Roland's selling faithful new versions of classic synths

They’re cute things, and the thought of owning a Juno-6 again really created a soft warm feeling deep inside. But to be honest they are digital anyway (I assume? Citation needed?*), and these days there are such excellent VSTs (for drums I love Nepheton by D16).

Most of what will give you “the authentic sound” is coming downstream in the processing you use, back in the day people drove these things hard through analog consoles and much of the sound and character we associate with them comes from this kind of DIY processing.

My 2c anyhoo.

*Edit: Wow there’s this thing called Google, and you can find out stuff!

These units use Roland’s Analog Circuit Behaviour (ACB) technology. So yep these are emulated.

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