ROLAND JUPITER-4 Analog Synthesizer 1978 | HQ DEMO
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2011
- (c) 2011 by AnalogAudio1
I played the Jupiter-4 dry, and also sometimes with a bit reverb and delay.
The Roland Jupiter-4 "Compuphonic" from 1978 was an affordable four voice polyphonic programmable synthesizer. It has 8 presets and 8 RAM memories. The Jupiter-4 was the first of the Jupiter series and was also the first synthesizer which featured an arpeggiator.
The sound architecture of the Jupiter-4 is rather comparable with the Juno-60 than with the Jupiter-6 or Jupiter-8: 1 oscillator per voice, suboscillator, 24 dB filter, chorus/ensemble switch... indeed, it looks like an early version of the Juno-60. But the sound is different. It sounds like a typical Roland synth from the seventies (similar to SH-5, SH-1000, SH3A...). It has a very good, meaty sound with fast envelopes. It could be an alternative to the Juno-60 with some extras: random mode on the arpeggiator, 2 envelopes instead of one, fat unisono sound and additional LFO waveforms.
My JP-4 is a later model with serial 912xxx. I guess it has the newest voice cards inside...
The JP-4 was played by Depeche Mode, Vince Clarke, Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, Frank Duval, Gary Numan, Tomita, Kitaro, Duran Duran and others. - Наука та технологія
the Jupiter 4 can honestly be, a one man band.
Every Jupiter kicks major butt.
The sounds is so punchy and the snap and clarity from the envelopes is second to none . To my ears the sound has more weight than the jupiter 8.
Beast of a synth. Made in 1978 and much in demand now. Everything old is relevant again. And I have access to one, for free. Let's play....LOL
Those machines must have been stunningly beautiful right after they came out of factory. I don't find the iPad this stunning today...
Such power! And from only one oscillator!!
Nice creature, well one of the most IMHO, that classic Roland sound ....love it
You have lots of great synths on your channel. I don’t know if you own all these synths or just get the pleasure to play them but they are pure masterpieces. Your one lucky person to play on these synths.
these videos, the fonts, the intro, the retro color contrast fx are all SO PERFECT AND FITTING. BEST. captures the complete essence
Holy fuckin crap. 1978. They still haven't caught up,
I miss mine. It was a dream come true when I had her, love at first sight, a love affair like no other. Now after several years together, she has gone. Great demo. Brilliant. The things we had, we now regret paring with eh. Awwww.
I went into a music shop around 2005 and saw one. I asked to have a wee play around and they handed me a pair of cans. I literally set the attacks to zero, decay and sustain maxxed, resonance to nil, and cut-off maxxed out. Pressed one note, took the cans off, and offered to take it off their hands. It is such a beautiful sounding machine.
I have a Jupiter 4, it is my most reliable analogue and also my oldest synth. They are fantastic and some.
Wow, the Jupiter 4 sounds awesome! I have an MKS-80, MKS-70, MKS-50, and MKS-7 (which are all great synths). But the Jupiter 4 has a super punchy, snappy sound and glassy quality to the resonance that is not present on my Roland synths except for maybe the MKS-80.
Great demo, what a fantastic sound!
Very nice demo, thanks : )
Dream Synth ! If only I could afford one ;-)
Electric! Sounds absolutely awesome.
This and OB-X are the best polys, bar none. Some can do more, but who cares if they don't sound this good?
you might have forgotten the yams CS serie in your list.
@@mamakuproject Ah, they are beautiful-sounding, for sure. One of my best friends has a CS80 (!) and much as I love it, I don't love the raw sound as much as JP4 or OBX, though it can do amazing things!
maravilha de máquina, do tempo que a Roland mandava
wow clear sweet sounds the jp4 makes a real retro gem :)
I found one of these all rusted up in a rubbish dump a few years ago. I cleared out all the leaves and dead bugs and fired it up, it made sound and more or less responded to the keys and controls, but the pitch would insanely leap around all by itself, like Satan had possessed it to play Lucky Man. Beyond my abilities to fix, so I gave it away to someone wanting it for parts.
Still have it?
+skyprop gave it away for parts years ago
@@russ254 gave it away years ago
The synth of my dreams....since ever !!!
Nothing like it. With schematics, couldn’t this be made again.., Today. Got moogs, but they don’t sound like that. Great demo
So perfect...
Excellent video! I must find a Jupiter 4! Happy New year!
thanks, Happy New Year!
One just came up on Vancouver island and I am trying not to be ridiculous about it... it really might be looking into sam what with the exchange rate and all. It’s on Craigslist.
Sitting in front of me I have a Juno 6 and and an SH-1. If those 2 could mate, their offspring would look and sound like this.
Even though it's digital; the SH-01A boutique is VERY close to a Jupiter 4.
@@SkrillPill ahaha, nice joke :-D
Wow! It's like new!
Great video !! Can hear the early sound of human league 🎶
This JP-4 sounds alot nicer than the one I played in a music store years ago. It sounded like a broken organ, nothing was in tune. Even the "factory sounds" sounded wheezy and horrible and the arp didn't work. I couldn't believe that was what a JP-4 was supposed to sound like. Good thing I was wrong.
I've owned the Jp6, the Jp8 and the Super Jupiter. The Jp4 is the only one I still have. IMHO, the others are not "The Best" in their respective classes.
Soooooo synful!
At 1:26-2:01 those sounds make me imagine a giant cyborg space brain flying through space.
Wow!
How do you keep the arpeggiator going without touching the keys?
I saw you do the same thing on your Juno-60 video as well.
on most synths with arpeggiators you have a "hold" or "latch" function.
from a time Rolands were great... before JV era...
I so agree. Roland had a winning formula they should have stuck too. They made classics, then really bad ones. The Name Rolland was a good pull, but not the synths.
yes, true VCO. the most vintage sounding synth compared to all Dave Smith's current analogs.
True VCO, the actual oscillator is a logic chip, hex inverter, but the real magic is that the freq. of each osc depends on a heated can for stability. This is different from the Juno series, which got their "VCO" from a crystal derived digital pulse and consequently did not sound as rich. Of course the filter is a big part of the sound too!
I HAVE to know..did this synth come with onboard reverb and delay effects that are going on in this??
Hey man. Lovely demo, what mixer/preamp are you recording into? it's really nicely pushed back into the space!
Mackie CR1604 analog mixer
Oh, memories! The Human League, Reproduction, Zero as a Limit at 2:00.
You need to have a play with one because it does far more than that. Yes its good for the arpeggiattor use as Nick Rhodes will atestify its all over the 1st Duran album and gary Numan would atestify on Replicas. Most versatile use of the JP-4 is on the first two Human League albums Reproduction and Travelogue by Martyn Ware also used on the 1st Heaven 17 album. The machine like Bass is excellent too. It loves phaser, delay and being chorused.
Love the sound at 1:46.
@gencom the serial is 912xxx - I guess it is a newer model...
They DO. Moog, Dave Smith Instruments, Korg just re-released the MS-20 (mini) etc & there's a whole host of other, small, analog synth manufacturers. But analog is expensive to make. Due to the digital revolution, analog components are no longer being mass produced & those that are made, are done so in small productions runs (owing to analog being a niche market) which drives up the price. Market demand & economics, ensures that Korg, Roland or Yamaha will ever again make a mega-analog synth.
Do people use midi retrofit kits with this
some do, others don't
would kill for one of these
nick diamonds from the unicorns can be seen playing this in a tuff luff video
+Gegeg
There's one on Ebay right now (Friday March 4th 2016) with no time limit.
$4,394 + $160 S/H
no fuckin way would I spend 4500 on one of those, lmao
i hate myself for selling this...
Me too.
The last lead patch was unison?
yes
Why don’t modern instruments, with all of technology at hand, not sound anywhere as good as this old simple synthesizer?
Well the Jupiter-4 sounds good, but it's not the greatest synth in the world. I would prefer a Roland Juno-60 or a Korg Polysix, I like them more and they are also more reliable.
Nice clean sounds.Does it stay in tune?
Yes
There are some, Moog, DSI, and Arturia's "Minibrute" synth.
I recently bought a moog slim phatty and its a perfect example of what you just described. Ultra stable, midi-compatible, digitally-controlled analog synth with cool modern features. They do exist, but ill admit, unless you wanna break the bank, the slim is about as deep into that territory as you can go.
You should put the JP4 through your EH Small Stone pedal and load it up to here :)
how about you play that cd through a valve amplifier and nice wooden speakers?
Because corporate bean counters are only interested in packing as many features as possible into the smallest and cheapest box possible. Believe it or not, the most expensive parts of electronic musical gear are the knobs, switches, ports, etc. Manufacturers skimp on these to maximize profit. Moog Music makes analog gear. It's unlikely for the big three Japanese corporations to follow. They reissued the D-50 and DX7 on a card... give me a break. I want the real thing
There are plenty of companies making analog synths these days: Studio Electronics, Vermona, Analog Solutions, Doepfer, Analog Systems, Tom Oberheim, Macbeth Studio Systems, MFB, Cwejman...
Less than one month from you'll be able to buy brand new Korg MS-20 "mini"s for about $800.
They're 86% the size of the 35 year old analog beast........but other than the size they're EXACTLY like the old time stuff.
@synthlab Oh but they do. There are tons of different modern analog modular synth manufacturers (Doepfer, analogue systems, MOTM, modcan +++), the Prophet'08, Moog minimoog voyager/oldschool, lots of analog monosynths, Alesis Andromeda A6 (16 voice pure analog oscillators and filters). Just because Roland doesn't make analogs anymore doesn't mean they don't exist :)
Fantasticx video! Every other demo of this synth i've watched so far suggests it's only capable of those tacky 80s electro pop sounds, this shows otherwise.
cornucopia, this thing. it can do everything I want a synth to do.
Wow
Would live to hear what Steve roach would do with that
I swear that the only sound these JP4's make is a completely open filtered square wave. I don't care what the parameters are at. It always sounds like a square wave. ...and it sounds awesome with the arpegiator. I finally found one for sale and I am debating selling my Prophet 08 limited edition with pots added in order to get the JP4. But the Prophet is just too versatile, while the jupiter, is just too square wave arpeggiator-ish. Thats all this thing seems to do.
No I will just stick with the Jupiter 6 that I am getting as a present for free =P
i noticed in most of your vids you play in c minor :D
Scheiße ist das geil
the beginning part sounds like I sing rain by Gary numan
I can hear a little of Gary Numan's "I Die: You Die" here...
CHUNKY OLD SYNTH
@synthlab There are still allot of new analog synths, unfortunately not by Roland.
Now that Korg has reissued the brand new real analog MS20, will Roland ever reissue a brand new real analog Jupiter???
No Roland doesn't care about people anymore
The jupiter 80 is weird, it's like all the Jupiter's are combined. It has the push presets in the front, like the jp4. Ha ha my friend has a thumb technique for pushing push presets, he 'points his thumb' at the preset, with his nail on top...haha!!
Cheaper, yes, but cheaper than they used to be in the 80's, A new analog is still generally more expensive and harder to build than modern softsynths. More stable, yes, but good analog requires instability. The do make analog synths still to this day, and they don't sell. Synths have never sold well, even when compared to just about every other type of musical instrument ever produced. And we wonder why every musical genre flourishes except new wave?
@AnalogAudio1 Uh nope, sounds like a square wave with the arpegiator on...like all other vids. Thanks anyway. Still sounds nice
Synths like these most definitely need several effects. Reverb, delay, chorus, things like that.
They sound kinda thin without them, but with the right effects the sound of these old synths can be AWESOME !
Listen to Vangelis, on his old albums !
5:12 rain dance - herbie hancock !!!
back when ebay was new i bid on a jp4 for sale local to me, it was £400, when i went to see it it looked dire and one voice wasn't working, the apartment it was in was like a meth house condition. As I walked away, the guy said he'd take £200 for it, stupidly, I kept walking.
You were not the only one... I remember, in the early nineties in Germany you could get one for 350 DM. I bought one, but later I sold it for not much more, haha
Machine would have been a lot cheaper if it didn't have the preset and memory probably. I think those are wasted features on this thing.
Why don't synth manufacturers make analog synths anymore? Using today's technology they could be better, stable, cheaper and would sell, sell, sell !!!
Nope. No FX except a stereo chorus.