After premiering its Jupiter-8 clone, the JT-2 at NAMM 2026, Behringer has announced the unit is now available for pre-0rder – though an exact shipping date is yet to be confirmed.

The JT-2 was initially teased over three years ago, with everything from fonts to the chromatically ordered coloured buttons a nod to Roland’s original polyphonic classic synth.

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As the title suggests, the JT-2 offers two voices that the JT-16 will eventually include. Those who are looking for a bigger paraphonic instrument can polychain up to 16 JT-2s, making for 32 voices. While there’s not a keyboard as on the JT-16, there’s double the voices, massively increasing the sonic potential.

In terms of pure technical building blocks, the JT-2 includes two analogue VCOs, PWM, hard sync and cross modulation, an analogue low pass filter with cutoff and resonance, a high pass filter with only a cutoff, an LFO, and two ADSR envelopes for the filter and VCA. This piece also allows for external audio to be run through its filters, a feature that has become standard for Behringer.

The VCOs and VCFs are the core of capturing the Jupiter 8 sound. Considering that synth was used by everyone from Michael Jackson to Knife Party to Kraftwerk, having a version that doesn’t run nearly $30,000 comes handy for modern producers…

Equipboard.com says of the Jupiter-8: “If the TR-808 was Roland’s rhythmic revolution, the Jupiter-8 was its crown jewel. A statement of analog perfection that defined 1980s pop, funk, and electronic music. Unlike the 808, whose cult status came through commercial failure, the Jupiter line embodied success: a flagship designed with no compromise that became the sonic benchmark for every polyphonic synth that followed.”

The Behringer JT-2 is currently available to pre-order for $189. For more information, head to Behringer.

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