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Roland JUNO-G Workshop Manual

Roland JUNO-G Workshop Manual

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  • Page 1 Workshop ®ÂØÒňΠ® JUNO-G Workstation Keyboard JUNO-Geography © 2009 Roland Corporation U.S. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of Roland Corporation U.S. JGWS01...

  • Page 2: About This Booklet

    About This Booklet Making the Power Connection In this booklet, we’ll introduce you to the JUNO-G, with a quick tour of its Assemble the JUNO-G’s two-piece power adaptor. creative tools. We’ll show you how they work together as a complete music- making environment.
  • Page 3 JUNO-G’s OUTPUT A (MIX) L (MONO)/1 By default, your JUNO-G boots up into Patch mode. The JUNO-G has a few and R/2 jacks to the amp’s left and right inputs, respectively. operating modes, and this one’s the place where you’ll select, play, and edit or create individual sounds, which are called “patches.
  • Page 4 Operating the JUNO-G The JUNO-G Controls A setting on the JUNO-G is called a “parameter. ” To change a parameter’s Let’s take a moment to introduce the controls you’ll use to get around on value, you select it so it’s highlighted, as shown here.
  • Page 5 The JUNO-G makes sounds easy to find and select by presenting them to Selecting Sounds Using the PATCH PLAY Screen Parameters you in instrument-type categories. (They’re actually stored in memory Using the 3, 4, 5, 6, DEC, and INC buttons and the Value knob to select “banks”...
  • Page 6 For the next section, select a patch to explore the things we’ll discuss. release to remove it The Responsive JUNO-G Keyboard As far as the sound’s responsiveness goes: The JUNO-G’s keyboard detects the force, or “velocity, ” with which you play, and sounds change accordingly.
  • Page 7 Saving Realtime Changes When you’ve got a patch sounding so good you’d like to keep it in its current state, you can save it to User memory as described on Page 32 of the JUNO-G Owner’s Manual. A couple of the things keyboardists most like to change in realtime are a patch’s Cutoff and Resonance values—this produces the moving “yowl”...

  • Page 8: Selecting Performances

    Performances are stored in banks, like patches and rhythm sets. There are 64 Preset performances in the PRST bank, and 64 User memory Each part also has its own settings for using the JUNO-G’s effects, as well as locations for your own performances in the USER bank. (You can store parameters that determine how its sound is to be played.
  • Page 9 The JUNO-G Effects Exploring the JUNO-G Rhythms Effects play a large role in the sound of the JUNO-G’s patches, rhythm sets, and performances. They’re also important in the process of creating songs. The JUNO-G comes with 256 Preset rhythm patterns—”beats”—that you can play along with or use in a song.

  • Page 10: Playing Rhythm Patterns

    Part parameter as shown here: Now press another pad to hear its rhythm pattern. As a beat plays, press another pad to hear how the JUNO-G seamlessly switches between rhythm patterns. Try playing along with the beat on the keyboard.
  • Page 11 Let’s try out the JUNO-G arpeggiator with a simple patch, like a piano. Of The JUNO-G Studio course, the arpeggiator works with any sound—it’s just that a simple sound will help you hear more clearly what’s going on. Once you have your patch: What Is the Song Recorder, Really? Press the ARPEGGIO button so it lights—the ARPEGGIO...
  • Page 12 JUNO-G stretches or shrinks its audio tracks to fit. (This works best with minor adjustments to a song’s tempo.) Let’s have a first look at the Song Recorder by listening to one of the JUNO-G When you’ve finished a song, you can also record the JUNO-G’s own outputs factory demos.

  • Page 13: Selecting A Performance

    Though it can hold up to 256 songs in its User memory—and 256 on a Selecting a Performance memory card—the JUNO-G has one active song at a time loaded in its “temporary memory. ” The main factory demo’s loaded now.
  • Page 14 If you’ve just sequenced something and would like to get rid of it—most Set the Count in parameter to OFF, as shown above. typically to try it again—you can use the JUNO-G’s Undo feature. Here’s how With this setting, a single button-press will cause the rhythm pattern to use it: to start and the sequencer to capture its performance.
  • Page 15 Ready to sequence? Hit the PLAY button to start your four-beat countoff. Part 1 is set to use the Juno-G Grand patch, which is fine for now. With After the four beats, play your idea. this part selected, we can play it from the keyboard.
  • Page 16 If you play a wrong note, press F4 (ERASE)—the Realtime Erase If you’d like to adjust the level balance between the piano and the window opens. beat, hit the PART MIXER button, select the Level fader for Part 1 (the piano) or Part 10 (the beat) and make the adjustment you want.

  • Page 17: Recording An Audio Track

    Song Recorder area. Rec Mode value means that we’ll be recording only what’s coming into the audio input and not any of the JUNO-G’s own sounds. A one- measure countoff is fine, too. Since we’re only recording a mono signal, set Audio Rec Channel to Mono, so it takes up half the amount of memory as stereo would.

  • Page 18: Saving Your Song

    If you’d like to preserve the song you’ve recorded, you’ve got to save it to the JUNO-G’s internal memory or to an installed memory card before powering off, or starting or loading another song. See Page 113 in the JUNO-G Owner’s This is the JUNO-G asking you what you want to do with the new Manual to learn how.
  • Page 19 On the SAMPLE EDIT screen, press F4 (LIST) to display the sample list. samples. See Page 176 in the Owner’s Manual. This list shows you all the samples currently loaded in your JUNO-G’s sample memory. Press F1 (SAMPLING) to display the SAMPLING STANDBY screen.

  • Page 20: Playing The Sample Pads

    Press F6 (EXEC). The End When the JUNO-G asks if you’re sure, press F6 (EXEC) again—the sample is assigned to the designated pad. We hope you’ve found this workshop helpful. Keep an eye out for new JUNO-G updates and support documents you can download for free from www.RolandUS.com.

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