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# sergeeo's personal capsule
## Roland Juno 106
There is not much left to say about the Juno 106, famous for its limited palette and ease of use. Personally one of the things I like most about this keyboard is its design: the combination of typography, colors, button panels, chassis, etc. seems to me to be in the top 10 of classic synths in terms of aesthetics. It is certainly “futuristic”, but “friendly” at the same time. My favorite sound is very basic: the triangle wave slightly filtered and with a piano-like volume ADSR. Doing passages with few notes with that patch I LOVE.
I bought my unit when I was prepping for recording and gigs for a band I was with for several years called “Robot”. I bought it on eBay very cheap and.... It was a complete mess: several voices failed, the PSU did strange things and there was a lot of rust and spilled beer on the PCBs of the unit. What a disappointment! Luckily I found a technician in Barcelona who made it as good as new.
The years have passed and once again I have the voice malfunction. It's going to have to be serviced soon, because I don't have the confidence to do it myself (and I don't have an oscilloscope to calibrate either). Unfortunately I haven't found any qualified technicians in my area who are still in business, and Roland service won't take care of such an old unit. I bought a complete set of PCBs from Analog Rennaissance and I really think I want to replace the whole thing so I don't have this problem again.... It's a pain to have to record and start listening to random background noises! It seems like the reasonable thing to do would be to go for some software alternative or the modern mini version that Roland released, but... I just don't want to... This keyboard means a lot to me! It's beautiful and, just looking at it and playing it, takes you back to another, simpler time... a time where “chorus overload” was an oxymoron.
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