Just dropped another preset library – this time for DCO-106, Cherry Audio’s take on Roland Juno-106.

Get it here: https://blacksidedsun.gumroad.com/l/pj106

These timbres are re-implementation of my earlier presets for TAL U-NO-LX synth – PJ-6.

The initial idea was to set the sliders in the same positions and see what holds. But that just did not work.

So the PJ-106 variants of preset were tweaked or re-dialled to sound more like patches from PJ-6.

It turned out way trickier that expected. Whereas Juno-60 and Juno-106 are reportedly rather similar, U-NO-LX and DCO-106 are drastically different from each other, preventing patches from sounding identical or even similar enough to each other.

For one, DCO-106 lacks U-NO-LX’s polyphonic unison mode, it has only a more traditional monophonic unison. Second, their envelopes seem to be working differently, and so do the LFO’s. Third, TAL’s plugin allows to fire up both Chorus effects at once, which is not possible with DCO-106.

DCO-106 is a great synth, but personally, if I’d have to choose between them two, I’d select U-NO-LX. Its sound clicks with me much more. Besides, it taxes CPU much less.

Overall the pack comprises:

• 11 Arpeggios
• 3 Basses
• 9 Keys
• 8 Leads
• 13 Pads
• 8 Percussive patches
• 5 Strings
• 2 Sweeps
• 12 Textures

PJ-106: a soundpack for Cherry Audio DCO-106 synthesizer © 2025 by black-sided sun is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International.