I got my JP8V for $129 with a discount voucher

I'm interested in how the 'extra' non-Jupiter features are, and CPU use. If these are really good and I can find the synth for a nice price used, I wouldn't care so much if it is a perfect emulation of Jupiter 8. How is it CPU-wise? (I think I asked that already).

Very reasonable on Cpu 10/12% down to 5% on my iMac 2.8gHz dual core,

Wow. Just wow.

If you're still in denial, open up DIVA and go to the "Templates" section in the presets, which are factory templates of the synths which those modules were modeled after.

Ah, my bad. I was thinking of the advertised Arturia price of 250, and I got DIVA for 129 when it first came. Didn't think about the increased DIVA price and cheaper Arturia sales. But the point still stands.

its also 'amazing' YOU still havent shown me the documentation...

That Diva ships with an initiation patch for "Jupe 8" seems like documentation in its own right to me and it seems pretty obvious how Urs sidestepped mentioning Roland directly by calling them "that Japanese company that makes synthesis named after Greek gods" indicates strongly that he is avoiding saying it directly, I assume to avoid legal challenges. I really don't know how much more documentation you would need to connect the dots.

Exactly. I remember i had to rename some of my Jupiter 8 factory sounds for Diva as a guide line was not to use words like e.g. "Jupiter 8" but i was allowed to use just "Jupiter" or "JP-8" instead.

I still wonder where Kriminal found a reference to the Jupiter 4 as i hear this for the first time (and i followed the Diva thread before the first public beta started). I have also not seen a JP-4 in any of the pictures of Urs' studio but there are a Jupiter 8, Jupiter 6 and Juno-60.


Ingo
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Does Arturia license the images and names for the synths they emulate? I would guess so, and it could even be Jupiter 8 isn't mentioned in the documentation to avoid conflicts with Arturia as much as Roland.

Black coffee for me please

havent seen factory presets so csnt comment, never use them so they get deleted.

There are currently 1350+ of them (maybe some are duplicates so it could be there are "only" around 1200+ really different ones) and so far i have not managed to check them all due to the sheer amount. Most of them were "collected" during the public beta (see "THIRD PARTY" folder) and those from Howard Scarr are just excellent as always. Michael Kastrup and Xenos contributed some excellent stuff too.

The sheer amount of factory sounds and the fact that i already contributed a bunch of'my own ones were leading to the decision that i first program sounds for other synths before i return doing more sounds for Diva but i will do that for sure, especially as the CPU use is improved now.

BTW two of the init patches (in "TEMPLATES" folder) are called "INIT Jupe-6.h2p" and "INIT Jupe-8.h2p".


Ingo

You make presets do you?

like i said, i havent heard a single patch by anyone else, all factory sounds get deleted after install.

Anyway, work to do, busy busy. enjoy your day.

"Fernando's Hardware Factory' in the Third Party bank is a good starting place for tweaking your own Roland sounds, created from the original factory soundbanks of various Juno and Jupiter synths.

Anyhow, this thread is supposed to be about Arturia's version besides not being as good as Diva in Jupiter emulation (so it seems) I doubt it is a bad synth, especially if you can get a deal on it.

Why would you delete the factory presets? There are a lot of excellent ones and yeah I can see if you are a sound designed that you want to focus on your own, but doesn't the work of others interest you at all? I find great joy in going through the ones you sound designers create, especially some of the names that get chosen BTW Ingo has one called 'Horny Jupiter that made me smile.

Ive spoken to an expert, and its possible i made an error, so aplogies to all concerned
genuine mistake, human error.