In 2024 I bought a JUNO-X with the hope of replacing my trusty JUNO-106. I intended to use the JUNO-X for live shows to avoid hauling around its vintage counterpart. I thought “a digital JUNO-106 … how cool!”
If you own a JUNO-X you were shaking your head as you read that last sentence. What I learned (and what you know) is that the X is not just a digital 106 with more bells and whistles. The “106-ness” of the X is mostly in its hardware design—and I soon learned that the JUNO-X is a really complicated synthesizer.
I tried for 2 years to wrap my head around it. No matter how many YouTube tutorials I watched, pages of the manual I read, and Googling I used to crack the JUNO-X code, it came up short. Enter JUNO-Xtra—an app I wrote to help decode the JUNO-X so I could use more of its features, easily create and back up sounds, and save custom setlists.
It’s late 2026 and I’m just now beginning to understand the complicatedly cool JUNO-X. I hope the JUNO-Xtra app helps you do the same.
P.S. This is my third synth app. If you’re a fellow synthaholic, see also: JP Patches for the JX-3P and This Seven Goes to Eleven for the Crumar Seven.
What JUNO-Xtra can do today
- Connect over USB
- Back up & restore a single bank or all 16 banks
- Reorder scenes with drag-and-drop
- Rename scenes with your laptop keyboard
- Build a scene with ease
- Visually adjust keyboard zones, octaves and velocity
- Audition effects as you listen
- Save a bank as a setlist
- For Mac & PC
JUNO-Xtra is free. Donations help cover code signing and hosting. Thanks from Seattle! — Daniel
Fishing for feedback
It’s me and one JUNO-X so far. Everything here has been read off, and written back to, exactly one instrument — mine. If you own a JUNO-X I’d like to hear what breaks, what’s missing, and what you expected it to do that it doesn’t.