I see now, how practical was the claim by Enya‘s producer Nicky Ryan that they will never get rid of Roland Juno 60. Dug deep into TAL’s emulator (U-No-LX) and can’t stop tinkering with it. Despite its deceptively simple architecture, the synth is a sonic powerhouse with totally enormous capabilities.

Surely it has some upgrades, such as Unisono mode and on-board effects, but it sounds great w/o them either: double-mode chorus does the job alright.

Ironically, years ago I’ve stumbled upon Poly 2106 freeware vst, that is obviously inspired by Roland Juno-106. It has got a few tremendously beautiful patches, yet in Reaper it also has some abysmal performance issues rendering it almost useless.

But I’ve finally managed to reproduce those sounds closely in U-No-LX (which is a commercial plugin), and it sorts out a problem or two for me, actually.

Making a custom pack for it U-No-LX, for the hell of it.
The I’ll try to make their counterparts for Cherry Audio’s take on Juno-106 and, probably, old-but-gold u-he TyrellN6, which is also reportedly inspired by Juno 6/60/106 family.