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.

Mike

November 26, 2008 @ 10:16 am

This was my first analogue synth and I loved it to bits. It's capable of a wonderfully warm, powerful sound. Gigged with it to death and it never once let me down, which is something that couldn't be said for a couple of modern synths I won't name! The lack of patch memory is irrelevant, the Juno 6 has such a simple interface, you can knock up patches again in seconds. A fantastic instrument.

Mads

October 29, 2008 @ 5:10 pm

This baby rules. Its just a Juno 60 without memory. The Juno 6 has one thing which the Juno 60 dosent have. The High Pass Filter on the Juno 60 runs in 3 steps, which is very annoying. But the Juno 6 High Pass Filter has no steps. Thats nice!
Buy a Juno 106 instead of the Juno 6/60!

De Luca

October 15, 2008 @ 8:00 am

This was my first analog polysynth and I was very happy with it. The lack of patch storage forced me to think about what I was doing a bit more. It is a great sounding if somewhat basic unit.

What I paid a few years back, £120 GBP, was well worth it. I'd say today's (eBay inflated) prices, more in the £200+ region, make it less of a bargain. At these prices, I'd be looking more at a JP8000, MS2000, KS4 or similar.

It's a very good, very fun synth - but certainly not irreplaceable or unique.

L>A>

September 14, 2008 @ 4:44 pm

yeah this is a great synth....
it was my first analogue one, and I still love it...
the best arpeggio ever...... :)

Sr.Vargas

September 12, 2008 @ 12:13 pm

I've had my Juno for more than 3 Years Now and i havn't been happier with any poly-analog synth. God bless. I Love to slap the manual trigger like if it was a bass and i love the Apreg & Hold buttons. just get a CV/MIDI and enjoy.

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