Roland Juno-D Limited Edition

Juno Limited. Not sure of software version. who cares. presets are ok to good to just dumb. standard stuff. editing and creating "performances" is a little hard due to lack of manual detail and limited diplay on the juno d. manual is brief and not very detailed. I haven't used to editor yet.

The keys are too small! I didn't know this when I ordered it. I saw a band locally and the keyboard player had on and it sounded pretty good. I knew it was a cheaper board but I got one anyway. has a lot of effects built in. In my opinion, roland has come to rely too much on effects rather than the sound generation. no sequencer on board. editing is limited but still better than nothing. a decay knob in the envelope section would have been nice.

for me...the sounds are good. they cover what I am looking for. I prefer classic synth sounds. i find them all to be good to very good but no really great blow me a way tones. it has some expression to it, key velocity etc. keys are too small!

seems realy cheaply made. made in china. but it is what it is. a low cost synth taht covers the gamut of sounds quite well. I don't see it lasting on a world tour but for the at home reacorder it is fine.

preatty good! I called with a performance set up question and the guy was really good and answered it. hat's off!

keys are not my main thing. I play guitar and bass so my opinion may not be worth it to those who are true keys. If it was lost or stolen? If I had little money...yes I would get another. If I could get a better board I would. ( and will) It's worth what you pay in all fairness. I hate the smaller keys. they are not mini keys...just smaller than standard. I had a Fantom Xa that I NEVER should have sold. it was made way better and had the same/better sound quality. The Juno D can slow one down when trying to create patches and performance. overall it's fine for what it does. Actually, I also had an XP-10 that was a little batter I think.

Using the latest software version. Although the Juno-D seems like it would be very easy to use, it was actually kind of difficult for me to program, even with the software editor. There is no data wheel, so to find the patch you want you need to pump the cheap-feeling buttons countless times. It is the opposite of my Yamaha MO6. Whereas the MO6 seems complicated, it is actually quite intuitive. The Juno-D seems like it will be really easy to use, but in actuality its interface is very cryptic and counter-intuitive.

64 voice polyphony is plenty for me. The built in effects are standard and sound fine. Keyboard transmits velocity but not aftertouch. It has the Roland mod stick paddle thing (no wheels), which I absolutely love (I can't play without it)! This is a bare bones performance synth with no expansion capabilities. It does not have a sequencer, but it does have a largely inflexible arpeggiator (with lots of cheesy patterns). Whatever though, I don't want an onboard sequencer. I wanted a good sounding, good feeling board that I can carry and play live. Which brings me to the main issue here... the keyboard on this thing is absolutely horrible!!! The keys are too short and bottom out hard. Why would Roland make an instrument where the keys are too short? Makes no sense to me at all. For this reason alone I can not play this board, and any other features it may have are pretty much moot.

Sounds are so so. The piano sounds are OK and there are a few good synths here and there, but the overall sound quality is quite low. The extra "limited edition" sounds are a joke (the "rock organ" sound is not good). And the small keys drove me nuts!!! OK sounds, but no expressiveness to speak of.

Seems cheaply made, although the top of the casing is made of metal. I used a Roland XP-10 for almost ten years and it is still going strong.

I haven't dealt with Roland, so I can't rate their customer support.

This keyboard is not so good. I bought it to replace my Roland XP-10 and, except for the metal case, it is worse in every way. I received it in the mail from Sweetwater today, spent about 3 to 4 hours playing/programming it and decided that it would actually be a hindrance to my music and I will be sending it back tomorrow.

I've been playing keys for 20 years and I find this keyboard totally uninspiring. It somehow sounds worse than my old XP-10 (which actually sounds quite good - I love that board). How silly of me to think that Roland would have improved their product in the past decade. I really wanted to believe in this synth, but it seriously let me down.

I own or have owned lots of keyboard gear (Roland XP-10, Yamaha MO6, Yamaha P80, various Studiologic controllers, E-MU Proteus 1000, Oberheim Matrix 1000, software synths, etc.) and I liked all of them way more than this turkey. Maybe I could deal with it if the sounds were a little bit better and the keys were the closer to the standard size, but as is I can't work with this. Adios Roland, I will only be purchasing Yamaha synths from now on..... and maybe an Edirol controller so I can have the pitch/mod stick at all times. Even if you gig regularly like me, get something like the MO6 and deal with the extra weight, the sound quality will more than make up for your transportation woes.

Super intuitive. Manual is almost not needed. Chord play and arpeggiator have both good number of choices, and here I needed to get deep in the manual. Patches are ordered by family.

Good poliphony for multitrack midi projects, nice built-in effects and velocity sensitive keyboard. Missed is the aftertouch

For serious and pro keyboad players, this is a good choice for a complementary axe. Sounds are generally good and usable. Nothing extraordinaire, but is dificult to say that even one of the most of 700 patches is useless. The new pianos are very good for live playing, there are good organs, clavs, EPs, strings, pads, basses and synth brasses. Very good sound collection for the money. Includes the always nice-to-have D Bean controller and dedicated buttons for filter/envelope real time control.

This is "made in china" unit, but is not a plastic catastrophe. The case has decent quality and the keyboard action is goog.

Roland is just fine.

I like this synth a lot. Sounds good, has real-time control for some key paramenters (filter, amp envelope, etc.), excellent cost X benefit ratio.

Quite easy to use. Knobs and Buttons are exactly the same like for the original Juno-D.

The main difference to the original Juno-D is, that the Wave Memory has 64MB instead of 32MB. They used the additional space for a new piano, an e-piano, an organ and some vintage synth. That's why I bought it, because that were exactly the kind of sounds I was looking for.

The features are quite okay, but some things are anoying. You can't have real "performances" (multiple sounds layered). What they call performance is a set of sounds that you can configure for direct access and for playing together when played by an external MIDI device like an sequencer. But on the Keyboard you can only have one Patch. That's bad for live performances. So the easy chord function does not make sense too because you can't play a chord with the left hand and something else with the right hand.

Also, there is now way to switch to fast rotary in the organs without loosing the speed again when you release the joystick or remove the hand from the D-Beam.

The new sounds are good. I like the new piano sound, even if it's a little "plastic-sounding" like all roland pianosounds. The Vintage EP is great, very dynamic, comes very close to the sound of the e-piano in the beginning of Sheep from Pink Floyd (a sound which I searched for for ages). The "John Lord"-Organ is okay, but does not come close to the B4 from native Instruments. Because of the missing ability to switch the rotary permantly to fast speed not very unsable in live situations. I miss a good "16+2" Organsound like you can hear in Deep Purples Child in time.

I have a problem with an Jump-like "OB-Sound", it sounds very good when playing only with the right hand, but when I add the bassline with the left hand the sound becomes distorted.

Overall the sound are very good for this price.

It's quite new so I can't say much.

Didn't need it

Overall I'm very happy with it. I'm a bassplayer who also was a keyboarder 15 years ago. Now I started a new project where we don't have a keyboarder so that for some songs a guitar player plays the bass and I play the keyboards. The Juno-D has very good sounds for this, but due to the limitations I described above in the live-features I need to bring my Korg M1 as a second keyboard to gigs so that I can make use of the performances of the Juno-D. I would buy it again if it gets stolen.