It's not even really a techy or geeky thing, my dad would be able to tell that the analogue ones sound better. You just have to pick up a modern equivalent to feel how empty of stuff they are. It's actually to do with 'space' in a track the new synthesizers never sit well with 'real' Instruments. On the new album I really wanted to use some modern synthesizers, just to help give some songs a modern sound, but in the end I went back to old ones-the Juno included. Joseph goes on to explain that with regards to analog instruments in broader terms, "they literally don't make synthesizers like that anymore." And with a new album from Metronomy coming out in July, Mount states how much they owe to the Juno 60:
All good things come to an end and the production of the Juno 60 ended in February 1984, to be replaced by the Juno-106.
JUNO 60 FULL
It's basically a hand made instrument full of capacitors, resistors and really rad effects. While they're pretty much identical-provided you're able to play keys of course -it has warmth to its output that digital synths struggle to match. The only real difference between the 6 and 60 was a larger RAM memory capable of storing 56-programmed sounds.
So they added a bigger memory bank and better programmability tools to their hardware and the Juno 60 was born. Roland's previous synth-the Juno-6-was going to head to head with the Korg Polysix, and Korg were winning the keyboard war. It was sold as a cheaper alternative to other analog synthesizers that were available at the time, and it was that relative affordability that brought it to the masses. In a world obsessed with digital, the Juno-60's a little something from the increasingly-less-recent analog past that bands and artists are still using to this day.īefore we get to exactly why that might be, a brief history lesson: Roland rolled out the Juno-60 for just three years in the early eighties. But rather than ending up with a load of Stella Artois t-shirts and back issues of The Face you'd have been in possession of a Roland Juno-60, an unsung hero of electronica.
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