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.

Bob

November 14, 2012 @ 1:21 pm

The 60 does not have midi, you need a dcb - midi interface

midimini

November 12, 2012 @ 8:02 pm

Adam, please do not confuse the issue further. This article is about the Juno-60, NOT the Juno-6. As you can see, people are in two minds about what the article means. I am only trying to clarify the matter. Thank you

Adam

November 11, 2012 @ 2:20 pm

The article states "like the Juno-6" that the Juno-60 DOESN'T have MIDI. Click on the Juno-6 article and it states the same thing: the Juno-6 doesn't have MIDI.

I owned one of these with the external sequencer, which controls the synth via CV. The Juno-60 came out in 1982 and was based off the Juno-6. MIDI specification didn't get published until 1983. MIDI didn't exist as a standard when these keyboards were made, so duh, they don't have it.

Midimini

November 11, 2012 @ 8:44 am

You guys are idiots. The article clearly states that the Juno-60 has MIDI, like the MIDI on the Juno-106.

Gordon Mackinnon

November 1, 2012 @ 6:48 am

@j-106: yep, you read correctly. This page is about the Juno-60, not the 106

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