No idea really why you feel you need to actually -complain- about the Juno-106's sound or features that you don't find useful
. I often find features in many synths "unusable" for me as well, and by far most synths I've used could do a whole lot more or different stuff than what I needed and could produce sounds that don't interest me one bit, but with lots of tweaking I get the sounds I personally want from a synth and I'm happy with them. Juno-106 is one of those synths that don't really sound like any other synth and that could give me specific kinds of sounds that can endlessly satisfy me. Same goes for many other synths.
). I'm actually an analogue nut. Used to collect all kinds of synths, and still have a few that I never got rid of and probably won't. And the 106 is probably the single worst buy I ever made for anything analogue (the little 606 drum machine I bought along with a 303 once was a poor buy, but at least it only cost a few quid). For 350 quid (the going rate at the time) I wasted my money and should have had the sense to buy something else. I kept hold of it just for nostalgia sake, as the 106 was my first analogue poly. But nostalgia is all it's good for. If a 106 is the only analogue you've ever owned, of course you'll defend it, but believe me there are any number of better ones around. It doesn't have character apart from the acknowledged chorus. Roland choruses were always distinctive. The synth itself has only novelty value. Sure it was the only synth of its time to have sysex for slider control, but sysex is a very unweildy way of controlling anything. I used to automate it via Cubasev1.0, and it was a royal pain in the arse, even when you figure out your own sysex map for it. There are other better synths of the 80s that have midi control, and most modern analogues will let you automate them more easily.
(Still have the JX-3P though!)
