We’ve recently started stocking Alfa’s clone of the famous old Roland IR3109 filter chip. This is the chip that was inside a ton of Roland synths, including the SH-101, Jupiter 6 and Jupiter 8, Juno 6/60 and even the Juno 106, although in that case it was hidden in a potted module! I thought it’d […]
This page is a brief look at the technology of the Roland Juno series digitally controlled oscillators. The specific scheme presented here was introduced in the Juno 106 in 1984, but the same basic DCO design turned up in many Roland instruments through the 1980s (including the JX-3P, JX-8P, JX-10 and the MKS modules based […]
