Q&A

A collection of popular articles from the JUNO-STAGE knowledge base
How Do I Select Patches?... 2 How Do I Split the Keyboard?... 3 How Do I Layer Two Sounds?... 4. How Do I Designate a Patch or Performance As a Favorite?. 5 How Do I Assign a Function to the Control Pedal?.. 6 How Do I Find JUNO-STAGE Articles in the RolandUS.com Knowledge Base?.. 7
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JU NO -STA GE How Do I Select Patches?
3 Press PATCH. Press the ENTER button to display the patch list. Press a number button beneath the display to select the desired category.
Tip: Each category may contain further subgroups in which patches are organized. To navigate these subgroups, use the 3 and 4 buttons. Turn the VALUE dial to select the desired patch within the selected category or subgroup. Press ENTER.

How Do I Select Patches?

JU NO -STA GE How Do I Split the Keyboard?
You can divide or split the keyboard in two, playing a different sound in each area. Heres how to split the keyboard: Press the PERFORM button. Press SPLIT so it lights, if its not already lit. Press PART SELECT so it lights. Cursor left or right to highlight the UPPER or LOWER patch number, and then turn the VALUE dial to select the desired patch. While holding SPLIT, press the key at which you want to split the keyboard. Press EXIT.
How Do I Split the Keyboard?
JU NO -STA GE How Do I Layer Two Sounds?
Heres how to layer two sounds on top of each other so they play together: Press the PERFORM button. Press the DUAL button so it lights, if its not already lit. Press PART SELECT so it lights. Cursor up or down to highlight the UPPER or LOWER patch number and use the VALUE dial to select the desired patch.
How Do I Layer Two Sounds?
JU NO -STA GE How Do I Designate a Patch or Performance As a Favorite?
To designate a patch or performance as a Favorite for quick selection, you first register it as a Favorite in a Favorite bank. When you want to select a Favorite patch or performance, you recall it. To register a favorite patch or performance: Press PATCH or PERFORM and choose the patch or performance, respectively, youd like to make a Favorite. While holding down the FAVORITE BANK button, press button 0-9 to select the Favorite bank to which you want to assign the patch or performance. While holding FAVORITE ON/OFF, press the button 0-9 to select the Favorite location in which you want to register the patch or performance. Repeat Steps 1-3 for any other patches or performances you want to assign to a Favorites bank.
To recall a favorite patch or performance: 3 Press FAVORITE ON/OFF so its lit. If you need to switch Favorite banks, hold down FAVORITE BANK and press 0-9 to select the desired bank. Press 0-9 to select the Favorite patch or performance.
How Do I Designate a Patch or Performance As a Favorite?
JU NO -STA GE How Do I Assign a Function to the Control Pedal?
You can perform a variety of JUNO-STAGE jobs using a foot pedal. Heres how to get this set up: Press the MENU button. With 1. System highlighted, press ENTER. Press 3 (KBD/CTRL). Press 3 (PEDAL). Cursor to Control Pedal Assign and turn the VALUE dial to select the desired parameter. Press 7 (WRITE) to save your settings.
How Do I Assign a Function to the Control Pedal?
JU NO -STA GE How Do I Find JUNO-STAGE Articles in the RolandUS.com Knowledge Base?
3 Point your browser to the JUNO-STAGE Support area on RolandUS.com. Click Knowledge Base. If youre not already logged into Roland Backstage, the Roland Backstage login appears. If youre: a Roland Backstage memberenter your email address and password, and then click the Login button. not yet a Roland Backstage memberclick Create New Profile to create a free new user account. As a Roland Backstage member, you become part of the online Roland US.com community and gain access to helpful tools and services. 6 Once youre logged in, click the large Knowledge Base button. On the Knowledge Base screen, enter JUNO-STAGE in the Product field. Click the Find button in the middle of the screen to browse the available JUNO-STAGE Knowledge Base articles.

How Do I Find JUNO-STAGE Articles in the Knowledge Base?

Workshop

128-Voice Expandable Synthesizer with Song Player

JUNO-STAGE

Getting to Know the JUNO-STAGE
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About the Workshop Booklets
Rolands JUNO synthesizers have been making history since the 1980s. Theyve always been affordable, easy to use, and sounded great. The JUNO-STAGE is designed specifically for performing, putting everything you need on a gig at your fingertips. The JUNO-STAGEs got 128-note polyphony and killer sounds derived from Rolands acclaimed Fantom-X synths. Two SRX expansion slots allow you to add even more sounds from Rolands huge SRX sound library. Split the keyboard or layer sounds quickly using dedicated buttons. Realtime controls let you shape JUNO-STAGE sounds as you play. Perform along with audio files or SMFs stored on a USB flash drive, or connect a personal music player. Plug a mic into the JUNO-STAGE for singing along. Instantly configure the JUNO-STAGE as a MIDI controller of external MIDI devices or a computer-based DAW with a single button-press. This Workshop booklet is intended as a companion to the JUNO-STAGE Owners Manual. It requires JUNO-STAGE Operating System v1.03 or higher. Download the latest JUNO-STAGE O.S. for free from www.RolandUS.com.
Understanding the Symbols in This Booklet
Throughout this booklet, youll come across information that deserves special attentionthats the reason its labeled with one of the following symbols.
A note is something that adds information about the topic at hand.
A tip offers suggestions for using the feature being discussed.
Warnings contain important information that can help you avoid possible damage to your equipment, your data, or yourself.
Setting Up the JUNO-STAGE Making the Power Connection

About This Booklet

In this booklet, well introduce you to the JUNO-STAGE, with a quick tour of its many features. Itll give an idea why the JUNO-STAGE is such a performance powerhouse. And most everything it does is conveniently accessible onstage from its front panel.
USB memory D Beam Synth tools Song Player
Assemble the JUNO-STAGEs two-piece power adaptor.
Plug the AC end into a grounded power outletthe adaptors indicator lights green. Plug the other end into the JUNO-STAGEs rear-panel DC IN jack.
Sound selection Input mixer Keyboard

Realtime controls

You can wrap the cable at the DC end of the power adaptor around the cord hook to the left of the DC IN jack to help avoid unintentionally yanking out the plug or damaging the adaptor.
Its best not to power up until youve made your audio connections, which well discuss next.

Setting Up For Listening

You can listen to the JUNO-STAGE through stereo headphones, a keyboard amp, a mixer, or powered speakers.
We dont recommend listening to the JUNO-STAGE directly through a home music system since the JUNO-STAGEs dynamic range may exceed your systems capabilities, and may damage your equipment.
Powering Up and Setting Your Listening Level
Turn the JUNO-STAGEs main VOLUME knob all the way down to avoid blasting your ears or system. Press in the JUNO-STAGEs rear-panel POWER switch to turn on the JUNO-STAGE.

To listen through

headphonesconnect your headphones 1/4 plug to the
JUNO-STAGEs rear-panel PHONES jack. If youre using earbuds or other headphones that have a stereo mini plug, youll need a stereo-mini-to-stereo-1/4 adaptor.
Once the JUNO-STAGEs finished starting up, youll be on the PATCH PLAY screen by default. (You can change this setting if you like.)
keyboard ampconnect the JUNO-STAGE to the amp in mono or

stereo, depending on the amp. If youre using a
mono ampconnect the JUNO-STAGEs OUTPUT L (MONO) jack

to an amp input.

If youve already stored some of your own patches in the JUNO-STAGE, the patch name you see may be different that the one shown above. 3 4
If youre listening on headphones, skip to Step 4. Otherwise, raise the level of your amp, mixer, or speakers to a normal level. As you play the JUNO-STAGE keyboard, slowly raise the JUNO-STAGEs VOLUME knob to set your listening level.
stereo ampconnect the JUNO-STAGEs OUTPUT L (MONO) and
R jacks to the amps left and right inputs, respectively.

The JUNO-STAGE Controls

A setting on the JUNO-STAGE is called a parameter. To change a parameters value, you select it so its highlighted, as shown here.
mixer or powered speakersconnect the JUNO-STAGEs OUTPUT L
(MONO) and R jacks to two of your mixers or speakers input channels.
The patch number parameter is highlighted and therefore selectedhere.
To select a parameter and change its value:

Welcome to Patch Mode

By default, your JUNO-STAGE boots up into Patch mode. The JUNO-STAGE has a few operating modes, and this ones the place where youll select, play, and edit or create individual sounds, which are called patches. Patch modes a good place for us to start getting to know the JUNO-STAGE.
Theres another type of individual sound called a rhythm set, which has a different drum or percussion sound for every key.
Use the JUNO-STAGEs 3, 4, 5, and/or 6 buttons to move around the screen until the desired parameter is selected. Turn the VALUE dial, or use the DEC (for decrement) or INC (increment) buttons to set the parameters value.
The Synth Side of the JUNO-STAGE Listening to the JUNO-STAGE Demo
The JUNO-STAGEs sounds are probably the most important thing about it. Lets take a few moments to listen to the main JUNO-STAGE demo.
If youve already installed a USB memory stick in your JUNO-STAGE, remove it and turn the JUNO-STAGE off and back on before proceeding with demo playback. 1
Operating the JUNO-STAGE in Patch Mode
Lets take a moment to introduce the controls youll use to get around on the JUNO-STAGE and its display, which provides information and constant visual feedback on your activities.
The Buttons Beneath the Display
Press the PLAY button in the SONG PLAYER areathe main demo JS-Getup! starts to play.
Under the display are ten buttons that are used in a variety of ways, as well see, including selecting sounds and playing beats. The middle six have the most important role to play, because they interact with whats on the display, with their functions changing depending on what youre doing. Theyre called the F1 through F6 buttons.

If you want to stop the demo before it ends, press the STOP button. When the demo endsor you press STOPthe display shows the titles of the other built-in demos. A button lights red and a label appears onscreen above it when the buttons acting as an F button. Gray bars at the bottom of the display, just above a button, help lead your eye to the buttons onscreen label. In the following illustration, pressing F4 displays reverb settings.
To play another demo, select it and press the PLAY button. 4
Beneath the main display, the Patch/Perform Number readout shows the number of the currently selected patch in Patch mode. Its big, bright, red numbers make it easy to see onstage what youve got selected. There are two main ways to select patches. Over time, youll settle on the best method for you. In the next two sections, try selecting different patches, both to get comfortable and to have some fun. Whenever we need to tell you to press an F button, well refer to the button by its F-button number, and put its job in parentheses. For example, the button in the example above would be called F4 (Reverb).
You can also select patches using a footswitchsee Page 147 of the Owners Manual for details.
Selecting Patches and Rhythm Sets
The JUNO-STAGE contains over 1,000 factory-programmed sounds:
Selecting Sounds Using the Category Buttons
1,283 factory Preset patches 41 factory Preset rhythm sets
In addition, theres space set aside in the JUNO-STAGEs memory for patches and rhythm sets you create. It can hold One way to select a patch is by using the buttons beneath the display from the PATCH PLAY screen:

256 User patches

Press the desired categorys button beneath the display. To select a

32 User rhythm sets

patchpress the PIANO, KBD/ORGAN, GUITAR, ORCH, WORLD,
BRASS, VOCAL/PAD, SYNTH, or BASS button. To select an electric piano patch, hit the PIANO button again.
You can add even more sounds to the JUNO-STAGE by installing one or two SRX sound expansion board from Rolands huge SRX sound library.

rhythm setpress the RHYTHM button to display the available

rhythm sets.

The JUNO-STAGE makes sounds easy to find and select by presenting them to you in instrument-type categories. (Under the hood, theyre actually stored in memory banks that make them accessible from external MIDI devices.) You select patches from the PATCH PLAY screen. You can get to this screen by pressing the PATCH button in the MODE area of the JUNO-STAGE front panel.
Press ENTERLIST to display the patches in the selected category, or rhythm sets if you pressed RHYTHM.
Turn the VALUE dial or use the DEC/INC button to select a sound. 5
You can check out the currently selected sound by playing the keyboard, or by pressing the PREVIEW button in the MODE area so the JUNO-STAGE plays the sound for you. 4
About Selecting Favorite Patches
You can also set up sounds as Favorites for quick selection. Well explain how to work with Favorites a little bit later. (You can jump to this section now if you like by clicking the Jump button to the right.)
Press the ENTERLIST button again to confirm your choice and return to the PATCH PLAY screen.

Piano Mode

Selecting Sounds Using the PATCH PLAY Screen Parameters
Using the 3, 4, 5, 6, DEC, and INC buttons and the VALUE dial to select and set the appropriate parameters, you can choose patches directly from the PATCH PLAY screen. Sound type The JUNO-STAGEs Piano mode makes it especially easy to get to its best piano and electric piano sounds. To enter Piano mode, simply hit the PIANO MODE button. When you do, the PIANO MODE screen appears.

Group Number Category

To exit Piano mode, press PIANO MODE again.
Set the sound type to Patch or Rhythm to select a patch or rhythm set, respectively. If you set the sound type to Patch, set the category parameter to the desired type of instrument.
Selecting Your Piano Sound
The JUNO-STAGE offers up its best 88-note sampled grand by default. You can choose another acoustic piano if you like, or an electric piano, and the JUNO-STAGE will remember your choice until you next power down. Each time you hit the PIANO MODE button, the last-selected acoustic or electric piano is immediately placed at your fingertips. To choose

If you want to make sure you dont inadvertently change categories, you can select the Category lock icon in the lower-left of the screen, and then turn the VALUE dial to activate it. 3
a different acoustic pianopress F5 (LIST), select the desired piano, and
then press ENTERLIST to confirm your choice.
If you can get to the sound you want most easily by selecting the memory bank in which it resides, you can set the group parameter to that memory bank. Set the patch number parameter to select the patch or rhythm set you want.
an electric pianopress F2 (EL PIANO) to select the Stage Phazer
electric piano. To choose another one, press F5 (LIST, select the one you want, and then press ENTERLIST.

Customizing Your Piano

PIANO mode makes it easy to make quick tweaks to your piano patch. If youre playing an
Try playing the patch youve selected and see how it responds sonically to your touch.
If you find you have to play uncomfortably hard or unnaturally soft to make the sounds react, you can change the keyboards touch sensitivity, as described on Page 147 of the JUNO-STAGE Owners Manual.
acoustic pianoyou can adjust the height or your virtual pianos
lid,using the Lid State parameter, and set the desired amount of body ring using the Resonance parameter.
electric pianoyou can select an effect using the EFFECT parameter, or
leave it set to THRU for no effect.
The Pitch Bend/Modulation Lever
The next most basic way to control a patchs sound in realtime is by using the Pitch Bend/Modulation lever to the left of the keyboard. Flip the lever left or right to lower or raise the pitch of notes, or push it forward to add modulation to the notes. Modulationwhich means changeis often vibrato, but can be most anything depending on how the patch is programmed.
For both types of piano, you can press F4 (TOUCH) to set the pianos responsiveness to your touch.
Realtime Control of Sounds
The JUNO-STAGEs sounds respond musically to how you play them, and you can also change them as you play using a variety of realtime controls. For the next section, select a patch you like to play for exploring the things well discuss. Bend note pitches Push to add modulation, release to remove it
The Responsive JUNO-STAGE Keyboard
The JUNO-STAGEs keyboard detects the force, or velocity, with which you play, and the currently selected sound changes accordingly.

The S1 and S2 Switches

Press these buttons above the Pitch Bend/Modulation lever to do a range of things, as described on Page 55 of the JUNO-STAGE Owners Manual.
The JUNO-STAGEs new CATCH+LAST pitch-bend mode allows you to bend only the last note you played without affecting your other notes. Its great for guitar-like leads. You can assign the S1 or S2 switch to turn CATCH + LAST mode on and off, as described on Page 55 in the Owners Manual.

Low velocity

High velocity
Getting louder and/or brighter as you play harder is one of the most common velocity responses, though, really, lots of things can change with your playing force. 7

The SOUND MODIFY Knobs

The D Beam
The D Beam is an infrared sensor that tracks the position of your hand as it moves above the sensor. It can operate in any of three ways. Press the desired button beneath the D Beam so it lights to select :
SOLO SYNTHto play notes by moving your

hand over the D Beam.

ACTIVE EXPRESSto adjust the parameter
In the SOUND MODIFY area of the JUNO-STAGE front panel are knobs that let you quickly adjust some important parameters as you play. designated at the Roland factory as the best for adding expression to the current patch.
ASSIGNABLEto control the value of a
parameter in the current patch thats been set to respond to D Beam control. As you move your hand down closer to the D Beam sensor, its effect increases. As you move up and away, it decreases. Press the currently lit button to turn off the D Beam. Viewed from the side, this is the area above the D Beam in which you can move your hand.
The ENVELOPE ATTACK and RELEASE knobsThe ATTACK knob adjusts
the speed at which a note starts to play after you press its key. The RELEASE knob adjusts how long it takes a note to return to silence when you release its key.
The CUTOFF and RESONANCE knobsChanging a patchs filter Cutoff
and Resonance values to produce the moving yowl thats often part of dance and electronic synth music. The CUTOFF and RESONANCE knobs adjust those parameters in the current patch.
Press the SYNTH button to select User:044 SuperSawSlow, and try turning the CUTOFF and RESONANCE knobs as you play the keyboard.

Transposing the Keyboard

The JUNO-STAGEs Transpose features allow you to easily shift the notes the keyboard plays to any key or octave so you can play in any key using the fingerings you find most comfortable.
The MASTER EQ LOW and HIGH knobsYou can change the overall tone,
or EQ, of the JUNO-STAGE using the LOW and HIGH knobs, which affect the bass and treble frequencies, respectively.
To Transpose the Keyboard by Octaves
The REVERB knobUse this knob to increase or decrease the output
level of the JUNO-STAGEs reverb processor.
The SOUND MODIFY knobs affect the currently selected sound, except for the master EQ, whose settings remain when you change sounds, allowing you to customize the overall sound of the JUNO-STAGE for a particular performance venue or a band with which youre playing.
Press the OCTAVE DOWN or UP button to lower or raise the keyboards pitch as desired. The JUNO-STAGE displays the amount of transposition.
Transposing the Keyboard by Semitone Steps
Hold down the TRANSPOSE button and then use the - or + button to lower or raise the pitch in semitone steps as desired. The JUNO-STAGE displays the selected amount of transposition. 8

Performance Mode

In Performance mode, you work with performances, collections of 16 soundspatches or rhythm setsthat can be played at the same time from the keyboard or from an external sequencer. Performances are comprised of 16 parts, each of which plays its own sound.

Selecting a Performance

The JUNO-STAGE ships with 64 factory preset performances, and you can store up to 64 of your own. There are two ways to select a performance. They both begin on the PERF PLAY screen. To get there, press the PERFORM button in the MODE area of the JUNO-STAGE front panel.
As with patches and rhythm sets, you can also set up performances as Favorites. Well discuss Favorites a bit later.

LonesomeRoad

Juno-106 Bass

Searing COSM

Sweet House

Trancy Synth

DCO Bell Pad

HipHop Kit 1

Andes Mood

Juno-Grand

Pat is away

String Ens

Orch Pizz

Nylon Gt

Strobot

Cue Tip

Trance
Selecting a Performance from the Performance List
Each part also has its own settings for using the JUNO-STAGEs effects, as well as parameters that determine how its sound behaves. As its name suggests, a performance is handy onstage, since it provides a way to
On the PERF PLAY screen, press ENTERLIST to display the performance list.
layer soundson top of each other so theyre heard together. split the keyboardby assigning different sounds to different areas of

the keyboard.

Layers and splits can be combined in performances that have layers that play from their own areas of the keyboard. 2 3
Press 3 or 4 to select the User or Preset performance list. Turn the VALUE dial or use DEC/INC to select a performance.
You can try out each selected performance by playing it on the keyboard. 4
You can also use a performance to configure the JUNO-STAGE as a 16-part multitimbral sound module for an external sequencerthis allows the JUNO-STAGE to play up to 16 of its sounds at once.
When youve made your choice, press ENTERLIST to confirm your selection.
The big, red Patch/Perform Number readout beneath the display shows the number of the performance youve selected.
In the JUNO-STAGE, you can build up performances of tremendous complexity if you like, or use the handy SPLIT and DUAL buttons to quickly create simple splits and layers. Well talk about these buttons in a moment.
Selecting a Performance on the PERF PLAY Screen
Changing a Split Sound and Adjusting Its Level
On the split setup screen, use the 3 or 4 button to select the LOWER or UPPER part. Press ENTERLIST to display the patch/rhythm set list. Press the category buttons beneath the display to select the desired category, pressing PIANO twice to display electric piano patches. Select the sound you want. Press ENTERLIST to confirm your choice. To adjust the relative levels of the two sounds, adjust their level parameters, presented onscreen as knob icons.

Number

Set the Group parameter to USER or PRST (for Preset) to select the bank in which the preset you want is stored. Turn the VALUE dial or use DEC/INC to select the desired performances number.
Quickly Creating a Two-Sound Simple Keyboard Split
When you use the JUNO-STAGEs Split feature, the keyboard is divided into Lower and Upper zones, each of which has its own part and parameters.
A split you create using the SPLIT button is a performance in which all of the parts except Parts 1 and 2 are turned off. 1
Quickly Creating a Two-Sound Layer
The Dual feature layers two sounds on top of each other so they both play when you strike any key on the keyboard. One sound is called the Lower sound, and the other is called the Upper sound. As with splits, each has its own corresponding part and parameters.
A layer you create using the DUAL button is a performance in which all of the parts except Parts 1 and 2 are turned off.
Press the SPLIT buttonthe screen for setting up splits appears.
To get to the Dual layering features setup screen, press the DUAL button. The Lower and Upper parts each occupy half of this screen. Use the 3 and/or 4 buttons to select the part whose parameters you want to set.
Changing a Layered Dual Sound and Adjusting Its Level

Setting the Split Point

Heres how to define the Lower and Upper areas of the keyboard.
From the Dual features setup screen, use the 5 or 6 buttons to select the part that plays the layered sound you want to change. Press ENTERLIST to display the patch/rhythm set list. Press the category buttons beneath the display to select the desired category, pressing PIANO twice to display electric piano patches.
On the split setup screen, hold down the SPLIT button and press the lowest key with which you want to play the sound in the Upper zone of the keyboardthe SPLIT POINT window appears showing you the key youve selected.
Select the sound you want. Press ENTERLIST to confirm your choice. To adjust the relative levels of the two sounds, adjust their level parameters, presented onscreen as knob icons.
Navigating Favorites Banks
To Figure Out the Favorites Bank Thats Selected
Press the FAVORITE BANK button so it lightsthe button for the currently selected Favorites bank flashes.
Creating More Complicated Splits and Layers
You can create more complex performances by setting their part parameters as described starting on Page 132 in the JUNO-STAGE Owners Manual.
To Select a Favorites Bank
Press the FAVORITE BANK button so it lights. Press the desired Favorite banks 0-9 buttonthe JUNO-STAGE displays a message telling you youve changed banks. Press the BANK button again to un-light it.
Quick Access to Favorite Sounds and Performances

The JUNO-STAGEs Favorite feature allows you to set up frequently used patches, rhythm sets, and performances for quick recall by registering them as Favorites. Any Favorite can be grabbed at any time with the press of a button, regardless of whether youre in Patch or Performance mode. You can have up to 100 Favorites, organized into Favorite Banks 0-9. Each bank holds 10 Favorites, called Favorites 0-9. Each Favorite in a bank is assigned, or registered, to the corresponding 0-9 button beneath the display.
Registering a Sound or Performance as a Favorite
In Patch or Performance mode, select the patch, rhythm set, or performance you want to register as a Favorite. If youre not already there, navigate to the desired bank as described above. Hold down the FAVORITE ON/OFF button and press a 0-9 button to register the current patch, rhythm set, or performance there. The JUNO-STAGE confirms what youve done with an onscreen message.
To change the Favorite registered to a 0-9 button, just register the buttons new Favorite there.
When youre onstage, youll have a bank selected and ready to go so you can quickly recall the Favorites it holds. To make this happen, youll group your Favorites ahead of time in the way you expect to need them onstage. For example, if there are 10 patches, rhythm sets, or performances you know youll need in a set, register them all in the same Favorites bank so you can get to each one instantly as you play by pressing its 0-9 button. The JUNO-STAGE remembers your Favorites even when you power down. Only a Factory Reset clears them.
Selecting a Favorite Sound or Performance
If youre not already there, navigate to the desired Favorites bank as described above. Press the FAVORITE ON/OFF button so its lit if its not already lit. Press a Favorites 0-9 button to select, or recall, the Favorite you want.
If youve registered your Favorites in the exact order in which you need them, you can step upwards a Favorite at a time within the current bank by pressing the FAVORITE UP/ASSIGNABLE button. The buttons set to behave this way by default, though it can do other things instead, as described on Page 148 of the JUNO-STAGE Owners Manual.
JUNO-STAGE Performance Tools
Both the JUNO-STAGEs Arpeggiator and Chord Memory features automate the playing of certain types of phrases that might otherwise be difficult to pull off onstage. They can also act as inspiring creative tools.

The Arpeggiator

You can also move through Favorites using a footswitchsee Page 147 of the Owners Manual for details.
Working with the FAVORITE LIST Screen
Theres another way to work with Favorites that can actually be easier if youre working with a lot of Favorites and are having trouble remembering whats where: the Favorites LIST screen. On this screen, you can see all of the Favorites youve registered, add more, and un-register Favorites you no longer want. To display the FAVORITE LIST screen, hold down the SHIFT button and press FAVORITES ON/OFF.

Level, Type, and Time parameters.
set whether the mic is live or used only for the vocoderby setting Mic
Mode to ALL or VOCODER ONLY, respectively.
How to Use the JUNO-STAGE Vocoder
In Patch mode, select PRST 1027 VOCODER Ens as your patch.
Using a Microphone with the JUNO-STAGE
The JUNO-STAGE has a MIC IN jack, a mini-mixer, and a vocoder that uses the mic to shape the notes played on the keyboard. Theres a balanced combination XLR/TRS jack on the back of the JUNO-STAGE for connecting your mic. The MIC IN area of the JUNO-STAGE front panel contains the controls for your mic:
You can also use PRST 1025 VOCODER Robt or PRST 1026 VOCODER Chr, but VOCODER Ens is a good one to start with. 2 3
Hold down some keys on the keyboard and sing or speak into the micyoure singing or speaking the JUNO-STAGEs notes. Try tweaking the vocoders settings to optimize the effect for your mic and voice, as described on Page 87 of the Owners Manual.
The Song Player Side of the JUNO-STAGE
Now that weve discussed the JUNO-STAGE as a synthesizer, lets discuss its SONG PLAYER tools. The Song Player brings three different things to the table:
Set your mics levelusing the MIC VOLUME knob. Add reverb to the micby pressing and lighting the MIC
IN REVERB button. Hold down the SHIFT button and press the MIC IN areas REVERB button to display the MIC INPUT SETTINGS screen.
You can play along with rhythm patterns played by
the built-in drum machine.
You can play songs or tracks recorded as.WAV
or AIFF audio filesand SMFs (Standard MIDI Files)stored on a USB memory stick.
You can connect a personal music player or CD
player and play along with its music. 13
Playing Rhythm Patterns on the JUNO-STAGE
The JUNO-STAGE contains rhythm patternsbeatsthat are perfect for playing along with onstage. Its got 256 Preset rhythm patterns, and 256 User memory locations for storing your own User patterns. You can adjust the tempo of any pattern.
The JUNO-STAGE Owners Manual describes creating and editing rhythm patterns, beginning on Page 75.
How To Play Rhythm Patterns To start playing a rhythm patternpress its pad. The pad lights and the
patterns name flashes onscreen to show its the one thats playing.
To switch to another rhythm patternpress the desired rhythm patterns
pad. The JUNO-STAGE immediately switches to the new rhythm pattern.
To stop a rhythm patternpress its lit pad. Setting the Rhythm Pattern Tempo
Rhythm patterns are arranged in rhythm groups, which are sets of six rhythm patterns, along with a rhythm set thats pre-programmed to play them. To use the Rhythm Pattern feature, press the RHYTHM PATTERN button in the SONG PLAYER area of the JUNO-STAGE front panel and display the RHYTHM GROUP screen.

Press the TAP TEMPO button to open the Tempo window.
Set the tempo as desired by
tapping it outon the TAP TEMPO button. setting the Tempo parameterusing the VALUE dial or DEC/INC

buttons

The JUNO-STAGE Rhythm Patterns
While the RHYTHM GROUP screen is displayed, the F buttons act as rhythm pads and light to show that each corresponds to the rhythm pattern above it in the current rhythm group.
The Rhythm Pattern Transport Buttons
While the RHYTHM GROUP screen is displayed, the transport buttons in the SONG PLAYER area provide a quick and easy way to navigate rhythm patterns and rhythm groups. Heres what they do: Press this button to move down through the rhythm groups. Press this button to move up through the rhythm groups.
Press this button to select the next rhythm pattern to the left in the current rhythm group.
Press this button to select the next rhythm pattern to the right in the current rhythm group.

Selecting Rhythm Sets

Though each rhythm group contains a preferred rhythm set, you can use any rhythm set you like with any rhythm. To change rhythm sets, highlight the name of the current rhythm set on the RHYTHM GROUP screen, and then use the VALUE dial or DEC/INC button to select another set.
You can learn how to create and edit rhythm setsincluding picking a new preferred rhythm seton Page 77 of the JUNO-STAGE Owners Manual.
SMFsthat are Type 0 (all tracks combined into one track) or Type 1
(multiple separate tracks) SMFs. SMF songs play the JUNO-STAGEs internal General MIDI sounds according to MIDI Bank-Select and Program-Change messages embedded in the file. An SMF can be no larger than roughly 240 kb in size, and if an SMF contains System Exclusive (SysEx) data, that data must have a packet size of 512 or less.
To learn more about MIDI, SMFs, and SysEx data, see Rolands An Introduction to MIDI InFocus booklet, which you can download here.
Playing Along with Songs on a USB Drive
If youve got a personal computer, you can load songs onto a JUNO-STAGE-formatted USB memory stick, and the JUNO-STAGE can play them. This makes it easy to perform along with pre-recorded tracks.
To learn how to initialize, or format, a USB stick for the JUNO-STAGE, see Page 155 in the Owners Manual. You can also use a USB stick for backing up your User data, as explained on Page 144 of the Owners Manual.
Using the Playlist Editor on Your Computer
The best way to work with audio/MP3 and SMF files is by using the included Playlist Editor software that runs on your Mac or Windows computer. It allows you to create playlists that put songs you want in the order you want. The JUNO-STAGE can then playand you can editthese playlists. Since the Playlist Editor comes with an extensive PDF manual, well just take a quick look at it now.

Playing Songs and Playlists
When youve got the playlists and songs on your USB stick, insert it into the JUNO-STAGEs front-panel USB jack and wait a few moments for the data to load. When you play songs from a USB stick, you use the SONG PLAYERs transport buttons to play and navigate songs and playlists. Rewind Fast-Forward Press this to go to the top of the current song. Press it again to go to the top of the previous song. Press this to go to the next song.

On this screen you can

direct your songs or a click to the SONG/CLICK OUT jackby setting the
Song/Click Output Mode parameter. When its set to
CLICKa metronome click is sent out the jack when youre
playing an SMF song. (When youre playing an audio or MP3 song, no click is produced and songs remain in the main JUNO-STAGE outputs.
SONGsongs are directed to the SONG/CLICK OUT jack and
removed from the JUNO-STAGEs main outputs.
set the level of your clickusing the Click Level parameter. change the click soundusing the Click Sound parameter.
Press F2 (PLAYER) to set the output level of your audio/MP3 and SMF songs, whether theyre going through the SONG/CLICK OUT jack or the main outputs. To get started, press the SONG PLAYER button, and youll see something like this:
On both of these screens, press F6 (WRITE) to save your settings in the JUNO-STAGEs memory.
You can use the SONG PLAYER areas LEVEL buttons to raise or lower the overall level of the both audio/MP3 and SMF songs together.
play a song at the root level of the USB stickselect USB Memory, and
press F1 (SELECT) to display a list of individual songs on the SONG SELECT screen. Select the song you want and press the PLAY button.
see all of the songs in your playlist libraryselect Playlist Library and hit
F1 (SELECT). To play a particular song, select it and press PLAY.
select and play one of your playlistsselect it and press PLAY. (If
you enabled Chain Play in the Playlist Editor, the playlists songs automatically play one after another.)