Roland JUNO-DS61 Synthesizer - Manual

Owner’s Manual
(this document)
Read this first. It explains the basic things you need to know in order to use the JUNO-DS.
PDF manual
(download from the Web)
5 Parameter Guide (English)
This explains all parameters of the JUNO-DS.
5 MIDI Implementation (English)
This is detailed information about MIDI messages.
To obtain the PDF manual
1. Enter the following URL in your computer.
http://www.roland.com/manuals/
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2. Choose “JUNO-DS” as the product name.
Before using this unit, carefully read “USING THE UNIT SAFELY” and “IMPORTANT NOTES” (leaflet “USING THE UNIT SAFELY” and Owner’s Manual (p. 20)). After reading, keep the document(s) including
those sections where it will be available for immediate reference.
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Contents
Panel Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Top Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Rear Panel (Connecting Your Equipment) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Installing Batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
How the JUNO-DS Is Organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Basic Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Playing the JUNO-DS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Turning On/Off the Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Playing a Single Tone (Patch Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Performing Multiple Sounds Together (Performance Mode) . . . . . 5
Changing the Key Touch (KEY TOUCH) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Shifting the Key Range in Semitone Steps (Transpose) . . . . . . . . . 7
Changing the Keyboard’s Pitch in One-Octave Steps
(Octave Shift) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Using the Control Knobs to Vary the Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Registering Favorite Sounds to a Button (FAVORITE) . . . . . . . . . . 7
Playing Arpeggios (ARPEGGIO) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Performing with Voice from a Mic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Importing a Sample and Playing It on the Keyboard
(SAMPLE IMPORT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Importing Audio Files (Sample) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Recalling a Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Deleting Imported Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Editing Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Editing Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Editing a Patch/Drum Kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Editing a Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Editing the Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Saving Your Settings (Write) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Playing Rhythm Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Selecting and Playing a Rhythm Pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Changing the Tempo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Playing Audio Files (Audio Player) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Assigning Audio Files to Pads and Playing Them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Audio Player Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Playing/Recording Patterns (PATTERN SEQUENCER) . . . . . 13
Playing Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Basic Operations for the Pattern Sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Recording Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Saving a Pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Pattern Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Overall Settings for the JUNO-DS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Accessing the Menu Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Making System Settings (SYSTEM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Adjusting the Display Contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Adjusting the Display Brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Enabling/Disabling the Auto-Off Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Master Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Applying Reverb to the Mic Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Assigning the Function of the Control Pedal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Assigning the Function of the Control Knobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Convenient Functions (UTILITY) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Playing the Demo Songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
USING THE UNIT SAFELY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
IMPORTANT NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Shortcut List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Main Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
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