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help buying a synthesizer
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| goni_12345 |
Roland Juno-D 61-Key Synthesizer Keyboard what do you say about it ?
good for trance ? |
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| nutsan |
i used to have one and i really liked, only ever used it for is piano sound though hence why i sold it.
its a very general synth with a wide range of instruments, kinda like GM but alot more sounds.
i do miss the piano tho :( |
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| Derivative |
| Its a GM-2 synth and General MIDI is . Not sure if the Juno-D breaks significant ground where GM is concerned but every other GM synth, give or take has been rubbish. Including Native Instrument's Bandstand. |
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| gr8ape |
| buy a virus or a nordlead |
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| nutsan |
| quote: | Originally posted by Derivative
Its a GM-2 synth and General MIDI is . Not sure if the Juno-D breaks significant ground where GM is concerned but every other GM synth, give or take has been rubbish. Including Native Instrument's Bandstand. |
its not just genral midi, it has like 750 presets alone, on top of that the editing software to make your own is very good.
what i meant before when i said its like general midi was the fact it has a wide range of instruments, so therefore isnt that suited to trance , but is still usable. |
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| Low Profile |
You can do trance but it won't be your best solution. Trance is mostly done with Virtual-Analog synths, not sample-based workstations. The Juno-D (and keep in mind it has NOTHING to do with the original Juno 6/60/106 series...) has a variety of piano, guitar, organ and string sounds, but that's not what you need for trance. There are some synth patches are well, but probably not that great.
For a similar amount of money, I'd suggest an SH-201, Virus B, Nord Lead 2, or for even less, Novation KS 4/5/rack (I have a KS4 which I bought for ~230 pounds and I love it). Those synths are much more "trance-friendly" than the Juno-D.
PS: The Juno is probably a great synth (based on the JV/XV/Fantom legacy), don't get me wrong, but for you basic supersawwy trance it's not the winning horse... it might do good for some offshoot electry-housey-progressive-experimental trance, though :D (Holden, Ozgur, Mark Otten, etc...) |
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| Jason_R |
Also suggest you look at the Novation Ks rack / ks4 / ks5. Picked mine up off ebay for �150 and it's wicked.
Very much like v station but diffrent. Hard to explain but the sounds just a bit more full and crisp.
Huge plus over the roland that it's va & has a very uplifting charter. |
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| goni_12345 |
| my budget is something like 600-700$ for the synth .. Nord Lead is to expensive for me .. u have something good for trance in 600-700? |
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| echosystm |
| quote: | Originally posted by goni_12345
my budget is something like 600-700$ for the synth .. Nord Lead is to expensive for me .. u have something good for trance in 600-700? |
If you need people to tell you what to buy, you need to spend more time producing with softsynths and doing research.
$50 says you don't even know what an LFO is. |
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| goni_12345 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Low Profile
You can do trance but it won't be your best solution. Trance is mostly done with Virtual-Analog synths, not sample-based workstations. The Juno-D (and keep in mind it has NOTHING to do with the original Juno 6/60/106 series...) has a variety of piano, guitar, organ and string sounds, but that's not what you need for trance. There are some synth patches are well, but probably not that great.
For a similar amount of money, I'd suggest an SH-201, Virus B, Nord Lead 2, or for even less, Novation KS 4/5/rack (I have a KS4 which I bought for ~230 pounds and I love it). Those synths are much more "trance-friendly" than the Juno-D.
PS: The Juno is probably a great synth (based on the JV/XV/Fantom legacy), don't get me wrong, but for you basic supersawwy trance it's not the winning horse... it might do good for some offshoot electry-housey-progressive-experimental trance, though :D (Holden, Ozgur, Mark Otten, etc...) |
thx man you helped me a lot |
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