Roland Jupiter-50
The Jupiter-50 is a discontinued 128 voice polyphonic digital subtractive synthesizer introduced by Roland Corporation in 2011. The Jupiter-50 is a part of Roland's flagship synthesizer series, which began with the Jupiter-4 between the years of 1978 and 1981. The Jupiter-50 is considered a hybrid/combination of both the Jupiter-80 and the JUNO series.
Features and architecture
The Jupiter-80 maintains the visual style of the Jupiter-8, and includes Roland's SuperNATURAL, an extensive synthesis engine that includes virtual analog synthesis, which is a digital recreation of earlier Roland analog synths, along with PCM-based recreations of purely digital synths by the company and acoustic modeling of real instruments. Emulations of the original Jupiter-8 sounds were later released as a software instrument for both keyboards on Roland Axial as part of the Synth Legends series.The Jupiter-50 is a multitimbral synthesizer oriented to stage and live use. That's why it has 3 parts. Its inventors prefer to use the term Live Sets which are used to combine different tones from the collection of 1,500 in order to create a multitimbral sound and control it in real-time. The maximum count of Live Sets is 2,560.
The Jupiter-50 utilizes MIDI control, D-Beam Control, a USB connection with MIDI implementation and audio interface functionality, and a USB song player/recorder that's compatible with WAV, AIFF, and MP3 audio file formats.