The Juno G actually packed a pretty in depth synth engine, that being the Roland XR/Fantom X engine. While it lacked a number of Roland's current Zen engine features, most notably in areas of VA, FM, and 3 band EQ per partial, it actually exceeded Roland's current Gen in arguably two key areas. 1. It carried a greater amount of routing "Struct(s)"ures. So patches could be set into numerous single osc to single filter OR dual osc fed into dual filters in serial configurations. There were also numerous ring modulation and Oscillator "boost" functions that could be done within some of the "Structs". 2. While by no means extensive, the engine did feature a rather basic and useful Granular capability for Osc. Basically, loaded (particularly user created) waves could be tempo locked for auto real-time time stretching and the time stretching algorithm employed was pretty darn good with often up to 3 octaves able to be achieved. So, want to use a sampled wave that had some sort of tempo related action occurring (LFO sweeps, percussion, or what have you) as an Oscillator for further synthesis? Not only not a problem on the Juno G, but up to 4 such Osc could be used simultaneously. Another area of worthy note here is various interesting granular synthesis effects could be achieved by offsetting the root/base tempo of waves..... If a sampled wave were originally at 60 BPM, telling the G that it actually was 240 BPM for example in order to get more stretched and grainy effects out of the osc behavior. The default amount of user sampling time was pretty short, BUT, this could be increased to 512MB, allowing for up to some 50+ minutes of user waves! The XR/X engine had also introduced 16 step wave programmable LFOs and these LFOs could either come in sets of 2 per single Osc->Filter->Amp or (in a way) 4 per dual Osc-> dual Filter->Amp. It depended on the Struct assignment. "PMT" was also introduced, which allowed for things akin to (Wolfgang Palm) Wavetable, Korg "Wave Sequencing", and EMU Transwave and kinda/sorta "Preset Link" abilities. In essence, any given patch on the X/XR engine could be a make up of what would be an equal of 4 stacked single osc -> single filter -> amp synths 2 stacked dual osc -> dual filter -> amp synths or 2 stacked single osc -> single filter -> amp synths ON TOP OF 1 dual osc -> dual filter -> amp synth "PMT" could then be used to sweep through through these stacks via LFO, Envelope, velocity, key tracking, or modulation wheel control. Suffice to say, most notably when paired with the granular osc capabilities (limited as they were/are) one could quickly start getting some very crazy and complex timbre actions out of PMT. For these reasons, would say one can definitely hold argument for the Juno G (and XR/Fantom X engine in general) actually being a stronger synth engine than Roland's current Zen (Fantom / Jupter X / MC-707 & 101, AX Edge, etc.) when one specifically boils things down to the area of sample based osc.
As is often the case, Roland really didn't at all show off how deep the abilities the engine of the G went in the stock presets and compounding this, unfortunately, deep programming on the G wasn't exactly a pleasure. The XR/X engine was/is pretty deep and this meant one could quickly land themselves in a menu diving hell if not using a soft editor and sticking to programming natively on the G itself. I'm not sure as haven't had opportunity to fiddle with it, but at least from a skim over things, it "seems" to me that Roland may have continued employing the XR/X engine in the current Juno DS line.
Wow, i am convinced!! That what I felt when I bought one some months ago, and I couldnt understand why it is so underrated, while I can create super unique and cool patches. Thanks for your words.
The D-beam is no unusable gimmick. I have mapped so many things to the one on my a49 midi keyboard to so many useful parameters like crossmod and kept the mod stick open for vibrato and pitch. Very cool tech that doesn't get enough love.
a couple years ago I fired my Juno G up and set out to make as good of a tonewheel organ patch as I could muster. I set up individual patches with sine wave tone, their own pitch offset, foldback characteristics, and even an approximation of the chorus tonewheel generator that I've never found recordings of, but instead used technical specifications, and tied them all together in a performance patch as 9 patches that all played simultaneously at different volumes that could be adjusted like using tonewheels but with a shitty interface, and on the effects side I incorporated some advice I got from a guy I once bought a 3rd party Leslie amp interface from about the practical frequency ranges of the speakers in older Leslies and how they effected the tone of the distortion, particularly the stark rolloff in the mid range from the tweeter, and then tweaked the hell out of the settings on a chorus effect to approximate the chorus/vibrato scanners on old Hammonds, using the resonance knob to control the vibrato intensity and the cutoff knob to control the clean/effect blend, and then I through on a simple chorus effect at the end of the signal chain to try to ballpark the depth of the chorus effect of a Leslie speaker on the slow setting, and at the end of everything it actually sounded pretty damn OK, better than some other professional clonewheels I've heard and VSTs I've used. I was extremely proud and then 2 months later the screen finally died, making my overly complicated interface mostly impossible to work with lol
I used the crap out of mine for several years after I bought it. The screen broke after a while but I still used it as a midi controller for many more years. Recently (well, 6 years ago) I actually had the screen replaced restoring it to it's original glory. The cost of the repair was more than the keyboard is worth but I didn't mind. I just like this keyboard and wanted it to work 100% again.
@@user-my2eg8wf7n Actually I didn't use the USB midi. I only ever used the 5-pin DIN Midi Out port to connect it to a Fantom keyboard on my rig, just to add another row of keys. I'll see if I can mess with it sometime to see how to use it as a USB midi device.
@@user-my2eg8wf7n I seem to vaguely remember something about "storage" vs. "midi" mode. The USB connection works either as a way to access the flash memory OR as a midi connection, but not both at the same time. There's a way to choose which mode you want to the USB to be in. I imagine midi won't work unless you select the 'midi' option. Now I'm curious and I'll see if I can mess around with it this weekend.
Thanks for the reply. If you look at the weekend, then let me know. The screen is not working, so I'm intuitively trying. I am specifically interested in using it as a midi keyboard.If there is any information, I will be very grateful to you.
Pretty much my first synth ( had the stage version) nothing wrong with it. Great all rounder and very versatile. Nothing bad to say about it, a real workhorse. Even at the time I disagreed with the name it’s a “Juno” in the same way my crappy 90s ford” is a “ classic mustang”. I know every industry does it but it really does seem a shortsighted & stupid way to wreck your legacy & by slapping names from the past that don’t have an even vague association with the original. Also ironic now companies can make a bundle of money making what people actually want ( like near clones) that really are like updated originals of originals (but dont/can’t )use the original name. Strange company Roland? get so many thing right, at same time , don’t listen to customers and destroy their own reputation in the same breath!?
I had one for a couple of years. It worked fine as a performance synth. It had a terrible digital filter and the screen would crap out. I ended up selling it. Can't say i miss it lol
@@Roguetrainer California USA 🇺🇸 I gave them the serial number and the serial number had to fall into their criteria, but I don't think it was a super difficult criteria to fall into. All fixed for free.
This is one of the most underated keyboards ever! I both agree with this guy on some things and highly disagree with him in most others. Honestly, I have a lot more expensive and newer keyboards and this thing in its own way holds its own very much so. Roland actually did a great job with this. It is incredibly well thought out for the most part. Great drum patterns and drum sounds are crisp and clean, the arpegiatior is solid and basic, but honestly the sounds are excellent! This is the fantom X cut down a bit, as Roland does is what is known for doing and expanding and/or extending its technology to get the what it can for it. I would not bag on this thing at all and it makes for a great music idea machine, more so than the Juno Gi and Juno DS which I thought were highly disapointing keyboards. Many folks below are right on the money with how good this keyboard is. This keyboard is solid and clean sounding. Yes, Roland had massive quality control issues with and the 1st gen display and that is super highly disappointing to say the least as Roland equipment has always been solid for the most part. Shame on you Roland! Roland, you should have had a number of backup display on hand vs. the exact amount you sold. Roland did a free recall on this for a limited time, which was both good and bad! 1. Solid Pianos for the most - there are better keyboards out there, but these piano sounds good for the most part. 2. Strings and pads are good and clean 3. Drum sounds and patterns solid and clean and crisp 4. Guitar sounds are clean and very usable 5. EP's and brass sounds are also very good 5. On board Effects are typical Roland and very good and easy to use. 6. Analog input recording is actually very, very good and clean - honest! 7. D-bean is what it is! Again, this is a far better keyboard than the JUNO gi and Juno D, Juno DS!
I love this synth. I use it as a master keyboard for my live sets. a little bit tedious when comes to programming since I have the screen issue, but it doesn’t keep me from playing really cool stuff, I personally like the bass presets and the song mode is amazing! specially if you have more synths you can hook up with the Juno G. I would say is a criminally underrated synth, perhaps it should stay like that so the prices won’t rise and I buy myself a second one with a good screen ;)
Early LCD screen problem of my Juno-G drove me mad. Later, Roland USA fixed it for free. So I decided to upgrade to Jupiter-50. That turned out to be one of biggest mistake because many basic functions in Juno-G are not included, especially the drumset RHYTHM! Lucky I still have the Juno-G.
d-beam is great. many people love it. i've got proper moog theremins and a doepfer eurorack one, but I still hook up some of my older roland's just for the d-beam.
excellent demo, very helpful. I am on the market to buy a synth and really liked what it does in your video. I had a Juno 106 when they first came out and so I kind of compare sounds to that product, which I really liked. Now days they are quite expensive if you can get one. So thanks for your video
Hahah... I remember these. I used to have the Juno Stage. They weren't too bad. Build quality-wise, these were better than the DS series. And funny thing was, I never knew of the analog Junos when these were out at the time. I had mine in 2011. When I knew where the name derived from, I thought why wasn't it named something else if it had Fantom sounds? Should've gone with something to do with Fantom. Just like how now with the Jupiter-X. Should've been called Zen-X if it's Zencore based. 🙄
I love the Juno g it's got some nice pads and synths, the combi mode is pretty awesome. Also is worth it for some of the synth bass. I think it's a nice edition and worth it if you can get it for $300
Screen broke to blank unreadable state.. And cost for replace it in my country is 50%the new... Duh.. And i googled.. Everyone got the same screen broken problem..
Yep. Mine has the same fault and so has every other Juno-G that I've encountered over the past decade or so (and that's quite a few as I play keys in a band and also work to repair synths in my job)
Hi My friend, I just want to know if the JUNO-DS61-KEY SYNTHESIZER has more instruments than the JUNO-G but with the same system like the G, and take more expansions card?
i have a juno G and apart from the srceens lights packing up its my fav Roland has a great ARP and my fav preset sound on the G is on the Bright pad section the sound is called 2.2pad ,Roland should bring a new version out of the G it far far better than the DS that i also have im my range of synths, peter from KnightMare Fair music on SoundCloud
You don't need any adapters, only USB cable. It has USB connection which transmits MIDI data. Besides, its keys are smaller than normal so I highly suggest buying new midi controller, unless you interested in onboard sounds too.
Probably a good call. I have one of these and I've seen many others over the years and I've yet to see one with a working screen (including mine) :( Having said that, this is a really great synth, and a very underrated one that gets a lot of undeserved hate, especially from the younger players In all honesty though I wouldn't recommend buying one right now because with the screen issue, you won't be able to access a lot of the more advanced functions. I use mine mainly in live gigs where the combo sounds provide a huge orchestral backing for the rest of the band and it's awesome for that, but if you want the full workstation functionality, you'll need something with a reliable display and frankly, this ain't it :(
I have a juno g with a dud sceen. My boy started learning and is using it. Found an aftermarket screen dor $100. Should i fix it or put it towards a keyboard with a hammer action?
Great Review 👍🏽. My first synth was the Juno-G, and I’m still rockin it until now. Although, I did not know this was an all digital keyboard, and not analog. if you are correct that it is indeed a digital keyboard, wondering why it supports srx expansion cards which I always thought contain analog instruments.
Yeah - much as I love Roland gear (been using it since the early 80s), the newer stuff really does suffer from reliability issues, exacerbated by Roland's crap customer service and unwillingness to supply spare parts :(
Unfortunately, two years ago I bought a Juno DS 76..........unfortunately I see it in the corner of my eye as I type this. What a dumb purchase. I thought it was going to be pretty decent like my old XP-50, but sadly it isn't. As a rompler, the pianos suck, the electric pianos are only tolerable if you "dual-voice them with another ep. The drum kits I give a 4 out of 10. Dont even get me started on the organs! Some instrument sounds are placed in the wrong preset category which is confusing. The sequencer is the stupidest thing I have ever seen. I should have gotten the Yamaha rompler for about the same price. Love the videos man,,,keep em coming :-D
No, keys of Juno-G are smaller than normal. You can easily check this by comparing photos of Juno-G and A series. Also, A series features keyboard aftertouch G lacks.
Unfortunately this kind of rompler/workstation disguised as a classic synth is the kind of crap that makes me hate Roland. They pulled the same kind of crap with the Jupiter X and that makes me think that there’s a Japanese fan of Kenny G that really like elevator music who happens to have the last word over any new Roland product. Can we get instruments from Roland that are not designed to make elevator music?
@@sauermusicDE Yes, once you figure out how to turn off scenes with e-arpeggio crap that starts playing cheesy bass lines and drum over whatever your playing making you sound like Kenny G no matter what you are playing, yes there are decent digital emulations of classic synths but if Roland did stuff like that back in the 80 they would be regarded as Casio, not a major synth company.
I don't think these complaints make any sense. They're not disguised as classic synths, they're marketed as digital synths which they all are. Go open the Juno-DS page on Roland website, there's no mention of analog past, instead it focus that it has sounds for bands and mic support. The Jupiter-X os different and has very faithful recreation of old synths, if the presets sound cheesy that's your fault for using presets.
I don't know - I find that my Juno-G sounds amazing - I play it live in a band (mainly symphonic metal where the layered orchestral sounds are huge and impressive) and the range of sounds available is more than adequate, and most of them sound really great. I don't get why this synth gets so much hate - aside from the display issues of course, which deserve to be ranted about (I've yet to see one of these with a working display). And yes, the display on mine is also totally hosed, but when used live as a performance synth this is much less of an issue than it would be if you wanted to use all the multi-track recording and other workstation functionality, which demands a fully working screen. While I don't recommend that anyone looks to buy one of these due to the display issues, if you're just playing it live, either using its own synth engine or as a midi master (or both, as I often do), then it's a very nice instrument.
For me its Zero Midi Latency, and I like better to tweek knobs on a synth. If I go to holiday I'd feel better to play with this synth than clicking with a mouse at the beach. Those are my reasons, others has other priorities :)
The screen on this has to be one of the worst engineering decisions, it's a matter of time when the screen fails and there's no fix or replacement screens available anymore.
The Juno G actually packed a pretty in depth synth engine, that being the Roland XR/Fantom X engine.
While it lacked a number of Roland's current Zen engine features, most notably in areas of VA, FM, and 3 band EQ per partial, it actually exceeded Roland's current Gen in arguably two key areas.
1. It carried a greater amount of routing "Struct(s)"ures. So patches could be set into numerous single osc to single filter OR dual osc fed into dual filters in serial configurations. There were also numerous ring modulation and Oscillator "boost" functions that could be done within some of the "Structs".
2. While by no means extensive, the engine did feature a rather basic and useful Granular capability for Osc. Basically, loaded (particularly user created) waves could be tempo locked for auto real-time time stretching and the time stretching algorithm employed was pretty darn good with often up to 3 octaves able to be achieved. So, want to use a sampled wave that had some sort of tempo related action occurring (LFO sweeps, percussion, or what have you) as an Oscillator for further synthesis? Not only not a problem on the Juno G, but up to 4 such Osc could be used simultaneously. Another area of worthy note here is various interesting granular synthesis effects could be achieved by offsetting the root/base tempo of waves.....
If a sampled wave were originally at 60 BPM, telling the G that it actually was 240 BPM for example in order to get more stretched and grainy effects out of the osc behavior.
The default amount of user sampling time was pretty short, BUT, this could be increased to 512MB, allowing for up to some 50+ minutes of user waves!
The XR/X engine had also introduced 16 step wave programmable LFOs and these LFOs could either come in sets of 2 per single Osc->Filter->Amp or (in a way) 4 per dual Osc-> dual Filter->Amp. It depended on the Struct assignment.
"PMT" was also introduced, which allowed for things akin to (Wolfgang Palm) Wavetable, Korg "Wave Sequencing", and EMU Transwave and kinda/sorta "Preset Link" abilities. In essence, any given patch on the X/XR engine could be a make up of what would be an equal of
4 stacked single osc -> single filter -> amp synths
2 stacked dual osc -> dual filter -> amp synths
or
2 stacked single osc -> single filter -> amp synths ON TOP OF 1 dual osc -> dual filter -> amp synth
"PMT" could then be used to sweep through through these stacks via LFO, Envelope, velocity, key tracking, or modulation wheel control.
Suffice to say, most notably when paired with the granular osc capabilities (limited as they were/are) one could quickly start getting some very crazy and complex timbre actions out of PMT.
For these reasons, would say one can definitely hold argument for the Juno G (and XR/Fantom X engine in general) actually being a stronger synth engine than Roland's current Zen (Fantom / Jupter X / MC-707 & 101, AX Edge, etc.) when one specifically boils things down to the area of sample based osc.
As is often the case, Roland really didn't at all show off how deep the abilities the engine of the G went in the stock presets and compounding this, unfortunately, deep programming on the G wasn't exactly a pleasure. The XR/X engine was/is pretty deep and this meant one could quickly land themselves in a menu diving hell if not using a soft editor and sticking to programming natively on the G itself.
I'm not sure as haven't had opportunity to fiddle with it, but at least from a skim over things, it "seems" to me that Roland may have continued employing the XR/X engine in the current Juno DS line.
Thanks for sharing, great insight!
Wow, i am convinced!! That what I felt when I bought one some months ago, and I couldnt understand why it is so underrated, while I can create super unique and cool patches. Thanks for your words.
The D-beam is no unusable gimmick. I have mapped so many things to the one on my a49 midi keyboard to so many useful parameters like crossmod and kept the mod stick open for vibrato and pitch. Very cool tech that doesn't get enough love.
a couple years ago I fired my Juno G up and set out to make as good of a tonewheel organ patch as I could muster. I set up individual patches with sine wave tone, their own pitch offset, foldback characteristics, and even an approximation of the chorus tonewheel generator that I've never found recordings of, but instead used technical specifications, and tied them all together in a performance patch as 9 patches that all played simultaneously at different volumes that could be adjusted like using tonewheels but with a shitty interface, and on the effects side I incorporated some advice I got from a guy I once bought a 3rd party Leslie amp interface from about the practical frequency ranges of the speakers in older Leslies and how they effected the tone of the distortion, particularly the stark rolloff in the mid range from the tweeter, and then tweaked the hell out of the settings on a chorus effect to approximate the chorus/vibrato scanners on old Hammonds, using the resonance knob to control the vibrato intensity and the cutoff knob to control the clean/effect blend, and then I through on a simple chorus effect at the end of the signal chain to try to ballpark the depth of the chorus effect of a Leslie speaker on the slow setting, and at the end of everything it actually sounded pretty damn OK, better than some other professional clonewheels I've heard and VSTs I've used. I was extremely proud and then 2 months later the screen finally died, making my overly complicated interface mostly impossible to work with lol
I'm an analog guy and love vintage, but I've been looking into these lately.... I'd really like to have one! I think my son would really like it too
My very first synth was the Juno D. Amazingly impressive sounds for the price point at the time, and served me well for so many years.
I used the crap out of mine for several years after I bought it. The screen broke after a while but I still used it as a midi controller for many more years. Recently (well, 6 years ago) I actually had the screen replaced restoring it to it's original glory. The cost of the repair was more than the keyboard is worth but I didn't mind. I just like this keyboard and wanted it to work 100% again.
same story...:) today is that day. where did u bought display? peace
Tell me how to connect it as a midi keyboard. do I need to press the usb key? It just doesn't connect through the cord.
@@user-my2eg8wf7n Actually I didn't use the USB midi. I only ever used the 5-pin DIN Midi Out port to connect it to a Fantom keyboard on my rig, just to add another row of keys. I'll see if I can mess with it sometime to see how to use it as a USB midi device.
@@user-my2eg8wf7n I seem to vaguely remember something about "storage" vs. "midi" mode. The USB connection works either as a way to access the flash memory OR as a midi connection, but not both at the same time. There's a way to choose which mode you want to the USB to be in. I imagine midi won't work unless you select the 'midi' option. Now I'm curious and I'll see if I can mess around with it this weekend.
Thanks for the reply. If you look at the weekend, then let me know. The screen is not working, so I'm intuitively trying. I am specifically interested in using it as a midi keyboard.If there is any information, I will be very grateful to you.
Pretty much my first synth ( had the stage version) nothing wrong with it. Great all rounder and very versatile. Nothing bad to say about it, a real workhorse. Even at the time I disagreed with the name it’s a “Juno” in the same way my crappy 90s ford” is a “ classic mustang”. I know every industry does it but it really does seem a shortsighted & stupid way to wreck your legacy & by slapping names from the past that don’t have an even vague association with the original. Also ironic now companies can make a bundle of money making what people actually want ( like near clones) that really are like updated originals of originals (but dont/can’t )use the original name. Strange company Roland? get so many thing right, at same time , don’t listen to customers and destroy their own reputation in the same breath!?
this was my first synth. I loved it at the time
I had one for a couple of years. It worked fine as a performance synth. It had a terrible digital filter and the screen would crap out. I ended up selling it. Can't say i miss it lol
This is Roland's love song to bad management decisions ;)
😂😂😂😂😂
I still have my Juno-G. With a completely broken LCD. It would cost too much to repair it. But I still hang on to it.
Roland repaired mine for free about 5 or 6 years ago. You might want to call them.
@@PJmusica which country?
@@Roguetrainer California USA 🇺🇸 I gave them the serial number and the serial number had to fall into their criteria, but I don't think it was a super difficult criteria to fall into. All fixed for free.
Buy the LCD and replace it yourself. CZcams videos show you how.
Sold my mint Juno G about 5 years ago now and I really regret it these days, I find the lofi character of the sounds charming now
This is one of the most underated keyboards ever! I both agree with this guy on some things and highly disagree with him in most others. Honestly, I have a lot more expensive and newer keyboards and this thing in its own way holds its own very much so. Roland actually did a great job with this. It is incredibly well thought out for the most part. Great drum patterns and drum sounds are crisp and clean, the arpegiatior is solid and basic, but honestly the sounds are excellent! This is the fantom X cut down a bit, as Roland does is what is known for doing and expanding and/or extending its technology to get the what it can for it. I would not bag on this thing at all and it makes for a great music idea machine, more so than the Juno Gi and Juno DS which I thought were highly disapointing keyboards. Many folks below are right on the money with how good this keyboard is. This keyboard is solid and clean sounding.
Yes, Roland had massive quality control issues with and the 1st gen display and that is super highly disappointing to say the least as Roland equipment has always been solid for the most part. Shame on you Roland! Roland, you should have had a number of backup display on hand vs. the exact amount you sold. Roland did a free recall on this for a limited time, which was both good and bad!
1. Solid Pianos for the most - there are better keyboards out there, but these piano sounds good for the most part.
2. Strings and pads are good and clean
3. Drum sounds and patterns solid and clean and crisp
4. Guitar sounds are clean and very usable
5. EP's and brass sounds are also very good
5. On board Effects are typical Roland and very good and easy to use.
6. Analog input recording is actually very, very good and clean - honest!
7. D-bean is what it is!
Again, this is a far better keyboard than the JUNO gi and Juno D, Juno DS!
I own a Juno G, love the EPs , I think they are the best set of sounds in this keyboard.
@Daniel Sozzi• I have a Roland juno gi and I absolutely love the EPs especially with the real time filtering knob controls.
I love this synth. I use it as a master keyboard for my live sets. a little bit tedious when comes to programming since I have the screen issue, but it doesn’t keep me from playing really cool stuff, I personally like the bass presets and the song mode is amazing! specially if you have more synths you can hook up with the Juno G. I would say is a criminally underrated synth, perhaps it should stay like that so the prices won’t rise and I buy myself a second one with a good screen ;)
Early LCD screen problem of my Juno-G drove me mad. Later, Roland USA fixed it for free. So I decided to upgrade to Jupiter-50. That turned out to be one of biggest mistake because many basic functions in Juno-G are not included, especially the drumset RHYTHM! Lucky I still have the Juno-G.
d-beam is great. many people love it. i've got proper moog theremins and a doepfer eurorack one, but I still hook up some of my older roland's just for the d-beam.
Roland's Juno/Jupiter era was inspiration.
過去にこの機種を購入し使っていました。
購入した時点ではJUNO-G EditorによりPC側から音色の作り込みや制御ができたため、
使い込もうと思った場合に操作性が本体のみで操作するより格段に使いやすかったです。
ただし、PC側のOSの更新に合わせたソフトのリリースがなく使用できなくなったため、
後に本体のみで作り込む必要ができて、JUNO-Gのインターフェースはお世辞にも良いとは言えなかったため
利用する機種を変更するに至ったのを覚えています。
この機種が出力できる音については、今でもとても魅力的なものであると思っています。
excellent demo, very helpful. I am on the market to buy a synth and really liked what it does in your video. I had a Juno 106 when they first came out and so I kind of compare sounds to that product, which I really liked. Now days they are quite expensive if you can get one. So thanks for your video
You have a broken screen too! That is Fantastic!
Are the screens still getting disfunctional with time? Is there a solution to the screen problems?
Yeah. Restart it 7-8 times until it becomes good. If it stands for a while it’ll have the screen issue again. Just do the restart thing again.
Hahah... I remember these. I used to have the Juno Stage. They weren't too bad. Build quality-wise, these were better than the DS series. And funny thing was, I never knew of the analog Junos when these were out at the time. I had mine in 2011. When I knew where the name derived from, I thought why wasn't it named something else if it had Fantom sounds? Should've gone with something to do with Fantom. Just like how now with the Jupiter-X. Should've been called Zen-X if it's Zencore based. 🙄
I love the Juno g it's got some nice pads and synths, the combi mode is pretty awesome. Also is worth it for some of the synth bass. I think it's a nice edition and worth it if you can get it for $300
if they combined the synthesis and sampling from this with the recording and effects from the Juno Gi it would have been perfect
Screen broke to blank unreadable state.. And cost for replace it in my country is 50%the new... Duh.. And i googled.. Everyone got the same screen broken problem..
Yep. Mine has the same fault and so has every other Juno-G that I've encountered over the past decade or so (and that's quite a few as I play keys in a band and also work to repair synths in my job)
Hi My friend, I just want to know if the JUNO-DS61-KEY SYNTHESIZER has more instruments than the JUNO-G but with the same system like the G, and take more expansions card?
It has more than 4 tracks. It has a 16 track recorder. I bought it for that reason.
i have a juno G and apart from the srceens lights packing up its my fav Roland has a great ARP and my fav preset sound on the G is on the Bright pad section the sound is called 2.2pad ,Roland should bring a new version out of the G it far far better than the DS that i also have im my range of synths, peter from KnightMare Fair music on SoundCloud
Does anyone know if there is a way to configure this keyboard to use as a more modern USB midi controller via adapters/etc ?
You don't need any adapters, only USB cable. It has USB connection which transmits MIDI data. Besides, its keys are smaller than normal so I highly suggest buying new midi controller, unless you interested in onboard sounds too.
The alpha Juno is what I want or mks 50
Can I know the price
I almost bought one of these back in the day but the screen problem kept me away from it.
Probably a good call. I have one of these and I've seen many others over the years and I've yet to see one with a working screen (including mine) :(
Having said that, this is a really great synth, and a very underrated one that gets a lot of undeserved hate, especially from the younger players
In all honesty though I wouldn't recommend buying one right now because with the screen issue, you won't be able to access a lot of the more advanced functions. I use mine mainly in live gigs where the combo sounds provide a huge orchestral backing for the rest of the band and it's awesome for that, but if you want the full workstation functionality, you'll need something with a reliable display and frankly, this ain't it :(
I have a juno g with a dud sceen. My boy started learning and is using it. Found an aftermarket screen dor $100. Should i fix it or put it towards a keyboard with a hammer action?
So it's a digi synth, but still a synth. As in, not a PCM ROMpler.
Or is it an early hybrid synth?
What’s this like in comparison to the Juno di? Similar or very different? I ask as I have the di.
Price sir 🙏
That's no moon, it's a space station
Has the Roland Juno g modal discontinued?
Is it available??
Jeez they really pushed that D-beam in the 2000s huh?
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HexRx used this bad boy
What is the price this keyboard 🎹
200 usd/euros with faulty screen, 400-500 usd/euros with new generation screen (though, there is no guarantee it will last long too).
Great Review 👍🏽. My first synth was the Juno-G, and I’m still rockin it until now. Although, I did not know this was an all digital keyboard, and not analog. if you are correct that it is indeed a digital keyboard, wondering why it supports srx expansion cards which I always thought contain analog instruments.
Roland started to fuck up bigtime after the end of the 80s , i see a lot of mid 90s Roland equipment fail , the older were built like tanks
Yeah - much as I love Roland gear (been using it since the early 80s), the newer stuff really does suffer from reliability issues, exacerbated by Roland's crap customer service and unwillingness to supply spare parts :(
Unfortunately, two years ago I bought a Juno DS 76..........unfortunately I see it in the corner of my eye as I type this. What a dumb purchase. I thought it was going to be pretty decent like my old XP-50, but sadly it isn't. As a rompler, the pianos suck, the electric pianos are only tolerable if you "dual-voice them with another ep. The drum kits I give a 4 out of 10. Dont even get me started on the organs! Some instrument sounds are placed in the wrong preset category which is confusing. The sequencer is the stupidest thing I have ever seen. I should have gotten the Yamaha rompler for about the same price. Love the videos man,,,keep em coming :-D
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Does this synth have the same keybed as Roland A-500 PRO midi keyboard, anyone knows?
No, keys of Juno-G are smaller than normal. You can easily check this by comparing photos of Juno-G and A series. Also, A series features keyboard aftertouch G lacks.
@@alicaramba7680 A500 also has smaller keys than normal, are you sure Juno's keys are even smaller?
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Better Juno-G or Juno-Di?
Juno G
@@asoundlab can u explain why better G?
@@adikurnia8561 Sampler! Juno Di is not Sampler
E' una bellissima tastiera con grandissimi suoni e un sistema di controllo geniale!!
hi rob cantor
If only they had chosen a different name, then i wouldn't care 😗
juno g one tone volume up down how
There is also a submenu for that at patch editing
Unfortunately this kind of rompler/workstation disguised as a classic synth is the kind of crap that makes me hate Roland. They pulled the same kind of crap with the Jupiter X and that makes me think that there’s a Japanese fan of Kenny G that really like elevator music who happens to have the last word over any new Roland product. Can we get instruments from Roland that are not designed to make elevator music?
The Jupiter-X is definitely a bit better with all its additional "pseudo-analogish" simulation stuff inside (Jupiter-8, Juno-106, SH-101).
@@sauermusicDE Yes, once you figure out how to turn off scenes with e-arpeggio crap that starts playing cheesy bass lines and drum over whatever your playing making you sound like Kenny G no matter what you are playing, yes there are decent digital emulations of classic synths but if Roland did stuff like that back in the 80 they would be regarded as Casio, not a major synth company.
I don't think these complaints make any sense. They're not disguised as classic synths, they're marketed as digital synths which they all are. Go open the Juno-DS page on Roland website, there's no mention of analog past, instead it focus that it has sounds for bands and mic support. The Jupiter-X os different and has very faithful recreation of old synths, if the presets sound cheesy that's your fault for using presets.
I don't know - I find that my Juno-G sounds amazing - I play it live in a band (mainly symphonic metal where the layered orchestral sounds are huge and impressive) and the range of sounds available is more than adequate, and most of them sound really great. I don't get why this synth gets so much hate - aside from the display issues of course, which deserve to be ranted about (I've yet to see one of these with a working display). And yes, the display on mine is also totally hosed, but when used live as a performance synth this is much less of an issue than it would be if you wanted to use all the multi-track recording and other workstation functionality, which demands a fully working screen. While I don't recommend that anyone looks to buy one of these due to the display issues, if you're just playing it live, either using its own synth engine or as a midi master (or both, as I often do), then it's a very nice instrument.
I hate this synth so much, I am tempted to dislike the video. But, then again the channel did no wrong. It's just Roland's bad judgement
Haha, thank you, I appreciate it! It was a big let down when it came out for those hoping for a rerelease or the classic Junos
You don't know what you are talking about the new roland ds sucks it is just a cheap version of the juno g new roland's suck except for the jd xa.
really don't see the point in owning digital hardware synths
For me its Zero Midi Latency, and I like better to tweek knobs on a synth. If I go to holiday I'd feel better to play with this synth than clicking with a mouse at the beach. Those are my reasons, others has other priorities :)
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The screen on this has to be one of the worst engineering decisions, it's a matter of time when the screen fails and there's no fix or replacement screens available anymore.
Roland released a v2 replacement screen - if the synth's firmware is 2.01 it has the new screen.
yes they are easy to fix two easy fixs on youtube that just require clearner lube spray and a screw driver.
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