Is there a particular reason why it has to be 1-oscillator? With 2, you get more flexibility (fat detune, sync, cross-mod), and you can still turn down the 2nd one when you want the 1-osc sound. I vote Little Phatty. Just because there's two oscillators in the box doesn't mean you have to use both o...

I got my JX8P cheap on ebay with 2 broken keys, fixed them and the aftertouch, and it's great now. I hate to have to sell it. Nice synth.

The JX8P appears to be the love child of a threesome between a Jupiter, Juno and a DX7. Unfortunately it got its looks from the DX7.

Curious question - do the Jup-6 filters self oscillate?

You didn't say whether you wanted a mono or a poly. I don't know of any 1-osc monos with patch memory (well, beyond the standard "1-patch" memory they all have) ;) If you're talking mono, a LP with the 2nd oscillator turned down is probably the best bet. Or get a poly like the Polysix, Juno-60 or 106.

You'll love it. Even if the presets don't cut the mustard for you, it has a surprisingly powerful synth engine for a digital of that age. 2 tones w/2 partials each, 3 LFOs per tone (so 6 per patch... yes that's a lot of LFOs!), 2 multi-stage envelopes per partial (plus a pitch envelope at the tone l...

When you tweak the Portamento knob, do you get an "all or nothing" effect? As in, only 0 or only 10, nothing in between? A broken pot, or broken solder joint can cause this.

I've also heard very nice eerie effect where a slow unison pad fades in random S&H on another oscillator set to very high pitch so you get a tingling sound on top of the evil pad. Those tingling sounds are great if they're repeating rather than random too. Such as triggered by an arpeggiator, seque...

I created the CD for fun and gave it away to family and friends. I do have some clips online, but the whole thing is too long (the mp3 files would be big since each track is 15-20 minutes long).

Graveyard Clip
Haunted House
Laboratory Clip
Alien Abduction (edit)

I made a "Halloween sound effects" CD last year. One of the tracks was "Mad Scientist's Laboratory" which used a lot of S&H effects. I also used S&H effects on another track I called "Alien Abduction".

Besides Halloween and 50s SciFi type sound effects, I've used a subtle, slow S&H on oscillator pitch to add "analog drift" to some of my Microkorg patches. With two LFOs that can both do S&H you can have each oscillator "drift" independently.

Sounds like a sequence or arpeggio, with a filter swept by an envelope, run through a delay. Original sound could be a pulse wave or noise. It sort of reminds me of a tweaked version of the "Bubbles" preset on the JX-8P, so they probably used an analog or VA synth. EDIT: after googling, that song ca...

I hear surprisingly lots of analog synth sounds on the radio nowadays. Me too, especially during commercials. One commercial has some cool hard-sync going on, and I heard one just today that had a nice filter sweep. Maybe I can get into the music-for-commercials business. ;) Some mainstream music h...

Classic. Get one. The only thing "dated" about it is the presets, and they're still wonderful. With the PG1000 you can create killer sounds.

Maybe it was killed by the M1 when it came out, but which would I rather have now? The D-50.

Thanks for all the thoughts, prayers, and responses. I'm doing better now, not as miserable as I was a week or so ago. I still don't know how I pulled off creating that song. I initially did it to keep my mind off of what happened, but the inspiration just flowed from, somewhere. The way it came tog...

But it has DCO's, wouldn't that mean it has the same shitty unison issue as the Junos? Meaning 6 voices piled on top of eachother with no pitch deviation whatsoever, just make a loud unpleasant sound? Or is there some detuning algorithm with unison on the JP6? No, JP-6 = fat, luscious, artery-clogg...