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.

Eirik

August 21, 2009 @ 1:16 am

MP: No, it's not broken. It's the battery for the patch storage that's gone out. They should last for 25 years, so we should see a lot of dying Junos about now. It's an east fix. http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?t=965096

MP

August 9, 2009 @ 3:51 pm

I have an old one but it has a problem. When I turn it on the little screen gives -- and if I press the patch keys the patches do not start (it stays on --), is it seriously damaged or can it be fixed?
How much would it cost?
Thanks!

il

July 23, 2009 @ 10:54 pm

@ettore > no, you are safe with a Juno 6 or 60. They use the earlier (non packaged) discrete chips as found in the Jupiter 8, JX-3P etc and have no common 'dying fault' as the Juno 106 does.

If anyone wants a JUNO - the Juno 60 is THE model to get hands down.

Ettore

July 23, 2009 @ 6:02 pm

Does the Juno-60 have the same voice chips problems that the Juno-106 has (voice chips breaking down)? Is it more resilient in that regard or exactly the same?

Dan Burton

June 21, 2009 @ 2:01 pm

Just picked a Juno 60 up from London! Great synth! Howard Jones also uses a Juno 60 for both his older albums (Humans Lib) and his newer stuff (Revolution of the Heart).

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