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Roland • JUNO-60

Among the first in Roland's amazing JUNO family! Six analog voices of polyphony and patch memory storage!! The JUNO-60 sounds great, however, like the JUNO-6 it lacks MIDI control. The JUNO-60 includes 56 patches of memory storage. The JUNO-60 is still popular due in part to opinions that it sounds better (punchier) than the JUNO-106. The JUNO-6 and 60 are very rich sounding synthesizers and are great analog machines as long as you can withstand the absence of MIDI control. The JSQ-60 sequencer is an external sequencer controller for the JUNO-60 and is usually worth acquiring. Of course nobody can deny that the wooden side panel look is a true sign of Vintage status! JUNOs have been used by Enya, The Cure, Sean Lennon, Faithless, Astral Projection, Vince Clarke, Rabbit in the Moon, Men at Work, Flock of Seagulls, Olive, Dee-Lite, Howard Jones, Locust, Eurythmics and Add N to (X).

Cool Tips:
The JUNO-60 can have 76 patches. By pressing down nr 5 and 1 or 2, at the same time, you get access to patch 57 to 76.

To access patches 80 to 98, (dead-patch) plug a cord into the PATCH SHIFT connector. Now you can access the test-programs 80-98: Keep 5 down and press 3 for bank 8, 5 and press 4 for bank 9.

Fire the JUNO up with the KEYTRANSPOSE button pressed and the arpeggio mode-switch up to enter MONO-MODE. All 6 voices will be assigned to the last key pressed.

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Dan Burton

Posted 13 days ago

Just picked a Juno 60 up from London! Great synth! Howard Jones also uses a Juno 60 for both his older albums (Humans Lib) and his newer stuff (Revolution of the Heart).

Dante

Posted 15 days ago

I have the Roland DCB to MIDI. whild not having full MIDI it does let me use other keyboards and also use a sequencer

Dante

Posted 15 days ago

rds and also use a sequencer

Tom

Posted 17 days ago

I picked one up on eBay at a whopping £600, made me feel sick paying that amount, BUT, it is in perfect condition and the highlight: has been retrofitted with MIDI!

I mainly bought it because my fav band Deadsy use a 106, but after reading many reviews I decided the Juno 60 was more popular and has most of the same sounds anyway.

I love this synth! I'm recording an album with it at the moment.

Jim

Posted 33 days ago

Madonna used this synthesiser for "Material Girl".

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