Bentley wrote:
I keep it turned down. :D I also subscribe to the other laws of "the Juno's chorus is too damn noisy" along with "the Juno's battery will die when you least expect it wiping out your patches you never backed up."
Ever checked out Ableton Live? Having a tremendous about of fun with this program. Once you wrap your head around the way it works it's a great composition tool with some nice plug ins included as well. There's a downloadable two week demo and some awesome tutorial vids on the site.
If only it were as easy as turning it down.
It's chorus never bothered me, because I used to own a Casio CZ3000, on which the chorus pretty much doubled as a pink noise generator.....lethal synth though, truly lethal.
Abelton is the proverbial canine shaggin tackle....never heard such a good pitch shift/timestretch routine, and it's irritatingly reliable......when you DO do anything stupid it pops up a box saying "you have asked me to do something intensely stupid, are you really sure, cos I might just crash", you tell it yes, and it crashes.....if only all software were so consciencous.
Not really done much work on it, particularly in MIDI, as I've only mastered it's audio functions, and as I've said many times, I'm a one trick pony with software sequencers, cubase only for me.
EDIT: you forgot to tell the ladies and gentlemen all about the DETAILS of a 106 with a failed battery!
The spelunking mission under the keyboard unit and half the internal wiring to get to the thing, the quest to find the replacement, and best of all the newfound lunacy of any Roland kit of that era when it is sans battery.
I had a 303 for a while, a 303 with a failed memcell....man....it was fucking CRAZED, it could not hold a program (like the juno I believe) even when powered up, would imrpov!!!.....now that's amusing enough if it's in "song mode", where every few bars it loads up another random pattern.....but this bugger did it in "pattern mode" just reprogramming itself willy-nilly. It's Sync24 didn't work either (apparently it had been tried with an 808 before I got it, I had nothing that still worked that used sync24), so basically it's purpose was to sit burbling along and every now and then, usually while loading the next song in the set up or something, I would just ease up the fader to see what it was up to, and was never dissappointed. Yes Roland memcells are a bane, I seem to recall that most normals would actually send them away and pay a fsking fortune to have it changed. Fortunately I knew a guy who could (and this is not a figure of speech), field strip and rebuild 106's....including, on a dark stage, repairing a key spring by removing the spring from the next key, cutting it in half, fasioning new ends, and reattaching so both keys had a madly tight "half-spring" each. He'd serviced our 106 just before we procured it. Don't THINK either of our Junos suffered the failed voices.....at least....unless the machine KNOWS it has a dead voice, by which I mean, we never had voices drop out unless we played a new note....normaly polyphonic procedure really.
I do reccomend the Juno60 though, the arpreggiator is bliss.....and with no memories, no memcell to lose sleep over. Never like Juno filters though, trying to find that sweet spot on the resonance, between mild res and full on ear splitting self oscillation is just impossible....on a moog that point is MASSIVE, but on a Juno, moving the res about 0.1mm makes the difference between, tootless and useless.
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