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Average rating:
4.5 out of 5
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Yes Ivo, is good. IS GOOD! Full-size keyboard, sliders for fast access, stays in tune, its a great machine for vintage noise. I've been able to fake combo organs and moogs (to an extent!) when needed. Build like a tank, don't forget that, nay-sayers. Good for MIDI work.
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I just got this baby a few hours ago. At first I thought that I may have
been had, thinking that the sounds did all sound the same (just as everyone
seems to be saying). But after some tooling around I began to understand.
This thing isn't about the pre-set patches, hell, I don't think I have any
originals on-board. What this is made for is sounds creation. If you think
that all the sounds are the same, then you're not trying hard enough. With
all the sliders available for you to be used, there's no reason that any two
patches should sound the same. Once you figure it out, making and saving patches
is a snap. Yes, all of the sounds are those analogue synth sounds, but that's
what a lot of people want now anyways. Not an all-in-one type of synth, but
definitely cool for what it does...and it has MIDI! Get it if it's cheap.
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First of all, to the reviewers discription that the chorus is noisy is outright silly. This is Roland chorus, the same guys who made the JC-120 chorus amp. The chorus is clean and rich. If anything, it's too thick, and there's no blend amount- it's either full on or off. Also, SynthSite says it was released in 1980. MIDI didn't even exist intil 1983. And the Juno-106 has MIDI. 1984 is a better approximation. I have two Juno-106's and the related HS-60 and I love them whole-heartedly. They compare well to Jupiter-6's, stay in tune (Jupiter's don't/Juno's do) and are cheaper. They may not get used for every song I do, but they always earn there money when they are used. Also, they're fun as hell to twiddle around with after working on some fancy digital workstation synth. I will always own at least two.
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I bought my Juno 106 after being inspired by the sounds of a friends 202,
deciding that analog fattness/flexibitlity was what I needed in my live
keyboard rig. The patches work excellently, the ability to change patches
on the fly is a must for live performance. After reading review after
review on the Juno 106 it seems as though only the bad reviews are written
by people who haven't found the monophonic mode, Duh? (Poly1+Poly 2) if you
fall in this pathetic group of unintuitive people. Try it through some
distortion for some really wicked teeth gritting sounds. But remember it's
just a tool like anything else, just learn how to use it.
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Just got one yesterday... what can I say? This thing SINGS!
As Jean Bosio has already noted, its the sliders (and the filters they are
attached to) that make the synth. Tweak the sliders as you play for a
bitchin techno sound, or set up a smooth pad for ambient/new-age. Critics have noted that after a while, every patch sounds the same.
This is quite true, but it doesn't really matter, because they all sound
excellent! And of course, like most instruments, its true beauty can only be heard
when it is playing Bach...
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