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.
You know I find so fascinating. I was captivated by the show when I was young still am. But I soon developed a love for synthersizers and drum machines, which I am still captivated by as well 😂. But not long ago I would find out that the Roland Jupiter 8 would be responsible for the sounds of the whistles and themes of the engines and that the Linn LM1 would provide the back beat using a tuned down cabasa as puffing noises in the music. So genius. But I find it funny that somehow a am connected these things now though I loved the sounds at the time. Maybe it was internally or just a bizzare coincidence for adoring 80s software that just so happened to be used in the show of my childhood.
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 am happy still owning and playing one ! This thing cost me a fortune at the time i bought it in 1984. 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 TH-cam back then. After hearing this, I am sorry I sold it for $100. after paying $5000 for it.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 !
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!
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
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.
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.
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 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/
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?
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=)
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
@ 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.
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.
I blame Thomas as basically being my introduction to the sound of analog synthesizers as a young child
@@banjoplayingbison2275same here
Each jupiter6 the first place for you and To Be 😅😢😅😊😂❤😊used 33
You know I find so fascinating. I was captivated by the show when I was young still am. But I soon developed a love for synthersizers and drum machines, which I am still captivated by as well 😂. But not long ago I would find out that the Roland Jupiter 8 would be responsible for the sounds of the whistles and themes of the engines and that the Linn LM1 would provide the back beat using a tuned down cabasa as puffing noises in the music. So genius. But I find it funny that somehow a am connected these things now though I loved the sounds at the time. Maybe it was internally or just a bizzare coincidence for adoring 80s software that just so happened to be used in the show of my childhood.
It reminds me of watching the first 2 seasons of Thomas and Friends.
Same synth used in the show.
1:46 this one sounded like the beginning of the ghost train theme
Good old Thomas The Tank Engine~
Also really reminds me of 80's music & even modern Synths
Thomas and Friends Season 1 and 2 brought me here!
same
Veggietales 1980’s Prototype brought me here!
Pokemon the series XYZ 1980’s Edition brought me here!
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 am happy still owning and playing one ! This thing cost me a fortune at the time i bought it in 1984. 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
God I love synthesizers so damn much 💓🎶
Me too and I am only a teen yet I enjoy this.
Same.
mike o'donnel and junior campbell used this synth for the first two seasons of thomas the tank engine
Beautiful instrument. I owned one in the late 80s. I couldn't figure out how to make it work. They didn't have TH-cam back then. After hearing this, I am sorry I sold it for $100. after paying $5000 for it.
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.
I love the arpegiator! What's cool is you can make the arpegiator different settings between the upper and lower voice! That sounds MAGNIFICENT!
I agree - the independent arpeggiator settings are a fantastic feature of this synth
I want one of these one day, I actually think it sounds better than the Jupiter 8
It certainly looks way cooler
I agree. It's more unique.
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 don't get why the jp6 gets the hate it does. Sounds absolutely beautiful. Good demo man
Thanks!
Syntheseyez sounds thin.
@@SPAZZOID100 no it doesn't.
Because most people don't know how to program it to do anything besides ugly sounds. This demo shows it can also do smooth classy sounds.
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.
@@TheAdventuresOfJimiJaden I agree! The Jupiter-6 is a very underrated synth. But hey, i do love how it was used in Thomas.
whodini used this on their album back in black ...those sounds are still relevant to this day
4:52 I love this moment !
Reminds me of old Thomas the Tank Engine music.
It should because this is the exact instrument they used for almost everything
exactly!
Thomas brought you here, too, eh? Same with me. But this guy really knows how to play the synth.
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
Hardly a passport to hipdom
Damn! Jupiter sounds so warm! What a nice analog!
Who are the AH who downvoted this cool video and fantastic sounds?
Pretty damn good organ (around 6:00) from a 1983 synth I'd say - nice organ chops too!
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.
4:47 Beautiful
Aaawesome stuff! I'm always looking forward to your videos :)
Amazing Synth!
I may have commented this on one of your posts before but honestly, thank you.
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 !
Synth mania, you should do thomas the tank engine on that
Whoa! sounds like the 80s!
Yup, this synth was produced in 1983
9:00 magic
This sounds great! :)
i'm about to buy one of these
Where are you getting it from?
Store, Ebay, private seller?
Jupiter 6 best synth made in Jp🇯🇵🇯🇵 👏👏👏
what a badass synth :D
Sounds like some of the music from, "The Goonies" at 4:30.
Sounds great
This thing sound huge. Those organs just blew me away!
You do have your synth collection insured, right? ;)
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!
Haha! 10:18 is the sound of the arcade game "Galaga"!!!
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
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.
Yep!!!
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.
looneyburgmusic hahahahahaha. Go play your rompler. Enjoy.
Larry Wilson 100% agree.
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.
Pretty funky. The song at 2:40 could almost be on Equinoxe.
Wish Cherry Audio had done this. It's not like a Jupiter 8 at all. It can actually do things the 8 can't do.
What's the song in 6:47 (same as in the beginning)? It sounds great!!!
Jeezes that sounds phat and alive like straight from a Jean michel jarre album
Beautiful playing and a great sounding instrument. Are you using a little reverb, chorus, etc. or is it dry?
Thank you, reverb
That one at 0:58 sounds so dope
what is the music you play 5:50?
jean michel jarre. my improvisation.
Nice Synth Playing
Thank you
What year was this synth released?
ThePinkFloydPortal January of 1983
1983
Is there a knob missing
Sounds Great Paolo, btw what are the main differences techwise between JP 6 and JP 8, except price and number of osc's ?
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.
I might be crazy but 6 sounds better than 8 to me.
Eeeeehhhhhh...... I don't know about that ;-) But yeah, they have different features and both sound great...
@@SynthManiaDotCom I think you are right, I just saw a side by side 6 to 8 comparison, and the 8 sounds very nice.
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.
Great demo. Does your JP6 have the europa upgrade?
Nop - this is a stock unit.
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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?
Yeah bring it to me, I'll give you $5 for it, since it's broken.
lol
I'm back! :)
Not the baby brother of the Jupiter 8... two totally different sounding beasts.
You' re starting to get to my nerves with your stupid comments - I warned you.
Could you provide a tape-save wave file to download?
Stephan S You can find it at the analog.no site: analog.no/cms/index.php/factory-patches/roland-factory-patches
Does this have the Europa upgrade?
No
Is this a video game?
Scusa Paolo ma è accordato a 440?
Non mi pare....
Grazie
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
This synth wouldn't happen to be on Van Halen's Jump? The first lick kinda reminded me of it!
Van Halen's Jump is notoriously Oberheim OB-Xa
No...that was an Oberheim Obi-X
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/
that is what I meant..OB-Xa Sorry for the missing vocal... :)
Ah.. gotcha. I had already stated the OB-Xa in the previous comment, so I thought you were referring to me.
what is the piece at 5.43?
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?
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hi what FX are u using with this?
IIRC Lexicon model 200
+SynthMania No less.
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 made a video on the Roland D-10 recently - same thing minus the sequencer
SynthMania
OK!
Nothing timid about that synth. It demands space
This or the Juno 6? it had the same filter chip I think the IR3109
***** it had a sweet sound for sure
From what I understand 101, Juno, Jupiter 6, Jupiter 8, Jx3p had the ir3109, just configured somewhat differently.
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.
It's a nice but a bit piercing this Jup. IMO
The JP-6 piercing? Then you haven't heard the SH-1000 yet :^) th-cam.com/video/8GsYwXigwGs/w-d-xo.html
Are those the factory settings because it is nothing like mine.
Yes, those are the factory settings
SynthMania I sent you my email please fwd me the daredevil factory patches it is unavailable on the internet.
It is here: www.sid6581.net/synths/
Better than Jupiter 8
Haha. No.
It doesn't sound as meaty as the 4 or the 8. Still nice though.
Scott Birch To my ears it sounds meatier than the 8.
Rayy‘s Musikladen no
abacab!!!!
Synth pop doesn`t suit for that synth. Some heavy insudtial, metal or darkwave would be better
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
As thin sounding as I remembered it when I had one decades ago. A Jupiter 8 it certainly ain't!
Cheapo sound.
The Roland Jupiter 6 patch "Synth Arp" was heard in the song "Living on Video" (1983).
Or was it the Roland SH-101?
A machine I wish I'd never sold... :-/ Had one for 17 years - it was my baby, which I bought when I was 18.
what did you do with the proceeds..
@ 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.
@@antfactorI am only a teen and I look forward on buying this synth.
7:42 best sound!! love!!
Love this thing. Such amazing sounds. Great demo!
1:30 reminds me the intro of equinoxe by JMJ
9:38 and this one also btw
Udyvk b 0:18