Roland Alpha Juno-1

The Alpha Juno is a great sounding Juno type synth! Not quite as warm in sound as the previous Juno's but still a nice addition to any techno synth rig. Sliders and buttons were replaced by membrane buttons and the Alpha Dial which is used to edit and browse through the extensive selection of parameters: DCO digitally controlled oscillators, LFO, bend, ENV, pulse, waveforms, noise, PW/PWM, high pass filter, VCF (filter) with freq/env/res/LFO/kybd, VCA envelope, chorus, and more. The PG-300 synthesizer programmer gives you traditional slider control of each parameter for much easier and faster editing.

Other nice touches include better MIDI implementation than previous Roland synths, 64 presets and 64 user patches, a nice LCD display, an LFO capable of a very slow rate for some cool sweeping effects, and a great bass sound (especially nice for acid basslines) and noise effects! It also has chord memory which is perfect for rave & techno, portamento and keyboard transposing. The Alpha Juno 1 was soon replaced by the Alpha Juno 2 which added a few MIDI & keyboard enhancements. The MKS-50 is an upgraded rackmount version of the Alpha Juno. The Alpha Juno is used by Mundo Muzique, Vince Clarke, Matt Megaton Haines, Paul Hardcastle, Massive Attack, Bomb the Bass, The Prodigy, Youth, Joey Beltram and Human Resource.

Roland HS-10

The HS-10 Synth Plus 10 is an Alpha Juno for the casual home user, with a slightly less appealing cosmetic appearance, and the HS-80 was a similar repackaging of the Alpha Juno 2.

Ken

February 25, 2013 @ 3:05 pm

Anyone know how to make a sound repeat on this synth? I want to duplicate the repeating sound of the synth at the beginning of "Kids in America"

BeN-HuR

January 17, 2013 @ 5:53 am

This is a really fat one and the jog is amazing for quick editing. It sounds like synths that cost 10 times more. Highly recomended for the 80's classic Brass and Strings lovers.

Phil

December 11, 2012 @ 5:14 pm

Anyone checked the reKon Alpha juno editor out yet? I'm interested in the librarian
part of the program to store patches unless you guys no of a free one for OSX. CHEERS

waynobrien

December 9, 2012 @ 3:15 pm

very interesting synth, looking into purchasing one. @wearetheparty the ua300 virtual programmer is only for mac OS, any idea on a windows version or software that will do the same thing?

wearetheparty

November 7, 2012 @ 1:53 am

@haza you are right there buddy although you can always access velocity and aftertouch through midi and by the way for those who don't know...No need to spend 500€ on a pg300 guys.. just download it's virtual emulation called "ua300"..it does the exact same thing, it looks exactly the same, you can save its settings within your projects and it's completely free!! check it out here:
http://www.au300.de/

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