Preset Section
Unlike the other Roland Boutique synthesizers, the JX-03 has programmed presets. While all of the Boutique synths
arrive with all of their preset destinations filled with sound examples to show what the synthesizers can do, the JX-03
hosts permanent banks of sounds.
BANK A
1. String 1 2. String 2 3. Organ 1 4. Organ 2 5. Organ 3 6. Brass 1
7. Brass 2 8. E Piano 1 9. E Piano 2 10. Clav 11. Harpsichord 12. Vibraphone
13. Chime 14. Celesta 15. Accordion 16. Voice
BANK B
1 Violin 2. Flute 3. Oboe 4. S Whistle 5. S Brass 1 6. S Brass 2
7. D Guitar 8. J Funk 9. Fil Flow 10. F Fifth 11. S Wah 12. S Sweep
13. F Clav 14. Pulsar 15. Planet 16. Jet
BANK C
16 user programmable patches. As with all of the boutique synths, each of these 16 patch destinations have sounds
in them, but they can be overwritten by the user to store 16 patches for later use, and exchange with other JX-03
users.
PHILOSOPHY
Consider that before the open architecture of the synthesizer was well established, the very idea of a “patch” meant
that cables were physically connected between modules to create a sound, like in a modular synthesizer. This is
where the word “patch” comes from. In early digital synthesizers, the possibility to save and later recall a patch was a
revolutionary concept which was previously impossible. So the JX-3P, and subsequently the JX-03 shipped with a
basic set of presets to give users some idea of what a crazy, futuristic synthesizer might be capable of. While these
are a wide array of sounds demonstrating what the synth can do, rather than begrudge this lack of space to save your
own variations, consider them a helpful (or at least a thoughtful) starting point from which to create your own version
of these sounds. Mercifully the backup and restore features of the JX-03 is so easy, that when you find you need
more than 16 slots for your sounds, you can simply follow the procedure for backing up, and then freely overwrite the
sounds with new ones, drag and drop to re arrange, and refine the patch order and contents of BANK C.
While in the modern world it seems kind of “stupid” to throw in an Oboe patch, and a variety of strings for users to call
up and play, but think of them as a starting point, as if a friend came over and showed you how they make oboe
sounds, and then when they go home you can freak it out however you’d like.
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