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[jayman]

weeeee...... i finally found a roland juno 106...for 300 dollars...one of the most cherished of all polyphonic analog synths (actually the oscillators are digital, but all the filters are analog). not the best synth ever, but i already have one of the best, but still quite a find for less than 600.i bought it to keep my arp odyssey company. YYYYAAAAeeeeeeaaaH...

[Dirk_Ermen]

what about including a picture so i know where you are talking about

yeah lol i was confused halfway through the first sentence.

photo = understanding

[jayman]

um..oh yeah...i think this will work.

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[jayman]

no it didn't ...what do i do? anyways its a 1984 roland juno 106.. very proud to own it...

i play keyboard at school. I told the dumbass teacher ive never played before so she gives me easy songs like right now im playing Jingle Bells lol

[jayman]

it's an analog synthesizer... it's sound is made by manipulating parts of a sinewave with dials and switches to get the sound one wants.. there's no button for say, "trumpet" but by manipulating the path of the signal with it's many sliders you can come close, but thats not the point...

I have a synth. That thing is addicting to play with. You play any other instruments along with the synth?

[jayman]

i've been recording music for the last 10 years, up until a couple of years ago it was mostly guitars and effects, but when i got my arp odyssey everything started to mutate.. the arp is way more fun to mess around with, it's the one synth that gave a moog mini a run for it's money, it's from the early 70's, and sometimes i can sit for hours making sounds with it.. i have to get organized and memorize my patches, because it's so old it doesn't have a patch memory or midi... i could install a midi inbox, but i want to leave it in it's stock condition, that's why i bought the juno, it's no where near as crazy,or valuable, but as well as it being something that will gain value, it also has a really nice midi interface, so i can finally write midi at home and use it to play an honest to god analog synth with it, i can dial in really nice full stringy orchestra sounds due to i'ts six voices and a really nice built in chorus, as well as some decent monophonic leads.. .. what kind of synthesizer have you got?

microKorg Synthesizer/Vocorder. Nothing too intense, but still a blast.

[jayman]

the funniest thing is that the night before i got the juno is that i finally decided that i'd never find one, so i went to guitar center and bought the micro korg... i really liked it, i downloaded the editing software so that i could model my sounds, that way you don't have to guess what your envelope values are gonna sound like, and you can store your patches on your hard drive,
needless to say the next DAY i was helping my sister move and one of her nieghbors had a juno 106 that he would sell me for 300, or he was gonna put it on ebay, i wasn't gonna let this one get away so i bought it and took the microkorg back...*&&^%%$$# guitar center charged me a 50 dollar restocking fee, but i didn't let it bother me because i got such a good deal on the roland....
in anycase the micro korg is as good as the ms 2000, but smaller and cheaper, but a VERY good peice of equipment, i considered keeping it for the vocoder but i'd rarely use it... the microkorg is a very nice tool, and with that software it's a real easy synth to use, and its analog emulation is pretty accurate, it even has sample hold, but my arp odyssey has that(haha)