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.

Liquidyzer

November 18, 2011 @ 11:21 am

Retro fitted Minerva kit to this last weekend. Makes it fly like a bird. Midi ports are discreet. Full midi control and stable so far even after firing fast midi at it. Extra LFO, Midi clocked ARP... the list goes on. 130 Euro's a steal if you have and Love your 60 :)

Johannes

November 5, 2011 @ 5:15 pm

Class act synth here brimming with that early 80's all world Roland Sound!
Super easy to navigate and create patches with...The buttons won't stick on you either as do most of the korgs when you save sounds the korgs sometimes double trigger. I've owned two 60's + a juno 6, three juno 106's two juno 1's and a juno 2. The 60 is by far the best of all the Junos and not too far behind the Jupiter series either... Crushes the JP6 sound wise but is not for everybody having only one OSC.
Also used by ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN.

Liquidyzer

October 25, 2011 @ 10:01 am

Finally got my hands on one of these. Started off with a 106 which i adore and yes this does sound marginally better. Also has to be noted that reliabilty and build quality also trumps 106 but no midi and mods and converters just add expense. If your looking for bang for buck then then get an original 6 the 60 definately isn't worth double the price, and possibly not the extra on top of a 106.

oneflashoflight

October 11, 2011 @ 11:03 am

I bought my first one brand new back in 1985. STILL fully functional on the original battery. I now own 3 (having sold the 4th to a friend a while back) each in the same level of perfect functionality.

This is THE best analog poly that is readily available to you at $800-$1K...period, the end. Vintagesynth still has its estimated value at $350 -$500? You will NEVER find one for that unless the owner is completely clueless or it escaped a kidnapping, suffered broken/missing parts and was doused in chilli ;)

mikez

August 26, 2011 @ 4:36 am

Anybody buying one of these will do well to invest in a minerva kit, which adds full cc control as well as an extra lfo and arp sync...

http://midipolis.blogspot.com/p/minerva-manual.html

Cheaper than a standard dcb box and more useful... by a lot...

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