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.

u-tech

February 8, 2011 @ 4:39 pm

sweet. thanks. yea i did have the battery replaced!

bhrama

February 4, 2011 @ 8:47 am

U-Tech,
If you download the maual, the back pages have the actual patch names and parameters. Or, if you search for a wave file of the patches, you can simply load via "tape" input. Be aware, alot of the Junos need new batteries. Without a viable battery you'll not be able to store patches, i.e. no memory.

u-Tech

January 30, 2011 @ 10:28 pm

Does anyone know how to get the original factory sounds?? I've downloaded some wav. files to load thru the tape input from the Retrosound Juno 60 page. But they didn't work.. ;(

MJK

January 12, 2011 @ 6:45 pm

Ive owned 3 Juno 60's. The Juno 60 is kinda like a good friend you make and keep.

I do wish Roland had put the JP8 metal sides on them though......
That said, They would be going for even more money now, just on the looks department. Lol

John

January 10, 2011 @ 6:01 pm

An truly amazing instrument, with a touch of vintage class, it’s got a simple arpeggio switch for older style synthe bass lines, a sub-oscillator for nice deep bass, as well as an inbuilt chorus board. The best feature is its simplicity. Everyone's either got one or has had one, so it's not terribly original-sounding, but it's still good fun. .
I just noticed what appears to be a good condition unit on e-bay :-http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Juno-60-Synth-good-condition-Hard-carry-case-/250755097 486?pt=AU_Musical_Instruments_Instruments&hash=item3a622b238e

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