| I've owned both, compared them directly:
The both have pros & cons technically, an edge to the Jupiter for convenience re: midi, polyphony, patch memory, etc. On the other hand the pro-one can be inexpensively midied and has an arpeggiator, is more easily programmed. A jupe without programmer is not bad BTW, just not as fast as an old mono. In fact i sold the programmer because using the cursors was fine, for me.
Therefore i'd say on these points it's close to a draw, depending on your priorities more than anything.
Keeping in mind that you already have polyphony from other synths:
-On the basis of convenience coupled with excellent sounds, Jupiter.
-If what matters to you more is sound, you have to decide which characteristics you prefer:
Pro One: as someone said more biting, edgier, more raw, deeper - bassline on Move Out, Yaz, Axel-F. Typical early 80s synth sounds including lots of industrial music like Skinny Puppy.
Super Jupiter: high quality analog-digital hybrid; something like a Prophet but smoother, not with the same rawness but slightly tighter & more articulate envelopes, very fast midi: bassline on Open your Heart, Isla Bon Ita, Into the Groove, bassline on Information Society tracks. More widely heard in the mid-late 80s.
I'd say that you'd probably want to have both. Having owned some of your other synths i'd say that the Jupe easily replaces the Mono Poly, and is more flexible, and the Pro One's also better than the Mono Poly. Likewise the Juno doesn't sound exactly like the Jupe but can be replaced by it for the most part, as well as your other synths. I'd sell those two and use the jupe AND a pro one, thereby getting a wider, better choice of sounds.
Juno and other Rolands have some similarities but don't sound that close to one another either. |