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.

old synth guy

January 29, 2010 @ 4:52 pm

first of all, the person who wrote the "cool tips" can't do math --there are 7 usable banks available for memory : 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5-1 and 5-2-- each of which has 8 memory locations. 7 times 8 is 56 and that's it -no more!
secondly, for those who claim that the little brother Juno 106 doesn't compare to the 60, I suggest you put the two of them side by side as I have ---I own them both --yes there is a slightly faster attack on the adsr of the 60 but otherwise there is virtually no difference -and a DCO is a digitally controlled VCO ---they are the same thing except how they are kept in tune -and i must dispute a previous comment about bass end --- the 106 has a bass end that can do anything the 60 can -they are both lovely but quite limited synths

Analogue Crazy

December 13, 2009 @ 1:31 pm

I really miss mine! Although extremely limited, it has such an earthy warm sound and just screams quality. Long live the Juno-60, one of the great sounds of Analogue Synthesis.

Digital Screams

November 9, 2009 @ 3:16 am

Beautiful synth - both in terms of looks and sound.

Roland really made some classics....and this is one of them. Simple, yet effective.

DS

Max Vondel

October 16, 2009 @ 1:35 am

Great analog Synth. Bigger than JX-3P and Poly Six. Pity we have mainly sliders to deal with. Noisier and less precise than pan pots. Everything you need to teach yourself true analogue. Sounds are basic but this keyboard is often found on auction sites. Saw a second hand one at ezylab.com.au Basic Midi, no a-touch, velocity etc. Plenty of outputs at the back. Fun piece for the collection. Feels good to play and looks the part.
Max Vondel

JOE

September 21, 2009 @ 1:23 am

great synth,love it for bass. not as cool as the yamaha cs 10 on bass but still a great bass synth.much better than juno 106.give this one a go.recommended

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