From orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!decwrl!pa.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!sousa!ranger.enet.dec.com!eirikur Tue Jan 21 13:17:06 PST 1992 Article: 28151 of rec.music.synth Path: orion.oac.uci.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!decwrl!pa.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!sousa!ranger.enet.dec.com!eirikur From: eirikur@ranger.enet.dec.com (Eirikur Hallgrimsson) Newsgroups: rec.music.synth Subject: Re: JX-3P & Mini Moog. Message-ID: <1978@sousa.ltn.dec.com> Date: 18 Jan 92 18:13:57 GMT Sender: newsa@sousa.ltn.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 18 In article <1992Jan17.165505.2794@vlsi.louisville.edu>, TPKLIN01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu (THOMAS P. KLINGLER) writes... >Hey, is $125.00 a decent price for a JX-3P? I like the ease of programming, and >the sounds so far. I can keep it until the end of the semester if I haven't >decided. I don't like not being able to sync the sequencer (I KNOW it's weak) >to my HR-16 drum machine. The JX-3P is a STEAL for that price. You won't find sound like that on anything less than a thousand dollars these days--maybe a D50. It depends upon what you want it for. The analog sound can't be beat. The lack of velocity or pressure sensing is a drawback. Eirikur Hallgrimsson | Shopping list? How about a PUBLISHER! eh@ranger.enet.dec.com | PATHWORKS for Macintosh| "Close B, clothes mode." From news.service.uci.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sunic!lth.se!axisab!ricard Mon Sep 28 11:50:44 PDT 1992 Article: 40107 of rec.music.synth Newsgroups: rec.music.synth Path: news.service.uci.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sunic!lth.se!axisab!ricard From: ricard@axis.se (Ricard Wolf) Subject: JX-3P (was Super Jupiter/JX10 etc.) Message-ID: <1992Sep21.071254.16733@axis.se> Organization: Axis Communications AB, Lund Sweden References: <1992Sep14.153826.25779@bmerh85.bnr.ca> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1992 07:12:54 GMT Lines: 26 In article metlay@netcom.com (metlay) writes: >The JX3P was a true analog synth keyboard with six voices and a combined >preset/programmable memory. + a 128-note step programmable non-MIDI-syncable fun little sequencer. Actually, the JX3P was not what I'd call a _true_ analog; the oscillators were part digital as in the Matrix-6, Juno-60, Juno-106 etc etc etc. If you _really_ want to get picky about it, neither were the LFO or EG; both were processor-controlled (an 8051 if I remember correctly). I always found the JX3P to have a thin sound; very good for airy strings however. Opposing views? /Ricard Footnote: A _true_ analog is, as far as I'm concerned, a synth were all the modules are analog: VCO's, even envelopes and LFO's. Like the Prophet-V or the Memory Moog, or your favourite monophonic. Ok, a machine like the T8 comes close, with it's processor-driven EG's (which actually offer some extra features... but let's not get into THAT). -- Ricard Wolf / | \ / | /- email: ricard@axis.se Axis Communications AB /__| \/ | \__ uucp: axisab.se!ricard S - 223 70 LUND / | /\ | \ Tel: +46 46 19 18 63 SWEDEN / | / \ | \__/ Fax: +46 46 13 61 30