Juno 106 vs JX3P & PG200

I've decided I can go for either of this synths but they are around the same price but is the 106 worth paying £20 more for?

Or does the JX3P win?

The JX wins.

Juno prices are inflated cos Nu Rave indie fashion fags got told by their brother's mate that a "Juno" is a good synth.

  analogue wings said:

The JX wins.

 

Juno prices are inflated cos Nu Rave indie fashion fags got told by their brother's mate that a "Juno" is a good synth.

I dont want to do nu-rave!

You can convincingly emulate these and much more for less money, with a used Nord Modular. I feel the need to mention this to everyone purchasing these types of older synths.

The JX3P is a great synth. What it has over the Juno is two tunable oscillators. But it doesn't have a mono mode or portamento. Also, if you're running a midi sequence, you can't tweak the knobs on the PG-200. You'd have to solder a mod to get it to do that.

  hellomynameis said:

  analogue wings said:

The JX wins.

 

Juno prices are inflated cos Nu Rave indie fashion fags got told by their brother's mate that a "Juno" is a good synth.

 

I dont want to do nu-rave!

That's why I said get the JX, Einstein.

juno

http://www.synthmania.com/jx-3p.htm

http://www.synthmania.com/juno-106.htm

juno 6

i'd say the juno 106 personally but i'm into the awesome 80s sounds a lot. chorus!!

juno 6 though... mmmm! jesus himself plays one - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeLuO6vZJ_g

[edit] - although i think there's a rackmount version of the JX3P which if you don't want the keyboard or are happy using another through midi might be a lot cheaper than the regular version. (i've no idea on prices but rackmount versions are usually less in demand and less pricy for the same sounds)

I had both for a while and I think I preferred the sound of the Juno 106 it just sounded "fatter" and seemed to have wider tone palette. The JX-3P sounded a bit "thin", but on the plus side it made nice metallic sounds and had a groovy built in sequencer.

i'd go for the juno personally...

well the jx3p sold with the pg200 before I had a chance, there is another for sale without the pg200 but is that really worth it? Is the PG200 worth £150 extra odd?

  hellomynameis said:

Is the PG200 worth £150 extra odd?

Yes. You can sell a PG200 by itself for almost what you can get for a JX3P.

  ten fingers ten toes said:

You can convincingly emulate these and much more for less money, with a used Nord Modular.

  ten fingers ten toes said:

You can convincingly emulate these and much more for less money, with a used Nord Modular. I feel the need to mention this to everyone purchasing these types of older synths.

Yes the sound will be exactly the same as well as the experience using the synth.

Argh.

I'd go for the JX for more versatility.

  277: 930-933 said:

  ten fingers ten toes said:

You can convincingly emulate these and much more for less money, with a used Nord Modular. I feel the need to mention this to everyone purchasing these types of older synths.

 

Yes the sound will be exactly the same as well as the experience using the synth.

Argh.

 

I'd go for the JX for more versatility.

Youll have knobs and keys and stuff. Plus a gilion other things to use. Plus it'll sound so much the same you won't even notice. Just mentioning because people spend tons of money on stuff then never do anything because its either too limited, too broken because of age, or both to end up being useful. Vintage is trendy and fashionable but also has some severe drawbacks.

the only problem is that the nord modular keyboards cost shitloads compared to what I can afford right now, I don't have £1,000 to spend, although I would really really like to own one.

Used Nord Modular G1, You can get a micro for like $300 (150 GBP), a Rack for about $450, or a keyboard for like $550-600 (300 GBP!).

I wanted a JX3P for a long time but ended up going in a different direction. What really made me think it was sweet though was the fact that it's on every Unai track.

  ten fingers ten toes said:

  277: 930-933 said:

  ten fingers ten toes said:

You can convincingly emulate these and much more for less money, with a used Nord Modular. I feel the need to mention this to everyone purchasing these types of older synths.

 

Yes the sound will be exactly the same as well as the experience using the synth.

Argh.

 

I'd go for the JX for more versatility.

 

Youll have knobs and keys and stuff. Plus a gilion other things to use. Plus it'll sound so much the same you won't even notice. Just mentioning because people spend tons of money on stuff then never do anything because its either too limited, too broken because of age, or both to end up being useful. Vintage is trendy and fashionable but also has some severe drawbacks.

Shut the fuck up about your pet subject for once in your fucking life you humourlesss droning cock. Not every thread needs to be jacked with ten paragraphs of your incessant off-topic bleating.

Go download some DDOS scripts or something.

Or go stand on a soapbox somewhere and see what happens when you act like this much of a cock in real life.

lol

edit: juno

  analogue wings said:

Shut the fuck up about your pet subject for once in your fucking life you humourlesss droning cock. Not every thread needs to be jacked with ten paragraphs of your incessant off-topic bleating.

 

Go download some DDOS scripts or something.

 

Or go stand on a soapbox somewhere and see what happens when you act like this much of a cock in real life.

uhh that is a bit unwarrantedly harsh (and makes AW look like a grumpy 10 yr old) but nevertheless tftt you'd be as well jumping in every thread on here and telling everyone to just use the machine that they're writing their posts on to emulate synthesisers X Y and Z. the nord is purely digital (i think) so if you can do something on one of them then you can do it on yer PC (MAX/MSP, reaktor, Vaz, absynth, puredata, etc. - take your pick). trouble is that the synths referred to here are analogue, if you want something that sounds exactly like one of them then you have to use one of them, simple as that. i think everyone on here realises that they can do a rough approximation of lots of synths on a nord (or indeed their pc) but it's NOT THE SAME!

i have both at the moment and if i had to choose just one, i'd DEFINITELY go for juno-106

the jx-3p just sounds "not exactly the real thing". but then it might depend on what the real thing is for you.

  analogue wings said:

  ten fingers ten toes said:

  277: 930-933 said:

  ten fingers ten toes said:

You can convincingly emulate these and much more for less money, with a used Nord Modular. I feel the need to mention this to everyone purchasing these types of older synths.

 

Yes the sound will be exactly the same as well as the experience using the synth.

Argh.

 

I'd go for the JX for more versatility.

 

Youll have knobs and keys and stuff. Plus a gilion other things to use. Plus it'll sound so much the same you won't even notice. Just mentioning because people spend tons of money on stuff then never do anything because its either too limited, too broken because of age, or both to end up being useful. Vintage is trendy and fashionable but also has some severe drawbacks.

 

Shut the fuck up about your pet subject for once in your fucking life you humourlesss droning cock. Not every thread needs to be jacked with ten paragraphs of your incessant off-topic bleating.

 

Go download some DDOS scripts or something.

 

Or go stand on a soapbox somewhere and see what happens when you act like this much of a cock in real life.