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About 5 years ago, right before one of my homies moved to the left coast, I borrowed his classic Roland JP-8080 tabletop synth and spent a weekend multi-sampling and tweaking patches to create a Propellerheads Reason Refill. What's most interesting to me with playing on classic synths like the JP-8080 is that I always wind up making completely different grooves and styles than I do with software emulations or custom software synths - I can't explain why this happens, but it happens consistently enough that I've been struck by the difference.
This extends even to multi-samples of hardware, but only in the case when I sample the hardware itself. Confusing? Maybe, but I'm going to guess that a piece of the JP-8080 machine soul embedded itself in my brain, and even though I wound up producing songs with those multi-samples using software, I was channeling the production style the way I would if the synth was right there in front of me. Brilliant bit of kit, sadly the homie Lex Luthor wouldn't sell it to me and this particular Roland still haunts my dreams to this day. "Wax, we can make dope beats together"
It's not that I can't find another JP-8080 on ebay, rather that I think I and Lex's JP-8080 bonded in some wierd way ;) Now that I've outed myself as a complete audio studio nerd, enjoy some JP-8080 jam sessions below.
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