Electronic Musician

Roland Alpha Juno

The story is all-too familiar: Roland releases an instrument to lacklustre response only to see it become a sought-after classic years after the sell-by date has passed. It happened with the TR-808, the TB-303 and the subject of this month’s Blast From the Past, the Alpha Juno.

Though the name suggests it shares a direct lineage with the Juno-6, -60 and -106, the Alpha Juno

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