The represents Roland last attempt at a paradigm shift in analog synthesis from 1985 (although it was not technically their last analog synth, which would be the JX-10 which came out the following year.) They wouldn't come back to analog for 30 years.
Many people don't like the alpha's because they don't quite sound like the juno's, mostly because of the filter, but I'm here to give you my impressions, good and bad, of this underrated analog poly from the 80's.
NOTE: I mentioned I didn't think there was a highpass in the synth architecture but I was wrong, and the explains why a lot of the patches sound thinner.
Also, I say the price for the synth was $420, which it was not. The launch price which was $895 in America, I was going off this post from Roland which was converting yen to dollars: 1985: α JUNO-1 Pronounced “alpha JUNO-1”, this was a low-cost model in the JUNO series. It had 49 keys, and a specially designed sound-generator IC. Although it had 6-voice polyphony and 128 sound memory, it was below ¥100,000 in Japan (roughly $420) – quite an appealing combination.
Starsky Carr's great video comparison of the Juno 106 vs the Alpha Juno: [ Ссылка ]
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