GilgaFrank

Kinda related, I use Bomes MIDI Translator to do a lot of MIDI routing. Highly recommended. https://www.bome.com/products/miditranslator

I've also tried to get information on data formats for Roland products and come up against a brick wall. The company's insistence on proprietary instead of class-compliant drivers, refusal top open-source anything and en...

If they just add aftertouch it'll be a huge improvement.

Unfortunately, Roland's keenness for built-in obsolence means they'd rather see us throw the synth away and buy a new one a few years down the line when it's no longer supported. Throw away? Hardly. I have a Jupiter-6 an...

As stated, your DAW needs to send MIDI clock to the JD-XA. You also need to set the JD-XA's sync source Menu >> System >> Sync/tempo - set to SLAVE Also set Clock Src to USB or MIDI depending on which input you're sendin...

It's a pity Roland won't see sense and make the Plugout standard open source. Allowing third parties to develop plugouts would be a terrific boost for System-8 owners while sparing Roland the embarrassment of copying oth...

Are you using USB MIDI or serial MIDI? See this thread about using the arpeggiator over MIDI. Long story short, it works over serial MIDI but not over USB MIDI. http://forums.rolandclan.com/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=53625

Great work as always, many thanks for these! My JD-XA is packed with your sounds, keep up the good work.

The JD-XA has the same issue with USB MIDI and the arpeggiator, even though the manual indicates it should work. For the life of me I can't think why Roland have done it this way but a firmware upgrade doesn't seem to be...

Things from the forum and additional things System/12 or System/16 [1] 5 octave keybed [2] Fatar keybed (like on the DSI OB/P6/Rev2) The keybed would need to see a drasrtic improvement. With aftertouch! [7] 3 True OSCs [...