Vintage Roland Juno 106
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- Опубліковано 14 січ 2020
- If you want a synthesizer that evokes the sound of the 1980s, the Roland Juno-106 is it. Providing unprecedented patch storage and MIDI connectivity, the 106 was state of the art when it was released in 1984-and it still has a sound not quite like anything else.
The Juno-106 uses a DCO for its core sound generation, providing super-stable and reliable tuning. This combined with its distinctive Roland filter and unmistakable swirling chorus tones earned the 106 a strong place in the history of electronic instruments. Providing stellar pads, warm stabs, and rich, cascading atmospheres, the Juno-106 is perhaps one of the most compelling keyboard synths ever made.
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I’m so glad I bought one these 15 years ago, bought a soldering and desoldering gun, studied the schematics, bought an oscilloscope and managed to bring this beast back to life! Special thanks to the Internets for giving me the necessary info too 🙏🏾
Sunny Verma how much did it cost?
Honestly I think that is the best way to do it. This way, you've learnt how to keep it going for years and years to come and don't have to rely on expensive servicing. I did the same thing with a Wurlitzer 200A.
I need to recap my dx7, my 200a keeps blowing fuses too. I bought a recapping kit for the dx7, and a good weller dial temp soldiering iron. Anything I need to be cautious of while desoldering and soldiering new caps? I really dont want to destroy anything. I do have soldiering experience with guitars and cable making. Never worked a circuit board before though.
@@anonymous_friend I burnt a few tracks completely when removing the faulty filter chips with the desolder gun and had to use a multimeter to find where the tracks led to and then solder a few jumper wires from pin leg to pin leg. I also wrecked my first desolder gun by holding it vertically with the board on the table because the solder wasn’t properly sucking to the back of the gun and it got clogged. Second time around, I used a clamp to hold the board on its side so the gun was horizontal while desoldering.
@@MrSunnyBra ... What was wrong with your 106 in the first place?
5:46 At that moment, every Playstation owner stood up out of their chair, awaiting the arrival of a chiming white screen.
True that!
The Sound or Juno puts me in such a weird amazing place. Feels like a synthwave world that i miss, tho I've never lived in it. It gives me a feeling of nostalgia over a time that never existed. It's crazy. I'm a bit drunk right now as well
A man of culture I see. Looking at vintage synths when under the influence
The 80s did exist
@@neonether they didn’t for him, though.
I have that nostalgic feeling all the time with random stuff
As a teen, I thirsted over the Juno 106 when I saw their advertisements in Keyboard Magazine in the 1980's. I even saw one up close in a music store, where they just got one & they were unboxing it. But the money was too much for me, so never got any. I was a fan of the multi-colored labels on the control chassis, so I emulated that for a synth program I was coding on my C-64 for a highschool project around 1985-86, with the UI on the screen looking like a Juno 60/106, with the colors, buttons, numerica displays & sliders.
Oh yes I remember and this one the super Jupiter and the iconic DX-7 for me the OB-8and matrix 12
I picked up an HS60. Same insides but more of a home keyboard outside. Love it and yep, twice the keyboard with that chorus on. :)
Me too. Plus I can noodle around in it without plugging it in to speakers or headphones.
what are you doin here?
That chorus unit is killer. Thanks for recording it in stereo.
one of the best synth never create from human mind. Sounds hypnotic
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2:11 i loved that sound, sounds like a sonar
I also loved it, it caught my attention enough to try to replicate it on the JP-08 and then on the Kronos with AL-1. (I'm pretty obviously battling vintage GAS with "but I can already make those sounds with what I have if I just try." I'm not sure how much longer it's going to work.)
Anyone else trying to replicate this sound, it's pretty much white noise into the filter with high resonance, and then have the filter track the keyboard so the pitch changes. But if you try to hit exactly the notes he's hitting, you find that the keyboard tracking is not set at 100%, but something closer to 50%, the pitch changes about 1 octave when you move up two octaves on the keyboard.
Dreamcast perhaps😳
I like the format of the video - where he/she doesn`t really try to play too hard, but mostly pressing buttons, tweaking those swithes, showing what does what - and just letting the sound go
These patches are exactly what I love about the 106. Thank you for this excellent demo!
absolutely divine, it hits right in the soul
YES!!!
I love the way this thing sounds
10 years ago i sold it for 800, now buying for 1900, kept my sound!
My brother still has one in good condition, bought in the late 1980s. :)
I own many synths, analog and digital (an Alesis Andromeda too)but my 106 still remain my favourite
I've got one of them, - bought it from a fella in Kensington for £350, Immaculate condition, cosmetically.
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~ had to pull out the internal battery in the end though, there was a short between the DCO board and battery that kept draining the battery, resulting in wild low freq oscillations of the DCO's. ~
Quality demo btw
I love the 106! It was my first synth in 1985 and I still have it and use it often. You pretty much can't make a bad sound with it. I also have acquired a Roland MKS-7 which would have been the coolest rack mount synth module ever except it wasn't. Still, it's awesome if you have a 106 to control it with.
Why wasn't the coolest? Just because its impossible to control directly?
What a synth 😍
The sound of the Juno 106 are very satisfactory (for me)
Beautiful!!!
Love that sound!
2:27 almost twin peaks tone
It sounds similar, but Angelo Badalamenti likely used a Roland D-50 (or D-550) for Laura's Theme.
ua-cam.com/video/l1IHe56nBaQ/v-deo.html
the same background strings and same chords :) c minor to Ab major
Mks70 was used for the twin peaks music!
I finally got mine repaired last weekend :)
I always come back to this video
It’s all about the chorus on this, tc electronics do a great analog pedal (June v2) that you can put any synth through to get that sound. Putting a DX7 through it for example is loads of fun
Thank you for your recommendation. I might get one to stick on my SH01a to see how it sounds 😊
Still sounds so lovingly nostalgic
Nice, love the sound very nuch
This is my favorite synthesizer!
Same
A beautiful machine
0:06 Awesome sounds! 👍🏾👍🏾
I just bought the JU-06A,
and now my life is complete!
I lucked up and scored one for 275 bucks last year from a pawn shop. Pawn guy said "it's broken" , I gladly said "ok, I'll take it". Sheer luck had me moving to Pocatello Idaho (from NC ) recently, which just *happened* to be 40 minutes from one of the handful of Roland tech school graduates/geniuses who can work on these as Roland would. 400 bucks later (recapped and replaced the cmos chip) and she's literally good as new. 675 all in for the best sounding synth I've ever heard !
I'm moving to Idaho as well do you think places there would be able to repair a JD 800? I'm not sure if I should do it here in Sacramento before the move or after
This looks brand new!
Pure raw power
Looks like you're playing on the back of a giant's head
David Bailey Just a carpet David... just a carpet... 🥱
1:25 love that sound
The Juno 106 in Two-Oszillator-Mode: Put two Vsti on two Tracks in your DAW and activate Listen and Play-Mode and it can be handled as a two oscillator Synth.....
Legendary dark wall of sound feel
thank's ! :)
I have most synths under the sun and have never owned a Juno 106, just because they are so iconic I went with most of the slightly more obscure but big ones...anyway I still say if aliens landed and asked for SYNTH youd hand em this!
In 2024 Roland would probably prefer to sell the Alien a subscription to their cloud platform instead :p
Que bien suena este sinte
my school had about ten of these but didnt actually say juno on it, exact circuit but with the de riguer brass, grand etc and percussion, never found the exact one even through massive searches...
What I wonder is, why does it sound like it has reverb?
I am currently learning how to develop my own synths and for that I decided to first study the workings of the classics.
2:27 OMG
Holy Mary, mother of God! I just got the DeepMind 6. If I can get that to sound half as good as this..
😲When that stereo kicks in.
I have one I love it but the choruses are noisy- what can be done ?
uu i just got one can you tell me plz can it sound like a piano? tnx in future
This is still my dream synth. Well, this or the ealier Junos, but I think this is the first to have midi, right? I keep my eye on the prices - one of these days!
Or, just buy a Deepmind.
@@r4x2 Not the same mate
Get the plugin. Very close.
@@maccagrabme Close... but there's a lot of magic in that tiny difference.
(Literally spent a day listening to the Cloud/S8 comparisons with the OG on good monitors)
Ha ha. I literally sold one of these to buy a deepmind 12. Worst mistake ever. 12 months later the deepmind was being returned and I have no Juno. A sad, sad time.
Tastyyyyyyy 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Several years ago Behringer announced that its engineers had patterned the Deepmind 12 after Juno-106, and it's one of the reasons why I bought one. Behringer didn't stop there and added a bunch of other features and effects that truly takes the DM12 far beyond the Juno-106's vintage capabilities. If it were just now being announced at NAMM, I suspect that it would be just as exciting an event as any other synth in its price range! BTW, recent firmware updates and sound editor really makes the DM12 shine!
cool story
@@MarsOneBeatz Juno sounds amazing in this video
I have a dm12 and it sounds like crap compared to this. Laggy controls, menu dives and Pan spread is a joke too.
OMG I HAVE TO GET THE 22A PATCH U SHOWED IN THIS VIDEO :0 where can i get it? is it a preset? also how can I save my patches on tape? can i save them on a regular audio tape using a regular walkman or a cassette recorder?
I've owned a Juno-106 for 35 years and I've never liked the single oscillator sound. I also didn't enjoy replacing the failing filter chips and, yes, my blue buttons are ugly green like the one in the video. It *was* great owning a polyphonic synth for the first time though.
Well i have the same idea about the sound it's serious not a sound i like . The jx3p , juno6/60 , Korg poly 800 are way more interesting for me .
The 106 was Roland's weakest synth. Owned one 1986 to 1995; it was always a disappointment. It's the only synth I don't regret selling.
Kudos for holding on to a synth you never liked for 35 years though! True commitment.
@@XanderEwald Until recently there was no way to sell an old single oscillator polysynth at a good price. Now that it's fixed up, I'm pretty sure I'm going to sell it soon.
I need to get mine out. (unfortunately one voice has a nonfunctional HPF)
Daft punk made rolling and scratching on this
Dog the end of this video… you cannot beat that chorus.
Goes from Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz 🥶
To
GAHHHHHHHHHHH🤯🤯🤯🤯
holy shit :37 that was fire
Hi. Are these patches factory defaults? I do not think so. Is there any place where I can copy/mount these timbres? Thanks!
Sorry but we don't have this Juno anymore so we no longer have the patches used in the video, some of them might be factory defaults with slight adjustments.
How do you get that water drop patch that is at 2:15?
Serious question. Where'd you get that rug?
mine had built in speakers too weird as...
Now I know where Xymox got some of their sounds from.
Xymox is good :)
Frozen Autumn as well - I wanted to know more bands like them, with that 80s synthpop/darkwave sound. Nowadays there are loads of artists mimicking the minimal wave (1978-84) sound, but that's a different vibe. Also, I prefer legitimate minimal wave from the 80s 99,9% of the time.
Any pedal Fx can mimic this gorgeous Chorus? Thanks
I think the CE-1 was the original pedal format of Juno's chorus, so I'd say to go for the BOSS CE-2W if you don't want to give an arm or a leg for the original
Josh dM nice thank you Sr
@@MarsOneBeatz still less convincing than the CE-1 or CE-2
First song is Stranger Things vibes
What killed this one for me was no ARP. The 60 always sounded better to my ears.
Wait a minute, you guys know something we don’t know? You wouldn’t do a video like this if you didn’t, right?
They know that the 106 kicks ass over half the stuff that's come out since 1984
Earmonkey Music We all know that ;)
Remember that time they did one on a random Arp 2600....
It does seem highly likely. Now is the time. This can’t be lost on Roland. I get the feeling there’s going to be a lot of mind blowing news coming from NAMM this year.
They have one up for sale right now.
Man, that chorus is a double edged sword. Lovely sound, but the signal to noise-rate must be almost 70/30. Glad I kept my 3P. At least there you have the extra oscillator, and can turn off the chorus without the floor disappearing under your feet.
0:53
Renato Russo had this keyboard at the Dois album in legião urbana
Tame Impala brought me here 😊
Are you playing lying down?
Where can I get one?
ive got one if you want to buy it
Ebay / Reverb mainly.
Само ко Roland Juno ji ka нов дисплей chahie aap проект Kariye моля
Fun fact: daft punk actually used this synthesizer for discovery
And maybe homework
この音色juno DSで作れるじゃないか
are you laying down and playing this
daltit The only correct way to play the 106 is naked on a cozy carpet. Common knowledge.
@@XanderEwald true
My friend sent me this after flirting with me intensely can anyone explain what it means
Warum können so viele auf UA-cam nicht vernünftig spielen 😢😢😢😢😢
The Juno 6 and 60 models sell for around double the price of the 106?!
I miss the time when Roland synths used to look good
Suspiciously close to NAMM?
I got mine 2 years ago by mistake. When to a guys house to buy a Simmons Drum set and before i left i asked you have anything else and you pulled this out from a closet. I think i paid $200 if that.
That's a massive dog
My man plays his juno on a mf bear hide
only juno? no FX?? my god
We only used the built in chorus effect on the Juno
@@PerfectCircuit thanks!
Shh... Don't wake the Gruffalo.
In the 80$ the Japanese changed the game on how everything was made 😂 simple no more tons of knobs and pots to tune your synthesizer and no more drifting out of wack lol 😂
I'm not sure there is a better sounding synth at any price, other Junos aside
agreed
The 106 is one of the few vintage synths (maybe the only one) I do not regret selling over the years. It’s okay sounding at best but easily one of the most overrated IMO
A bit Deepmind-ish ;-)
Haha :)
This is random....
@@McOwenWilson Roland actually giving us what we want? Imagine that.
Sounds like stranger things!
@Divinital I like you already.
That was a Juno 60. Very similar, but not exactly the same. There's juuuust enough difference and pros/cons to each that one could reasonably talk themselves into owning both, budget permitting.
You analog starved young folks
I wish not to lose anonymity.
Actually, they said they didn’t use a Juno. I think the main theme arpeggio was done on a Two Voice. Sorry, nerding out.
@@busch028 Correct it was an Oberheim
I have here a 106 and i find it a very flat sounding machine .
The Juno 6 /60's are more my taste .
same synth engine
Not the same synth engine