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Tubbutec Juno-66 User Manual

For firmware v1.25
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  • Page 1 Tubbutec Juno-66 User Manual for Firmware V1.25...

  • Page 3: Introduction

    The key transpose button has become the primary mode switch to program the Juno-66, and as the result, the original behavior is lost. Workarounds are described in this manual as we go.

  • Page 4: Version History

    Version History Version 1.22 Version 1.28 Polymode only kills every second voice, and Arp is now behaving correctly in up/down mode “click” sound when switching from very low to very when highest notes are played. Spread amount high note fixed. in menu exponential control.

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    CONTENTS Introduction Version History Switches and Buttons Play Modes Poly Three Voice MONO A/B Chord Mode Polychord Portamento Powerarp Selecting Clock Source MIDI Arpeggiator and Sample & Hold Trigger FIlter Via MIDI Program Change Pitch Bend Additional Filter ADSR Alternate Tunings Config Memory Tips &...

  • Page 7: Switches And Buttons

    SWITCHES AND BUTTONS The Juno-66 functions are controlled by the following switches and buttons on the left side of the synth’s panel:
 KEY TRANSPOSE, HOLD, ARPEGGIATOR ON/OFF, MODE and RANGE. KEY TRANSPOSE The original function of the Key Transpose button has been replaced. It now serves as a ’FUNCTION TRANSPOSE’...

  • Page 8: Play Modes

    
 Play Modes Overview In addition to the 6 voice polyphonic mode five new play modes are introduced with the Juno-66:
 Two monophonic modes (A & B), a duophonic mode, traditional chord memory and assignable Polychord mode. When the arpeggiator is turned off, use the MODE switch and the KEY TRANSPOSE button to select the play mode.

  • Page 9: Three Voice

    ’clean’ over for the Juno-66, otherwise this will not do ’fat’ to ’dirty’ and finally ’detuned’ can be achieved. anything, and it will get confusing. ADJUST FATNESS LOCALLY It’s easy to get discouraged with things like this 1.

  • Page 10: Mono A/B

    MONO A and B 
 In the monophic modes all six Oscillators are layered and detuned with respect to each other to achive a thicker, denser sound similar to the ’supersaw’ or ’supersquare’ modes often found in synthesizers. FATNESS By adjusting the fatness a wide range of sonds MONO mode layers all the DCO oscillators per from ’clean’...

  • Page 11: Chord Mode

    2. Press the Hold button 3. Press Key Transpose 4. Freely transpose your held chord across the keyboard. The Juno-66 offers a version of this as follows: STANDARD CHORD MODE 1. Play a chord 2. While holding the chord press the Hold button 3.

  • Page 12: Polychord

    POLYCHORD The Polychord functionality allows you to assign an individual chord to each key of the keyboard and play these chords with a single key press. Like any other play mode Polychord can be used in conjunction with the Powerarp. Combining the two gives you a versatile chord sequencer! Essentially this is memory locations for chords.

  • Page 13: Portamento

    The Juno-66 features portamento for all play modes.
 The portamento used in the Juno-66 is linear on the musical scale. This means that when sliding from C to E, the time spent between C and D is the same than between D and E.

  • Page 14: Powerarp

    POWERARP POWERARP OVERVIEW 
 The Powerarp mode lets you define a custom arpeggiator sequence which works in all play modes. You can define a sequence of up to 128 notes, transpose in pitch or shift it in time. Enter the notes, adding rests or ties, and then playing it back using the internal clock, or triggering it from the Arpeggiator Clock Input, or from the Midi clock, or with triggers from midi notes.

  • Page 15: Selecting Clock Source

    You may also adjust the analog clock divider in Now without recording a sequence press the KEY the same way. In programming mode, select A4 transpose button again. The Juno-66 is now in and then select the clock division you would like Powerarp mode with the previously used to try.

  • Page 16: Midi

    MIDI OUT AS PLAYED 
 On the as-played channel only the key presses on the Juno keyboard are sent. If you record this channel and send it back to the Juno-66, the synth will sound exactly the same as when you played it.
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  • Page 17: Arpeggiator And Sample & Hold Trigger

    The filter S/H LFO and the triangular LFO can also be controlled using midi. 
 PROGRAM CHANGE 
 The Juno-66 responds to program change commands and changes the play mode. It also sends program change commands when changing the play mode. The following table shows which program number corresponds with which play mode: 
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  • Page 18: Pitch Bend

    ADDITIONAL FILTER ADSR The Juno-66 features an additional ADSR envelope for the filter. It is a global envelope. This means there is not one envelope for each voice but one shared by each voice. In Poly, Duo, Three voice modes the envelope is retriggered after all keys had been released.

  • Page 19: Alternate Tunings

    ALTERNATE TUNINGS Juno-66 has the ability to use several alternative scales, as well as four user defined custom scales.
 Built in are the following scales: Pythagorean, Werckmeister III, Werck- meister IV, Werckmeister V, 1/4 meantone and Harmonic (All with 12 notes / octave). You can also upload a custom scale with a program such as Scala using midi standard tuning bulk dump messages.

  • Page 20: Config Memory

    CONFIG MENU In the config menu various parameters can be adjusted. For some param- eters a value can be selected by using the lower 17 key of the keyboard, others can be selected with a single key press. Parameters that are also controlled using midi are saved when pressing any unused key in the konfig menu. You could for example set the portamento times using a midi con- troller and then save them in the config menu.
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  • Page 21 PITCH BEND CALIBRATION 
 FACTORY RESET 
 To perform pitch bend calibration set the tune To perform a factory reset press the highest note knob to the center position, make sure the pitch on the keyboard (C5). 
 bend wheel is at center and then use MIDI to send midi pitch bend messages until the synth is in tune.

  • Page 22: Tips & Tricks

    You can transfer a melody from an external If you want to move or copy a chord to a different sequencer to the Juno-66 Powerap sequencer by key in Polychord mode, play it and then record it going into Powerarp record mode and than again.

  • Page 23: Appendix

    APPENDIX 
 MIDI CONTROLLER CHART note: controller numbers in the chart are in the range of 0-127. If your midi controller displays controller numbers as 1-128 you have to add 1 to the numbers below.

  • Page 25: Troubleshooting

    (or out) connection and see if the problem The Juno-66 excepts midi input in a range of 6 disappears. 
 octaves from C0 to C5.

  • Page 26: Thanks

    THANKS Hannes Teichmann Sebastian Huebner for feature suggestions and beta testing Tobias Munzer who wrote the original version of this manual Alexandra Cielas for everything else This manual is a remix by Sunshine Jones Version 0.1C...

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