PJ-106 - a soundpack for CHERRY AUDIO DCO-106 software synthesizer

PJ-106 is a soundpack of 72 presets created in CHERRY AUDIO DCO-106 synthesizer. No external effects used except for the mastering plugin (no EQ) on the master bus.

These timbres are mostly recreations of those from the earlier pack 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 timbres 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.

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