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5 wild facts about the legendary Roland JP-8000

The iconic supersaw sound is just seven sawtooth waves stacked together with a highpass filter.

Roland released the JP-8000 in 1997 as a modern digital successor to the classic Jupiter-8.

Producers in the mid-2000s jokingly called the synth the A$$ Trumpet because it was so overused.

The famous trance track Sandstorm was named after a pad patch on the JP-8080 rack version.

The supersaw oscillator became a genre-defining staple for late 90s trance and hardcore music.