Review: Roland Jupiter Xm
The Jupiter Xm is placed in the current Roland range between the large Jupiter X and the portable groovebox MC-707. The synthesis is mostly the same as the Jupiter X, but the Jupiter Xm is much more compact and also a lot cheaper. Compared to the big Jupiter, some controls have been saved, which is at the expense of direct operability. The synthesis is very flexible and covers almost the whole history of Roland in a compact digital synthesizer. With reproduced classics like Jupiter-8, Juno-106, JX-8P and SH-101 and drum machines like TR-808, TR-909, CR-78 the Jupiter Xm provides a fully equipped virtual-analog vintage studio.
There‘s also the well-known PCM or sample-based digital sound generation of the XV-5080 and modern RD pianos. Equipped with Roland‘s Zenology engine, Jupiter Xm is also compatible with the Roland cloud and can access thousands of presets. It will also be possible to exchange sounds between other hardware like Roland‘s RD piano or the flagship Fantom.
