Wave Memory

14 May 2010, 00:39

I was reading through the specs for this model, and it lists "wave memory" as "64 megabyte, 16 bit linear equivalent." Can someone please explain what this means? I have experience with analog and virtual analog synths, but I'm new to dealing with sample-based synths.

Re: Wave Memory

14 May 2010, 01:13

The sounds in the JUNO-Di are based on samples, and the specification tells how much memory all included samples occupy.

Re: Wave Memory

14 May 2010, 13:47

Thanks, Art. I thought that might be the case, but I was expecting that the samples would take up a much larger amount of memory, gigabytes rather than megabytes. The ROM is not much larger than that on the Alesis Quadrasynth series from the 1990s.

Re: Wave Memory

14 May 2010, 13:54

Yes it's hard to believe all that stuff fits inside. But since most instrument samples are looped, Roland is able to squeeze quite a lot into this little amount of RAM.

Re: Wave Memory

14 May 2010, 13:55

Yes it's hard to believe all that stuff fits inside. But since most instrument samples are looped, Roland is able to squeeze quite a lot into this little amount of RAM.