The Juno-6 was the first synth I ever bought. I was 17 and I paid $200 form the local music shop who was trying to get rid of obsolete analog gear in favour of the new digital stuff. It was 1989. I still have it sitting next to me and use it every day.
I bought mine full price after mowing 2 million lawns. And selling boxed candy at school for 400% markup. Still have it to the day spent 12 years on the road. Never a problem
My first synth was a second-hand Juno-60. I paid FF6,500 for ir back in August 1985, when everybody else was selling theirs and saving up to buy a DX7. It was a brilliant synth on which to learn synthesis and it sounded awesome. I really wish I'd had decent recording equipment back then. I remember creating basic tracks with the rim shot output of my Korg DDM-110 triggering the Juno's arpeggiator (and, later, my JX3P's sequencer). I would then feed those tracks back into one channel of my hi-fi's cassette deck while recording another live part into the other channel and so on and so forth!
You can turn Juno in mono mode : 1. turn juno off 2. put the arpeggio mode switch in 'up' position 3. keep 'key transpose' pressed while 4. switching juno back on Ii worked with very good results on basses & leads!!
@@monsterjazzlicks works fine in my Juno 6. Apr mode has to be in 'up' possition for performing "mono". Also the function cancel everytine you switch off the machine. Maybe i have the latest version? Is it possible?
I really appreciate the joy that you exude in your videos. I've been a little depressed lately, and your massive grin always makes me smile. Your love for music is contagious. Thank you.
@@80ssynthfan48 oh its long ago. Many people see in this old stuff nothing more than old "rubbish" .... but also many see this old great stuff and remember the great sounds in some great old songs in their good old times.
The Junos are a bit of an enigma, thin sounding, yet can sound thick, clean clinical sound but with grit. Simple, easy to use, yet can make so many different sounds! I always thought of the sub oscillator as a second osc, but without the ability to tune it, just stuck at an octave below.
Just like the chorus takes it to the next level, be sure to add a great reverb pedal or outboard effect to your signal chain. Talk about lush and thick! I use a Strymon Flint 90’s reverb with my 106.
I love how you know this instrument so well. I have just returned to mine after a few years of not using it and am rediscovering why I love this synth. I've had mine since new 40 years ago.
A few years ago I had the privilege of using the Juno-6 in my friend’s studio. A few friends of mine and I jammed together and this was one of the synths I was able to play. It was so much fun! We ended up recording a classic late 80’s/early 90’s inspired House track, which featured this. What a legendary synth!
First synth I ever borrowed and fell in love with, plus a basic Dr Rhythm beatbox which I discovered could be used to trigger the arpeggiator in interesting rhythmic ways! Ace combination 😊
You have impeccable taste, Doctor. I have the Juno-60 (as you might remember from your Jupiter-8 challenge where I was the guy w. smoke and lasers and the electric violin fakeout) but I rarely if ever use the presets, which is the only real difference. But make no mistake - It's the warmest sounding synth in the universe, and the best sounding Juno of any kind. Snappy envelopes, gorgeous chorus, just beautiful....
I love my J6 too. Easy tip: for syncing the arpegiator to your DAW send a simple audio click in the sync input of the J6. You can even play this click in the DAW to achieve complex retrigerings of the J6 arpegiator. (yes, you use a mono audio out of your audio interface but it's worth it and you can record the J6 in the DAW then free this output after)
Owned both a 60 and a 106. I thought you'd have mentioned the amazing juno strings. Get the settings right and you can have a sound very similar to the pad at the start of 808 State's "Pacific". Such a warmth to the sound. Another thing I loved was playing the bottom 3 octaves (use hold) and doing what you did with the filter and resonance. Loved the mechanical screech it created.
First poly synth I ever played. My uncle had one. A few years later he got me a Juno 106 which is also great, but I still have this soft spot for the 6. I don't have one but hope to get one some day. It's just a beautiful thing.
I’ve been using my recently acquired Juno 60 on everything. The low end is just amazing; I have an OB-6 as well, but there is no comparison in that area. Despite being simplistic, it is versatile. The raw sound - without chorus - can be gorgeous too.
When the Juno 6 first came out I was shopping for my first synth in 1983? I was primarily looking at the Moog Source, and the JX-3P, which I ended ip getting. I later got a used Fender Rhodes 73 Stage, years later, lots of other mostly Roland/Boss keyboards and gear including an XP-10, DruMatix TR-606, Boss DR-550, DR-880, and a DR-5 I still have, I also still have a Roland PMA-5, Go:Keys and a JD-Xi. The Juno 6 and the JD-Xi were expensive by todays standards, especially with their features. I could by an RD 88 for that price today, but back then, they were pretty cutting edge. Almost 40 years later, still buying music gear, bit not as much, so some thing are pretty tempting.
Nice synth! Those oscillators really punch through evan on my smart phone I could feel the bass drop on my chest when you played low notes and the resonance cut my ears. Love Roland stuff. Use to own a Juno 106 now I have a Super JX, second one.
It's too bad you don't have a Juno in better condition. It is still worth celebrating for what it is able to do. I bought mine new in 1983 and it is amazing how much I did with mostly just the Juno 60. So many other instruments followed but most did not endure like the original Junos. I've heard the Juno X is quite good too, but I've not played it. I have a Fantom 8 and the emulation in the Fantom is only a little like the real thing - the same goes for most software simulations. Emulations of the Chorus are fun!
Back in 1991 I sold my first synthesizer a Roland Jupiter-6 for £230 because it had an issue and bought a Juno-6 and a Numan Polymoog 280a 285a pedals and Polylegs for a grand sum of £150 total. I will always regret selling the JP-6 but I've still got the Juno and Polymoog both working.. Yep the Polymoog can still do a half decent 'Cars'. Great synthesizer and vid DM. Cheers.
9:00 never imagined you making quite a convincing impression of Philip Glass on a Juno 6 arpeggiator👍❤️ and all that on his birthday (he turned 85th on the 31st of January)
Thanks Dr Mix, you have inspired me to get my Juno 60 out of my parents loft where it has been sitting in its box for the last 30 years. Probably needs a new battery I guess. I might even sell it soon. 😱.
That was first synth I ever owned my dad help me with half back in the late 80s, I bought used and had some issues took it the shop for repairs a few years later and the shop got hit and there went my DX7 couldn’t afford a Korg or Roland at the time so I got a Yamaha Sy77, still miss that DX7
3:30 The whole synth and especially filter/resonance sounds exactly like my Minilogue OG with 50K resonance compensation mod. Without the mod character is roughly the same but it lost too much bass/level when engaging resonance while self-oscillation becomes slightly too loud and mod fixes that. Probably having the two synths next to each other I would be able to pick some differences but I was able to reproduce this sound without any issue and it sounded the same
silly question (forgive me). the Juno hasn't the sync input right? so: how is possible to sync his arpeggiator if you are using a sequencer with sync output? such sq64, beatsteppro etc?
I have this one!...mot a jup8 not a CS80, not as... But this one I have and love to play with. Everything works but the hpf. Must be not a big issue the day I will open it. Must is to use a Wha pedal on the the VCF out. I can play hour with it!
I think you should do a full recreation of P. Lion "Happy Children" now...Paolo Pelandi himself told me he actually used the Juno 6 for all the synth parts on this classic Italo hit, despite the fact that his appearances on tv shows such as Discoring and Popcorn showed him at the wheel of a Jupiter 8. That song is a classic example of this single synth's potential in the Italo realm, you would kill it!!! Un abbraccione 😊
Mondona Ray of light sythersizor sounds actually come from a 303 bass sythersizor or something similar, not the Juno. It was on the radio the other day and it's got 303 bass station all over it.
I think i heard the exact same noise from the nr age of love before the kick starts when you moved the vcf frequencies from the top down. Love that track, now ill use my boutique to recreate that in a track! Thanks dr! ;)
Hi Claudio, do you think you could do a video to suggest/review the best piano&music learning apps for us aspiring to become a bit more musically inclined?
I like very much the Juno-106/60 Sound since the 80th. Thats why i have it in my Roland System8 beside the Jupiter-8. Before i had also the Roland Boutique JU-06. But the Boutique has much worse keys than the System8 and also noise on the analog outputs. The Juno-106 is simple to learn and produce a typicall rich sound with the Chorus-Option which i very much like.
When I saw Shalamar use one on Top of the Pops in circa 1983, I knew I needed to get one. 39 years later and I still wait. Plenty of software emulations, but nothing like the real thing. One day......
If you want to hear a solo played with filter in use, please check out Emerson, Lake & Palmer - "From The Beginning", a semi acoustic ballad from them. Great, jazz - tinged solo from Emerson. If I was to buy Juno 6, I wouldn't. That filter reminds too much of a dentist.
Hello Doctor Mix!!!! How are you doing these days? I want to tell you that I am fascinated by Roland synths and Juno-6 is one of them Ohhh I wish I could have one. Anyways, I hope that you are safe and doing great job Sam🐺🐺
Hi DrMix! That’s another great video from you! Thank you very much ! 🤗 Btw I have a challenge for you… could you compose or arrange a known song on the built-in workstation function of the KORG M1 and play it back from its memory? I mean by only using the M1 and it’s standard instruments 😁 Just for fun And btw I love the sound of the JUNO 6 a lot! 👍👍👍 I sadly don’t own one but someday I would like to ☺️
I had a Juno-60. Same as Juno six but with memories and DCB interface. Put a Kenton MIDI card into it. Also had a Juno-106 which was a modernized version with MIDI built in. Did not sound as good as the 60 which was super phat.
hello how are you, the other day looking through the trunk of memories, I found The Alan Parsons Project album, I Robot, it could be a video about the construction of the song I Robot, it would be great, greetings from Barcelona. Long live Doctormix!!!!!!!!!
I don't know HOW MANY times during this video I hit your CHORUS button on the Juno..... yes I actually do. I hit it 5 times for you. Paused the video every time.
