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In college I bought an Alpha Juno 1 off of Craigslist for $40, replaced a broken key, and sold it for $200 on eBay because I didn't know what to do with it.

My first analog synth. I had no idea how to program so I just worked with presets. - years later after I had more experience under my belt I went back to it this time with a Juno 2 and loved all the features. Snappy envelopes, adjustable chorus rate, pwm on sawtooth, velocity. Some of the phattest bass sounds I've ever heard. I know they don't get as much props as the 106/60 but if you get yourself a decent controller they're fantastic.

You can’t talk about the alpha dial without mentioning how it was better than other single knob interfaces at least because it was big, smooth, and fast. And had that finger indent. We were used to rotary phones, our fingers were ready.

Do not think I’ve ever commented on a KZfaq video before but my man that LAST JAM took me right back to being a little raver kid DJ and I love it so much

1980's Roland design meeting: "Knobs or Chiclets. Knobs or Chicklets. To hell with it. Chicklets will never get old." 😂

Moonbase Alpha...well played!

I love the saw with pulse width modulation and the chorus. This synth makes some unique sounds. Awesome for pads,strings,layered sounds and of course the Hoover! Also great Roland envelope that no other analog synth that I know,has.

The sounds are cool, the interface tragic, the intros on this channel are just plain MAGIC.

Probobly a good time to buy one before too many people watch this video

OMG Space:1999 was my favourite sci fi growing up. Possibly the scariest programme ever to be shown on childrens' TV - ever. Almost as scary as the UI on the Juno. I have a real soft spot for this synth, Would D & B have existed without it??? Much love as always Florian!

the dirty secret is that this synth actually uses digital oscillators (NCOs - numerically controlled oscillators). So it’s a hybrid synth since the filters are analog. It’s the same basic design as the novation peak and summit,

YES! It's about time for the Alpha! Great job! The Alphas do have little tricks up their sleeve: Creating a massive-sounding chord stack is something a Juno 60 or 106 can only dream of and the "saw-width" modulation is quite unique!

The hoover was and still is etched into the soundtrack of my life. Beautiful decade the 90's

The hoover is so incredibly classic I'm glad you got it into a tune. I would have been sorely disappointed otherwise! HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYONE!!

Old skool Hoover filter sweeping up those dance floor memories

Oh yes the one and only dominator

Space 1999 went so hard in their intro.

The sewing machine for the JX at 8:13 is what broke me out laughing in this vid. Well played!

I still have mine, bought new in 86. I still love it, it was my pad/strings workhorse for years. My only complain is its lack of a self oscilating filter.

Space:1999 intro, and Space Battleship Yamato clips in Jam 3. Excellent nostalgia pull on this one.

Still some of the SICKEST content on KZfaq. Space 1999... excellent choice for stock footage today my friend. Thank you for all you do, hope you are doing well and have a great weekend!

Finally a vacuum cleaner so my mom stops yelling about me making the basement dirty.

I've had a αJuno-2 for about 25 years now. One of the keys stopped working, and then the volume slider started getting noisy, and then the wheel started acting super glitchy. The wheel was obviously the most upsetting part, the rest is no biggie. Fabulous synth, and tons of great patches can be found online.

Yes! This is my favorite synth. I play it live in a jam band, and having the PG-300 is key. I got it so long ago that I didn't even realize what I was getting. I just loved the organ sound. All I had back in the late 90s was a JV-35 Rompler. It had nothing that came close to a B3 sound, but the Juno-1 did. Guess you can make a pretty convincing sine wave when you have a true analog synth! I also have the JX-10, and it's a whole different monster. The Juno-1 has far more wave forms to choose from, and it has pulse width modulation. I can't believe they didn't have PWM on the JX-10 or the JX-8P.

The Alpha Juno, or as I call it, the 'Em7 Chord Memory Mule For Jungle Sequencing That I Could Afford Instead Of The Poly 61' machine.

Roland should pay you a commission for that split screen jam; beautiful!! Unless you object, I am going to co-opt the word “wintage” as a description of the December to February weather in the southern US. 😂 Rarely achieves full “winter”!

I got one of these (and a JX3P) for free about 25 years ago from a guy who owned me money. Still have it, it sounds great but I've not really used it enough and that's a shame...also own a 106 and a 60. A friend "borrowed" my JX3P about 20 years ago and they both disappeared not long afterward.

Quite an underrated Juno synth.

I got one just last week - FOR THE HOOVER!

Outstanding. Concise. This ticks all the Bad Gear boxes we've learned to love so much.

I love synthesizers and I'm always here Greetings from Brazil...🇧🇷

Great Sigma house for 70s space pirates!

After a five-year gap to a local band's Poly-800, the @JU-2 was the very second analog synth I played at Musikhaus Hergeth/Klagenfurt in 1991. That's the time when almost any traditional music shop had cool synths in stock. The revelation happened when putting on headphones: I hardly trusted my ears how warm, sweet and wide the Alpha caressed me with his magical depth & width. Besides that's been the very first time learning the positive effect of single trigger on monophonic sounds. That time Alpha's sound's incredibly put me under its spell. Unfortunately, when I came back it had finally been sold and I was terribly frustrated. 12 years later I'd the opportunity to come across @JU-1 by a newspaper's announcement. The device, not in the best condition, went into my possession for a whopping 250,- at the time. One key looked like a tooth gap. I stuck it shut with white tape. (That key's meanwhile replaced.) There even were food residues on and between the keys, that I tried to remove during the train journey home The JU-1 is so small and cute, & it's crazily funny how people look when such a cute synth is pulled out on public transport, especially in my rural region. Even 12 years after the first @JU-contact, it had barely lost its magic. PG-300 of course was needed & provided. Not just that, I terribly wanted the JU-2. At the exact time when a not too distant one at Fürstenfeld appeared, I was broke. What I still regret today is, having taken (or stolen) the paltry 200,- from my mother's wallet. A common Roland-mistake at the time was that they often forgot to insert the After Touch sensor into its necessary socket. That resulted in rumours that AJ2 are key pressure-less. Of course the previous owner was sure as well that it does without. I indeed had to open the device & plug the sensor back. By lack of space I currently don't use the Alphas but I could not part with because their overall sound & possibilities are very harmonious. This time's suggestion is the Sonicware Liven Texture Lab (Granular Synth)

7:24 zajebiste, what a vibes you create on thoose bad gears!!! wow

I liked this before I even started listening and my heartrate got up so that my iWatch thought I was starting a workout.

The Juno is like the Helvetica of synthesizers. It may not be the most original choice, but it has not failed anyone who knows how it's supposed to be used.

You should release a mix of all the verdict songs because they are so damn good!!!🙌👏👏🔥🔥

Just love that alpha juno rave sound! 👍🕺

Aw, my first real synth I bought in 1987 and I love it to bits. I absolutely hear the comments about not being able to easily access the variables, but otherwise it's a truly great synth once you get on with it. And that is pretty damned close for the "What the" patch. I can happily give you the patch details if you really want it. The envelope#s a bit basic, but it does have sweeps to die for.

I have the Hs-10, it was the consumer model with a different color scheme. I use my old Novation X -Station as an editor and controller so I can use the aftertouch and velocity sensitivity. Sounds as good as a 106 and is deeper once you have an editor for it.

It actually would be the only boutique I'm interested in.

Jam 2 was my jam this week

another thing to keep in mind you can use behringer bcr 2000 midi controller with it! makes programming better and you don't have to pay atrocious amounts of money for a dedicated controller

Truly a synth of all time. The menu diving is like writing a patch using morse code. Definitely pressing all the buttons with this one. :P

The «Hoover» synth. Love my MKS-50 ;-)

I bought one in 1991 and a 106 and we all mostly preferred the 106 but the alpha still had its charms. It was readily apparent at that time that the golden age of synths was over. I appreciate all the fun you pour into your vids.

Juno 1, from 1985. I feel like I lost some important history, and I wish i didn't.

Ha, finally! Was hoping we'd hear some proper hardcore techno in this episode. Perhaps you could do that in the upcoming episode about the MKS50. 😉🙃 Happy weekend!😀

Others dream of a CS-80, I dreamt of a Alpha Juno. And last year I got one! Because "What The" is the best sound in the world :D I still recreate this sound on any synth I own (even on the Digitone, check my "Gabber 166 BPM" video :D :D :D ) - Best wishes, Jeanne

I feel the holy trinity of small 80s synths are: CZ101 + DX100 + Alpha Juno 1

If there’s one synth I know a lot about, it’s the Alpha Juno-1. Bought mine used in 1992 for $125, and lucked into a PG-300 a couple years later for $50. The expression pedal opens up a ton of flexibility. I ran mine through DOD fuzz and phaser pedals, and into a keyboard amp with spring reverb. It can generate huge amounts of bass when you want, but be incredibly buzzy and angry as well. It’s such an underrated synth for the price at the time.

6:25 sounds stunning 🥰

Still a wicked cheap synth for those Juno sounds. If people are buying DX7s for big bucks these days, then the much cheaper Alpha Juno is very worth it! (although you should just spring for the slightly more expensive JX-3P in my opinion)

I remember walking into a shop and playing an Alpha Juno 2 hooked up by midi to a DX7 back in the 80’s…at the time it was mind blowing how epic that combination sounded.

Sad that I sold my Alpha Juno 1. Now running with a Wavestate and a MODX7, so not really missing out on sound creation but I would pay to have this one back. I also keep my Roland SH3A - another classic.

Great Synth, but you neeeeed a hardware programmer to enjoy it!🐰

Behringer needs to make a Alpha Mini!

Picked mine up from a pawn shop like a decade and a half ago. A midi controller sending sysex to control the patch completely changes the game with it and makes it a joy to tweak.

bad gear has officially covered every piece of gear I own

Speak for yourself. I love programming my MKS-50. From the comfort of a software programmer of course, I'm not a flagellant! For real though, this synth goes with everything: beefing up string libraries, beefing up bass lines, beefing it because the electrolytics are drying out. You can do it all!

Really loved the Space Pirate Jam. 😍

Everytime the tb3 appears over the table, the music skyrockets to amazement

1:01 Justice - Generator in a Nutshell

8:30 On Cart 3, Master Group A, 27 is Tub Bells (TUB ERUPT). 26 is LASERSWEEP. pew pew pew.

Yay, caught it early! Thanks for always making the end of my work week a little more bearable

Funny and creative as always! And what a surprise to see that meme at 2:52 of Chico Buarque, a famous singer from Brazil!

You are kind of genius dude. Ive been watching your stuff more and more lately and yeah..crushing it. Super well produced, funny af and with the right amount of weird and quirky.

This with the ol Behringer BCR rotary controller was ‘so choice’

I'm not sure if this was mentioned, but a unique thing on the Alpha Juno is key tracking on the envelope times. You can use that to create sounds that are similar to samples in that the envelope gets shorter as pitch increases.

I sold my Gia MKI, for obvious reasons, and bought an Alpha 1 for $200 USD. Wow, best decision ever . Now I have a PG made for IPad and I’m really happy with the capabilities of this little beast . I once used a Juno 106 and even when is not as fat sounding as the 106, it has its own 80’s analog charm. Roland forgot how to make great synths as NASA forgot how to fly to the moon. 😂

Very nice jam! Love the sounds and what you do with them!

I love the IR-3R05 VCF of the Juno 1. It was called the Depeche Mode Synth for the poor because with the IR-3R05 Resonance you are able to create those VCF Velocity Bass Sounds beeing used in "nothing" from the album Music for the Masses. It does have the same Resonance Character.

Juno Lovers... Just combined with a easy to setup Behringer BCR-2000 and you can only love this synth.

wow - that Pure Data comic at the end make me laugh out loud!

Great job, as usual! Musically, text as well as the images and video editing. As a keyboard player who started in the 70's I have owned and used on records a great number of classic analog synths. And the Alpha Juno sounds pretty great! Thanks again for the awesome videos🎹😄

Aww 😢, I had the Alpha Juno-2 in my beginning journey of discovering synthesizers and it was the first synthesizer that just had a lot of character compared to what I had tried out before. I miss it!

Thanks for providing your perspective on this Juno. I had one of those in the 90s. Learned the basics of subtractive synthesis, but yeah... I moved on.

I’ve owned this synth for for the better part of the past 15 years, and I never realized that knob did all of that. 😮

I love the Alpha Juno-1. One of the first analog synths I ever laid my hands on. Still holds up and sounds fantastic!

Every Gabber artist... "You're wrong"

That last jam was amazing

I bougt my Juno-1 in 1986 brand new. It was my first synth. I still have it.

We are so back baby!!!

TAL-PHA is a plugin emulation of the alpha juno. it loads presets from it and it can also be used as a controller for the hardware. If i could only have one, i would prefer the plugin. there, i said it.

I’ve really come to love this channel/guy!

I really like your sample tracks and how they show the capabilities of the synth because my caveman brain would have probably tried to make a hard house track.

Love the show! Definitely an underrated synth. I have the Retroaktiv programmer and it really opens up the sound design.

Another Bad Gear episode, another piece of my studio... Almost every machine I own had been reviewed. Except maybe ye olde TR-330 and my Roland D-5 (but you almost did when covering the D-110). 🐎

One of the reasons I loved my 106 was that it basically taught me subtractive synthesis thanks to the UI. but it also made every bass and pad sound for me for like 10 years heh. I used to sneer at this thing but these days I’d kill for one

@7:22 with 1.75x playback the visuals and the music really work! :)

There is a ctrlr free editor for it that works great as a VST (With the MKS50) you could retrieve with it the "hoover sound" (what da) since it includes all original presets. For whoever thinks this synth sounds "thin", most of the preset are with the HP filter engaged, i guess it's because synths use to emulate acoustic instruments, bypassing this gives it way more weight.Also, there is a filter mod that compensates for the lack of bass with high resonance.

man I love the hoover sound so much

Juno 2 has been my main machine for almost 15 years ( you don't want one because i want them to stay affordable)

My first analog when they were crazy cheap on eBay! I mistakenly sold it cheap during the pandemic, and now I regret it

The Alpha Juno is one of my fav synths. So cool to see you giving it some attention here

This is a great synth. If you use a MIDI controller and master keyboard like I do, fewer keys and lack of velocity isn't a problem. It has a nice key bed. So an Alpha Juno 2 would make a fine master keyboard. But if all you need is the sound, save money and space and get the 1. I am glad I added it to my collection. Chord mode doing power chords + distortion pedal = hell yea. It gets you that heavy metal vibe without a guitar. In that kind of situation I want full velocity. So the lack of velocity is good. Just hit a single key and rock and roll.

My first synth, could sit and listen to its resonant filter sweeps for days

The PG300 completely opens up the Alpha and makes it worthy of the Juno name. It's so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up.

My favorite alpha Juno (1+1) Best really slow PWM ever, slow LFO too + nice sub s + chorus:)