Jupiter 8
Roland | 1981
Analog Emulations
- Behringer: JT-2
- Behringer: JT-16
- Behringer: JT Mini
- Black Corporation: ISE-NIN
- Roland: JP-08
- AMSynths: AM8109 JP8 LPF
- Studio Electronics: 8106
- Recovery Effects: Jupiter Spirits
- System 80: 810 MK2
- AMSynths: AM8109SE JP-8 FILTERS
- AMSynths: AM8120 VCF & VCA
- AMSynths: AM8109 JP-8 VCF v2
- AMSynths: AM8109 JP8 VCF - Red Rogans
he Jupiter-8, or JP-8, is an eight-voice polyphonic analog subtractive synthesizer introduced by Roland Corporation in early 1981. The Jupiter-8 was Roland's flagship synthesizer for the first half of the 1980s. Approximately 3,300 units have been produced. Although it lacked the soon-to-be standard of MIDI control, later production series of the Jupiter-8 did include Roland's proprietary DCB interface. The instrument had many advanced features for its time, including the ability to split the keyboard into two zones, with separate patches active on each zone. Two years after the release of the Jupiter-8, Roland released the more affordable Jupiter-6 synthesizer with built-in MIDI control but an otherwise slightly reduced set of features. In 2011, three decades after the release of the original Jupiter series, Roland released the fully digital Jupiter-80 and Jupiter-50 synthesizers as successors to the 1980s originals. They were in turn succeeded by the Jupiter-X and Jupiter-Xm in 2019. A Jupiter-8 plug-out was included already installed on the Roland System-8 synthesizer, in 2017.