And not before time too, took a week rather than the 2 days stated...my ears thought someone had cut off my hands.
 
Ordered from the UK but received a unit with a European plug...luckily had a UK 3 pin lead to hand...will have to chase the supplier for a UK lead.
 
I opened a bottle of wine and switched it on, 2 hours later the wine is still sitting there...this must be a good sign.
 
Love the sound, love the feel of the keyboard action, the other buttons and sliders all feel high quality.
 
Of course it has Roland's aftertouch 'sensitivity' but that was expected

Congrats Shambler!!
 
Looks like this might be a keeper....

Mmmmmmm. Jupiter.........
 
Back in the day I use to dream of owning a Jupiter 8, but they were way above my means. I'm not overly sold on the looks of this one, but it sounds great from what I've seen in demos. How do you find the touchscreen controls ? Looks a little bit fiddly to me. Ive always liked Roland's pitch bender better than a wheel and the D-beam is cool too.

The touchscreen works well, they have tried to keep the interface buttons large where possible but sometimes it can be a bit fiddly to hit the area you want but it's not much of a problem,might try a stylus when I get into making up my own registrations.

The sound is great, I made up a simple patch of supernatural piano and a synth pad, just 2 layers , sounded so good I was playing for a long time just with that live set.

The default registrations I have to say are a bit 'niche', I'm going to look through the individual live sets today.

paulo
Mmmmmmm. Jupiter.........
 
Back in the day I use to dream of owning a Jupiter 8, but they were way above my means. I'm not overly sold on the looks of this one, but it sounds great from what I've seen in demos. How do you find the touchscreen controls ? Looks a little bit fiddly to me. Ive always liked Roland's pitch bender better than a wheel and the D-beam is cool too.

Yeah, I had a D-Beam on my Roland SP-808.  Lots of interesting things could be patched to it.

Wading through the live sets now...the first 100 are brass and there's over 2300 sets all in.
 
This looks like the best level to get to understand the Jupiter-80, you have just 1-4 tones in use instead of up to 10...this thing's a monster.
 

I am sure it is a magnificent instrument. Out of the Japanese brands I have always had a leaning towards Roland. Junos and other synths. I had a JP8 for a while too. They sound warm and fat to me and blend well with things like Kurzweil.
 
I have got a JD800 here and it is very nice. It is in a bit of a class of its own for sound quality and texture. It is only up to 4 tones per note but you can still make some incredible sounding textures. The Jupiter 80 is well above that in concept and I am sure you could push it into some max programming. The Kurz can go up to 32 layers per note which is also pretty incredible. Some very interesting sounds can be made this way too. I think it is a bit over the top too because of how cool the JD sounds with only 4 layers and a nice FX processor. It is great to get into the synth OS as much as you can. If there is an editing program of any description it is well worth getting into. It makes it all much easier and faster and just more fun. The Kurz has a fantastic editor.
 
Are there any expansions of any description. They are often well worth doing. Enjoy exploring the sound library with it. Hook it up your DAW and really get it doing lots of stuff. That is when things get interesting I believe anyway. I used to think that a serious pair would be the Korg Kronos and the Juputer 80. Now I believe it is the Kuzweil PC3K and the Jupiter 80. That would be something. They sound different individually but together I think they would sound incredible. I am running the Kurz and the JD800 now and that sounds like a match made in heaven.
 
 
 
 
 

Hope you enjoy it!

There are a couple of expansions, here is the main one...
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ_f8gXRnic

craigb
Yeah, I had a D-Beam on my Roland SP-808.  Lots of interesting things could be patched to it.

What I would pay to have someone show me how to use the Jupiter 8 software even better!
 
Oh well ... let me die stupid and not knowing nothing!