Ah yes , this person Fran seems to have a very good head on there sholders . I own 3 JUPITER 8s and I also have a JP-8000 and it can reproduce the sound of the JUPITER 8 without any difficulty . The cool thing about the JP-8000 is that it already has MIDI and it can make alot of sounds that you will never make on the JUPITER 8 . If you get a JP-8000 used , you could save your self alot of money and headaches of owning a JUPITER 8 .