Roland Juno-6 | Get Your Love Through the Radio
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- The Juno-6 is from 1982, so I made an 80s inspired track with it.
Drums: Oberheim DMX Samples
Synths: All from Roland Juno-6
Guitar: Ibanez Jem, Fender Blues Junior II, SM57, Chorus FX
Vocals: Recorded with a C414
Sequenced in Cubase
FX: Cubase reverb, delay, chorus, Waves Vinyl, U-he Satin, Waves compressors and EQ
Song written and recorded by me.
Download a free MP3 of it: www.dropbox.co...
Hello. If you enjoyed this, I've since made a proper full-length version of this song that's on my album.
iTunes: itunes.apple.com/gb/album/filibuster/1362218288
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/3CD4wUQoWyyp97wGvr46GA?
Alex! OMG! Have you heard of Synthwave? If you haven't, you're a natural! (And this is from somebody who remembers when Blue Monday was a new thing, and the first well known EDM song).
how much for autographed copy on cd?
this track is sooooo smooth
The iTunes link doesn't seem to be working at the moment.
As cool as the synths are, it's the songwriting that really shines in your videos.
He cheats by using the forbidden chords. :)
@@theeltea ah, the ones only accessible via the boîte diabolique…
This video is single-handedly responsible for me buying a Juno. Coolest thing I’ve ever heard.
This kind of 80's music makes very me synthimental. For real.
That's great, my senior school had a Juno 6 in the 80s, I use to sneak off and play it during lessons. I don't remember it sounding so good!
It's done better with age I think. Simple but great sounding poly.
The Juno, the music, your voice, all very sweet and nice! You're channel is quit the undiscovered gold mine at this point.
Thanks very much!
It really is.
80s music never dies! I love it mostly because of Prince, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Whitney Houston, The Pointer Sisters, Kool & the Gang, Depeche Mode, INXS, New Order, Pet Shop Boys etc!
In fact, you need an 80s pop electronics album!
Electronica*
I’m eating this up like a honey badger
+Steven James Nice. Let me know if you'd like to see the desert menu.
It is an awesome relief to know that even though the 80s are long gone, people have not given up making new records in the style of that decade.
I love it. You nailed 1980/81.
Probebly one of my all time favorite synths the juno!
Amazing video and song, it shows exactly the spirit of the precious, nasty juno 6, I picked up mine today, omg it's so incredible synth ❤
You've made my boring Sunday afternoon! Everything is great, but the vocals towards the end R-O-C-K!!!! kUDOS!
again came back and now I realize it reminds me of Crocket Theme so damn much!!
I love this song - especially this version with the more subtle vocals than the album version. I've hit the repeat turney-button at least two dozen times.
I agree your song writing is advanced far beyond where knowledge and experience can take you. This is where raw talent picks you up and places you in a place only the ones who were meant to get there have access to.
Awesome song, Alex! Brilliant composition. The 80s chords and sounds at about 1:05 blow my mind. Can't get enough of it!
super 80s sounding 😄
Excellent .
93' born. such an amazing composition. i will be jamming this for awhile for sure. i might even buy one if it means you can make music like this with it!
I hope you realize that this is a genius track Alex. I love it and I listen to it every day. I love the Juno 6 and I've read that it's the best one; better soundwise than the 60 and 106.
Thank you. I've never compared the 6, 60 and 106 in the same place at the same time, but I do particularly like the sound of the 6 and 60.
Some people prefer the 106. I had a 106 and thought it was bright and aggressive. I tried a Juno 60 and found it sounded much warmer, fuller.
I love this so much… it’s 2024 and I’m blasting it out everywhere…. How good is this ?
Absolute beauty
Damn you! Don't invoke those 80s that I remember so well! 🕺😱😉
your songwriting on these old roland synths is incredible. it makes me want all of them lol. this and the jupiter 8 track first contact give me goosebumps
Great vibe Alex! The Juno 6 was the only synth i sold and bought twice :) It´s one of my favs.
Cheers. Yeah, it's simple, but has a solid sound and it does what you want it to in a mix. Not surprised you bought it back a second time!
😂me too. Now on the hunt for an old mono. Prodigy? Wish I could afford a Minimoog.😕
Great Song, awesome synth! Those Arpeggios are from heaven
Amazing track. Brings me back to when proper music was created....
Great!!!...Open you heart of Madonna
What a slamming track. Lovely.
This is magnificent 💚👽👋🛸
Man this is sick
E&MM - Electronics and Music Maker...OMG! I used to subscribe to that magazine! Oh the nostalgia!
+Andrew Brooks Yep, they're all archived and online for trips down memory lane.:)
wow! where do I find them?
+Andrew Brooks retrosynthads.blogspot.co.uk
Thanks for this I will take a look!
great track
Another great, song. And again I’m amazed of the sound of the Juno. There’s something that all the vsts, ones and plug outs can’t quite capture.
Yes, the signal path is all analogue (with the exception of digital control of the tuning). The stereo chorus is very distinctive too.
The VCF, VCA and envelope are the same ICs as the Jupiter-8, so it's no slouch.
Probably why the plugins can't quite do a Juno-6. The Juno-106 and JX-3P plugins in the Roland Cloud are very good though, but then those synths are hybrid digital / analogue. Maybe they're easier to copy.
Glad my favourite track made the album!!
Thanks. Yes, thought it had the potential to become a proper song. 😀
Your best song for me. Love it. :)
Thanks Marko. Something special about the Junos. As well you know!
Alex, this is stunning fella.
Very, very nice track! I bought a Juno 60 some time ago and I love it. Wish I had more time to play with it...
keep up the good work!
They're nice synths, especially with some FX added. They do about a dozen things and that's it. But thankfully they're really useful things!
Have the Roland JX-3P too and the two in combination is great.
Great Music Alex!
There is a Juno-6 gathering dust in my fathers house. He bought it new and shared it with me while I was still living at home. One day it will be mine, I hope the voice chips are still okay. It sounded so much better than my Casio CZ synths.
That'll be a nice thing to inherit. I don't think the 60 and 60 are known for failures like the infamous 106, but they are nearly 40 years old now, so it's always a possibility. Mine has been amazingly stable ever since I got it. Just keeps on ticking away.
Wonderful composition
Seriously - wtf ! I can stop listening to this track man. My Ju6 is being moved to my bed so i can gi e it the love I always feel it needs - it's a stunningly great piece of work - congrats man - im inspired to make juno based tunes listening to this !!!
btw it's the Spotify version I mean as great as this vid is to have brought me to that !
Thanks very much!
Love those surprise vocals. So good!
+Josh Lucan Thanks Josh!
Fantastic song. The synth sounds terrific, but to me it's the guitar and voice that take it to the next level.
This was really really cool. Great job!
Cheers.
Great song! Love the add9- and add11-chords!
Very nice!!!!
You got a really cool sound going, keep posting more videos!
Stefan Dahl Thanks, yep will do some more 80s stuff along with other videos. Love this era.
OmG I am so glad I stumbled upon your channel. I think we are from the same alien planet.
Very nice.
awesome composition
+zawette Thanks!
sounds great - such a pop tone to it - totally good synth - need to get one at some point - thats such a great disco tech scene in the vid - i would like to sip a pina colada in that place
Man, it all came together somehow in this song eh? :) Great stuff!
Superb. Captures the feel perfectly. Would have been a smash back then ... ;^)
That was AWESOME...totally!
Brilliant!
Love it to bits!!
Wow dude you got your shit together!
😀
Great song Alex :-)
What a great song 😎👍🏻
Thanks for your videos. Very informative!)
@Alex Ball - I have a Roland Juno 6 also.
I miss the Preset Buttons - but is made up for by the sound 🙂
my first keyboard was a juno6, miss them old days😞
nice work
Wow.. Amazing..
Thanks!
Tune!
If I'd seen this video in 2017, I'd probably still have my Juno-6. So good! Then again, it funded Komplete, along with an S49 and the awesome TAL plugin...
You serious?
I have the Arturia Juno softsynth and this track has inspired me to try something out like this. M83 eat you’re heart out ;)
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Yeah, do it. Get your thing going.
To answer your other question - I've finished my album this week, will be coming out in a couple of months. There's a full length version of this very song on it as well as a several other 80s tracks. But it's a mix of quite a few styles overall.
1.07 section is my fave :P (and the cut down to the drop and vocal ;) )
Do you mean Arturia Jupiter? Arturia does not have Juno emulation as far as I know. The TAL UNO LX sounds epic though.
Wow Alex! Great composition! Great track! Mix is a bit muddy but overall this sounds great! Thumbs up!
Thanks for the comment and feedback. My first mix with entirely analogue sound sources and all the quirks that come with them. Will strive to improve on my next attempt.
Nice work!!
could totally suit a sci-fi esque series theme song from the 80s
Fuck I love this track. So glad you included it on your Filibuster album.
Cheers!
Hey Alex, absolutely love your track. I just bought myself a Juno 6 and am wondering how you clocked the Juno 6 bass to sync up with the rest of the track?
Nice! You'll enjoy it. You can clock the arpeggiator using the "arpeggio clock in" jack in the back. Any Roland drum machine can send triggers to it and it will play a note every time it receives a trigger. Or you can use triggers from a BeatStep Pro or the like that is slaved to your DAW. That's probably the easiest.
If you press "hold" then the arpeggio or note you've played will keep going even if you take your fingers off.
Paulo shows it here with a 707 trigger out: ua-cam.com/video/7vh_5RDi1e4/v-deo.html
might like this version better than the album, i dont know, its hard to say.
This reminded me Crockett's theme!
This one really brings me back to Jr High school.
Where's my pink OP shirt?
Why does this not have more views, dammit?
Beautiful! I'd wish the drums where more hard hitting and in your face, 80's style, but I absolutely get that having them more in the background is a great artistic decision in it's own right. :)
Funnily enough, I completely reworked this one into a full length song for my recent album, so a proper version with a bigger sound now exists:
iTunes: itunes.apple.com/gb/album/filibuster/1362218288
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/3CD4wUQoWyyp97wGvr46GA?
Ah, splendid! Listening to it now on repeat forever!
80' RULEZ
Je t'aime !!!
Merci
Everytime I come back to listen to this song, I click the like button in vain.
Thanks. :)
Slow it down a bit and run some arpeggios through a phase shifter (Boss PH-2 is a good one to use) and maybe a Crumar Performer through a phase shifter too and you'll have mid-late 70s sounds and song! ;-) Great job on the 80s tunes!!! :-)
DCO Noise Level fader called. He wants his cap back on!
Fear not, I got a replacement for it a couple of years back.
@@AlexBallMusic You are my hero, Alex, thanks for everything you do and done! Thank you so much.
Very Erasure
Do you think you could do a guide to this type of music? You are very good at it!
Nils F. Lindberg Thanks. Possibly, it's a combination of the right instruments and the kind of harmony basically.
Sus2 and Sus4 everywhere is a big thing.
For example, synth chords for the chorus of this are:
Bbsus2 (Bb, F, Bb, C, F)
Gm9sus4 (G, D, A, C, F)
Cadd4 (C, G, C, E, F, G)
F/A (A, F, A, C, F)
Those kinds of chords are a good place to start.
Thank you! I was thinking of instrumentation mainly, but sticking with sus chords helps a lot!
I almost exclusively use soft synths, but I have waaaaay to many. Kinda hard to know where to start. NI Retro Machines is surprisingly good, so I might find some of what i need there. Also, my friend has a dusty old DX7 that I might borrow. From what I've heard, they're a pain to work with. What's your experience?
+Nils F. Lindberg Oh right, I see.
The principals are the same as any kind of orchestration really. The mix is all in the arrangement.
So use the different wave forms and filters to sculpt out a bass sound and keep the intervals clear. Either solo, in octaves or using fifths.
Keep the close harmony parts higher up and also open the filters up the higher up you go. Use reverbs for the end end and only a tiny bit for the lower instruments.
Also make sure to keep changing and blending sounds so you don't get phasing. Invert chords to help this.
Just give everything its place in the arrangement and that's a huge part of the mix.
DX7 - not the easiest to program, especially compared to my analogues that have a dial for every function right in front of you. But the DX7 can create a huge range of sounds. Surprisingly so. I was lucky mine came with four cartridges worth of sounds. So I have 128 I can load and tweak. There's DX7 channels on UA-cam and I think there's software you can connect to it to edit the sounds on a computer which is way quicker.
Alex Ball That is really helpful!
Thank you so much Alex!
Nice one!!
kinda like crocketts meets foreigner meets Lost Boys= brill
Isn't it uncanny that a kid who didn't live in the eighties captures that mood better than the artists of the time? Maybe Alex Ball's next demo will be of his time machine.
Thanks I was actually alive during most of the 80s. 🙂
@@AlexBallMusic probably not yet fully eightified at that age though
@@nebula0697 I remember Michael Jackson albums coming out and obviously all the kid's TV had extremely 80s music, but the 90s were my formative years, yep.
@@AlexBallMusic In the nineties it all became groovier. It was suddenly time for Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg, D'Angelo, Jamiroquai, MM&W, and Fishbone and all that incredible minimal soulful house, like this ua-cam.com/video/mlUMgZGFCtw/v-deo.html&ab_channel=FearNLoathing, which sounds way ahead of its time. It was generally more soulful, even Paul Weller was sounding like Marvin Gaye right at that point.
Yes, things got cooler in the 90s for sure. The 80s was deliberately brash.
Alex this is stunning! I love the way the verse explodes into that soaring chorus... absolutely superb. What are the chords in the chorus? Thanks, Andy
Glad you like it. A reworked version is on my album "Filibuster" btw: open.spotify.com/album/3CD4wUQoWyyp97wGvr46GA
Chords are Bbadd2, Gm11(no 3rd), Cadd4, F/A
Voicings for those four chords:
Bbadd2
LH Bb F
RH Bb C D F
Gm11(no 3rd)
LH G D
RG A C D F
Cadd4
LH C C
RH C E F G
F/A
LH A
RH A C F
@@AlexBallMusic Thank you for the reply Alex. Yep, I've been listening to it on repeat on Apple Music all day today, enjoying the whole Filibuster album. This track in particular reminds me ever so slightly of Kim & Jessie by M83 but is so much better. Thx so much for the chords. This learning pianist needs all the help he can get! All the best and keep up the great work.
By the way, both this and your 80's chord tutorials sound obviously...well.... 80s and are so reminiscent of tracks from that era but what I'm curious about is *why* is that? What is it about that choice of chords that immediately evokes an 80's sound - were there particular choices of chords and inversions in that early - mid 80's era?
Thanks!
This is sounds like a cool version of a Doctor Who movie that never came out
always looked at the juno 6, as a poor man's budget synth. Now, not so. sounds great.
It's aged very well. It has the same filter, envelopes and vca as the Jupiter-8 and then that legendary chorus, so it's no slouch.
I hope, one day you will make a tutorial of this song :-)
Great song. What do you think of U-he Diva since you are obviously a fan or retro synths?
Thanks. I've not got the U-he Diva, but have the Repro-5 / Repro-1 and am amazed how accurate it sounds. Be interested to try Diva if it's of the same standard.
Haha on the album which I immediately bought you go full-on Pat Benatar. Why do you love the 80s so much?
@Alex Ball - I have a Roland Juno 6 also. Do you miss not having storage/memory?
How do you make the drums?
They're just samples from the Oberheim DMX.
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