Roland Boutique Leaked (JP-08/JU-06/JX-03)

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#121

Don’t own the JP8 but the JX & JU I have.
Yeah the sysex & mod wheel stuff is gimped but they are so easy to tweak on the fly & sound sweet doing it.
Found the Octatrack goes best with them - resampling the tweaks for temporary or permanent prosperity.
Running them into anything that can sample/loop allows repeatable manipulation.
The MD UW would be an entirely useable option for ‘temporary’ capture.

Shitty workaround for parameter locking - building some kind of sysex-cc translator in raspberry pi/Midi Pal/Midi-ox/Midi Designer

#122

New firmware released!

Boutiques now send and receive MIDI CC#s for synth parameters.

Yippeee.
MD + JP08, here I come!

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#123

http://www.roland.com/support/by_product/jp-08/updates_drivers/352049

http://www.roland.com/support/by_product/ju-06/updates_drivers/352050

http://www.roland.com/support/by_product/jx-03/updates_drivers/352051

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#124

Oh no! This is a really bad news for my bank account. :sweat:

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#125

Same for mine.
Though on the fence with JP-08 vs JU-06.
Don’t care so much about authenticity of emulation. JP-08 clearly more versatile. But JU-06 more ergonomic and chorus is lovely.

#126

They all sound great. Will probably get JP-08, but I need to rethink my setup first. This is so unexpected.

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#127

Between the 606 TR-8 update, and now this, it is clear Roland is willing to listen to customers for updates.

If only they’d listen more to what we want in the first place.

#128

man… i played with a JP-08 in guitar center and the fader throw is ridiculous… you can pretty much forget about fine editing from the front panel unless you are a gnome or something like that

but i guess with ability to MIDI CCs, you can just use a controller…

wasnt expecting this update - it also throws me for a loop because i was planning on trying a system-1m instead…

#129

Yea, that is my only hangup with the JP-08.

Now that the CC# update is out, I’m considering the JX-03 also. It has some of the low level complexity of the JP-08 (2nd OSC/waveforms/LFOcomplexity), and the Chorus of the JU-06.
The hang up here is the lower patch memory. But I think I could circumvent that by mangling some of the fixed presets with MD CC# plocks, and have those saved in MD patterns.

No PWM, but the most cross mod options of all the Boutiques.

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#130

:joy: That one had me chuckling at work. They do seem seriously tiny. Nice that you can do CC’s now though.

#131

Damn… Quite THE thing that was shielding me from the GAS…
Thx Adam for the news !

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#132

i had a mks-70 for a while (rackmount jx-10)… best pads of all time, easy - it was smoother than butter

i was thinking the jx-3p was related, but poking around it seems more like the predecessor of the alpha-juno or something…

now, the Jup-8 is one of my top 5 dream synths… so im really torn, especially with this new behringer news…

#133

A friend of mine just moved to my neighborhood.
While helping him move his furniture in, he showed me a picture of a bunch of rack gear he gave to his old neighbor. Stuff that he didn’t want anymore.
Top of the stack was an MKS-70.

I was like “CALL ME FIRST NEXT TIME!”

Oooof.

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#134

@AdamJay The JX-03 is the most overlooked, possibly because its vintage counterpart has less prestige than the other 2 models, but actually it is a very nice synth, capable of tones the other 2 are not, and it is a fair bit more flexible than the JX3p, also the envelopes are are much better than I remember the JX3p being.

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#135

yeh man - war stories…

when i bought the mks it was less than 500 on ebay - this was around mid 00s… i bought and sold quite a few vintage analogs back then, sucks so hard i couldnt keep them all - literally all of them are going for at least 2x higher prices now… some up to 5x more… i think i saw a moog mg-1 going for 800 the other day? like wtf? that was the first real synth i owned, cost about 175 on ebay iirc… back in dem late 90s…

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#136

I still have my MKS-70 and I will never sell it. Out of of all my synths, it’s one of few I can just play for hours using just one sound. Hook it up to a keyboard controller and just play and get lost in one of the lush pad sounds.

#137

I’m sure others must have done this but not sure if it’s been posted…
basically tho I had removed the knobs I didn’t want to live tweek from my tanzmaus as the space is tight and I didn’t want to knok the tempo or tune knobs whilst jamming… enter jx03 and I realised the taller rubbery maus knobs are exactly what the boutique needs to make tweaking a breeze. The original (nice looking ones) are less easy to grip, so I swapped the ones I reach for most (with the ones I had removed from maus) …

Worked out a treat. Really happy with the 03 as a “synth” without trying to compare sounds, it’s jus a good little synth and more to the point dare I say had this been the sound of the original back then it would still be a classic today :slight_smile:

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#138

Just got myself a JX-03.
I’ve grown fond of Analog synth sound lately, let’s see where this one will bring me :smiley:

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#139

How are you digging that JX-03? I’m super tempted to get one at $199; that cross mod looks fun.

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#140

For this price, you can’t be wrong.
I really love it, got mine for 200€ as well. Keeper !
But you won’t get into the FM territories you’re looking for ^^

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