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- A few quick notes on Junovoic.bas.
-
- The program was written for a Roland Alpha-Juno 1. It should
- work on a Juno-2 and an MKS-50 although it has not been tested.
-
- The program is not intended to be a full blown editor/librarian.
- I originally wrote it to only display all of the parms for a patch
- on the screen simultaneously. I later added the file save/retrieve,
- patch print, and directory options for convenience.
-
- Obviously the program has some limitations. It views a group
- of Juno voices as 8 banks of 8 cells (numbers on the synth) just like
- the Juno. I had trouble overflowing the midi buffer when i tried a
- bulk dump so the program receives voices one at a time. The program
- does not transmit any data to the Juno and uses the front panel of the
- Juno as a transmission control in order to receive the voice parms.
- The following tips should help.
-
- 1) Be sure to set MIDI EXCL=ON on the JUNO.
- 2) When selecting option 1 from the menu
- a) The Juno transmits the patch data as soon as you
- press a select button on its front panel. The program,
- therefore pauses before every bank, including the first
- one, to allow you to set the bank. For instance,
- after selecting option 1 the program prompts you to hit
- enter. Be sure to set to bank 1 before hitting enter.
- After the prompt is gone, select cells (numbers) 1 - 8
- in the ascending sequence. After selecting 8, the
- program again prompts you. Select bank 2, hit enter, and
- select the cells as described above. When you have
- finished with bank 8 the program will return you to the
- main menu.
- b) Option 2 allows you to receive only 1 voice instead of the
- entire group. With this option, the program needs to know
- where to place the voice in the 8 by 8 group. It will
- prompt you for bank and cell, then wait for you to select
- the voice from the Juno's front panel. Again, be sure to
- position the Juno before responding to the prompts.
- 3) The program prints and displays the envelope parms numerically.
- The Juno has graphic representations for these parms. I used
- the midi data value, 0 thru 3, in the same order as the options
- appear on the Juno. For example, the second DCO ENV parm has
- four options for you to choose. The first is option 0, etc.
-
-
- If you have any comments about this program please let me know.
- There are many modifications to be made to make this shell more
- useful. I request, for posterities sake, that if you modify
- Junovoic.bas, you upload it as a new version, document your changes,
- and leave my name as well as yours in the code so that we all may
- share in the feedback.
-
- Good luck,
- Loren Claypool
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