Right off the back of January’s NAMM show, Behringer has officially launched the JN-80, its recreation of the Roland Juno-60.

Behringer claims this new launch is faithful to its original inspiration, with a “meticulously engineered” signal path built around genuine DCOs, a 24 dB low-pass VCF based on the original 3109 chip, and classic VCA architecture.

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The Roland Juno-60 was first launched in 1982, with production ending 1984. It followed on from the Juno-6, and can be heard on classic ‘80s records, including Eurythmics’ Sweet Dreams and across the catalogues of Wham and Enya. It was even well-loved by house music pioneer Larry Heard, Daft Punk, and Liam Howlett of The Prodigy.

What are the key features of the JN-80?

Behringer’s JN-80 is a fully analogue synth, and is “supercharged” with eight-voices rather than the six-voice architecture of the original Juno-60. Each voice is fully polyphonic, with flexible poly, unison, and dual modes available. It has a built-in arpeggiator with an adjustable rate slider and multiple playback modes including up, down, and up/down, and you can also dial in your desired tone with controls for the LFO, DCO, HPF, VCF, VCA, envelopes, and chorus.

While the original Juno allowed users store patches, the JN-80 takes things further by letting you save up to 400 presets, each with a “compare and match” feature that helps you “quickly align your analogue controls with stored settings”, according to Behringer. 200 presets are already on board, however, featuring 100 Premium Sounds courtesy of Ultimate Patches.

Hear how the JN-80 sounds, and find out more in the video below:

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