Roland MKS-70 Super JX #3

Description

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The MKS-70 Super JX is the rackmount version of the JX-10 synthesiser and has two JX-8P synth engines. It’s one of the defining synths of the 1980s

“The JX10 offers all the sound creating and shaping facilities you could reasonably want from an analogue synth. Features include:

  • Two digitally controlled oscillators, each with a range of 2, 4, 8 or 16 feet; sawtooth, pulse, square and noise waveforms with LFO and envelope modulation, plus tuning (fine tuning on DCO 2).
  • VCF (consisting of a low‑pass filter with cut‑off frequency, resonance, and LFO and envelope modulation), plus a high‑pass filter with three preset values of cutoff frequency .
  • VCA.
  • Two envelope generators (ADSR).
  • Chorus (two preset types).
  • Low‑frequency oscillator, with sine, square and random waveforms, rate and delay.

In addition, the oscillators can be sync’d or cross‑modulated for even wider (nay, wilder) tonal possibilities, envelopes can be inverted, and there are a variety of velocity sensitivity curves” – Sound on Sound

“It is possible to produce rich, fat, bright, gutsy, ethereal, sparkling and/or cutting sounds that work well with no effects — reverb, chorus or some other treatment becomes the icing on the cake” – Sound on Sound

In very good condition. Tested & working. Converted with a standard 3-pin IEC power socket & switched to 220 Volt for use in the UK / EU. No rack ears. Photos show the unit on arrival & will be updated

Rackmount synth plus desktop programmer

Deep & heavy 2U rackmount module plus desktop programmer

Owners manual

http://cdn.roland.com/assets/media/pdf/MKS-70_OM.pdf

Sound on Sound Review of JX10 / MKS-70 https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/roland-jx10 SuperJX website http://llamamusic.com/super-jx/utils.html SuperJX Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/SuperJX/about/ Deepsonic page https://www.deepsonic.ch/deep/htm/roland_super_jx_mks-70.php Sound Programming page https://soundprogramming.net/synthesizers/roland/roland-mks-70/

Vintage Synth Explorer page

https://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/mks70.php Sonicstate page https://sonicstate.com/synth/roland_mks70/ Perfect Circuit review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mIQIKG4_Og Sound Bank Collection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yvuW8Ji-gk Espen Kraft page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VdH3HwNm2w Synthmania page https://www.synthmania.com/mks-70_super_jx.htm Gearspace review https://gearspace.com/gear/roland/mks-70-super-jx Youtube demos https://youtu.be/ocRI0UUNPhM  

2U

In very good used condition. Tested & working 100%. Photos show the synth & programmer for sale