Juno-G DVD Tutorial?

I've recently bought it and I've found it useful, but then I'm not a great one for reading the manual cover to cover.

It's definitely worth the $30 he goes from start to finish, from the basics, and it all makes sense, even for a novice like me. When you "graduate" at the end, you'll know a lot about the performance mode, effects and realize that you just didn't buy a $995 keyboard..you purchased a monster. The thing that he doesn't get into is each effect, there's more than 75 of them and some of the very specific things that he feels you'd be better to explore on your own. Think of it as a "companion" to the book the book merely being a reference guide, the DVD being the "how to".

I believe most online sites like amazon, etc have it available.

Thanks for the replies. I'm going to go ahead and purchase this. If I can shell out the cash for the board, the SRX card, and the 512mb chip, what's an extra $30?

I'm just a piano player, and not very bright when it comes to all of this DAW-related electronic stuff.

just got mine from Sweetwater. it's not insanely in-depth, but it managed to help quite a bit. there are definitely some spots where the manual coulda been a lot more clear, and this definitely helps to alleviate that. well worth it, IMHO. enjoy yours, Quasar!

Its a nice dvd, but I wouldn't call it a 'complete tutorial'. Its more of a quickstart guide. The presenter is very good at making you get up and running with the Juno-G. He's quick, but also very eloquent at the same time. He has an Australian accent.

I think the DVD is definitely a must to accompany the manual. If you start reading the manual, you will get frustrated soon.

You should first watch the DVD, learn how to use the Juno-G and then get to the manual. The manual will become much easier then!

The DVD mainly explains controllers, sequencing (MIDI+Audio), computer integration, basic patch editing and the different modes (performance, master etc) on the Juno-G.

It does not explain anything about detailed patch editing (eg: step LFO, mod matrix, effect details, including different types of insert effects routing (series/parallel/etc).

In other words, this DVD is excellent if you want to get up and start making songs right away. But for more indepth use of this instrument, I would definitely read the manual.

I don't blame this guy for not being able to cover everything. The Juno-G is a monster, its definitely worth $3000. As this guy mentions, professional musicians would give an arm in the past for a keyboard like this (it would probably cost around $20 grant).

Isn't it surprising that people are complaining about such powerful instruments these days (me included) instead of getting creative?

In my case the DVD was perfect, as I come from the analogue-fraction (trumpet). I had no idea of a Juno-G.
David Wills did a great job! My advice: Buy the DVD and do exactly the same on your Juno-G, what he does, step by step. It will take only some hours, and you have learned the fundamentals to create your own songs.
In contrast to the DVD the owners manual let me “stand like an ox in front of a mountain”, as we say in Germany. I needed weeks to understand things David Wills explained in two minutes.

I agree with you Frankenstein, its difficult to read the manual for people who have never used pro synths before. For them, the DVD is a must.

For me, I have plenty of experience reading thick manuals of many synths from Yamaha, Korg, Roland, so the format of the manual was pretty much the same.

I learnt a lot from reading the manual (before the DVD came out), I decided to try the DVD and I was right - the DVD taught everything in 2.5 hours what took me 2.5 weeks to learn from manual, especially the shortcuts like Shift+F2, 'Enter' to get to patch list screen, Shift+F6 to get to audio input screen..i.e, things that are not so obvious!

Once you get advanced, the manual is definitiely the end answer to sound programming (beyond synthesis 101 by Dave Wills).

In other words, buy the DVD and keep the manual safely!

Cool, folks. I guess it's unanimous. The DVD is in the mail.

O.K.... So I'm the guy that's given the task at Roland of writing the manual for this beast, right? Where do I start... "What does this multi-faceted giant really aim to do?" is the question I ask myself. Well, it's a workstation that integrates multiple capabilities driven toward a finished musical production, so, after detailing the required memory upgrades to give this puppy some more torque, I'm going to walk the user through all aspects of the sequencing process. Not the clowns that wrote this manual... no sir!

I hope this DVD helps (as it sounds like it will) 'cause at this point I'm longing for the simplistic days of my Ensoniq SQ-80 (which was the rage when I first started sequencing).

Like I tell the boys in IT... if a person of average intelligence can't use the program by looking at you still have work to do!

Thanks for the guidance.... musiqman7

Maybe you can upload the DVD in a newsgroup?

WOW! I'll agree with others on the DVD's value. The presenter does move quickly, but you have the ability to review with this media. In minutes I feel as though I've gained what would have required multiple hours to accomplish through manual review, which requires the cognition of non-visual, abstract information.

It's really a crime that the DVD, the production of which is likely underwritten by Roland, isn't provided with the unit "in the box." I'm from a generation during which learning transitioned from written text to A/V. Most of your customer base today are A/V learners.

The DVD is a tremendous help!!!

Hi you all,

I would like to order the JUNO-G manual DVD by creditcard outside the US.

Which reseller company is safe to do so ?

Best regards,
Adje.

Hi Adje,

a safe and fast way is via Paypal:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Roland-Juno-G-DVD-Owners-Manual-Video-Tutorial_W0QQitemZ330162330008QQihZ014QQcategoryZ38090QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

In my case (Germany) it only took about a week to receive the DVD.

Best regards

Frank N. Stein

Hi Frank,

Yep, you're right...

I ordered my copy today with ProAudioDVDs.com through PayPal.

All I have to do now is wait for a week
and enjoy (I hope).

Thanks Frank.

Best regards,
Adje.