too kool for school!!!

I've now had it for a month, and still finding new ways to make and create sounds. I am a bit of a gear-head, but I actually had to crack open the manual to get a handle on navigating this Roland. (Plus checked out the great tutorial videos online)I've got Rolands, Kurzweils, Emu, Korg, Yamahas and Casios, but this one is pretty deep. The sound quality almost rivals any of my plugins, or my (East West, Spectrasonics,Vienna,etc )sample libraries. I bought this for live gigs and am very satified with the sound, weight, and performance of this rig. Love the synth action-maybe the best non-piano non-waterfall action I've ever played. there is nothing like a real piano for piano sounds, but I can actually get a lot of nuance from the action (and a little velocity tweaking) I do have the Roland RD700nx, and the pianos are THAT good. Rhodes-excellent, Basses, great, vocal stuff-hmmm, strings good, clavinet, good but needs tweaking, synths-that is in a league by itself: that could be an entire keyboard in itself.
The way this [Jupiter 80]is setup(registrations) is unique, kind of an expansion of the RD700nx setup, with the ability to layer and split 4 sounds over 4 individual layers (totaling 16 sounds). If you can't get a fat enough sound from that, there is something wrong with your programming. But even just using 1(!) sound is extremely fat, and it must be the updated analog output circuitry that puts this in a class by itself. Is this the perfect keyboard? NO! There is no such animal, but this fills this nitch for a live keyboardist nicely. There are very few gigs that this wouldn't cover, and cover well! (Roland: Have you considered a dual manual keyboard-top a great synth action, bottom, piano action like the RD700nx, tremendous sounds like the Jupiter 80 with an onboard sequencer AND the ability to loop live midi performance or audio (with a pedal) that you could play over, that weighs 30 pounds????? Just sayin'......)

JP80 is excellent

This keyboard not only sounds great it play great also

Awesome Keyboard

Great Keyboard. Love the 76 keys. Super easy to split the keyboard too.Great Action too. Sounds are incredible. Pianos are suberb. Strings are Lush and syth sounds really cut through. Great LIve and Great in Studio also!