Junos From Mars

Our Take on the Most Iconic 80s Synths Of All Time

The Juno series was an affordable line of synths created in 1982 as an alternative to the popular but expensive Jupiter 8. Sporting the same filter as the Jupiter, but with a simpler approach to synthesis, the Juno 6, 60 and 106 quickly became ubiquitous in 80's music - across all genres - and are still widely used and sough after today.

Loved by both newbies and pros alike, the Juno is, simply put, what a synthesizer is supposed to sound like. And since it was my first vintage synth I ever purchased and has been on about 50% of all of the music I've made, I thought it was about time we put our stamp on this classic! We sampled our 106 and 60, capturing extensively multi-sampled synth patches, chords, FX and even Juno drums, sculpted from scratch on each synth.

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It all Starts With the Patches

Above all else, these synths are FUN, and that's exactly how our journey began. We plopped both synths on our big table, and programmed our favorite patches for days straight, tweaking to our heart's content, making sure to capture the best of what each synth had to offer. We baked in a lot of the onboard filters, envelopes and LFOs, and employed little tricks like engaging the 60's hidden Chorus 3 (achieved by pressing both chorus buttons simultaneously). We also sent the 106's resonance into self-oscillation, creating a very cool and beautifully unstable oscillator drift you can hear in this lead line:

https://soundcloud.com/samplesfrommars/junos-from-mars-lofi-ballad?in=samplesfrommars/sets/junos-from-mars

What You Get

The resulting 32 multi-sampled synth patches, Juno drums, chord hits and sound FX are instantly nostalgic, and sit in a mix as effortlessly as the Junos themselves. You'll get vintage sub bass, ethereal chorus pads, plucky leads primed for arpeggiators, classic epiano and wurli keys, warm and wobbly strings, slowly evolving pulse width modulations, quirky sound FX like "Wind" and "Ocean", house and jazz chord stabs, and 100% bespoke analog synth drum hits. The following is made entirely from the Juno patches, even the drums:

https://soundcloud.com/samplesfrommars/arpsanddrums?in=samplesfrommars/sets/junos-from-mars

While everything has been broken up into categories, these are mere suggestions - depending on which range you play them in, some of the leads will make for great bass lines, and the bass patches can be used as synth leads, etc.

As usual, the instruments are mapped and formatted for major DAWs, and the WAV samples themselves can be dropped directly into your favorite software or hardware sampler, or directly onto the timeline in your DAW of choice.

Classics for a Reason

It's about time we sampled these classics, and I'm so glad we did. The Juno has not only been a constant suggestion from you guys, but has sat in our A room studio for years, front and center, being used constantly on music and begging to be sampled.

There is truly no ground the Junos can't cover - they're appropriate for nearly any genre or style requiring a synth, from 80's ballads to sci fi soundtracks to indie rock and hard techno, the Junos can do the thing, they do it so well..

Contents:

• (35) Juno instruments formatted for Various DAWs and Samplers.
• 32x Multi-sampled synth instruments and 3x one-shots instruments of chord stabs, FX and drums.
• (3307) total WAV samples at 24-bit 44.1k.
• Keys, Bass, Leads, Bass, Pads, Chords, FX and Drums.
• Smooth Subs, Punchy Leads, Etherial Pads, Classic Chorus, Chords and Stabs.
• Sourced from clean and serviced Juno 60 and 106s.
• Samples range from clean, to 1/4" Tape and Tube saturation (Summit 200B, REDDI, Culture Vulture).
• Drum one shots processed through Overstayer NT-02 and API 2500.
• Recorded through an Apogee Symphony MKII and API 1608 Console.
• 100% Hardware processing.
• 3.15 GB Unzipped.
• About

Formatting:

• Ableton includes (1) session containing all (35) Instrument presets.
• Kontakt, Logic EXS, Reason NN-XT, FL Studio, and SFZ include: (35) Instrument presets.