206 - Two Juno-106s in Custom Case

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via Kerry

Update via Alan: "I had bought the second Juno for parts to fix the first but on closer inspection the second Juno was actually in better condition that the first. I had tried linking them up with midi as the Juno outputs sysex messages for all its parameters so you can control one from another and then I thought why not stick them together and have one awesome synth rather than one and a bit broken ones.
got the wood for the base from the local hardware store and placed all the PCBs inside and mounted them as they are mounted in the original only one behind the other. fix a foil grounding sheet to the wood also and then joined the digital earths from both machines together over the CPU board where I also hardwired the midi out to in from the master unit to the slave unit and looped back again for midi dumps from both machine I have diodes in that circuit so theres no data loops or messages going the wrong way thats then weird two one midi board on the rear on the new case in out through. I had to hardwire a couple of the mod wheel parameters over the two module boards and I also moved the tune pots from the rear to sit up on top along with a volume knob for the slave unit. so I can detune the two synths. the slave units chorus on the audio board has been deactivated and the dry mono signal now runs through the same audio board ans the master sharing the same chorus. I though two lots of chorus would sound far to messy. You can control the slave unit from the master units font panel together or program the slave unit separately. Or control just the master units controls by selecting from the three different program modes on the rear switch. each unit can still have its own midi channel and so can be used as a bi timbrel synth or a fatter twin osc machine on the same midi channel. You can load programs from the master to the slave unit but not back the other way but the tape input and outputs can load to your selected devices from the same jacks as all rear jacks are wired over each other from the two audio boards. The twin power supply share the same power switch and what else.... Oh yeah it sounds massive ;o) I like to create complementary patches for front and back for example I have one kick sound on the front and a bass patch on the slave units and for another I have the filter set up the same way only inverse on the Slave unit to make a vocal sounding patch.. Here is a recording I made a while back of it. Still a few tweaks need doing never finished and I intend to make a better looking case for it one day. Thanks for the interest guys. Not sequential but still very nice. Alan"

Update: video here.