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Unofficial User Guide 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
 
 

 
 

Ian R Wilson, 2016

 

 

Summary of Contents for Boutique JP-08

Page 1: ...1 Roland Unofficial User Guide Ian R Wilson 2016 ...

Page 2: ... to an external power source or computer via a USB 2 0 A microB cable Use a commercially available USB 2 0 cable A microB to connect this port to your computer It can be used to transfer MIDI and audio data over USB The USB driver needs to be installed when connecting the to your computer and can be downloaded from the Roland website For details refer to the Readme htm file included in the downloa...

Page 3: ...wise selecting 7 followed by 6 will recall patch number 76 There are a total of 64 patches comprising numbers 11 thru 88 Saving the Current patch You can save up to 64 patches using the patch numbers as a selection pad An edited patch is indicated by a dot in the PATCH NUMBER display To permanently save an edited patch press and release one of the patch preset buttons 1 to 8 and then hold down lon...

Page 4: ...select Dual Mode This causes both an upper and lower patch to play back in parallel one to the left stereo channel and a second to the right stereo channel In Dual Mode pressing the UPPER LOWER button will toggle between selection of upper and lower parts If the UPPER LOWER button is lit while in Dual Mode selecting a patch using the patch number buttons will place it into the lower part If the UP...

Page 5: ...velocity value that will be transmitted when playing the keyboard 1 TOUCH Transmits the actual keyboard velocity 2 64 Transmits a fixed velocity of 64 half regardless of the actual velocity 3 127 Transmits a fixed velocity of 127 max regardless of the actual velocity MANUAL 6 1 thru 3 Sets the velocity curve of the keyboard 1 LIGHT Sets the keyboard to a light touch 2 MEDIUM Sets the keyboard to t...

Page 6: ... semitones with a default of 2 13 2 Octaves 16 OFF MANUAL 14 1 thru 16 Adjusts the delay level applied to the patch 1 is no delay and 2 thru 16 adjust it incrementally for a more pronounced effect MANUAL 15 1 thru 16 Adjusts the delay time applied to the patch in incremental adjustments of 1 thru 16 Note that this delay time refers to the length of time before the delay takes effect not how long t...

Page 7: ...of the selected step note This is the length of the note where UP on the C2 ribbon controller is longer and DOWN is shorter DUAL C2 Adjusts the gate time of all steps in the sequence This is the length of all notes in the sequence where UP on the C2 ribbon controller is longer and DOWN is shorter DUAL 1 thru 16 Selects a stored sequencer pattern DUAL 1 thru 16 long press Saves the current pattern ...

Page 8: ...r LFO RATE Slider This determines the speed of the LFO or how fast the cyclic changes take place DELAY TIME Slider This determines how long it takes before the LFO kicks in after playing the sound WAVEFORM Knob This selects the waveform used for the cyclic changes The options for this are SINE TRIANGLE SAWTOOTH SQUARE RANDOM RND NOISE The VCO MOD section can be used to vary the sound by modulating...

Page 9: ...e waveform options are SINE TRIANGLE SAWTOOTH PULSE WIDTH SQUARE WHITE NOISE LOW FREQ SYNC Switch This switches ON or OFF the synchronization of VCO 2 and VCO 1 and is referred to oscillator sync If set to ON VCO 2 is reset to the start of its waveform cycle each time VCO 1 reaches the start if its waveform cycle No matter what frequency VCO 2 is set to it will always retrigger at the same frequen...

Page 10: ...ls the cutoff frequency ENV 1 ENV 2 Switch Selects which envelope 1 or 2 controls the cutoff frequency If ENV 1 is selected then the ADSR Attach Decay Sustain and Release settings of ENV 1 will control the cutoff frequency Likewise if ENV 2 is selected then the ADSR settings of ENV 2 will control the cutoff frequency KEY FOLLOW Slider This allows the cutoff frequency to be adjusted automatically d...

Page 11: ...ile a note is held down Sustain Sustain Level The level at which the sound will remain while a note is held down Release Release Time How quickly the envelope reaches zero after the note is released ENVELOPE Switch This selects the polarity direction of the envelope KEY FOLLOW Switch This selects the envelopes for which Key Follow is turned on with options being OFF ENV 1 ENV 2 ENV 1 ENV 2 If Key ...

Page 12: ...ould blink indicating that the unit is ready to be reset Simply turn the POWER button to the OFF position if you choose to cancel the reset at this point otherwise continue with step 2 2 Press the MANUAL button to perform the factory reset 3 When all buttons blink switch the s power button to OFF and then back to ON again The unit is now reset back to the default factory settings ...

Page 13: ...ER 2 button 2 Connect the USB port to your computer via USB cable 3 Once recognized open the driver on your computer 4 Navigate to the computer folder containing your backed up data 5 Copy the backup files PRM from this folder to the RESTORE folder on the drive 6 When the copy has completed safely eject the USB drive and disconnect the USB cable from the computer Windows Right Click on the icon in...

Page 14: ...1 PWM 131 PWM SOURCE 2 OSC1 CROSS MOD 0 OSC1 RANGE 2 OSC1 WAVE 3 OSC2 SYNC 0 OSC2 RANGE 164 OSC2 TUNE 146 OSC2 WAVE 1 MIX BALANCE 128 HPF 193 CUTOFF 197 RESONANCE 0 FLT LPF SLOPE 0 FLT ENV MOD 0 FLT ENV MOD SRC 1 FLT LFO MOD 0 FLT KEY FOLLOW 90 AMP LEVEL 191 AMP LFO MOD 0 ENV1 ATTACK 144 ENV1 DECAY 123 ENV1 SUSTAIN 149 ENV1 RELEASE 95 ENV1 POLARITY 1 ENV2 ATTACK 83 ENV2 DECAY 255 ENV2 SUSTAIN 102 ...

Page 15: ...0 1 OSC2 RANGE 0 255 OSC2 TUNE 0 255 OSC2 WAVE 0 5 MIX BALANCE 0 255 HPF 0 255 CUTOFF 0 255 RESONANCE 0 255 FLT LPF SLOPE 0 1 FLT ENV MOD 0 255 FLT ENV MOD SRC 0 1 FLT LFO MOD 0 255 FLT KEY FOLLOW 0 255 AMP LEVEL 0 255 AMP LFO MOD 0 3 ENV1 ATTACK 0 255 ENV1 DECAY 0 255 ENV1 SUSTAIN 0 255 ENV1 RELEASE 0 255 ENV1 POLARITY 0 1 ENV2 ATTACK 0 255 ENV2 DECAY 0 255 ENV2 SUSTAIN 0 255 ENV2 RELEASE 0 255 E...

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