#ROLAND MKS 30 MANUALS#
#ROLAND MKS 30 MOD#

вЂњAbsolutely!вЂќ, says the sales assistant,вЂќCross mod! ItвЂ™s right here, look!вЂќ. The reason is probably marketing: Our poor gigging musician goes to the store to ask about the new Roland synth theyвЂ™ve heard about, and they want to know if it has the special features of the mighty Jupiter 8 which came out a few years earlier and which they cannot afford. In fact, the MKS-30, MKS-80, and JX-8P were all releasedВ during 1984, and each instrument has a different definition of Cross Mod!! ItвЂ™s no wonder thereвЂ™s a lot of confusion about it, because for several years in the middle 1980вЂ™s, Roland were releasing instruments which used the same term in completely different ways. Each generation uses the вЂњCross ModвЂќ term in a completely different way (yeah, really.) and the time-periods of each generation overlap to some extent. There are three generations of вЂњCross ModвЂќ in Roland history. What Roland mean by вЂњCross ModвЂќ depends on which instrument theyвЂ™re talking about. I havenвЂ™t looked in detail at the other members of the GR guitar synth family, but I expect they are derived from one or another of the instruments listed above.

#ROLAND MKS 30 MANUALS#

Checking schematics and user manuals leaves us with the following eight instruments that have these features in some form: InstrumentДЄdditionally, there was the GR-700 guitar synth which is very closely related to the JX3P. There are nineteen synths from RolandвЂ™s historyВ between the Jupiter 4 in 1979 and the MKS-50 in 1986 (the last analog synth they released before the D-50 in 1987) which we might want to look at, but several are monosynths or single VCO/DCO instruments, and any sort of вЂњcross modвЂќ or вЂњsyncвЂќ feature needs more than one oscillator.

#ROLAND MKS 30 MOD#

Roland synths with Cross Mod or Metal SyncДЇirstly, which synths actually have these features? And do they all implement it the same way? The most likely answer to that second question is вЂњNoвЂќ, which might explain some of the confusion.

JX-8P, JX-10,В and MKS-70 Cross Mod: Amplitude Modulation.What is RolandвЂ™s вЂњMetal SyncвЂќ? LetвЂ™s have a closer lookвЂ¦.Roland synths with Cross Mod or Metal Sync.So whatвЂ™s to be done? WeвЂ™ll just have to read all the schematicsвЂ¦ Contents Ok, so Harmony Central was never going to provide a solid technical answer, but the Roland Clan forums or (even better) Stack Exchange might have turned up someone who actually knew what they where talking about. HereвЂ™s a few forum discussions I found about it: What doВ RolandвЂ™s вЂњCross ModвЂќ or вЂњMetal SyncвЂќ really do?В There are quite few people asking this question on the internet, but no-one has much of an answer.

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