dje@petrus.UUCP (03/03/85)
I am thinking of buying Roland's Juno 106 synthesizer, but I was wondering
if there are any better boards for about the same price range ($800). Also,
does anyone have a Juno 106? I'd like to know what other people think about
it (good points/bad points). Any info would be helpful.
Thanks,
Danny Espinoza
{...!bellcore!dje}59231ig@houxm.UUCP (I.GERSZBERG) (03/07/85)
<> Just a little note...the Juno 106 is completely different than the Juno60. It has almost no analog slides (just like the Yamaha DX-7). One feature that I couldn't find which would have been nice was an arpegio (found on the Juno-60). Note that I am not saying the Juno106 is "bad", but just noting the differences between it and the Juno60. --- Bob Switzer
hnij@bnl.UUCP (John Labovitz) (03/08/85)
> I am thinking of buying Roland's Juno 106 synthesizer, but I was wondering > if there are any better boards for about the same price range ($800). Also, > does anyone have a Juno 106? I'd like to know what other people think about > it (good points/bad points). Any info would be helpful. > > Thanks, > > Danny Espinoza > {...!bellcore!dje} I've got one. I bought it about 2 months ago for $750 (I think). I like it -- it's definitely one of the best for the price. I looked around for a few months , and couldnt find anything for a better price. It has MIDI, but I haven't been able to use it yet (I'm the one who posted the original "rs232 midi interface" article). Actually, I have used it to "double" the sound with a friends DX9 -- it creates some GREAT sounds. There are only a few things I don't like about it. The first, and most major, is that it only has one oscillator. This limits the sound A LOT and (as a friend said) tends to make all the sounds sound the same. Its easy to program, but not so easy to make small changes. The controls are all switches or slide-pots, and they get transformed digitally. I've found that the resolution is not quite fine enough -- there are times when I want something right between two values. Also, if you program something, save it in a patch, and then play around with the pots, and want to get the original sound back, its difficult to get the pots back to where they were to you can modify it more (can you parse that?). Sure is easier to program than my friends DX9. @hnij@ -- John Labovitz -- ..!decvax!philabs!sbcs!bnl!hnij
iles@hplabs.UUCP (03/18/85)
My Juno-60 is a really neat machine; I would expect that most of the really nice features are also found on the 106. I enjoy having all the analog slides for each parameter. My digital friends prefer the Korg products.