juno voice chips

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At 5:44 PM 10/9/95, lazlo wrote:

>so what do you think.  could we build some interesting modules
>with these things.  anybody have any ideas.  unfortunately i'm
>not anywhere close to being as technical as most of you, but
>to me it sounds like it has potential.

My thoughts:

I believe the Juno VCO chip requires a digitally controlled counter to sync
to, which explains why the 106 sounds so lame in Unison mode.  That makes
it a very poor choice for experimenters.

Also, there's no way of knowing how many of these Roland has in stock.
It'd be better to leave them for fixing broken Junos.

The ElectroNotes VCO Gene Stopp built, and the Chroma VCO both have low
parts counts and are not that more difficult to build than an IC-based VCO.


As for using a CEM part, why would you want your synth to have the same VCO
sound as the numerous CEM based synths that were made?  CEM stuff has a
sameness about it that can dominate your sound, which is why I sold my
Prophet 5 & 600.

808