Juno 106?

[frequency]

I'm thinking of adding an affordable analog synth to my set up and a Juno 106 seems to be the only option within its price range, say 300 euro's. I'm using Logic, Reaktor and Massive for just about everything but I miss something that sounds really analog, so... I had the Ion a few years back and used it mainly for pads, which it did great. I searched some You Tube video's on the Juno and they seem pretty awesome for pads and basses! But can a Juno go much further than that? What about all the spacy tweaked stuff out there?

The specific sound I'm looking for is that of Substrata (Biosphere): songs like Poa Alpina and Chukhung have a synth in them that sounds absolutely great, and if it were a Juno 106, I'd buy one for sure!

Any advice?

Thx

[Pro5]

Easy way to check if it was a juno 106, listen carefully to the songs and see if you can hear the voice chips failing

[aeon]

Go for a Roland Juno-60 instead.

Or a whole other flavor such as a SCI Prophet-600.

The 106-chip-failure will bite you.


cheers,
Ian

[braincandy]

Buying a 106 is just like waiting for an accident to happen. Unless you absolutely know that all the voice chips work properly and that everything else works properly, I would avoid it. If you really want a Juno, I'd recommend the 60, as Aeon said.

As far as "spacey" and "tweaked-out"--you can do that with a lot of synths as long as you have a decent effects unit. The Juno alone won't provide that.

[ned-ryarson]

and you'd be doing really well to bag one for 300euro....

for complex sounds you need to go for something with a lot of routing options, (prob not vintage then) and plenty of experimentation with fx and pluggins.

to beef/analogue the sound up you could run, say a VA, through an analogue pedal of some sort...

i learned that trick here and it works a treat

[pflosi]

+1 for juno6/60

besides the chip issues, they sound better. no eg pwm on 106. digital egs on 106.