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.

jay

October 21, 2008 @ 7:45 pm

when mine still fully worked i would set the same excact patches on it as my 106.. i'll be honest.. they sound very similar.. the 106 might sound a little "shinier" but they run about the same

Bitfinder

September 17, 2008 @ 2:05 pm

Those Strings, omg those strings!!! and that with just one oscilator!?
Its a combi of his nice PWM, LPF and Chorus which makes those lovely deep string sounds.
Its just unbelievable.

pflosi

September 9, 2008 @ 3:35 am

i love my juno 60! u really cant beat the warmth of its sound. and the self oscillating filter sounds great. what i love most is that there is a gate input for arp clock which REALLY can give one great ideas for basses and leads as long as u have any analog sequencer, in my case a tb 303 ;)
and there is a vcf in too, so if u have any modules, u might be able to patch it's lfo to the juno vcf - so u wont be stuck with the sine wave ;)
this one is staying with me till the day i'll be gone

Si

September 4, 2008 @ 5:05 pm

Guru Josh also used onr e of those...

VCO

August 24, 2008 @ 5:22 am

Great synth! Had to sell it a while back to finance other things. I really regret that now since they've gone up a lot in price and it still is one of the best synths in the world. Much deeper and richer sound than the 106 and its strings and plucky bass and pizzicato sounds are great. Factory preset 35 is classic but still one of the best presets ever :)

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