Roland JUNO-G - Selecting Performances

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Performances in Performance Mode
In Performance mode, you work with “performances,” collections of 16
sounds—patches or rhythm sets—that can be played at the same time from
the keyboard or by the Song Recorder’s sequencer tracks.
Performances are comprised of 16 “parts,” each of which plays its own
sound.
Juno-G Grand
1
Juno-60 Bass
2
Flat SynBs
3
LonesomeRoad
4
No Left Turn
5
R-Trance
6
Tranceformer
7
Bon Voyage
8
Atk Flute
9
HipHop Kit 2
10
Throbulax
11
2ble Action
12
& Scratchee
13
Flip Pad
14
Searing COSM
15
Techno Pizz
16
Here’s the performance used by the JUNO-G demo “Say It.”
Each part also has its own settings for using the JUNO-G’s effects, as well as
parameters that determine how its sound is to be played.
As its name suggests, a performance is handy onstage, since it provides a
way to
“layer” sounds—
• on top of each other so they’re heard together.
“split” the keyboard—
• by assigning different sounds to different areas of
the keyboard.
You can also combine layers and splits by having layers that play from
their own areas of the keyboard.
When you use the Song Recorder, the currently selected performance’s 16
parts correspond to the Song Recorder’s 16 MIDI tracks—we’ll explain these
later—with each track using the sound assigned to its same-numbered
part.
Selecting Performances
Enter Performance mode by pressing the 1
PERFORMANCE MODE button so it lights and the
PERF PLAY screen appears.
Group
Number
Key range display
The key range display beneath the performance name shows how the
parts’ sounds are mapped across the keyboard.
Performances are stored in banks, like patches and rhythm sets. There
are 64 Preset performances in the PRST bank, and 64 User memory
locations for your own performances in the USER bank. (You can store
64 more of your own on a memory card if you’ve installed one.)
Select the Group parameter and use the Value dial or DEC/INC button
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to select the desired bank.
Select the performance you want by setting the Number parameter.
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Try playing a few performances, such as:4
USER:014 Digi & Ana—• This is a simple example of a layered
performance, with two sounds stacked on top of each other
across the keyboard.
USER:013 Pno/Bs Split—
• In this simple split, you’ve got a bass
under your left hand, and a piano under your right.
Try out some more performances—The ones that use rhythmic
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patches along with other elements are probably the most fun to
play.