Roland

Roland - Jupiter 80
 
SKU: #345942
Model: #JP-80
Your Price:   $3,499.00 CDN


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Description

Metamorphosis of a Legend

One of the most revered prefixes in the history of synthesis returns. Welcome the arrival of the JUPITER-80 - a live-performance powerhouse that pays homage to its legendary namesake with road-proven hardware and massive sound, yet blasts into the future with advanced SuperNATURAL technology. The JUPITER-80's expressive, organic approach to synthesis makes a new world of sound design possible with multilayered SuperNATURAL textures under the control of a full-color touchscreen and creative hands-on controllers. Experience the metamorphosis of a legend with the all-new JUPITER-80!

Powerful integrated SuperNATURAL synthesis engines designed for legendary vintage synth sounds to realistic organic acoustic sounds and more
Single Tone is equivalent to the performance of powerful single synthesizer stack four of these to create a mind-blowing Live Set
Tone Blender tweaks multiple parameters of tones in realtime for complex, emotive sonic movement during performance
Fast, friendly operation with intuitive front panel and color touchscreen optimized for live performance
76-note semi-weighted synth keyboard, and 256 polyphonic voices (varies according to sound-generator load)
USB-memory Song Player/Recorder for backing tracks or quick idea capture

Easy integration with computers via built-in USB-MIDI/Audio interface


Past, Present, and Future Sound
The JUPITER-80 nods to its past with lethal, multi-layered SuperNATURAL synthesizer tones so fat you'll need a knife to cut through it, but that's only the beginning of what this powerhouse synth will do. Gigging musicians will love the stockpile of essential sounds onboard, including Roland's famous SuperNATURAL grand pianos, strings, brass, and much more. The JUPITER-80 puts a fast-access user interface under your fingersa dream for live performance. Its heavyweight design, complete with metal side panels, recalls the legendary JUPITER but with a modern twist.

Tone Blender
You will love the deep possibilities of the stackable SuperNATURAL architecture and unique features such as Tone Blender, which tweaks values of multiple parameters simultaneously and lets you Capture any new combination and save it as a Live Set. Create complex, emotional textures that respond, react, and evolve like nothing you've heard before. Tone Blender can also dramatically enhance your live-performance capabilities by letting you assign its multiple parameters to controllers such as the D Beam.

Powerful Live Sets Featuring Four-Tone Structure and Registrations
JUPITER-80's sound engine handles four x tones with dedicated DSP per tone as a basic unit Live Set for manual performance. Layering of Upper and Lower Live Sets, plus a specialized SOLO part, means the incredibly massive nine-tone-stack sound. Customized complex settings can be saved as Registrations, and easily recalled during live performance.

Behavior Modeling
Roland's latest addition to SuperNATURAL technologyBehavior Modeling let's you easily bring to life the authentic natural performance articulations of traditional instrument players. Flamenco strums. Multi-mallet vibe rolls. Seamless shifts between legato, marcato, pizzicato and spiccato strings. Trumpet half-valve trills and rips and much more. Previously unattainable with such fluidity on a keyboard, these performance nuances complete the realism of SuperNATURAL instruments all without changing patches or doing contortions.

Keyboard: 76 keys (with velocity and channel aftertouch)


Sound Generator Section

Maximum Polyphony: 256 voices (varies according to the sound generator load)
Parts: 4 parts (Upper, Lower, Solo, Percussion)
Registrations: 256 (including pre-loaded registrations)
Live Sets: 2,560 (including pre-loaded Live Sets)

Effects:
Live Set (Upper/Lower part)
-Multi-Effects (MFX): 4 units (parallel connection only), 76 types per each Upper/Lower (total: 8 units)
-Reverb: 1 unit, 5 types per each Upper/Lower (total: 2 units)

Solo part/Percussion part
-Compressor + Equalizer + Delay: 1 set per each Solo/Percussion (total: 2 sets)
-Reverb: 1 unit, 5 types

Master Effects: 4-Band Equalizer: 1 unit



USB Memory Song Player/Recorder Section:

Tracks: 1 stereo track
Playable File Format: Audio File: WAV, AIFF, MP3
Recording File Format: Audio File: WAV (44.1 kHz, 16-bit Linear, stereo)
Effects: 4-Band Equalizer: 1 unit
External Memory: USB Flash Memory (sold separately)
* Use USB flash drive sold by Roland. We cannot guarantee operation if other products are used.

Other
Arpeggiator: Preset: 128 styles / User: 128 styles

Harmony Intelligence: 17 types

Controllers:
- D Beam Controller
- Pitch Bend/Modulation Lever
- Assignable buttons (S1, S2)
- Assignable knobs (E1--E4)
- PART LEVEL sliders (PERC, LOWER, UPPER, SOLO)

Display: Graphic Color LCD 800 x 480 dots (touch screen)

Connectors:
- PHONES jack (stereo 1/4-inch phone type)
- MAIN OUT jacks (L, R) (XLR type)
- MAIN OUT jacks (L/MONO, R) (1/4-inch TRS phone type)
- SUB OUT jacks (L, R) (1/4-inch phone type)
- AUDIO IN jack (Stereo miniature phone type)
- DIGITAL AUDIO OUT jack (COAXIAL)
- FOOT PEDAL jacks (CTRL 1, CTRL 2, HOLD)
- MIDI Connectors (IN, OUT, THRU)
- USB COMPUTER port (Audio/MIDI)
- USB Memory port
- AC IN jack

Power Consumption: 25 W

Accessories:
- Owner's manual
- CD-ROM (USB Audio/MIDI driver)
- DVD-ROM (SONAR LE)
- USB MEMORY Protector
- Power Cord

Options (sold separately):
- Keyboard stand: KS-18Z, KS-G8 (Use a stand that causes the height of the unit to be one meter or lower.)
- Pedal switch: DP series
- Footswitch: BOSS FS-5U
- Expression pedal: EV-5
- Stereo Headphones
- USB Flash Memory
*Use USB Flash Memory sold by Roland. We cannot guarantee operation if other products are used.

Size and Weight:
Width: 1,231 mm / 48-1/2 inches
Depth: 439 mm / 17-5/16 inches
Height: 140 mm / 5-1/2 inches
Weight: 17.7 kg / 39 lbs. 1 oz.

Reviews



Loving my Jupiter 80
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Product Experience I own it Closest Store Calgary Alberta
This is a major upgrade for me, I have a Roland JV 80 For about 18 years now, mostly been playing the piano and guitar but wanted some Synth fun again - this is extremely user friendly, I'm not a super techy person and after a week I have been loving it more and more each day - very intuitive, I can get a lot out of it very quickly -- scary price tag but if you are able to get past that you can easily get into some amazing sound creations and wonderful music performances in no time at all -- even before opening the manual I could get through a lot of the menus, sounds, and record easily -- now that I'm taking my time it gives you amazing control over the instruments. I can take a solo violin and switch to other string instruments, how I "feel" the bow working on it, vibrating the strings -- or with horns - how I "feel" the air, valves, .. there are so many ways you can work with the human element of the sounds that are built in, and by using buttons and switches you can add your own human element to the sounds. I'm not a super techy synth user by any means, if I can make this synth do what its doing so far, I can only imagine what a pro can make it do --- definitely I have even been getting stage-ready, recording-ready performances out of it myself in a week - and saving bits that I will use for original music definite, as a songwriter. I am so loving this!!!!

Posted by Christina (Tina) on Feb 21, 2012


Product Demos

Jupiter 80 - Intro / Registrations added 2011-10-28 16:07:01

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Jupiter 80 - Category and Alternate Buttons added 2011-10-28 16:08:35

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Jupiter 80 - Splits and Solo added 2011-10-28 16:13:54

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Jupiter 80 - Parts and Creating Layers added 2011-10-28 16:14:13

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Jupiter 80 - Case Construction added 2011-10-28 16:14:32

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Jupiter 80 - Semi-weighted Action added 2011-10-28 16:14:50

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Jupiter 80 - USB Song Recorder added 2011-10-28 16:15:35

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Jupiter 80 - USB Song Player added 2011-10-28 16:16:08

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Jupiter 80 - KS-J8 Keyboard Stand added 2011-10-28 16:16:40

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