TAL J-8  
’The Player’ sound set

‘The Player’ is a set of 165 presets for TAL-Audio’s Jupiter 8 emulation softsynth.
A luxurious collection of dynamic, beautifully playable presets for the discerning musician.

This sound set focusses on playability with super practical presets suitable for all maner of music styles.  A bumper collection of keys sounds, plenty of playable ‘synths’, lovely bells made  with X-Mod, round bass sounds perfect for Pop and Funk, the ubiquitous and yet irresistible brass patches, plus lush pads, leads and plucks.

A special feature of this sound set is the new sound category: ‘LA’.
'LA' stands for ‘Linear Arithmetic’ which was a synthesis type introduced by Roland in their iconic D-50 synthesiser. The basic idea behind LA synthesis was to mix a short sample with a traditional oscillator. This provided lovely natural attacks (thanks to the sample) with synthesised sustains. Imagine a mallet sample layered with a pad.
The LA presets in the set are inspired by this idea. They use the dual-layer design of J-8 to create similar sounds, where layer one could be a strong attack forming a mallet, an EP, a pluck, and the second layer provides a pad, or some sustain that follows on from the initial attack. In all cases the two layers are made up of contrasting sounds.

The video demo below shows examples of ‘LA’ presets, as well as many other sounds.

Demos created by Joe Hauke and Electric Himalaya.