
Adding the hold button will set off a bubbling riff while you tweak your sound. There’s an arpeggiator for adding movement.
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One of the exciting inclusions here is the classic Chorus that made the Juno series famous. Finally, there’s a VCA with a standard ADSR envelope. There’s also an LFO, high-pass filter and Voltage Controlled Filter for shaping your sound. The clean interface includes a DCO with square, sawtooth, sub-oscillator and noise. Like its hardware counterpart, it’s very flexible indeed. The DCOs sound both warm and crunchy, and bright and sparkly. Jun-6 V features over 180 patches that showcase the Jun-6’s warm and toasty sound. The Jun-6 V is based on Roland’s Juno-6, a polyphonic synth that’s still highly coveted today. For 80s traditionalists, there are some patches from the original Emulator library, alongside many modern sounds that will be useful in current productions, including some Roland TR series drum kits. And thanks to the new synth-specific tutorials, playing and learning EII V is extremely intuitive. Not only can you adjust the polyphony from monophonic up to 32 notes, but you can also switch the DAC from Vintage to Modern. The output section of the editor is worthy of special mention, too. You can edit sample start and end points, play direction, filters and LFOs, add effects, assign different samples to different key groups and trig delay. Here, you can quickly build or edit your drum kits and sample instruments. You can access more controls by clicking the monitor above the EII. It includes several standard modes (up, down, up&down, random, etc.) and rate, sync and octave controls. The arpeggiator is a basic but functional affair. Arturia’s version adds a few front panel functions absent from the original, such as the effects and arpeggiator sections. The front panel features the most commonly required controls such as filter, LFO and VCA.

It includes some patches from the original factory library and some modern sounds to get the creative juices flowing. This emulation (pun intended) recreates that crunchy lo-fi sound. The Emulator II’s 8-bit sampling goodness and factory library were used by too many 80s artists to count. If you’ve ever seen Ferris Bueller’s Day Off or listened to more than 30 minutes of 80s music, you’ve heard this sampling monster.


They’ve also added yet another sound bank in the form of PatchWorks: a 700-patch library of sounds for Analog Lab V. However, Arturia gives you all that and adds Emulator II V, Jun-6 V, OB-Xa V and Vocoder V, as well as reworked versions of Jup-8 V, Stage-73 V and Analog Lab. We thought it couldn’t possibly get any better than this staggering collection of vintage instruments (and wealth of patches).
