The first in a series of amazingly affordable quality synthesizers from Roland's amazing Juno family! The Juno-6 is a six voice polyphonic analog synthesizer! It's a very stable synth thanks to its digitally controlled analog oscillators. The Juno-6 sounds great, however it lacks basic necessities like MIDI control and patch memory storage.

The next generation Juno-60 version added 56 patches of memory storage. Both of these synths sound virtually the same and are considered by many to sound better (punchier) than the popular follow up, the Juno-106. The Juno-6 and 60 are very rich sounding synthesizers and are great analog machines as long as you can overlook the absence of MIDI control. Of course nobody can deny that the wooden side panel look is a true sign of Vintage status! The Junos have been used by Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran, Enya, Sean Lennon, Sneaker Pimps, Vince Clarke of Erasure and Banco De Gaia.

Magikroom

April 27, 2013 @ 4:03 pm

Just picked up a mint Juno 6 this morning and love the sound it makes. there's no midi obviously and had thought about getting a retrofit, but I only wanted to sync the Arp...Plugged in my iPad with Korg iElectribe, made a short, pulse sound and it syncs the Arp brilliantly...didn't think it would work...took a bit of messing about though to get the preset right :)

Pulse Emitter

April 17, 2013 @ 3:00 am

my first analog synth, purchased in the mid 90's. was a great synth to learn on! very easy to understand and good sounding. eventually not the best for what i wanted which was smooth, ambient pads. still, a solid board, a classic. i see a lot of these on stage here in Portland, Oregon, and it’s a great synth for that purpose, good sounding, hands on, reliable, but not so expensive you’re afraid to take it out of the house! www.synthnoise.com

Paul FitzZaland

April 2, 2013 @ 11:37 am

Why are people so hung-up on memory? How many violins, pianos or electric guitars have patch storage? With a little practice, talent, and skill any instrument can sound awesome. Besides, isn't knob twisting, fine adjustment, and random accidents all part of the fun of owning a vintage synthesizer?

I had both a Juno-60 and a Juno-6 but I eventually got rid of the 60. There was just something about the 6 that made it more compelling. Eventually I replaced my 60 with a Juno-106 for MIDI sequencing but I still find myself dialing-in the sounds manually.

Each to their own I guess.

donnie

March 28, 2013 @ 5:53 am

@haza just snap a picture of it dude. i feel the complete opposite the lack of memory inspires me to tweak and change everything.

Haza

March 10, 2013 @ 4:39 pm

About the 'no memory, no problem', well sorry but I had a Juno 6 for a while (but eventually got a Juno 60 thankfully), I found the lack of storage a royal pain in the ***. Yes it's a simple synth, yes you can dial in a bass sound, a res sweep, a pad fairly quickly. The problem is you are never encouraged on the Juno 6 to really work it, to use very very small slider adjustments to get the 'perfect' sound because you just know you'll never be able to set it back just right. Heard this so many times from Juno 6 owners playing down lack of memory, but Juno 60 is what they all want really!

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