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I may be crazy, or just bored, but I find myself in familiar territory all over again. For the second time in my life, I just bought a Jupiter 80. The first go around, I only had it for a short time, but it didn't ideally fit my needs at the time. I hated to see it go and have had regrets swimming in my subconscious ever since.

My needs have shifted slightly and I really need something that is a bit more performance oriented. I love my FA-08 and could continue on with it just fine. But, the heart wants what it wants. So, now I look forward to unboxing the beast one more time.

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I bought the exact same Polysix 11 years after I sold it. Found it at Guitar Center in the "used" section. I knew it was mine because it had all my custom patches.

 

I recently bought another Kawai K4; loved its sounds, the resonant filter and the weight (16 pounds!).

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Working as a music teacher in a local store, Left my JV1000 in a parking lot TWICE. The first time a sax player returned it to me.. Amazing.

the second time, not so fortunate.. so I bought it used again.

Edit if memory serves ( and is filled on JV ) I believe the selling price was $5300 back in early 90's!

 

I STILL think there was something sonically special about that flagship keyboard. The succeeding JV sucked by comparison, and surprise surprise, was half the money. Then the Fantom came out.. and I have always felt the JV1000 triggered the bass sounds the best.. but have never received confirmation of this hunch.

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Had a Roland XP80 for a number of years and sold it. A few years after I found a perfect XP80 in a pawn shop for near nothing and couldn't pass it up. Still have it....
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Purchased a Voce V5+ then sold it, three years later purchased one again, and a year ago purchased another one as a backup. Still have both. Also purchased a Voce MIDI drawbar unit, sold it and repurchased another unit a year later. I use it to control VB3-II.

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Had a Roland XP80 for a number of years and sold it. A few years after I found a perfect XP80 in a pawn shop for near nothing and couldn't pass it up. Still have it....

 

I bought two XP-80s because I wore the first one out. Still use the second one at times.

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I bought a Casio VZ-1 when they were new (actually when they were blowing em out @ $459 new). Sold that after five years. Missed it and then bought a VZ-10M Module. Sold that. Missed it and then bought a VZ-8M Module.

 

Don't really miss them now. They were way too hard to program, so you had to rely on the patches that Casio offered. Just wasn't enough of 'em.

 

Does this count?

 

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Ploysix after the first one died. Jupiter 6 after the first one was stolen. 2 MORE A70s after the first one was stolen (same time as the Jupiter 6). Never bought one that I sold.

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MKS-70; loved the sound, hated all of the background noise....

Modules. I bought 2 TX81Zs. But that really don't count. I bought them to run in tandem on the the same receive channel.

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I may be crazy, or just bored, but I find myself in familiar territory all over again. For the second time in my life, I just bought a Jupiter 80. The first go around, I only had it for a short time, but it didn't ideally fit my needs at the time. I hated to see it go and have had regrets swimming in my subconscious ever since.

My needs have shifted slightly and I really need something that is a bit more performance oriented. I love my FA-08 and could continue on with it just fine. But, the heart wants what it wants. So, now I look forward to unboxing the beast one more time.

Welcome back to the fold, ABECK! Every time I consider redeveloping my "A" rig, things come to a grinding halt when I think about replacing the Jupiter. It is a fun keyboard to play, love the sounds, and it sits so well in a live mix. If forced to replace one of the keyboards in my rig (Kronos 88/Jupiter-80), I would keep the Jupiter.

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."

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If forced to replace one of the keyboards in my rig (Kronos 88/Jupiter-80), I would keep the Jupiter.

 

That good?

 

I have yet to see a Jupiter-80 anywhere for an audition after all these years. I really like the Kronos though but would like to give Roland a chance.

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Roland A70; I've had two of them. Yamaha TX-1P and P50m modules; two each of those. Then there's the Yamaha S90XS: Bought one in 2010, sold it in 2011; bought another in 2013, it's up for sale now.

 

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Had a Roland XP80 for a number of years and sold it. A few years after I found a perfect XP80 in a pawn shop for near nothing and couldn't pass it up. Still have it....

 

I bought two XP-80s because I wore the first one out. Still use the second one at times.

 

That was the sucessor to the JV 1000

 

Did you ever play the JV 1000? A league better esp for triggering the Bass and Drum module

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We see the world, not as it is, but as we are. "One mans food is another mans poison". I defend your right to speak hate. Tolerance to a point, not agreement

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Many Hammond consoles, clavinets, and wurlis have passed thru my hands.

Was this when they weren't outrageously priced?

 

I always look at the original DX7 (which was my first pro keyboard) with thoughts of buying again. I have no idea why. I didn't like it then, and I'd probably still dislike it. I got it instead of the D-50, which had just come out. I always wished I got the D-50. Now that, is my white whale.

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