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The AX-60 is among some of the last true analog polysynths of the mid-eighties. It was Akai's answer to the hugely successful Roland Juno series and Yamaha's new digital DX-series. The AX-60 is a programmable six-voice synth with a nice LFO, lowpass VCF filter, envelope sections, and more. An eight-voice version, the AX-80, was already available.

Programming this synth is easy using dedicated sliders, knobs and/or buttons for its parameters. It also has a useful noise generator and some other cool functions that include auto-tuning, chorus, a multi-mode arpeggiator and a keyboard that can be split into two key-zones, making it somewhat bi-timbral. All six voices can be stacked in unison mode for a powerful and thick lead sound. Its features and sound make the AX-60 a worthy alternative to Roland's Juno 106. The AX-60 may have been used by Bjork.

40 VISITOR COMMENTS

finn

April 2, 2012 @ 2:56 pm

I read the following....but dont know how to do it...can anyone help?

The pitch-bend wheel can be set to affect VCF Cutoff frequency rather than pitch, and in this way the VCF frequency can also be automated.

thanks for your help!

mike

February 14, 2012 @ 1:08 pm

yeah mutant, please share thes mods...got a link?

Aesis

January 20, 2012 @ 12:32 pm

mutant1 - Having been a Juno-106 fanatic for a while I decided to pick up one of these and I'm very interested in how you designed and performed these mods.. send me a pm at aesisxp [at] gmail.com if you have the time, I'm about to drill into one of these

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kevin

October 26, 2011 @ 4:29 pm

thanks Mutant1...the factory patch file is here...http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/experimental_aka i/.....yes some of my banks are blank are loading a different patch file from here http://homepage.mac.com/synth_seal/html/ar_ax60.html.i just thought it was possible to create a new patch on one of the blank ones but cant get any sound to appear...so i tohught youd have to initialize the path or something....nothing in the manual about it

mutant1

October 25, 2011 @ 7:11 pm

Kevin, are you referring missing patches in the 8x8 bank of patches? There is a data cassette that contains the factory presets. I might still have mine.

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