Roland Jupiter-80 Release Note

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JUPITER-80 ReleaseNote

JUPITER-80—All About Version 2

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Welcome to the JUPITER-80, Version 2

About This Booklet

This booklet explains how to install Version 2 on your JUPITER-80, and how to use the new Version 2 features.

Understanding the Symbols in This Booklet

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With the Version 2 operating system software upgrade, the Roland JUPITER-80 becomes an even more powerful instrument. Here’s what Version 2 brings to the JUPITER-80:

• New, cutting-edge sounds—We’ve added new internal tones, live

sets, and registrations to make the JUPITER-80’s sound set even more exciting. (A Version 2 sound list document is included with the Version 2 updater file.)

• The Registration Play screen—This new screen makes it easier

than ever to find registrations, and to jump into Single Part Play mode for playing live sets. (To read about this now, click here.)

• Three new low-pass filters—We’ve added three new vintage low-

pass filter types to the SuperNATURAL synth tone, making the synth engine even more of a sound designer’s dream. (To jump to this section, click here.)

• New MFX Combinations—With Version 2, the MFX can be

arranged parallel to each other (as in Version 1), or in one of four other configurations, allowing you to take greater advantage of their processing power by combining MFX in new and interesting ways. (To read about this now, click here.)

• The JUPITER-80 as SONAR Controller—By simply activating the

new ACT feature, the JUPITER-80 becomes a control surface for Cakewalk by Roland’s SONAR digital audio workstation. (To jump to more information on this, click here.)

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Warnings contain important information that can help you avoid possible damage to your equipment, your data, or yourself.

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Checking Your JUPITER-80’s System Version

If you’ve just purchased your JUPITER-80, you may already be running the Version 2 software or higher. Here’s how to find out.

1 Power on the JUPITER-80.

2 Press the MENU button.

3 Touch System.

4 Touch the Information tab at the bottom of the screen to reveal

the system version. If you see

• a system version number lower than 2.00—continue with

the installation instructions in this booklet.

• “2.00” or higher—you’ve already got Version 2 installed.

Installing Version 2

Getting Ready to Upgrade

We recommend performing a backup of your JUPITER-80’s internal memory to a USB thumb drive before upgrading to Version 2. There are two reasons:

• The new Version 2 sounds replace the old ones—Version 2

replaces the original JUPITER-80 internal tones, live sets, and registrations with a fresh sound set. A backup preserves the original JUPITER-80 collection of sounds, allowing you to reload them whenever you like.

• You may have personal User data you want to preserve—If you’ve

been using the JUPITER-80 for a while, odds are that you’ve stored some of your own data in its User memory. You may have saved

• registrations • live sets • tones

• system settings that customize the JUPITER-80’s setup

3 Press the MENU button to display the MENU

window.

4 Touch Format USB Memory.

5 Touch EXEC to proceed, or CANCEL.

6 Touch OK to format the drive, or CANCEL.

7 When formatting’s complete, touch OK.

Backing Up the JUPITER-80’s Entire Internal Memory

Backup Strategies

There are two ways to save your current data onto a thumb drive:

• You can save the entire contents of internal memory—using the

JUPITER-80’s Backup tool. This is the way to go to preserve the JUPITER-80’s original sound set.

• You can back up specific registrations, live sets, and tones—if you

have specific sounds you want to hang onto.

Formatting a USB Thumb Drive for the JUPITER-80

1 With the JUPITER-80’s power off,

connect a thumb drive to the jack in

the front-panel USB MEMORY•SONG

PLAYER/RECORDER compartment.

2 Turn on the JUPITER-80.

After installing your formatted thumb drive in the USB MEMORY•SONG

PLAYER/RECORDER compartment, here’s how to back up all of your JUPITER-80’s internal data as a single backup file on the drive.

You can store a single backup file on each USB thumb drive. If you back up to a thumb drive that already contains a backup file, the new backup file replaces the old one.

1 Press the MENU button to display the Menu window.

2 Touch Backup.

3 Touch EXEC.

4 Touch OK to finish saving your backup.

After we explain how to update your JUPITER-80, we’ll discuss reloading the data in your backup file.

Backing Up Specific Sounds

After installing your formatted thumb drive in the USB MEMORY•SONG

PLAYER/RECORDER compartment, here’s how to save, or “export,” specific registrations, live sets, and tones to the thumb drive.

1 Press the MENU button to display the MENU window.

2 Touch the Page 1/2•Next arrow to display the second page of

the MENU window.

3 Touch Export to display the Export screen.

Marking buttons

4 Start selecting the type of sound you want to export by touching

the appropriate sound-type tab at the bottom of the screen. Touch

• Registration—to display a list of the registrations currently

stored the JUPITER-80’s internal memory.

• Live Set—to display a list of the live sets currently stored in

the JUPITER-80’s internal memory.

• Tone—to display a list of the tones currently stored in the

JUPITER-80’s internal memory.

When you export a registration, the live sets and tones it uses are exported along with it to ensure the registration sounds the same when it’s brought back into the JUPITER-80.

The JUPITER-80 exports any sound that has a mark—and asterisk—to its left.

5 To

• mark an individual sound for export—touch

the sound to highlight it, and then touch Mark to place an asterisk to the left of the sound.

Sound-type tabs

You begin by letting the JUPITER-80 know what type of sound it is you want to export to your thumb drive.

We’ve marked this registration for export.

• unmark a currently marked sound—touch the sound to

highlight it, and then touch Mark.

• mark all of the sounds in the displayed list for

export—touch Mark All to asterisk all of the sounds in the list at once.

To quickly see which of the sounds in a list are marked, touch the Search Mark 5 and 6 buttons to jump up or down in the list from marked sound to marked sound.

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