System 8 in your JD-XA?
Posted: 07:27, 26 February 2017
There seems to be a load of folks who love the Roland plug-outs for their System 8. In fact... i think it ships with the Jupiter-8 and Juno-60 plug-outs. If you are someone who uses Axial and the LIbrarian with your JD-XA - you probably have already loaded up the "Crossover Impressions" programs on Axial JD-XA. If you are a Librarian user, that's a great set of bread-and-butter traditional Roland tones. It includes Sequences, and Arps that really show what you can do. Once downloaded and put onto a USB.. it is somewhat similar to a System 8 plugout.
But wait.. that's only 16 programs.. And - there are a lot more pads, strings, tones than just the Jupiter-8 or Juno-60. Worse... maybe you havent had success with the Librarian, and have no desire to suffer through the connection, loss of connection, hassles. . of using Axial connection from your JD-XA. What other options are there? Well -- there are the Axial Integra-7 Collections. 17 sets. Some are slathered in effects, some are dry. Most all of them, can be loaded into your JD-XA though. So -- you can grab the Juno-60 Collection, and load it onto a USB drive - and make all 16 of those tones available to your JD-XA. Each of the Junos... take a single digital part. So... with a little effort - you could put the 16 parts onto 4 programs ( each program can store 4 digital parts). Or ... you can create a bank of Juno-60 programs... and have those available.
In order to convert the Integra sounds to JD-XA friendly format (and not all Integra sounds are compatible), it's best to use the Librarian... or find someone who has the Librarian, and has converted / loaded the patches. There are youtube vids and good Roland directions on how to do it. I've converted a few of them, and am including a link here to the Juno-106 bank. These would need to be unzipped onto a JD-XA formatted USB drive.. and pulled onto your JD-XA. It takes a minute. Then.. you have a Juno-60 Plugout.
There are 17 Integra sets... covering D-50, SH101, TB303, etc... Put these onto a USB... and you have the ease of what the System 8 brings to the table. I.E. adding iconic synth sounds, easily.
File: Joe
But wait.. that's only 16 programs.. And - there are a lot more pads, strings, tones than just the Jupiter-8 or Juno-60. Worse... maybe you havent had success with the Librarian, and have no desire to suffer through the connection, loss of connection, hassles. . of using Axial connection from your JD-XA. What other options are there? Well -- there are the Axial Integra-7 Collections. 17 sets. Some are slathered in effects, some are dry. Most all of them, can be loaded into your JD-XA though. So -- you can grab the Juno-60 Collection, and load it onto a USB drive - and make all 16 of those tones available to your JD-XA. Each of the Junos... take a single digital part. So... with a little effort - you could put the 16 parts onto 4 programs ( each program can store 4 digital parts). Or ... you can create a bank of Juno-60 programs... and have those available.
In order to convert the Integra sounds to JD-XA friendly format (and not all Integra sounds are compatible), it's best to use the Librarian... or find someone who has the Librarian, and has converted / loaded the patches. There are youtube vids and good Roland directions on how to do it. I've converted a few of them, and am including a link here to the Juno-106 bank. These would need to be unzipped onto a JD-XA formatted USB drive.. and pulled onto your JD-XA. It takes a minute. Then.. you have a Juno-60 Plugout.
There are 17 Integra sets... covering D-50, SH101, TB303, etc... Put these onto a USB... and you have the ease of what the System 8 brings to the table. I.E. adding iconic synth sounds, easily.
File: Joe