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The Big Picture—A JUPITER-50 Memory Refresher
The Way the JUPITER-50 Works
To fully understand the contents of Synth Legends, you have to
understand a little bit about the JUPITER-50’s sound architecture.
Tones
The JUPITER-50 is powered by Roland’s
SuperNATURAL
®
technology. SuperNATURAL’s
a unique hybrid of sampling and modeling that
produces amazing, living sounds.
In the JUPITER-50, everything is built from two kinds of SuperNATURAL
sounds: synth tones and acoustic-instrument tones. In this collection,
the emphasis is definitely on the JUPITER-50’s synth capabilities.
Each SuperNATURAL synth tone, is, to put it simply, a synthesizer with
three digital oscillators, which are called “partials” in the JUPITER-50.
All of the synth settings you’d expect to find in an traditional synth are
here, from LFOs, to multiple waveforms, to great-sounding filters.
Live Sets
You don’t select and play SuperNATURAL tones
directly—you play them within live sets. Each
live set can have up to four tones layered, split
across the keyboard, or both.
Registrations
Live sets are combined in super-sounds on the JUPITER-50 called
“registrations.” Each registration has three “parts” that hold a full
live set—called the “Upper” part—plus an additional one-tone Solo
part, and a one-tone Percussion/Lower part, for a total of up to 6
SuperNATURAL tones playing at once.
Tone
Tone
Tone
Tone
Live Set
Tone
Solo
Tone
Tone
Tone
Tone
Upper Live Set
Tone
Perc
Lower
Of course, each registration has a rich effect-processing system, an
arpeggio setup, as well as its own realtime control settings.
We’re Recapping All This Because...?
You can see that each registration uses a bunch of live sets which
in turn use a bunch of tones. Synth Legends Vol. 1 contains 60
registrations. When you load them into the JUPITER-50, the 512 live
sets and 123 tones that they use are also loaded. Fortunately, the
JUPITER-50 knows this, too, and takes care of all the housekeeping
for you.
Time for a Strategy Session
The JUPITER-50’s memory for registrations, live sets, tones, and
arpeggios is big—it provides plenty of room for factory sounds, and
your own, too—but everything in life has its limits. If you’ve already
been filling up your JUPITER-50 with your own sounds, you may not
have enough spare room for Synth Legends. Even if you do, you don’t
want to use up all the memory you have—you may need it for loading
more new sounds down the road. In a nutshell, the concern is that
you’ll just have too many great sounds to fit in the JUPITER-50 all at
once. This is a nice problem to have.
So. We recommend dealing with the sounds and arpeggios in Synth
Legends in two steps:
•
First, preview the entire collection—
by backing up your current
data, and then loading a special Synth Legends backup file.
•
Second, import Synth Legends sounds you want to have on your
JUPITER-50—
whether that’s the entire collection or just certain
sounds.
Tone
