Roland Jupiter-Xm

Heb 'm nu drie dagen in huis en kan er maar niet van afblijven. Deze synth smeekt om bespeeld te worden. Wat een geluid! De ingebouwde speakers zijn ook van goede kwaliteit. Beter dan ik verwacht had. De batterijen gaan wel snel leeg. Ook zou je veel in het menu moeten duiken om bij bepaalde features te komen maar dat is logisch aangezien de Xm eigenlijk een module versie is van de X, maar dan met mini keys als extraatje. ;) De mini keys voelen echter wel van hoge kwaliteit en spelen gewoon goed. De nieuwe I-Arpeggio geeft veel inspiratie en er is een ruime keus aan soorten ritmes en klanken die bij jouw speelstijl passen. Luister niet naar de analoog puristen die al kokhalzen bij het horen van het woord ''digitaal''. Luister zelf met je eigen oren, dan weet je dat de Jupiter-Xm in één woord prachtig klinkt.

It's hard to find a better synthesizer from Roland than the Jupiter XM.
Roland put all its soul and passion into this instrument.
Its development was personally guided by the President of the company and you can feel it.
There are several reasons why this synthesizer is one of the best Roland synthesizers ever made:

1. It has a great sound. It sounds clean, clear, rich, and deep. It has a good low end and an open top of the spectrum.

2. It has a great emulation of old analog synths. If you close your eyes, it's easy to mistake whether you're playing analog or digital. But don't forget to turn on the synth “warm-up mode” in the menu and set the virtual age of the instrument to about 50 years.

3. it is excellent made.
Metal body, fantastic encoders, quality keyboard, illuminated buttons. You won't find a synthesizer that is better made.

4. It has an incredible I-Arp.
This arpeggiator adjusts to your playing as if it were playing with you in a live jam session. You change your playing and it immediately changes the accompaniment, adjusting to you.

5. It is very handy and small. And it's comfortable enough to play on its keyboard. You can take it with you wherever you go, because it runs on batteries.

6. It has thousands of sounds from the famous Roland XV-5080. Everything Roland has done over the past decades is now at your fingertips.

7. You can create a finished 5-track song in minutes and it's easier than any workstation.

8. You don't need to depend on Roland Cloud and your computer for thousands of great sounds.
You can have only one this synthesizer and don't depend on anyone, even if the global internet goes down tomorrow.
And at the next 20 years, you'll have thousands of great professional sounds at your fingertips for every style of music.

After years of producing mediocre synthesizers, Roland has finally released a real instrument with a real sound. This gives hope for Roland's rebirth.

Buy this Jupiter before Roland discontinues them!
This synthesizer will be a legend in 30 years!

All classic Roland synths in one. ZENCORE expantions, great integration with DAW, seamless multitrack recording for audio & midi. Great vocoder.
Pros.
Small footprint.
Cons.
Roland Zenology pro is expensive, but you can edit sounds in menus in synth itself.
Conclusion
As a user with background in MC Sequencers, Juno,TR 707,808,909, S 770, E-series and D-series synths, Jupiter-XM is like it's prescesors with modern approach.

A great portable synth. I'm interested in ambient music, and Roland Cloud offers awesome sounds for that. The cool thing is that the Zenology softsynth allows you to design extremely complex sounds on the computer and then play them on the Jupiter Xm synthesizer. And also vice versa. Great! It is also cool to be able to send sounds from the Cloud to the synthesizer using the phone and the WC-1 Wireless Adapter.
The small instrument is very convenient to use with larger midi keyboards. Each of the four synths on the Jupiter Xm can be played using a different midi channel.