Coupled with Edit Tracs Gold, this was a sweet machine for sequencing. Of course this got pushed out for newer, faster computers. For those of you STILL working on the Atari (I know you’re out there), time to upgrade. It WAS cool, now it’s just sad.
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I always wanted one of these. I ended up with a S-330, then a S-550. By the time I found and bought a S-50 I wasn’t really using the other S-series very much (The only reason I think I bought it was because I had wanted one for so long). I was tired of the boot and load times and the inability to edit sounds on the computer and transfer to the sampler. Playing samples and setting up patches was fairly easy using the attached monitor, but recording and editing samples was crappy at best. That said, it was a damn cool machine in the day.
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I really liked the sound of this little synth. It had the organ sounds of the Saturn 9 and the same string sounds as a Jupiter.
Neat little guy but it gathered dust due to MIDIfication.
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I was thrilled to find this synth in good shape. I had always wanted one. I bought it, played with it, and thought it was the bee’s knees. Then it sat and I never touched it. Yeah, it is a classic beast but honestly I think the sounds are only average. The fidelity was sort of eeeeghh. It didn’t sparkle.
At the end of the day I’m happy with the software version of the Jupiter 8. It doesn’t have the same hardware filters but it programs the same and no one can tell in a mix. So, I sold the Jupiter 6 (well over the price I got it for) and reinvested the money back into the studio.
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Chuckles. Funny little thing that. I honestly don’t remember what happened to this machine. Perhaps I still have it in a box some place?
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I had this for about a year and used it on the Tic Tok Men Remote Control album. I didn’t like this synth much. I think I was more about analogue synths at the time.
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This was used on the album The Volt Age (Most main drum sounds) |
I used to call these my Poo-poo drums (because they could make that sound). Really cool machine. Lots of sliders and knobs. Used on a bunch of Tic Tok Men tracks.
I sold this after the studio got MIDIfied. Of course I held on to them for years until I convinced myself to sell them. They currently reside in Finland.
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I only had this for a few months. The damn thing kept getting stuck MIDI notes. Sometimes I had to restart a sequence 3-4 times before I got the entire track committed to audio. It sounded nice but I hated it. Perhaps this was just a crap machine.
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I found this unit in perfect shape at a garage sale on the US Oregon coast. It was sitting in cardboard box under a table with a $25 price tag labelled “keyboard” on the side. I looked in the box and saw the side and before I looked deeper it was under my arm. I assumed it was a Rogue, but hoped it was a MG-1 (as I already owned the Rogue at the time). It was in perfect shape and I’d guess it hardly saw use. I know I didn’t use it. I fiddled with it for a few hours and it assumed the same fate as my Rogue. A MIDI-less forgotten son. This ended up being sold a few years later.
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This was a cool little synth. I bought this new around 1984 and used it for years. After I moved to a MIDI driven system I found I used this less and less. It sat for years without being powered on. I decided instead of letting it rot away I’d sell it to someone who would enjoy and use it.
I ended up trading it straight across for my Roland JP8000.
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