EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 45, Issue 08 This issue's topics: Juno 106 Juno-106 (4 messages) JUNO Spec question (2 messages) Juno-106 Sysex (4 messages) Your EMUSIC-L Digest moderator is Joe McMahon . You may subscribe to EMUSIC-L by sending mail to listserv@american.edu with the line "SUB EMUSIC-L your name" as the text. The EMUSIC-L archive is a service of SunSite (sunsite.unc.edu) at the University of North Carolina. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1992 00:13:47 EDT From: Keith Hall Subject: Juno 106 Does anybody know the specs on the Juno 106 (Roland). I've seen one being pawned and would like to know if its the Analog for me. Also, if you know anything about the midi interface on it. Is there any software editor that supports it. Thanks Keith Hall Mary Washington College khall@s850.mwc.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1992 11:06:44 EDT From: ronin Subject: Juno-106 juno 106: 6 voice digitally controlled analog synth. 2 groups of 8 banks of 8 patches, for 128 total patch memory. tape interface for saving and loading. standard fixed architecture. a single voice consists of: one master oscillator, which can generate sawtooth, or variable width pulse waves, or both. pulse width can be set manually or controlled by lfo. slaved 'sub' oscillator which generates a square wave two octaves below the pitch of thes master, with controllable 'mix' level. white noise generator, also with controllable level. output of these sources passed through simple six position high pass filter, then voltage controlled lowpass filter. this filter has controls for frequency cutoff and resonance. the resonance can be driven to self-oscillation. controls to lowpass cutoff are envelope, keyboard, and lfo. all controls are variable, and the envelope is invertable. envelope is adsr, and the vca output stage can either be controlled by the enevlope or simply gated by the keyboard. the lfo is global, not local to each voice, so polymod is not available. the lfo's onset time can be delayed. the voice output is processed by a two-speed choruser. a roland pitchbend/modwheel combined controller can route its left/right deviation to pitch, lowpass cutoff, or lfo speed. ah, back to the lfo... being gloabl, it is the only one available for all modulation functions: pulse width, oscillator frequency, and filter cutoff. the keyboard is not velocity sensitive, and the synthesizer cannot be made to be midi-responsive to velocity. when the machine powers up, it defaults to midi channel 1 (both send and receive) and omni on. the midi channel can be easily changed onboard, but the omni function can only be changed by an external midi command. sysex is available, and while i don't know offhand of any specific editing programs, it must certainly be open to something like x-or. -----------< Cognitive Dissonance is a 20th Century Art Form >----------- Eric Harnden (Ronin) or The American University Physics Dept. 4400 Mass. Ave. NW, Washington, DC, 20016-8058 (202) 885-2748 ---------------------< Join the Cognitive Dissidents >------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1992 16:12:09 EDT From: Keith Hall Subject: Re: Spec question Thanks for the info on the Juno-106, you sold me. Well I've bought the unit and an desperately interested in some software to support the midi dump features. I called Roland and the rep. said that there is no Midi Data Spec for the juno-106 in the USA (maybe in Japan). He explained that way back in those days (an analog frontiersman) most of the midi spec were considered proprietory, so they were not released to the gen. public. If you have any sort of Midi Data Format specifications (SYSEX control messages) I would appreciate it very much if you let me know. Thanks, Keith Hall khall@s850.mwc.edu If you don't want to post this info on the interest group (as it is of little concern to most of the readers) just send it to my email address (above). ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1992 01:51:12 +0100 From: "(Adam MIROWSKI)" Subject: Re: Spec question > Thanks for the info on the Juno-106, you sold me. > Well I've bought the unit and an desperately interested in some software > to support the midi dump features. I called Roland and the rep. said > that there is no Midi Data Spec for the juno-106 in the USA (maybe in > Japan). He explained that way back in those days (an analog > frontiersman) most of the midi spec were considered proprietory, so they > were not released to the gen. public. If you have any sort of Midi Data > Format specifications (SYSEX control messages) I would appreciate it > very much if you let me know. There is a real-time Juno-106 editor/librarian on atari.archive.umich.edu, directory /atari/music, archive juno106.zoo. You probably don't use this toy computer, but maybe one of your little brothers/sisters/nephews/etc. could lend you his game machine for a moment, just the time to write down the sysexes the program sends out... :-) -- Adam Mirowski, mir@chorus.fr (FRANCE), tel. +33 (1) 30-64-82-00 or 74 Chorus systemes, 6, av.Gustave Eiffel, 78182 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines CEDEX ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1992 13:47:29 EST From: ronin Subject: Re: Spec question the juno 106 spec in a nutshell: sysex packet: $f0 sysex $41 roland id $32 function type (parameter change) $0n n+1 = midi channel (n = 0-15) $nn parameter number (1-17) $nn parameter value (0-127) $f7 eox parameter table for potentiometers: 0 lfo rate 1 lfo delay 2 dco lfo 3 dco pwm 4 noise level 5 vcf cutoff 6 resonance 7 vcf env 8 vcf lfo 9 vcf kybd 10 vca level 11 attack 12 decay 13 sustain 14 release 15 sub level parameter table for switches: parm : bit: 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 16 chorus chorus saw pulse -------range-------- 1:1 1:off 1:on 1:on 100:4' 0:2 0:on 0:off 0:off 010:8' 001:16' 17 0 0 --hipass-- vca env pwm 11:off 1:gate 1:- 1:man 10:1 0:env 0:+ 0:lfo 01:2 11:3 -----------< Cognitive Dissonance is a 20th Century Art Form >----------- Eric Harnden (Ronin) or The American University Physics Dept. 4400 Mass. Ave. NW, Washington, DC, 20016-8058 (202) 885-2748 ---------------------< Join the Cognitive Dissidents >------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1992 11:31:00 MDT From: Jim Logue Subject: Re: JUNO Spec question An errata: The Omni can be turned off by selecting a MIDI channel from the front channel - I just hit MIDI channel 1 after power up and the Omni is gone - don't know how to reset it, tho-- Jim Logue LOGUE@ADMN1.LAW.UTAH.EDU Systems Manager JLOGUE@UTAHLIB.BITNET Law Library Compuserve:73727,3504 University of Utah ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1992 13:43:02 EST From: ronin Subject: Re: JUNO Spec question aha! do you realize that for the past year i've been sending it an external command via a Jambox midi script? sheesh! the trouble you can go through just because you don't have the bloody damned manual. thank you very very much for this enlightenment. -----------< Cognitive Dissonance is a 20th Century Art Form >----------- Eric Harnden (Ronin) or The American University Physics Dept. 4400 Mass. Ave. NW, Washington, DC, 20016-8058 (202) 885-2748 ---------------------< Join the Cognitive Dissidents >------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1992 09:43:39 PDT From: Leigh Smith Subject: Juno-106 Sysex In replying to Keith Hall for Juno-106 sysex specs and editors, I have a soft copy of the Juno Sysex spec as well as a near to release PD Juno Sysex Ed/Lib for the PC. Email me if you are interested in either. -- =--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--= | Leigh Smith _--_|\ Email: leigh@psychok.DIALix.oz.au | | / \ Tel (H): +61-9-450-2014 | | Perth --> *_.--._/ Perth, Western Australia | | v | =--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--= ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1992 14:01:31 EST From: ronin Subject: Re: Juno-106 Sysex not to be acomplete shnook, but... i can understand the use of a librarian for the juno, but what's the point of an editor, since it has all those sliders right on the front panel? -----------< Cognitive Dissonance is a 20th Century Art Form >----------- Eric Harnden (Ronin) or The American University Physics Dept. 4400 Mass. Ave. NW, Washington, DC, 20016-8058 (202) 885-2748 ---------------------< Join the Cognitive Dissidents >------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1992 14:28:06 PST From: "(metlay)" Subject: Re: Juno-106 Sysex >not to be acomplete shnook, but... >i can understand the use of a librarian for the juno, but what's the >point of an editor, since it has all those sliders right on the front >panel? eric my cognitively dissident pal, not everyone knows when he has a good thing. |-> -- metlay | and she's a master of return hitting atomic city | giving rhythm to her posts | so you read her and think hey it sounds good metlay@netcom.com | and wish her posts had a soundtrack too (f. ercolessi) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 15:26:15 MET From: Mike Lyons Subject: Re: Juno-106 Sysex > > not to be a complete shnook, but... hmmmmm... > i can understand the use of a librarian for the juno, but what's the > point of an editor, since it has all those sliders... the Eternal Question... well, what if: 1. my Juno is on the other side of the room, or under some other axe in a tier? 2. I like having visual feedback (depictions of envelopes, etc.) via graphics in addition to the auditory feedback from the synth? 3. I just happen to like software? ;-> When I was working with some friends on the Lintronics Advanced Memorymoog upgrade here in Nuremberg, we got into a discussion about whether the librarian software that we wrote should include editor facilities or not. It was decided that the MM's front panel was "the best editor that there is." Hmmmm, I don't know about you, but I *can't* glance at the front panel of most synths and "see" what kind of sound I'm dealing with, *regardless* of the number of knobs, sliders, etc. Mike ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************