There are many Roland Juno-60 emulations in the marketplace, inside the Roland Cloud and by way of the u-he Diva, Arturia Jun-6 V, Behringer Neptune-80, for instance.
Happily for the ones with no Juno-60 emulation of their present rig, the J-60, the most recent IK Multimedia emulation of the coveted synth, is recently to be had at no cost.
The emulation is integrated within the IK Syntronik 2 tools pack, which could also be to be had as a loose model, Syntronik 2 CS. Which means you’ll be able to run the J-60, in addition to 2,000 samples and 78 presets for completely not anything.
The Juno-60 is coined as having helped outline the sound of the ’80s, providing a fats sub-oscillator and a swirling refrain. It used to be launched in 1982 to switch the Juno-6, permitting customers to in any case save their patches.
The synth used to be lengthy considered the inexpensive choice to the Jupiter-8, the usage of the similar Roland IR3109 filter out chip, with it’s 4-pole resonating low cross filter out and non-sweepable top cross filter out. As well as, the Juno-60 makes use of DCOs (digitally managed oscillators) for higher tuning steadiness than Jupiter’s VCOs (voltage managed oscillators).
In 2021, Roland then launched the Roland Cloud, a subscription fashion for plugin creditors, and one that the corporate referred to as the “most effective unique device useful resource for the real Juno-60 sound”.
There have been considerations that this unique emulation, made by way of Roland themselves would stomp out any festival. Then again, taking into consideration the recognition of third-party emulations, it doesn’t appear to be they’ll be going any place any time quickly.
To get your fingers on IK Multimedia’s J-60 plugin totally at no cost, head to IK Multimedia.