My Juno Di Is On Its Way!

Congrats! I think you'll like the Di. It sounds good.., is light as a feather, and that software editor is a huge bonus. I'm hoping to have some more Di vids up this weekend. I've been really busy over the last few weeks and haven't been able to put too much time in the Di Cafe.

Squeak

PS.., glad you liked the vids and look forward to a review!

My Juno Di came today! I was very excited. I haven't had a whole lot of time to go through it in a lot of detail but so far I am very happy.

Quality: It is very light! I had to move things around and moved my ASR-10 to the other side of the room. It was an amazing difference. I knew it was light but was not expecting that. It doesn't really matter to me but very useful if you need something portable.

The Sound Modify knobs seem to be a bit cheaper but I'm not rough with my equipment so it shouldn't be an issue. Jog wheel seems fine.

Some people have complained about the keybed. It seemed different at first. Not bad, just different. After about 10 minutes I did not notice it and don't think it will really bother me at all.

I was not a fan of the screen at first and thought it looked a bit cheap but after a few minutes and listening to it I really didn't care.

One other thing that will be an adjustment for me is the pitch/modulation joystick. I am not used to that. I have always had the wheels so that may take a bit to get used to but again nothing bad just different.

Sounds: I was VERY impressed with the sounds. I was not expecting top of the line for the price but I feel like I definitely got better quailty than I was thinking it would be. Ithe pianos I was not overly excited about but will do well in a mix which is what I need anyway. I will try to go through and give a review of each group of sounds later on.

I did notice the demos seem to be quite a bit louder than when I played the patches individually. I'll have to read through and see if I'm missing something.

Overall first impression I am very pleased and looking forward to it. I think I had set the bar a little lower in my mind based on the previous Juno-D and the price point but for the first day run through I am very happy. I was originally going to try to get a Motif to add to my sounds to get the rest of what I was looking for but I may be set now. I'm pretty busy the rest of this week but will try to do a more in depth review this weekend if I can.

If anybody has any questions or anything they want me to address I will do my best.

I also ordered the Juno-Di today. I'll post some impressions when it arrives and then try to write a review. I'm also planning to do some sound demos, but I'll post more when it arrives, hopefully next week

dear Mannas,

It is a great review.

I'm from India. I play keyboard and bass guitar in live shows only.

I owned two Korg keyboards Triton Le and PA 50. Korg has very big forum on net and getting desired sounds is very easy.

I wanted to replace Le with batter keyboard without sequncer and sampler - just plain sound. I had heard from fellow musicians that Roland has great Indian sound. I searched Roland but nothing matching with my specs so thought of top of the line Keyboard and decided to get Fantom G 6 and get settled.

I enquired at Mumbai with the dealer and he told me that it will be available. since I live quite away from Mumbai I planned to purchase it on my next trip.

I purchased Di out of cumplusion as the dealer at Mumbai slipped from his commitment of providing me with Fantom G 6.

When i actualy reached his shop he said he does not have a G 6 at present. I had to catch my flight on the same day in approx. one hour. moreover due to my commitement during festivals I badly needed one keybopard. He showed me Di and told that it is something new which has arrived recently and has great sounds, he has only one demo piece wth him. So i went for it after listening few patches here and there.

May be blessings in disguise, as over all board is very much suitable for live shows due to very light weight and also some of the patches are realy good.

I'm very poor sound designer and I want settings for bright Indian sound, human whistle sound played in joyes crowd (which i heard in one of the Roland D 10), Assigning wah padel to guitar patch through joy stick, assigning arp rate to joy stick, good orchestra with french horn, Tutti, playing one sound and adding another one through joysticks etc.

oops.. list is too long as some of these was possible with korg.

Any help would be highly apriciable.

WBRgds,
rajieve

Any pro sound designer help available here?