paolo, anzitutto complimenti per i tuoi video, sempre estremamente esaustivi e completi: un piacere guardarli 👍🏻🙂... Ho da poco scaricato il PG-8X e mi chiedevo se tu sapessi se siano disponibili in qualche sito i preset banks del Jx 8p.. Ho già acquistato i presets di Espen kraft ma sono solo i primi 32.. Sapresti nulla a riguardo? Grazie e ancora complimenti! Andrea
Majestueux magic
Thanks for putting the presets here. I guess Piano 1 and 3 were supposed to imitate the DX7 E. Piano 1, right?
The aftertouch on yours seems to be more sensitive (6:30 ish mark) than any other Roland based on the mid/late 80s action.
I'm puzzled as to why they called it JX-8P when it only had 6 voices, though. 3P made sense: Programmable Preset Polyphonic = 3 P's.
Soda stereo 😍
El mismo que usaba el Zorrito
@@Яаис-ь6ы y juan del barrio de los abuelos
Great sound
Europe's Final Countdown synth riff was created on the JX-8P. It'll always sound great to me matter what others think, and that's all i care about.
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and anyone who's not respectful will be ignored.
Does anyone know if the Roland Cloud for Zenology consists of all 64 original preset patches? I recently purchased the JX-08 boutique synth and was disappointed that it doe not have all the original patches. (Going to sell it) thank you for advance , I appreciate any input / help . Thank you guys
Sounds like this synth was conceived for fighting the DX7 in the market... listen those factory presets... they sound like an Analog Substractive synth in FM Disguise... But if i remember well, the oscillator section of this synth offers several sub oscillator waveshapes much more closer to additive synths than earlier roland synths (juno alpha i believe is the first one with those strange harmonic series)... so... maybe this is roland version of the 80's trend in sounds... Sharper Attacks (not that sharper in this case) Glassy, Plucked and Bell-like sounds... even so, this synth sounds more alive and warm than the DX7... I hope i'm getting it right about the oscillator section, if not... somebody shine a (synthy) light on my confusion! ;)
+TheMetalMusicMachine i want to midi a dx7 to one of these
Yeah, the alpha juno... I guess Roland tried to make their filters and oscillators to sound the cleanest possible (less vcf and vca distortion etc...) to sound "hip" when the 80's came along... and that election made the last Roland analog polysynths sound weak, steppy, shinny, like a bad interpretation of what the 80's should sound... DX7 palette went be from soft, mellow to bright, sharp and agressive...
Thanks for the answer!!! We are synthnerds so... ;)
Does it have weighted keys?
Excellent.
I had a JX8P back in 1987 through to the mid 90s. A great synth... good basic sound but I often wonder what kind of sounds could be had if it had multiple LFOs and more flexible modulation routings. I have a JX10 now and the PG800 and use it mainly in 12 voice mode.
Do you hate the shared tones on the JX10 as much as I do?
amazing;)