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Average rating:
4.5 out of 5
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The 106 is easy to use and very immediate but come on, the best synth, give me a break! IMHO it doesn't sound as nice as a Juno 6/60, it's not built like a 6/60 and for a MIDI synth not to respond to velocity (i.e. you can't control VCA or VCF) well I'm afraid that limits it already limited uses a touch too much.
Good for a first synth / introduction to subtractive synthesis though (not meaning to sound too patronising - honest!).
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It's defenetly my my best sounding synth!
and i do love the juno 106... i can sit and just play with it for hours...
To bad my girlfriend doesent like as mutch as i do =)
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I got it a few weeks ago and I can't stop playing with it! It's a great machine to sample off of if you track on the computer (if you do you know what I mean), and it's fun to see what wierd noises I can get out of it! Take this with a grain of salt, since it's my first synth, but I love it! I paid $400 US for it, and I definitely think that it's worth the money.
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The most usable synth ever made. Programming can be done blindfolded and you'll still come up with a cool sound. Instant slider access allows for cool parameter tweaks. Mostly good at plain vanilla analog sounds with a very cool squirty filter that makes it pretty useful in techno. Loves FX processing thanks to the somewhat static nature of its non-chorused sounds. Chorus is noisy but typical Roland excellent. Very deep bass. Convenient and durable too.
I don't think its the most complex synth in the world. But I use mine on every track. It just seems to fit in places. I wouldn't give it up just for that reason.
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this was my first synth; i paid $400 for it and it was worth every cent! any of these old synthesizers can make wicked sounds, you just have to play with them some...don't think i've EVER played an analog synth that i couldn't get some wicked sounds from! (hell, my dad's mono/poly only had 1 oscillator because the others were trashed and i still had hours and hours of fun with it!)
i've used it as the ONLY synth on sooooo many tracks (doing a bassline, looping it in a sampler, overdubbing more stuff, etc) and you can get such a wide range of sounds from it, with this, a sequencer, and decent audio sequencer you can make great dance, techno, industrial....i've made shitloads of tracks with only this thing and Making Waves...can't knock it except for one thing: nick's right, the controls aren't too fine...it's fine for filter twiddling and whatnot; the only time i notice it is when i'm making a sub bass sound with only the filter self-oscillating and no oscillators going..can't tune it because one click of the fader is too low, and the next step is too high...but other than that it's KILLER.
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