Best poly synth ever made. versatile. pretty metallic bells, searing leads, warm lush pads and strings, creamy soft sounds, hard phasing sounds, industrial ambient, techno, you name it, it can do it, but in a very pleasant way that no other synth can. I can even get damn good bass out of this thing.. its like a juno 106 on massive steroids.. i will never part with this synth, it is simply amazing.. i’m so happy to finally have one after all these years of lusting for one.. The filters, wow, the resonance, wow, the high pitched pretty sounds, wow. i am in love, and yes, this is now my favorite synth of all time.. And yeah i kinda think the limitation of 16 for the osc on the jup8 really is stupid, but not enough to make me not love the jupiter 8 as my all time fav poly. and if you need, you just put the sh2 and the jup8 together in a layer, and its simply amazing the end result, the syrup of the jup 8 filter with that raw fat sh2 tone under it.. WOW..

The jupiter smashes the mks 80 in the face when it comes to smooth sounds that are very musical. It is liquid, watery, acidic, and snappy as hell, or long and evolving.. what makes the jupiter 8 really kick butt, is layering 2 patches, then messing with the arp, it is the king in that regard.. I think the mks80 sounds really chippy, its good but not vintage. The jup 8 sounds discrete… jup 8 with an sh2 will rule the analog universe, well, and a jupiter 6 for multimode filter stuff. Open filter bread and butter stuff? where i notice the real big huge differences is in resonant sounds, sweeps, and things like this, the jupiter 8 clearly wins here, it smashes every synth in this category in my opinion. the warbly nature of the osc, and the watery filter that sounds like candy syrup, the jupiter 6, the mks80 don’t even come close. the juno 60 sort of does but it does sound different, not as aquatic.. + no unison. Heavy sync sounds for arp lines with the filter being acidic, this is where the mks80 only wishes it could stand up to the might of the jupiter 8. layer 2 of these types of patches and tweak em differently, whoa it’s like the world is crashing down. and also, i love tweaking the hell out of my synths when i am tracking, and man that sucks with the rack synths. the jupiter 8 tweaks real smooth, and this is another reason why i pick it and my sh2 over any mks80. cost a tad more, but sounds a million times better. i hate chip oscillators, unless its from the junos… If you are a unison freak and need the power to detune to your liking, and like open filter fat huge sounds, the jupiter 6 and mks80 are the way to go. If you want resonant sounds, sweeps, arp lines that get very wet and mean, and watery, pads that shimmer with that watery filter, really bright metallic sounds from sync and from the filter. the jupiter 8 is the pure winner. The osc on the jupiter 8 are just so much smoother and open and perfect sounding compared to the chips in the jupiter 6 and mks 80..Yeah, the jupiter 8 is fat, but not in bass sounds, it does fat poly sounds, and fat leads…The only reason it isn’t bass fat, is because of the 16 limitation on both osc, and no sub osc.. My junos are fatter for bass than the jupiter 8, but because they have sub oscillators that go down to 32.. or 44.. heheheh I use the jupiter more for poly sounds than for bass. like i said, the best bass comes from mono synths, minimoogs, white faced arp odys, roland sh2, sh09… best unison bass is prolly the mks80, because the envs are snappy enough and it has a bass boost on it… so for unison bass, the mk80 is the synth to get…

Another thing i think makes the jupiter 8 blow the mks80 away, is the 12db filter setting, throw it in 12db, and man it slices and dices, gets very aggressive and cutting. I prefer to make my bass patches in 12db, it sounds tighter, mean, and ripping.. Sure its not ultra fat, but man it sticks out in the mix just right, and is very usable.. I prefer it, because the jupiter 8 is an arp machine. big fat sounds don’t arpeggiate as well.. But present ripping, cutting, gritty sounds do arp well, and that is what the 12db filter gives you.

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