Sad to say... I sold my Juno-Gi today :(
Posted: 19:55, 6 August 2013
In an effort to find something that my teen daughter would find easier to use for song composition, I bought a Korg Krome. She tried for about 3 months to use the Juno but found the instruction manuals hard to read and the workshops too complex for a total beginner. I had the benefit of using keyboards in the 80s, working for recording studios in the 90s and having 28+ years of musical experience, I understood a lot more of the terminology and the complex multi layered menu systems. Plus the drums sequences were too hard to build on the fly. They should have come up withe some templates of styles that you could use as is or tweak quickly with different kit or patterns.
The large touch screen on the Krome makes it much easier to understand. I will miss the look and feel of the Juno, and some of the great Roland sounds. I'll miss the simplicity of recording audio instead of sequencing midi files (ugh).
I never ended up using the audio interface, mic/guitar input, guitar effects, etc. It's just easier to use my amp, pedalboard and my Zoom R24 to do all of that. It was a nice idea to have all that in a very portable battery powered unit, but the fact is, I never had the opportunity in 2 years to use any of it.
The best news is I sold it for $100 over what I paid! So it's all good. I will return to roland again in the future but I feel they need to really work on their "human interface" on all their keyboards!
The large touch screen on the Krome makes it much easier to understand. I will miss the look and feel of the Juno, and some of the great Roland sounds. I'll miss the simplicity of recording audio instead of sequencing midi files (ugh).
I never ended up using the audio interface, mic/guitar input, guitar effects, etc. It's just easier to use my amp, pedalboard and my Zoom R24 to do all of that. It was a nice idea to have all that in a very portable battery powered unit, but the fact is, I never had the opportunity in 2 years to use any of it.
The best news is I sold it for $100 over what I paid! So it's all good. I will return to roland again in the future but I feel they need to really work on their "human interface" on all their keyboards!