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debby · Post by **debby** » Sat Feb 11, 2012 2:25 am

calande wrote:Thank you so much, it's pretty good news to see there's a Juno 106 VSTi! The sound is pretty good, although I can't compare with a true synth, since I don't have one (no room in my appartment and too expensive!). I'm happily playing with this new Juno 106 toy as if I had one

Me too!!

I don't know what can I say.. I am very happy with this new Juno 106..
This will remain at my best synth list forever.
So much Thanks..

loopdon · Post by **loopdon** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 5:33 pm

I will push this thread ad infinitum. I LOVE this synth!
Can i donate or something? This offering of yours has just impressed so much.
And i have checked quite a lot of synths in my time.

mztk · Post by **mztk** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:19 pm

wow, thanks. very chuffed by your comments.
it has a couple of little glitchbugs which i could sort
out now(the tranpose is a pain).
pure synthedit, and made with a lot of love for the original
(which i don't have anymore, longtime), and the interface.
i remembered how hitting the patch buttons was a big part of
using a juno, so it had to be there.
if you like this, check out the re-ups thread for recent versions
of a synth called (sim-3x)

mztk · Post by **mztk** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:28 pm

'Chorus is good but I thought the sound kind of "bounced" rapidly between the extreme left and right rather than just creating a stereo thickening effect. Maybe it's just because it's late at night and I was using headphones'

no work done on chorus yet. really very arbitrary settings used, i admit:
my last JU was an alpha1, where you could adjust the settings, and i just
chose 2 settings that sounded different and usable.

trouble is, a bias to one side is introduced. i don't know if this is normal
phenomenon, or a fault in my circuit. also don't know too much about phase
yet, so any help there is appreciated

'Juno Grand piano'...

yeah i just did it according to the size
of the graphic i made for the keys. thought more keys wouldn't hurt.

loopdon · Post by **loopdon** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 8:29 am

Any news on this?

synthmagic · Post by **synthmagic** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 2:56 pm

Brilliant!!!
I think it sounds really good.
Love Preset 5 Bank A with simple chords and a delay.
Chorus is very different though as other have said,but I do like the chorus sound.
Great synth you have created here.
Well done

mztk · Post by **mztk** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 5:21 pm

loopdon wrote:Any news on this?

any more news on what?

ugh, dunno if i can face attacking this one again...
only kidding, but i did look at it for a long time,
and to be honest, i haven't touched it since.

what i have done though (='news'), is start a project
i called 'sim-3x' ('sim' +3x Osc/DCO...), which is closely
related to the Juno thing. there's a v.0.157, with a grubby
but sort-of-ok GUI, and a v.0.133 with a (...)'blue digital'
GUI. the second one features osc sync modes, and the first
one was the first evolution from the DCO-6 project.

this isn't any attempt at a 'clone', visually or in terms
of accuracy, but i'm just shooting in the general direction,
and it does some nice things, and is a bit tighter than the
DCO-6, because i learnt a few things in the meantime, and
haven't tried to do fancy patch-changers, etc. and i'm not
placing myself under pressure to do an exact clone, which,
really, is anti-creative and adds a whole new dimension to
trying to produce a viable virtual synthesizer.

so, i'm still working on this sim-3x, and it has evolved
quite a bit since these versions:
you can find the v.0.133 here:
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=342430
and the v.0.157 somewhere around here:
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... tart=10050

(f###, i just deleted my post...oh no, it's still there

)

mztk · Post by **mztk** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 4:26 pm

yeah, well in fact, it does need a rework: the
transpose has to be changed, there's another method
for this. and it could do with a proper banks of patches.

it won't be updated just yet. if anyone wants to make
requests or suggestions in the meantime, they'll be taken
into account when i get time/headpsace to attack it again.

was wondering whether to do a much bigger gui, like a rack,
and maybe ditch the patch buttons, but i think they are
intrinsic to 'juno'. i guess i maybe rushed the end of this,
since it is the hardest part, actually completing a plugin.
suddenly you have to make it perfect, and all the little
niggling problems you've lived with through the build have
to be resolved.

novaflash · Post by **novaflash** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 5:02 pm

if you need to simplify/rebuild your GUI in rack format
why do not watch the MKS-50 and around ?

mztk · Post by **mztk** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 7:48 pm

mm.
could lose the keyboard. or have two versions, or
a keyboard that could be hidden-but would not reduce
GUI size-
tbh, i'm nowhere near the accuracy that could distinguish
between ju 106 and alpha!!! and i don't think this sounds
like the alpha due to lack of waveform shapes.
there is a very nice juno106 site with nice colours, so a
very flat graphic with a good-sized layout, could be good.
that's my 'rack' idea. (but it would end up looking like a
large flintlock :DDD )
i no longer think it is crucial to have a small compact GUI.
you have to be able to see it. pretty pictures of keyboards
are not important(but they really do help with the feeling of
interaction).
really, i need to fix the faults in this, and wrap it up, is all.
but now is the time to make requests, etc.

Shagbat · Post by **Shagbat** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 4:32 pm

This sounds lovely!

I'm hoping to use it when i play out live running on a netbook with a Korg Nano Kontrol to control the sliders set up in reaper. Fingers crossed!

Shagbat · Post by **Shagbat** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 4:37 pm

I noticed you are looking for suggestions in your post above.

The only complaint i have it the pitch bend is too wide at its lowest setting (a whole octave) and it sounds a little steppy.

Other than that, awesome!

timandmonica · Post by **timandmonica** » Mon Dec 01, 2014 2:17 am

Hey there! Love and appreciate the work you did here - sounds really good to me. I wanted to know if this is the most current version available. Did you ever update it? I'll be happy either way but I wanted to get the "best" version of it if there was more than one.

Thanks!

functionform · Post by **functionform** » Thu Oct 05, 2017 8:43 pm

I hate to bump threads from the dead, but this synth is incredible and the best Juno 106 free vst I can find. Like others, I owned one decades ago and it instantly brought me back. Any chance of resurrecting (or sharing sources?) for this project - maybe even just for the filter fixes?

I did get the sim-3x which has some nice sounds to it but at first listen it didn't grab me like the dco did.

Halonmusic · Post by **Halonmusic** » Wed Sep 26, 2018 7:47 pm

functionform wrote:I hate to bump threads from the dead, but this synth is incredible and the best Juno 106 free vst I can find. Like others, I owned one decades ago and it instantly brought me back. Any chance of resurrecting (or sharing sources?) for this project - maybe even just for the filter fixes?

I did get the sim-3x which has some nice sounds to it but at first listen it didn't grab me like the dco did.

Yes, love this synth.

DCO-6 free synth