Got a Roland JX-3P

jonnygreentrees

A work colleague has given me a Roland JX-3P on a long term loan. It's my first analogue synth and sounds great! Also pretty easy to program despite the lack of knobs and sliders

GavRichList

Can I have it please? seems a reasonable request. 

jonnygreentrees

GavRichList said:

Can I have it please? seems a reasonable request. 

sure can you PayPal me £700 for postage?

GavRichList

on its way

Funkfingers

jonnygreentrees said:

A work colleague has given me a Roland JX-3P on a long term loan.

Hopefully, all of the voice chips still work (or have been replaced). 

octatonic

Congrats, they are good fun.

Analogue though... sort of.
They have DCO's with the rest of the signal path being analogue.
That isn't a problem though- the DCO's are stable where a lot of VCO's of that age really sorta aren't.

John_P

I used to use one - cracking little synth but annoying to program without the pg200.   If you can find one and it doesn't cost the earth it would make it a lot quicker and more fun to use.
The built in sequencer is amusing to try and use  

jonnygreentrees

Funkfingers said:

jonnygreentrees said:

A work colleague has given me a Roland JX-3P on a long term loan.

Hopefully, all of the voice chips still work (or have been replaced). 

They certainly do!

jonnygreentrees

John_P said:

I used to use one - cracking little synth but annoying to program without the pg200.   If you can find one and it doesn't cost the earth it would make it a lot quicker and more fun to use.
The built in sequencer is amusing to try and use  

Yep! Can’t get my head around the sequencer

jonnygreentrees

octatonic said:

Congrats, they are good fun.

Analogue though... sort of.
They have DCO's with the rest of the signal path being analogue.
That isn't a problem though- the DCO's are stable where a lot of VCO's of that age really sorta aren't.

Isn’t a DCO still an analogue oscillator just controller with a digital clock or something?

octatonic

jonnygreentrees said:

octatonic said:

Congrats, they are good fun.

Analogue though... sort of.
They have DCO's with the rest of the signal path being analogue.
That isn't a problem though- the DCO's are stable where a lot of VCO's of that age really sorta aren't.

Isn’t a DCO still an analogue oscillator just controller with a digital clock or something?

Yes, technically it is a digital clock circuit controls the frequency for an analog waveshaper.
Purists can get sniffy about it- I'm not though.

They were invented purely to deal with VCO instability.

Funkfingers

Kiwi Technics offers a JX3P upgrade, adding extra parameter control. One of their hardware prommer boxes can be configured to edit the JX3P and MKS30.

GavRichList

I think there are iPad apps you can get in place of the PG. 

paulmapp8306

octatonic said:

jonnygreentrees said:

octatonic said:

Congrats, they are good fun.

Analogue though... sort of.
They have DCO's with the rest of the signal path being analogue.
That isn't a problem though- the DCO's are stable where a lot of VCO's of that age really sorta aren't.

Isn’t a DCO still an analogue oscillator just controller with a digital clock or something?

Yes, technically it is a digital clock circuit controls the frequency for an analog waveshaper.
Purists can get sniffy about it- I'm not though.

They were invented purely to deal with VCO instability.

Pretty much.  The Junos were DCOs as well, and there still quite sort after.   Modern DCOs with drift/slop/divergence, whatever sound nicer, and much closer to VCO drif.   Rev 2, Deep Mind to name 2 both sound really nice and are both DCO