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Voice assignment modes
Voice assignment modes Voice assignment modes
Voice assignment modes
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7.
7.7.
7. Voice assignment modes
Voice assignment modesVoice assignment modes
Voice assignment modes
Several voice modes have been added to the Jupiter 6’s voice assign feature. When in either SPLIT
SPLITSPLIT
SPLIT
mode, the voice allocation on each voice board can be set independently. This section documents the
entire assignment operation as well as the Europa extensions to it.
Since the Jupiter 6’s keyboard has 61 keys, but can only play six notes at a time, the Jupiter's CPU must
have some way to decide what to do when a key is pressed on the local keyboard or a note is played
through MIDI. The ASSIGN
ASSIGNASSIGN
ASSIGN mode buttons are used to select how the Jupiter 6 assigns a note to one of
its six voices, or four or two voices when in
split
splitsplit
split
mode. Each of the nine ASSIGN
ASSIGNASSIGN
ASSIGN modes in Europa
does this differently, because each mode has different musical uses.
Turning on the VOICE WATCH
VOICE WATCHVOICE WATCH
VOICE WATCH feature (as described in the Voice
VoiceVoice
Voice
watch
watchwatch
watch
(E) – Default: Disabled
section) will help in understanding of the various modes and their functions. By watching which LEDs
turn on, the operation of each of the ASSIGN
ASSIGNASSIGN
ASSIGN modes becomes obvious. This is also a handy way of
identifying an out of tune or nonfunctional voice (great for the service tech!). Each voice mode is
described in detail in this section:
Solo [Solo assign LED lit solid]
Solo [Solo assign LED lit solid]Solo [Solo assign LED lit solid]
Solo [Solo assign LED lit solid]
Pressing the SOLO
SOLOSOLO
SOLO button once (from any assign mode other than SOLO
SOLOSOLO
SOLO mode being set already) lights
the SOLO
SOLOSOLO
SOLO button’s LED solid and puts the board in SOLO
SOLOSOLO
SOLO mode. SOLO
SOLOSOLO
SOLO Mode will only sound one
note at a time - the last note played. If a note is held down and another note played, the voice will jump to
the new note, but the envelope will not retrigger. This allows playing of smooth solo lines. If the second
note is released before the first note, the first note will sound again. If the sound quickly dies away, try
increasing the SUSTAIN
SUSTAINSUSTAIN
SUSTAIN level of ENV
ENVENV
ENV-
--
-2
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2. A patch with a quick ATTACK
ATTACKATTACK
ATTACK and D
DD
DECAY
ECAYECAY
ECAY with no
SUSTAIN
SUSTAINSUSTAIN
SUSTAIN does not work well in SOLO
SOLOSOLO
SOLO mode because the envelope only gets retriggered when all
notes are released. Only one voice is used in SOLO
SOLOSOLO
SOLO mode.
Solo rotate [Solo assign LED blinking]
Solo rotate [Solo assign LED blinking]Solo rotate [Solo assign LED blinking]
Solo rotate [Solo assign LED blinking]
Pressing the SOLO
SOLOSOLO
SOLO button a second time makes the SOLO
SOLOSOLO
SOLO button's LED blink and puts the board in
SOLO
SOLOSOLO
SOLO ROTATE
ROTATEROTATE
ROTATE mode. As with SOLO
SOLOSOLO
SOLO mode, SOLO
SOLOSOLO
SOLO ROTATE
ROTATEROTATE
ROTATE sounds only the last note played.
However, each new note is assigned to a new voice, which makes the envelope retrigger for each new
note. This is good for playing short, percussive sounds with a long RELEASE
RELEASERELEASE
RELEASE, because new notes will
not immediately interrupt the RELEASE
RELEASERELEASE
RELEASE with a new ATTACK
ATTACKATTACK
ATTACK like in SOLO
SOLOSOLO
SOLO mode (unless many notes
are played quickly). All available voices are used in SOLO
SOLOSOLO
SOLO ROTATE
ROTATEROTATE
ROTATE mode.
Solo unison [Solo and
Solo unison [Solo and Solo unison [Solo and
Solo unison [Solo and unison assign LEDs lit solid]
unison assign LEDs lit solid]unison assign LEDs lit solid]
unison assign LEDs lit solid]
Pressing the SOLO
SOLOSOLO
SOLO and UNISON
UNISONUNISON
UNISON buttons at the same time lights both the SOLO
SOLOSOLO
SOLO and UNISON
UNISONUNISON
UNISON LEDs
and puts the board in SOLO
SOLOSOLO
SOLO UNISON
UNISONUNISON
UNISON mode. The SOLO
SOLOSOLO
SOLO UNISON
UNISONUNISON
UNISON mode works just like SOLO
SOLOSOLO
SOLO
mode, only all available voices are used to play each note. If the board is in WHOLE
WHOLEWHOLE
WHOLE mode, six voices
sound at one time, and in SPLIT
SPLITSPLIT
SPLIT mode either four or two. This makes for some very fat sounds. The
fatness can be adjusted by using the UNISON
UNISONUNISON
UNISON DETUNE
DETUNEDETUNE
DETUNE knob just to the left of the ASSIGN
ASSIGNASSIGN
ASSIGN buttons.
A setting of 0
00
0 tunes the voices very close together, while a setting of 10
1010
10 detunes the voices so much that
it starts sounding nasty - but not a good sort of nasty.