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.

bill

January 27, 2009 @ 12:28 pm

ok lets get this straight.
the juno 60 is nothing like a jupiter 8.
trust me i have both so please stop misleading people into thinking a juno is the same sound as a jupiter.
if it is then your jupiter is broken.

analogrenaissance1

January 26, 2009 @ 12:42 am

I'd like to 2nd steve's question below??
Different between Juno 60 and Polysix would be v.useful..as i intend to get ones soon. The Polysixes seem to be more expensive on ebay...

Steve

January 21, 2009 @ 10:26 pm

Hi
I wonder how the Juno stacks up against the Korg Polysix?
love the Junos. have a 106, would not mind aquiring a Juno 60 if the price was reasonable.

planetplayer

January 10, 2009 @ 10:57 pm

This is my second favourite. Very top quality sounds. Sounds spacious. Played it in early 80's. Nice build as well as Jupiters.
I have played all the 3 of the original Jupiters. Saturn 09, RS-09, original 2 Junos(6,60) and ProMars. Also RS-505,SVC-350, System 100, SH-7. I wish I had them all. Later I was playing the MKS-80 and MKS-70, JX-3P,Juno-106,SH-101, TB-303, TR-808, JX-8P, JX-10P Alpha Junos, D-50,D-20, D-70, JD-800, JP-8000,JP-8080 then V-SYNTH. I love making sounds and this is what pleases my as well as a Jupiter 8. The Juno-60 is heavy sounding as with the Jupiter 8 and the Saw/Pulse, Sub osc, Noise combo in the Juno-60 can be very cosmic. It is the Juno and and Jupiter are quick to program the sound you want if you are an expert. Multiple screens and Midi not needed.

Mads

January 7, 2009 @ 12:32 pm

Only the Juno 60 had a DCB control. (Digital Control Bus). It didnt have DIN.
The Juno 106 dosent have a thinner sounds. The sub square wave is perfect in sync and pitch with the saw and pulse wave. Unlike on the Juno 60/6 were the sub square wave is way to ´´dirty´´.

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