Ten years after launch, Roland's flagship SYSTEM-8 plug-out synth has disappeared from Thomann, Sweetwater and other major retailers, with no official word from Roland on why, or on whether anything replaces it.
Isla Electronics' Caladan, in late pre-production for a summer 2026 launch, packs the first-ever hardware emulation of the Alesis Andromeda A6 alongside a Roland JP-8000 "Callisto" clone and FM and wavetable engines, all on swappable voice cards, per Synth Anatomy.
Behringer's JT-2, a paraphonic Eurorack module built around a single Jupiter-8-style analog voice, is now shipping for $259 (£154 / €177), with Poly Chain letting multiple units link into a 16-voice synth.
Morphoice has released EightyTen, a free public-beta plugin emulating the Roland JX-8P, Super JX-10 and MKS-70, for macOS, Windows and Linux.
Morphoice's EightyEight recreates the Roland Jupiter-8 from measurements of a real machine, voice card by voice card, and it is out now as a pay-what-you-want public beta.
Jun Murakami's Synth-80 claims to be the first full software emulation of the MKS-80 Rev.4, the rack Jupiter-8 whose hardware long ago priced most producers out. There is even a free browser demo.
The Drum Farm, the most-previewed module of Superbooth 2026, ships this month: 16 drum-synthesis models, a built-in sampler and 16 effects in one screen-free 24HP panel for 449 pounds.
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