Roland JUNO-Gi - The JUNO-Gi as Your Daw’s Audio Interface

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For a list of the default MIDI Controller mode assignments, see Page
133 of the JUNO-Gi Owner’s Manual.
The JUNO-Gi as Your DAW’s Audio Interface
Computer-based music software is great, but your first challenge is how,
exactly, you’re going to get your audio into the computer and the DAW.
There are a range of audio interfaces on the market for this task, but the
JUNO-Gi spares you having to buy one since it can act as your DAW’s audio
interface. Using the same USB cable over which it
sends MIDI messages to your computer,
the JUNO-Gi carries audio from its rear-
panel GUITAR/MIC and LINE L and R jacks
to your DAW.
Live audio...
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...is recorded in the DAW.
Even cooler is that you can take advantage of the JUNO-Gi digital recorder’s
GT effects, adding them to your audio before you send it over to your
computer for recording.
Audio can travel in the other direction, allowing you to record any
sounds at all from your computer on the JUNO-Gi’s digital recorder
tracks by selecting USB AUDIO on the AUDIO INPUT SELECT screen we
described back on Page 19.
While the JUNO-Gi’s in MIDI Controller mode, its keyboard and other
controls don’t directly play or affect the JUNO-Gi’s own sounds. Instead, the
keyboard plays your DAW’s soft synths or connected MIDI sound modules.
The JUNO-Gi’s realtime controllers give you much of the same expressive
power with your soft synths that you have with the JUNO-Gi’s own sounds.
MIDI notes...
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...are captured in the DAW.
You can actually play a live set on the JUNO-Gi in MIDI Controller mode
by playing it through a DAW track. To learn more, see Page 134 of the
Owner’s Manual.
The JUNO-Gi’s
• track faders and SOUND MODIFY knobs—send pre-programmed MIDI
Control Change values to manipulate the sounds you’re playing in
realtime, or adjust settings in your DAW. As you touch each realtime
controller, you see onscreen the Control Change message to which
it’s assigned, as well as the value it’s currently sending out. If you like,
you can change its settings from here. You can also use the JUNO-Gi’s
realtime controls to edit your DAW’s plug-ins.
• Pitch Bend/Modulation lever—lets you bend the pitch of sounds you’re
playing, and add modulation.
• category buttons—can send a pre-programmed Bank Select and
Program Change message for changing sounds in your DAW or
connected sound module.