The Jupiter-8V from Arturia is a virtual synthesizer modelled after Roland's Jupiter 8 synthesizer. Using TAE (True Analog Emulation) the company has been able to accurately reproduce tone, wave shapes, tuning and the other detailed characteristics of the famous analog synthesizer.
The original hardware was successful in part because it was able to create both "fat" and "crystal" type sounds, due to an interesting combination of a high-pass non resonant filter, and a low-pass resonant filter. Fast envelopes and precise oscillators also contributed to the sound, while an arpeggiator and the keyboard split made it a great performance keyboard.
All these features are present in this virtual model.
More than 400 presets modelled on Roland's Jupiter 8 hardware synthesizer
Up to 32 voices of polyphony
Unison mode
2 oscillators per voice (16 oscillators in total), 2 LFO's, 2 filters and 2 envelopes
Provides a combination of a high-pass non-resonant filter, and a low-pass resonant filter
Analog sounding Dual Delay, Phaser and Flanger effects, with virtually any audio source in the synthesizer being able to modulate all 3 effects
2 digital effects
Keyboard split and layer modes
Live-oriented step-sequencer
Additional Galaxy module provides advanced modulations
Easy to setup specific control sets via an external MIDI keyboard
Full compatibility with major formats and hosts on Mac OS X and Windows