This video is a first look at the Roland Jupiter-50 synthesizer, which was introduced at this year’s Musikmesse.
Keyboard editor Stephen Fortner takes a look at the new Jupiter-50, with an overview of the synth’s architecture, lots of audio demos and his first impressions.
via KeyboardMag
My 90’s Yamaha Portatone can do that stuff… I miss instruments.
Recently I watched a youtube clip of Enrico Rava playing trumpet and I was struck so forcefully about the difference between a synth “with good articulations” and a real instrumentalist playing. I think synths are best for making new sounds, not trying to duplicate something magic like a real instrumentalist. (If the link below doesn’t work, it’s: “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOCleFDQxSI”)
I don’t know if we can do links here. enrico rava playing
I really wasn’t able to listen to this guy talking for more than 10 seconds… des he have a voice like that or is he just acting it?
I want to hear him yell “Parker, you’re fired!”
I have no respect for this reviewer after seeing this comedy.
“Oh listen to that high pass filter!”
“Almost a Mellowtranny sound”
“Iv’e got a fever and the only prescription is a TR-808 cowbell”
You can have drums or bass but not at the same time.
One of the features the 80 doesn’t have is the “Manual” button.
“Jolly candy like sound buttons”
“by bad of course I mean good”
Whenever he’s says huge the sound is thin.
Frequently, after a complex series of button pushes he strikes the keys and no sound comes out.
Looks like this guy has had a steady diet of cocaine and fried chicken for the better part of the last decade.
🙂
well if i ever get that gig on a cruse ship, i know what keyboard to take with me.
How could any Editor allow this video to be seen? If I want to listen to a bad modern day Jackie Gleason lite imitation, I’ll go to a hole in the wall casino somewhere in Florida. Nothing against this ‘guy’ personally but his review was clumsy which exacerbated his ‘simplistic Jersey everyday duh’ persona.
Oh and he used uhhhh and ummm approx. 72 times.