Got a Roland JX-3P

jonnygreentrees · November 2020

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 · November 2020

Can I have it please? seems a reasonable request.

jonnygreentrees · November 2020

GavRichList said:

Can I have it please? seems a reasonable request.

sure can you PayPal me £700 for postage?

GavRichList · November 2020

on its way

Funkfingers · November 2020

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 · November 2020

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 · November 2020

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 · November 2020

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 · November 2020

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 · November 2020

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 · November 2020

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 · November 2020

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 · November 2020

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

paulmapp8306 · December 2020

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

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