Jupiter 8

[Paul Maddox]

Dong,

> Someone just promised me one, a boxed Jupiter 8 he took from an old
> studio that shut down many years ago. Of course, I may be Scottish, but
> I'm not about to say it's worthless. So I said it was a pretty rare bit
> of kit that is worth something, but I'd have a borrow of it. It's been
> lying in a shed for about a decade.

It could have a lot of problems,
Early Rolands used batteries to keep the memory, they usually leak
when the get old and can destroy the tracks.
PPG's are also prone to this (If you get one, I'll look after it for your mate).

The other common problem is that the rubber parts of the keyboard mech
can dry up and becoe brittle, resulting in a keyboard that feels like
you're playing with hammers on steel (not piano hammer, big ones you
use to bang nails into concrete).

These are both fixable though.

Paul