RolandAIRA Compact J-6 Portable Song Creation Machine with Professional Sound and Features | JUNO-60 Synth Engine & Presets | Chord Sequencer | Effects

These small units are really convenient and super powerful, loads of features!I purchased the S-1 & J-6.This review is for the J-6...There's a little learning curve but after spending some time with it I really like it! The sounds and effects are very impressive, sequencer is fun to experiment with. Arp takes a little while to understand (compared to typical arp functions) but there's lots of inspiration to be found once you mess with it for a while. I like the fact that they generalized the synth parameters on this particular unit. Good idea and keeps you more focused on chords, rhythms and ideas more than synth editing.

I have the first three Aira Compact devices, and will probably add the S-1 down the road, but the J-6 and E-4 are amazing, and the T-8 is great to connect in with those two.As others have mentioned the J-6 shines as a way of coming up with new chord progressions. You can set it to play these little arpeggios, and it will only play things in the appropriate scale or key that you are in. There are a bunch of different sounds that come with the J-6, but honestly my favorite part of this thing is bringing into your DAW as a midi controller. I've tested it in ableton, reaper and last night was using it with my Maschine in the Maschine software.Mind blown. I can take some cool sounding lead instrument in maschine, run it through the J-6, and it will start making these arpeggios with the sounds I have in maschine. So it was fun with the 64 sounds that come with it, but then you factor in the 1000's of digital instruments I have on my computer and you have seemingly endless potential for creating new chord progressions.It's pretty much a cure for writers block.

Works great my wife loves

Super fun to play around with - there’s no going wrong with the chords already set for you!

Got this hopefully help with backing tracks for guitar looking for rhythm section sound quality is good how ever with the learning curve I just had trouble so it's nice lot of sounds to work with just not for me think about it before you buy

I honestly only bought his to have a travel sized midi controller but this is soooo much more than I expected. It being a synth with awesome sounds in a small package is great and then the fact that it plays chords and arps and phrases just makes it 10x better. I went from thinking it would be a travel controller for my iPad to connecting it to my synthesizers and MPC. It’s become a main piece of equipment. Great purchase, you won’t be sorry you bought this.

If you're making samey-sounding electronic dance music, you might like this. Not for me.I bought a P-6, which I enjoy as a portable creative toy, so I got this to accompany it, but it lacks some very basic features.The instruments all sound like low-quality versions of the Juno synth. The patterns are a nice idea, but it doesn't have enough polyphony to really do anything other than squelchy dance stabs.The real killer for me was there is no song mode. You can't chain patterns together, so if you want to switch to a different pattern, you have to manually turn a knob. I bought this to accompany me while I play another instrument, so that was a deal-breaker for me.I was going to keep it, but a week after I got it the battery just stopped working, so I sent it back.

I can with this! It's a great little instrument for non-musicians dying to actually try to make some music, and it's a great starting point for creating a groove around it. It feels sturdy and high quality and sounds even better. I got this and a Korg FM so I could have a taste of all the yamaha and juno 80's and 90's sounds and I am loving it. It has some limitations obviously bc it's a tiny thing but add a midi keyboard and it becomes more than the sum of the parts. Highly recommended from the new aira line.