street priceJuno-60 followed Juno-6 featuring a 61-note keyboard that same year (1982). The monotimbral instrument offers a 6-voice polyphony and one digitally controlled oscillator per voice. The oscillator generates pulse, saw and square. The main spec which helped Roland to compete with Korg Polysix and which Juno-6 didn’t provide was patch memory installed in Juno-60. The synthesizer has no MIDI implementation and offers proprietory DCB instead making external control available via it (Juno-6 supported DCB as well). MIDI would be supported by Juno-106.
DCOs were advantageous components back then as soon as VCOs required tuning. The analog filter section comprised non resonant high pass filter and 4-pole resonant low pass one capable of self-oscillating. Memory provided storage for 56 patches. There’s an LFO for modulation possibilities. You can create some pitch vibrato, PWM or achieve a tremolo effect simultaneously and adjusting the amount of each. There’s an arpeggiator, stereo chorus effect integrated onboard as well as the possibility to control Juno-60 with external sequencers.
The instrument was used by Duran Duran, A Flock of Seagulls, Eurythmics, Tame Impala, Ultravox, Yazoo and many others.
Country of origin / production: Japan
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| Usage area | |
|---|---|
| Synthesizer | |
| Usage Design/ Form Factor | |
| With Keys | |
| Archetype | |
| Hybrid, Digital+Analog | |
| Polyphony | |
| Voices | 6 |
| Tone Generator / Sound Synthesis | |
| Oscillator Type | DCO (Digitally Controlled Oscillator) |
| Waveform/ Spectral form (main generator) | Sine |
| Waveform/ Spectral form (main generator) | Square |
| Waveform/ Spectral form (main generator) | Saw |
| Programs/ Voices/ Timbres | |
| Patches | 56 |
| Filter | |
| Voltage Controlled Filter (VCF) | |
| High-pass Filter (HPF) | |
| Low-pass Filter (LPF) | |
| Resonance | |
| Envelope Generator (EG) | |
| Attack | |
| Decay | |
| Sustain | |
| Release | |
| ADSR | |
| Keys | |
| Type | Synth Action |
| Size | 5 |
| Number of Keys | 61 |
| Case/ body | |
| Metal&wood | |
| Color | |
| Black | |
| Production start | 1982 |
| Production end | 1984 |
| Production ended | |
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