Roland PG-300
Alpha juno programmer

 

Programmer simply generates Midi exclusives strings that enhances Apha Juno series real-time tweaks controls.

Finally some real-time controls, but these PG are now quite hard to find out on the market.

PROGRAMMER Unit features 30 sliders for total control and no display (anyway it is not necessary).

Back panel terminal connectors:
- Midi input
- Midi ouput
- Midi thru

Power supply is external PSU with standard 9V negative in center polarity.

 

 

MIDI the PG generates Sysex Midi strings that quicken edit process: no more submenus or other deep hidden sections, a breeze!
The PG300 is organized into 6 main sections:
1- DCO oscillators
2- filter VCF
3- amplifier VCA
4- effect chorus
5- ENVELOPE EG
6- LFO modulation

 

 

OSCILLATOR: defines the DCO parameters including waveforms, shape widht suboscillator, noise and DCO lfo settings.

 

 

FILTER : defines the VCF parameters including: resonance, cutoff, highpass amount, VCF Eg mode and keyfollow amount-

 

 

VCA : defines the VCA parameters including: the level, the envelope mode and aftertouch settings.

 

 

FX : defines the amount and rate of internal chorus based on BBD.

 

 

EG : defines the 4-stages + 3 time levels with polarity inversion EG:

 

LFO : defines the modulator frequency and start-delay amount.

 

ALTERNATIVE TO PG300: if you don't manage to get the PG300 for your synth or module, there are some software based programs that badly helps and quite replace the hardware programmer.
- VST AU Alpha JUNO Editor (MAC-PC / $$) PIC
- Midiquest (MAC-PC / $$) PIC
- MKS-50 (Atari ST / freeware now) PIC
- CTRLR (MAC-PC-LINUX / free) PIC
- Alpha BASE (PC / free) PIC
- Alpha Juno Control (MAC / free) PIC below.

RELATED MODELS :

	Alpha Juno 1 smaller version with 49 keys (no velocity) and no cartridge port.
	Alpha Juno 2 ALPHA JUNO1 VS ALPHA JUNO2: Ju2 is bigger with 5 octave keyboard velocity and aftertouch sensitive keys
	MKS-50 rack unit with some enhancements like Detuning, Portamento and a double RAM memory.
	HS-80 consumer version of alpha Juno2 with different outfit.
	HS-10 - an alpha juno1 with different case.
	Dtronics DT300 is a modern Pg300 clone made by third part company.

 

AUDIO DEMO

SANXION (track overdub) with TR-606 Performance 1 + drum samples Performance 2 + drum samples Performance 3 + drum samples Performance 4 + drum samples Performance 5 + drum samples Performance 6 + drum samples Organ: b3 even more poor Harpsichord: like a 8 bits Piano: analog poor Clavinet: naaaa Bass: funky Bass: mooga Bass: razor Bass: jumpy Bass: soft quiet Bass: attack Drums: analog kit Drums: timpani FX: scary ohhhhohhhh LOL Ambient: chill Ambient: space Ambient: system Pad: murky Pad: chorus Pad: time bandit String: LFO movement String: very simple Synth: WOOObled Synth: what's a hoover? Synth: Drill Synth: droning Synth: melodie d'amour Synth: rate by rate Synth: resonance up Synth: square world Synth: slippery when dry XP: waveforms all pulses XP: suboscillators waves XP: sawtooth width XP: pulse width XP: white noise and filter XP: lowpass and resonance XP: highpass mode filter XP: LFO all shapes XP: Chorus BBD

Soundcloud Alpha Juno1

VIDEO CLIP SELECTION Roland mks-50 & pg-300 Programmer for Alpha Juno 1 & 2 Roland MKS-50 & PG-300 test

 

 

Alpha juno with mimi the synthcat