Roland Jupiter-80 76-Note Synthesizer w/ Aftertouch

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-colour touchscreen and creative hands-on controllers. Experience the metamorphosis of a legend with the all-new JUPITER-80! Since the launch of the JUPITER-80, many professional keyboard players and producers have praised its expressive SuperNATURAL sounds and live-performance capability. With the Version 2 software update, the JUPITER-80 offers new features that enhance its synthesis power, and provides more flexibility and creativity for musicians designing their own sounds. The JUPITER-80 nods to its past with lethal, multi-layered SuperNATURAL synthesiser 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 fingers—a dream for live performance. Its heavyweight design, complete with metal side panels, recalls the legendary JUPITER but with a modern twist. 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. 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 specialised “SOLO” part, means the incredibly massive nine-tone-stack sound. Customised complex settings can be saved as Registrations, and easily recalled during live performance. Roland’s latest addition to SuperNATURAL technology—Behavior Modelling—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. Features 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 synthesiser—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 colour touchscreen optimised 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 Three types of low-pass filters; combined with the previous type, a total of four filters are now available (New on Version 2.0) New MFX structures; in addition to the previous parallel connection, a total of five structures (including serial connection) are available (New on Version 2.0) A Registration Play screen for easier access to sounds during live performance (New on Version 2.0) For more information, please visit the manufacturer's website