ARTURIA – Jup-8 V – USER MANUAL
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INTRODUCTION
Arturia would like to thank you for purchasing our synthesizer model: the Jup-8 V.
We are confident it will prove to be an extremely valuable addition to your music
production studio. If you’ve purchased our products before, you know we pride
ourselves in faithfully recreating the sound and feel of the original instruments, down
to the smallest detail. Jup-8 V is no exception to this rule.
And if this is the first of our products you have owned, you are in for a treat! The
synthesizer upon which this model is based was the absolute pinnacle of analog
synthesizer technology at the time, light-years ahead of the competition.
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Roland/Jupiter-8 Story
The history of Roland is intimately tied to the personal story of its founder, Mr Ikutaro
Kakehashi.
When he was just 16 years old, the young Mr Kakehashi noticed there was no watch
or clock industry in post-war Japan. He therefore understood there was a thriving
business to develop repairing existing timepieces.
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Mr Kakehashi found a part-time job in a watch repair store, but he quickly felt
frustrated with the pace at which things were progressing. In the traditional
Japanese organization of work, becoming a master in any technical area would
take a seven-year apprenticeship. Consequently, he left after a few months,
bought a book on how to repair watches and set up the “Kakehashi Watch Shop”.
This first venture happened to be so successful that he quickly decided to expand
and turn his enthusiasm for music into business. It became legal at that time to have
a short-wave radio and to listen to foreign broadcasts. While he scanned the
airwaves for new music, Mr Kakehashi learned the basics of how radios operated.
He then used broken sets to create working units. His repair shop started to repair
broken radios in addition to clocks and watches.
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: It is remarkable that a man named Mr Torakusu Yamaha had also started out as
a watch repairer. In fact the same is true of Matthias Hohner, the founder of Hohner.
Even the Hammond Organ Company started out as a sub-division of the
Hammond Clock Company.
