About This Booklet - Roland JUNO-Gi Workshop Manual

About the JUNO-Gi Workshop Booklets
The Roland JUNO-Gi Mobile Synthesizer with Digital Recorder is an
affordable, portable, perfect instrument for performers and songwriters.
It's got a top-of-the-line sound engine and over 1300 exciting new sounds.
The onboard digital recorder allows you to record and develop your songs,
with dedicated faders and acclaimed BOSS GT-class effects. With USB MIDI
capabilities and its instant MIDI Controller mode, the JUNO-Gi also fits nicely
into any computer-based recording system. Finally, the JUNO-Gi sports a
versatile USB song player for playing backing tracks onstage.
Each JUNO-Gi Workshop Series booklet focuses on one JUNO-Gi topic, and is
intended as a companion to the JUNO-Gi Owner's Manual.
This booklet requires JUNO-Gi Operating System v1.01 or higher. You can
download the latest JUNO-Gi O.S. for free from www.RolandUS.com.

About This Booklet

In the Getting to Know the JUNO-Gi Workshop booklet, starting on page 12,
we took you through the basics of using the JUNO-Gi's digital recorder. In
this booklet, we'll build on that knowledge, taking you a bit deeper, and
presenting further details on song-creation. If you haven't yet read Getting to
Know the JUNO-Gi, we recommend you do so before proceeding.
Understanding the Symbols in This Booklet
Throughout this booklet, you'll come across information that deserves
special attention—that's the reason it's labeled with one of the following
symbols.
A note is something that adds information about the topic at hand.
A tip offers suggestions for using the feature being discussed.
Warnings contain important information that can help you avoid
possible damage to your equipment, your data, or yourself.
About SD Cards You Use for Recording
The JUNO-Gi's digital recorder records directly to an SD
memory card installed in your JUNO-Gi. You can use standard
SD- or SDHC-format cards. Included with your JUNO-Gi is a 2
GB (gigabyte) SD card. You'll want to purchase additional cards
if you plan to get into the digital recorder. (For simplicity's sake,
we'll refer to both card types as "SD cards" in this booklet.)
The JUNO-Gi's factory demos reside on the card that shipped with your
JUNO-Gi, and they take up some space on the card. If you'd like to
hold onto them, you should either back them up on your computer and
delete them from the card, or set aside the card and do your recording
on a different one. (We'll explain how to back up in a little bit.)
How much recording time is available on different-sized cards? Since we
can't know how many V-Tracks you'll be recording, we'll have to answer that
question with the number of hours you can record if you just use a single
V-Track. To really figure out how long your songs and V-Tracks can be, divide
the V-Track hours by the number of V-Tracks you guess you'll use.
Card Size
1 GB
2 GB
4 GB
8 GB
16 GB
32 GB
Here's how to do the math. Let's say that in each of your songs you expect to
record eight V-Tracks. If you've got a 2GB card, divide the available 12 V-Track
hours by eight to arrive at 1.5 hours of recording time. This means that, for all
of the songs on the card added together, there's a total of an hour and a half
of available recording time. That's about two CD's worth of music.
Of course, since it's impossible to guess how many V-Tracks you'll really wind
up recording, this involves some guesstimating. Still, it'll give you a ballpark
idea of how much music a card can hold.
V-Track Hours:
6 hours
12 hours
24 hours
48
96
192
SDHC Memory Card
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