Behringer JN-80 Previews Roland Juno-60 Knockoff At The Winter NAMM Show

At the 2026 NAMM Show, Behringer is previewing their knockoff of the Roland Juno-60, the JN-80.

The Behringer JN-80 – previously named the ‘Neptune-80 – is based on the Juno-60, but offers 8-voice polyphony, vs the original’s 6-voice polyphony. It also reduces the size of the control panel and uses a 4-octave keyboard, instead of the 5-octave keyboard of the original. It looks like Behringer has based the Neptune-80 dimensions on their Deepmind 12’s form factor.

While the JN-80 is a limited synth compared to the Deepmind 12, its look and sound will appeal to people that like the vintage Roland Juno-60, but not its vintage price.

Here’s a short video demo, via Noir Et Blanc Vie – After Hours:

Features (Unofficial):

  • 8-voice polyphonic analog synthesizer
  • Discrete DCOs, 3109 VCFs, 662 VCAs
  • Saw, square, and pulse width waveforms
  • 24 dB lowpass filter with resonance and envelope control
  • Unison, double, and poly modes
  • Multi-stage BBD chorus
  • 49 full-size keys with aftertouch and velocity sensitivity
  • Sub-oscillator one octave down
  • Global noise generator
  • Sophisticated arpeggiator with manual and external tempo control
  • Powerful LFO for pulse width, pitch, and filter cutoff
  • LCD display with encoder for menu editing
  • Assignable preset recall switches
  • 400 user program memories with a compare and match feature
  • Polyphonic portamento
  • Spring-loaded pitch and modulation wheels
  • CV and pedal inputs
  • Comprehensive MIDI implementation including NRPN/CC and bulk load/save

We’ll have full specs and pricing once it is officially released.

In the meantime, let us know what you think of the Behringer JN-80 in the comments!

19 thoughts on “Behringer JN-80 Previews Roland Juno-60 Knockoff At The Winter NAMM Show”

  1. Whoa a screen! 400 presets! Almost like living in the early 2000’s.

    Hey great uli now let’s see a screen and presets on the mono poly

    1. It’s incredible how short peoples memory are

      Complaining about synths like they’ve just always been there and easily obtainable

  3. Kind of interesting, but Behringer never released any of the synths they hyped at NAMM last year.

    And the only Behringer synth I’m REALLY tempted by is the Synthi clone that they’ve teased. That would probably be an instant buy, for me!

    2. The DX1 clone, Jupiter 8 clone, and CS 80 clones are really the only clones I am waiting for

      If this is priced right, I could see myself picking one up though in the meantime.

  4. Dear Behringer…
    How about something innovative for a change?

    Haven’t we had enough of the same, old Roland designs?
    Another unimaginative Juno? Come on, you can do better than that!

  5. The world doesn’t need another single-DCO polysynth. Yeah, I get that it’s painted to look like a 1980s Roland. But it’s not.

      1. Is that all that matters?
        I think sound is most important. Also the feel and quality of an instrument matters imo not just looks.
        And if its pretending to be clone than it should stay honest to the original circuitry or how it behaves and not make it different while selling it as the real deal.

        The JN-80 from what I heard so far doesn’t sound like the Juno-60 but more like a crappy plugin from 2 decades ago. Everything so far sound dead. Now if it was a great build with quality keyboard than it might be nice MIDI controller for one of the many plugins that sound a lot better than this. However we all know how crap those keyboards from Behringer are. If the faders are just as bad as on the Deepmind I probably wouldn’t even be interested in buying a desktop version.

        1. Behringer loves hearing feedback from people who have experience with the original hardware. Please send over your feedback to them, they will literally listen to you. Also, please keep in mind these are budget friendly. Behringer build quality is good but they can’t go all out like the $3000 synths so please lower your expectations a bit. Thank you.

  6. I don’t understand weak-minded people with kittens in their studios. They have this great sense of moral high ground and engage in selective outrage. A company comes out with a VST modeled after some vintage synth and say NOTHING if their are not praising it. As soon as a Behringer makes a hardware synth inspired by a vintage, people lose their minds. VST good, hardware bad, make up your minds.

    1. Could be those people own the original and are upset they overpaid + decreased value of their “investment” lol

      1. Because the Behringer knockoffs have killed the resale value of vintage synths and used prices are plummeting….

        Can I have a hit of whatever you’re smoking?

    2. “VST good, hardware bad, make up your minds.”

      Classic fanboy comment to complain about things that literally nobody has said in this thread.

  7. I owned a Juno-60 for a few years and it had so much mojo, I could play for hours.
    None of the other synths I have owned before or since, vintage or new, had that. Granted I haven’t owned all the synths in existence…
    I can’t justify paying the price of a vintage one, so I’m really pumped about this. Hopefully they were able to capture that mojo. If so I’ll buy it in a heartbeat.

    1. The Juno is not hard to emulate. It is one oscillator (tied two 3 phase-aligned wave generators: pulse, saw, and sub-square), one LFO, one ENV and a Chorus. The Mojo you speak of is either the fact that it has a decent filter (as any decent synth will), or the Chorus effect.

      Many Juno emulations get very close to recreating this sound. Some fail in obvious ways (like very old free plugins), and some in less obvious ways (Roland’s own Zenology Pro doesn’t emulate the note-repeat behavior of Juno, yet sounds decent enough).

      But there’s no magic. It’s just down to good engineering and attention to detail. Objectively, any decent oscillator, filter and chorus can get you ~90% of what the Juno can do. The other 10% is all edge cases.

      As far as my ears go, it sounds as good as any good clone. TAL-U-NO-LX and Roland Cloud are pretty good plugins, and this is a good, cheap analog clone. Of course, Behringer is known for sometimes failing to bring products to market.

  8. People who dont make, build nor create products strangely complain about things other people make. How about making your own synth, then perfection can be ensured

  9. As long as a real one is north of five grand this will sell well.
    Young artists need classic gear like this and it needs to be affordable.
    Keep it up behringer .
    Its pretty clear at this point indeed you are doing something right .

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