Re: [TB-303.org] Alpha Juno

[Jaybird]

Yes very awesome piece...  I have one too..   ----- Original Message ----- From: Sjoerd van Geffen To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 8:28 PM Subject: Re: [TB-303.org] Alpha Juno from TB-303 resources mailing list -------[ http://www.tb-303.org ] ---------------------- At 18:07 1-2-02 -0500, you wrote: from TB-303 resources mailing list -------[ http://www.tb-303.org ] ----------------------       Suggest some polyphony stuff to me then. Thank you for your help. -Shawn aka Silent p.s. I fell in love with a keyboard today that does analogue stuff in digital. It's sweet! Hi Shawn, My advice: get a (Roland) Alpha Juno !!! Please do yourself a favour and at least try one before you go out and buy gear that does 'analogue stuff in digital'. I also own some stuff like that -a Korg Prophecy for example, and I do like it- but some of those Juno sounds soooo much better... especially when you start cranking things up in your mixer / fx  (which I suspect all us 303 freaks do, right?). I always find myself using it, while the digital stuff regularly collects dust in a corner of the room. The Alpha Juno's have 6 x polyphony (no multitimbrality though...). It could fit your needs ('really ambient/dark electronic music') really well, as the filters sound very warm, fat and dark, and it is pretty useful for creating weird fx (noise generator, envelope, LFO). Really great for techno / house / trance / rave / etc. (especially for 'gabber': the alpha relates to gabber like the 303 to acid). Easy to get a REALLY good sound when combined with typical 909/303 stuff. Easy to find one up relatively cheap! REAL analog sound (but digitally tuned - rock steady), but with full MIDI capabilities with SysEx. Get the Alpha Juno 2 for the keyboard with aftertouch / velocity sensitivity, for a cheaper deal check out the Alpha Juno 1 with a 'normal' keyboard (also available under the name HS-10), or the MKS-50 for a rack version including some extra functions like chord memories. Either one is ok, the sonic capabilities are the same. Also very good, but slightly different and more expensive, and too big and heavy by today's standards (which also means stiff shipping costs): the (Roland) Juno 106. Cheers & happy hunting, Sjoerd -------[ http://www.tb-303.org ] ---------------------- Subscribe & unsubscribe there : http://www.tb-303.org/