I’m feeling pretty good about my recent acquisition of a Jupiter Xm. The JD-800 model should be largely similar to the code shipped on this new boutique. I’m busy enough playing with everything already built in to the Xm that it may be next year before I sign up for Roland Cloud and get the JD expansion.
JD-800s are renowned for their red goo keybed issues. After spending a summer dealing with 30 years of mystery adhesives on a boat - where tools like power sanders and angle grinders can be appropriate - I’m really not eager at all to do a JD-800 restoration, or pay the premium to someone who has done it. A choice between a boutique, VST or a Jupiter download is very nice indeed.
As others have suggested, the JD-08 is an adorable little slice of Mission Control, so it seems likely that I’ll end up with at least one on my desk at some point in the future.
I mean JD-08 sliders look like they have the travel distance of an on-off switch if you think that might bother you
They should have made it a “double deep boutique”
I could see someone making a larger panel and hand wiring the controls to it to make the boutiques into a larger instrument. If I was obsessed, I might do it.
Very cool!
Surprisingly found the JX-08 more sonically interesting, in a more useable way. Sounds like Twin Peaks in a box to me. Loved it. And the new Elektron style additions to the sequencer means I might actually use it, rather than immediately looking for the functionality to disable it. Lookin’ at you, D-05!
I thought I was set for Roland polysynth/rompler tones with my MC-101 but I admit I’m tempted by this pair.
I’d want to try the sliders on the JD-08 before buying though - the Roland rep in the vid looked a little suspicious in that he moved the sliders fast. If I were the company rep and wanted to hide something like, say, stepping, I’d move the sliders pretty quickly too.
Speaking of doubles, but on the JX side… It’s interesting that they bill it as a JX-8P boutique rather than a JX-10 aka Super JX, which was the bitimbral JX-8P.
