Roland JUNO STAGE 128-Voice Expandable Synthesizer

The Roland Juno-Stage is a velocity sensitive, semi-weighted 76-key professional synthesizer adorned with some incredibly useful features that gigging keyboardists have longed for and studio musicians will undoubtedly appreciate on an everyday basis.

Starting with the sounds:

The Juno Stage has been programmed to offer over 1200 patches and 40 rhythm sets of Roland’s top-of-the-line sounds, many derived from the best-selling Fantom series. All the sound groups you’d expect to find are here including Roland’s 88-key stereo multi-sampled grand piano taken from Roland’s Fantom-X workstation. The “big-5” classic keyboard sounds that every gigging keyboardist needs as his go-to bread and butter patches are here and there’s plenty of variations, one perfect for your ever-evolving needs. Acoustic pianos, electric pianos featuring Rhodes and Wurlitzer, Hammond B-3 organs and clavinet are represented beautifully here and exhibit the dynamics and nuances needed to deliver these classic sounds in stellar fashion. Also on hand is a plethora of other sounds including guitars, basses, synths, strings, horns, sitar, harmonica, as well as acoustic and electric drums. The clarity and richness of these sounds really get your attention and can also be used in your professional recordings but more on that in a minute. In addition, you can expand your palette of onboard sounds with one of Roland’s optional SRX Expansion boards, easily installable by you the user.

Performance friendly features are the name of the game with the Juno Stage Synthesizer and there’s plenty of game on hand! The Song Player enables you to stream MIDI as well as audio backing tracks straight off a USB flash drive so you one-man-show sorts can get the job done with minimal muss and fuss. It supports WAV, AIFF, and MP3s along with Standard MIDI Files. Just plug in your USB drive into the hatch-covered USB port on the Juno-Stage’s top panel and away you go! Additionally, a stereo mini-jack is also located on the top panel so you can connect your MP3 player and have its sound output go through the Juno-Stage’s system for full integration. Favorite buttons provide instant access to banks of your favorite sounds. Even better, you can use a dual footswitch to select sounds in the heat of performance while your hands never leave the keys. Outstanding!

A built-in Rhythm Pattern Machine gives you drum-machine style beats to use in your performance or as creative inspiration. There’s an XLR microphone input around the back for your favorite mic and switchable phantom power if that mic happens to be a condenser. You can mix in your vocals with the keyboard’s sounds and utilize the built-in effects and vocoder along the way. Among the real-time control options are the handy pitch bend/mod lever, 2 assignable switches, an arpeggiator, and Roland’s famous D-Beam controller. The Sound Modify section provides dedicated knobs for the most common and useful edit parameters like envelope, filter, reverb and EQ. Dedicated volume and reverb level controls for the mic input make it easy to blend in your vocals to your performance.

You can transform the Juno-Stage Synthesizer to instantly become a MIDI controller for studio use when you select the MIDI Controller button. Take advantage of the incredible Roland sounds on this board as you utilize them in your studio recordings. With 16-part multi-timbral capability and whopping 128-note polyphony, there’s horsepower aplenty for realizing your musical masterpieces with full-bore orchestrations and unrestricted arrangement possibilities.

There are built-in effects including lush reverbs, deep chorus’, delays, distortion and a whole lot more. They’ll sweeten the output of the Juno-Stage in a live setting or in the studio.

Connections include a headphone jack, Song/Click output (send it to your favorite drummer to keep him in-time), L/R ¼” output, XLR mic input, EXT Input 1/8” jack, MIDI I/O, Hold, Control pedal jacks and a USB MIDI port.

Included Accessories are the Owners manual, Music Player Pad and Cable, a CD-ROM with Sound Editor, Playlist Editor, Librarian, USB MIDI Driver and a copy of SONAR SE, multi-track recording software for the PC.

Weighing in at only 21 lbs, you cannot afford to continue gigging without the Roland Juno-Stage 76-Key Synthesizer. So what are you waiting for? Move it!