Dave West

"I've also got a JX-8P. I like the touch sensitivity on that, it's good to be able to put more feeling into, say, a string part of a brass sound; it makes the track sound much more human and less mechanical. I've been using it without the PG-800 programmer unit, basically because I haven't bothered to get one. I find that if you know more or less what you're doing with synthesizers you can manage quite adequately with the incremental control on it.

"I MIDI it up to things quite a lot, sometimes with the JP-8 to thicken up a line and sometimes with another synth, something really digital and clanky-sounding, to add a bit of warmth. It's great for that."

Dave West, a multi-keyboard enthusiast, has expressed his preference for the Roland Jupiter-8, stating, "If I had to choose one instrument to play for the rest of my life that would definitely be the JP-8. It's the only one I haven't got bored with yet." This statement is documented in the article "Roland Go West" from Electronic Soundmaker & Computer Music, August 1985.

In the August 1985 issue of Electronic Soundmaker & Computer Music, Dave West is confirmed to use the Roland Axis, as detailed in the article "Roland Go West."

Dave West uses the Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer, as evidenced by his own description of his studio setup. In an interview from the August 1985 issue of Electronic Soundmaker & Computer Music, he mentions that "most of the synthesizer lines and almost all of the drums are sequenced from the three devices that sit in pride at the top of the multitrack desk; the MSQ-700 sequencer, TR-909 drum machine and SBX-80 interface box."