By all means, avoid the Arturia Jupiter-8 plugin!!! The sound in it is amazing, but it's a CPU hog, it's impossible to program (sliders are way too coarse), it's buggy and crashes often, and worst of all: It uses the SyncroSoft Dongle copy-protection which is a NIGHTMARE!!! I often feel like using i...
I bought a Roland JX8P a few months ago. It was fairly cheap and makes epic pads! It's somewhere in between the Juno and the Jupiter, soundwise. Like a poor mans Jupiter. :) How much was it? Always wondered what that synth was like. Ive played on the '3p, but never heard that one. Can't remember th...
Thanks guys! :) After some massaging the pots seem to be getting less scratchy. At first the tuning of most of the sounds was jumping around almost randomly and the level pots were uselessly noisy. But apparently it just needed some tender use to get straight. Now it's pumping!!! Yeah! :D I'm gonna ...
Hi guys, I'm about to buy a used 909, and I just need to ask some questions to make sure I won't regret anything. :) I've checked the firmware on the unit by holding track 1 at powerup, and it seems that it's an old version 1. Will this be a problem? Also some of the pots are a little scratchy and t...