Fran, while I gotcha here, and since you are pretty well the only Roland guru left on SZ, I have an opportunity to purchase a Roland Jupiter 4 preset/programmable synthesizer, that is in pristine original condition. It had been stored a few months after purchase, and never used. Everything works as it did when new, (it was launched around 1978) and nothing has dried out or deteriorated...it was in a road case, and stored in an attic.

Since you had a music business back in the day, are you familiar with this instrument?

It is analog, with factory presets, and 8 user locations, and it has features "borrowed" from monophonic synths, that we don't see anymore and some of the programming permutations would surprise you today.

I think it would make a good studio instrument, given it's age, and 4-voice poly limitation, but, I am wondering if you ever owned or had some experience with one?

It is a single oscillator instrument, but it has a sub-oscillator as well, so it sounds pretty full.

Any pertinent info, or where I could find more about it, would be appreciated.

Ian