Mystery Islands has introduced a new editor for the Roland Jupiter-8000 and JP-8080:
You ever wanted to control, automate & work with your JP-8000 / JP-8080 the way this modern world requires? Now it’s possible with our AU / VST plugin that allows you to get your Hardware into your modern DAW. We developed this plugin together with Arto Vaarala who?s long experience with coding made all this possible.
Roland has released a free Integra-7 Editor for Mac.
The Roland Integra-7 is the company’s flagship sound module, offering 6,000+ presets, 16 parts and Roland’s latest synthesis technologies.
The new Editor provides visual control of the INTEGRA-7 parameters. A VST instrument (VSTi) version and an Audio Units (AU) version are both available, integrating the INTEGRA-7 into your Mac-based DAW for rapid workflow and instant recall.
See the Roland site for additional details.
Here’s another comparison of the XILS V+ virtual instrument and a vintage Roland VP-330 Vocoder Plus, focusing on the glide function and layerd sounds.
More A/B comparisons are available at the XILS-Lab site.
Sunday Synth Jam: Here’s an ambient/new age synth jam, Quiet Cloud, via ryouichi harada.
Technical details: Continue reading
How well does software compare to hardware?
That’s the question raised by this head-to-head comparison of the new XILS-Lab V+ against a vintage Roland VP-330 Vocoder Plus. Continue reading
Here’s a look a look at the classic (1984) Roland Juno-106 analog synthesizer, via AnalogAudio1:
In this movie I play some of my own sounds – on some sounds I used a small amount of digital delay from a Roland DEP-5 (my favourite unit for delays).
The Juno-106 is one of the most loved and used synthesizers by professionals and hobbyists alike! William Ørbit, Überzone, Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim), Autechre, BT, Vince Clarke, Moby, 808 State, Underworld, Leftfield, Fluke, Josh Wink, Todd Terry, Depeche Mode, Eat Static, Biosphere, The Prodigy, The Shamen, Bushflange, Cirrus, Astral Projection, Apollo 440, Faithless, Union Jack, Computer Controlled, Pet Shop Boys, Sneaker Pimps, Erasure, Freddy Fresh, Rabbit in the Moon, Kevin Saunderson, Jimmy Edgar, Laurent Garnier, Vangelis, Sigur Ros, and the Chemical Brothers have used this synth.
If you’ve used the Juno-106, let us know what you think of it!
Note: These patches are available as the ANALOGAUDIO1 JUNO-106 PATCH BANK.