Hi. It's Dan Krisher From RolandUS: Some News On Version 2

Dan, add me to the unhappy owners with startup transposition issue. I can't believe how persistent this problem is across topics. Can Roland respond to this?

do it in front of 100 people on the dance floor while you r playing left hand bass and brass line you plonker

i have not ugraded to 2.0, still trying to understand what new features i will be getting with it. using pads to trigger samples - i get that, but all the other operations - chop, emphasis, truncate - are already there. what operations on samples can you do now that you could not do before? is there a manual with screenshots?

thanks

This looks new: Juno-G Version 2.0 Brochure
http://cms.rolandus.com/assets/media/pdf/juno_g_v2_brochure.pdf

It shows the sampling standby screen, which IMO is the best part.

Here's the V2 manual addition, since I can't find a link anywhere.

Wish list! :

There are a lot of requests throughout the forum, for instance:
http://forums.rolandclan.com/index.php?action=show_thre...


Here are mine:

- multisampling (if it can be achieved http://forums.rolandclan.info/index.php?action=show_thr... why doesn't roland just update the OS to allow this without so much unnecessary work)

- sequencing

- in jam sessions it's useful to have a simple accompaniment in the tonality you're playing (call it a riff, it could be a song with a loop and when a new key was played in a split octave of the keyboard, say key D, when the loop restarted, it would transpose to D). It would be even more useful if it had 3 sections that you could activate with play and stop.
Press play and the song starts, it then reaches a loop and when you press stop it skips to the ending. If you want to stop immediately press stop twice.



My point of view is that fantom x is getting old and juno-g can do an even better job of publicising roland's quality and quality/price ratio for liitle work, so adding this features wouldn't hurt sales, instead it would shift and increase them.

Hi Dan

Thanks for the input Roland is putting in the fantastic Juno G.

MY WISH LIST

1 - Allow access to arpegiattor menu without everything stopping

2 - Allow REAL TIME drum beat creation

3 - Allow effects to remain on when sampling or creating audio tracks

4 - IMPORTANT - allow many user pad assigns
[not sure if this is already possible but I have only been able to get one set of user 12 pad assigns. This is very limiting.]

5 - allow preview of samples in the temporary section of the memory card

6 - allow the full keyboard to be used for samples - assigning samples to a rhythm kit is difficult and the samples fade out rather than loop. There is also no way to maintain a loop as with the pads on the rhythm kits

7 - Allow easy load of multisamples

8 - Allow CROSS-FADING of samples or more sophisticated sampling editing to get rid of glitches. Could it be possible to get it to load commercial samples WITH their loop points automatically - that would be amazing!

9 - The zoom button in the sampling menu is right at teh bottom but is often used - this should be higher up

10 - automatic beat calculation when end points and startt points are chosen would save a lot of toing and froing trying to get to a certain bpm

11 - Allow certain parts [especially the lead] to be muted on SMF playback

12 - allow real time writing of arpeggios - play something in - have it quantised and converted into an arpeggiator pattern - so far I have not tried to write an arp pattern it seems too difficult

13 - allow finer than 1/16 resolution in the rhythm write

14 - allow an octave or 2 of a bass sound in the rhythm kits [like the Yamaha SY85 had/has] - amazing songwriting tool together with real time writing and a very easy method of stringing toether patterns - check it out if you can and copy it

With these improvements the Juno G will prob become the best workstation ever [if only aftertouch was added as well!]

Hi Drak12,
Dan's post has almost one year old... IMHO, I don't thing Roland will go for a OS upgrade on the Juno-G, but that's up to Roland policy.

Anyway, just a few remarks on 3 of your wish list items

1 - Allow access to arpeggiattor menu without everything stopping
** I think that is possible via the SHIFT+ARPEGGIO buttons, No ?**

7 - Allow easy load of multisamples
** that is one of the functions not implemented in the Juno (this is one of the functions that differentiates the Juno-G from his "cousin" Fantom Xa)**

11 - Allow certain parts [especially the lead] to be muted on SMF playback
** is that not possible on SMF type 1 ? **

Regarding the other items in the list, at the moment I really don't know (need more info).

Hi Thanks Ill try that with the shift and arpeggio together - hope it works!

A few more comments...

5 - allow preview of samples in the temporary section of the memory card
** Please see Page117 of the Owner's Manual***


12 - allow real time writing of arpeggios - play something in - have it quantised and converted into an arpeggiator pattern - so far I have not tried to write an arp pattern it seems too difficult
** unfortunately this is not possible on the Juno-G, unless there is any hidden feature. You need to create them using the Normal Arp creation method**

13 - allow finer than 1/16 resolution in the rhythm write
** If I'm not mistaken, 1/32th note resolution is also allowed **

Hi Paul. I tried the shift+ arpegiattor button and that worked perfectly.

PS - Have you been able to get access to more than 12 samples at a time?

I can assign samples to pads but only one set of 12.

There doesn't seem to be a way of creating/storing more than once bunch of 12 samples.

It is possible by assigining samples to a rhythm kit but this is long-winded and the samples don't loop properly just fade. Release time can be changed but then htey sustain for ages when you release the key.

Dan mentioned something about being able to assign samples to the lowest part of the keyboard - anyone here done that?

PPS - the sounds in the Library are excellent

my whishes are

- to make it possible to sample with effects without tricking
- fix the sequencer issue when overdubbing - mute groups in rhythm patches are ignored, mono mode in normal patches are ignored as well
- make it possible to load samples, only used in the song, but not all samples on the card


but i'm not sure if any update will be out as roland support is very weak

one more thing!!! to fix rhythm pattern switching.... now it's pretty difficult to switch rhythm patterns without glitches... so my wishlist is

- to make it possible to sample with effects without tricking
- fix the sequencer issue when overdubbing - mute groups in rhythm patches are ignored, mono mode in normal patches are ignored as well
- make it possible to load samples, only used in the song, but not all samples on the card
- fix rhythm pattern switching

Hi - you can load just the samples you want from the card
Start the Juno without the sample load
Then click 'mark' next to each sample you want to load - then click 'utility' then 'load '

Hi. I have been able to preview samples on the sample section of the card but wondered if it was possible to preview samples in the 'temporary audio' section of the card - i.e samples which havent been loaded and saved yet

You should be able to see them from the FILE_UTILITY Menu.
Then you can IMPORT AUDIO, which will Import thew file into the SMPL Directory, from where you can then Mark, Delete, Move and Copy them around.