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2. uu M S i lm n m Ji a co SU suom systems incorporated copyright 2001 synthcom systems incorporated COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMERS AND TRADEMARKS EUROPA USER GUIDE COPYRIGHT Copyright 1994 2001 Synthcom Systems Incorporated All rights reserved No part of this manual or CD ROM including cover design illustrations or interior design may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means including but not limited to electronic forms photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of Synthcom Systems Incorporated Visit http www synthcom com for most current documentation downloadable images and support information LIMIT OF LIABILITY DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY Synthcom Systems Incorporated and its representatives have used their best efforts in preparing this CD ROM and manual Synthcom Systems Inc makes no representation or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of the CD ROM or files contained within it and specifically disclaim any implied warranties or merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose and shall in no event be liable for any loss of profit or any other commercial damage including but not limited to special incidental consequential or other damages Synthcom Systems Incorporated reserves the right to update the files contai
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5. PLAYED AND KEYEGARE MIDT __ ection With local mode enabled the arpeggiator will play internal voices as well as transmit arpeggiated MIDI notes Incoming MIDI notes will add to the existing arpeggiated note list as if played from the local keyboard With local mode disabled the arpeggiator will only transmit MIDI notes and arpeggiate the notes held on the local keyboard It will not play internal voices Incoming MIDI notes will instead play Jupiter 6 voices through the voice allocation scheme and bypass the arpeggiator completely This allows Europa s arpeggiator to drive external equipment while retaining the ability to use the internal synthesis functions Page 23 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS AND ACTION FUNCTIONS EUROPA USER GUIDE CONTINUOUS CONTROLLER TRANSMIT DEFAULT ENABLED Enables or disables Europa from transmitting MIDI continuous controllers when knobs sliders or buttons are pressed on the Jupiter 6 s front panel Continuous controllers are intended for use in sequences due to the shortness of the associated MIDI messages For patch based continuous controllers parameters will only be changed on the voice boards and not the patch edit For preset based continuous controllers parameters will be changed in both the preset edit and the voice boards The continuous controller s meanings are documented in SYSTEM EXCLUSIVE TRANSMIT DEFAULT DISABLED Enables or disables Europa from tr
6. each bit 1 Step step NOTE The arpeggiator rhythm is 16 steps for upper or lower or 32 steps when the board is in whole mode and the arpeggiator has sequence link enabled This CC sets 4 bits at a time in either of these fields in LSB order X IX 0 31 Arpeggiator Set various arpeggiator options Preset options Bits 7 5 Set to 0 unused Bit 4 1 Rest note enabled 0 Disabled Bit 3 1 2Link mode enabled 0 Disabled Bit 2 1 Legato enabled 0 Disabled Bits 1 0 Repeat count 00 0 Repeats note played once 01 1 Repeat note played 2 times 10 2 Repeats note played 3 times 11 3 Repeats note played 4 times 0 31 Europa soft Set various Europa options Global switch options Bits 7 5 Set to 0 unused Bit 4 1 Voice watch on 0 Disabled Bit 3 1 Velocity transmit on 0 Disabled Bit 2 1 Sysex transmit on 0 Disabled Bit 1 1 CC transmit on 0 Disabled Bit 0 1 Local mode on 0 Disabled 9 X X 0 1 MANUAL mode Set manual mode 0 gt MANUAL mode IRI bduu control 1 Preset mode 93 X X 0 127 SPLIT Pointset Set the SPLIT point note between the Global UPPER voice and Lower voice when the board is in SPLIT 2 4 or SPLIT 4 2 mode The controller value directly corresponds to a note ff Figure 14 Europa s Continuous Controller map Page 63 EUROPA MIDI IMPLEMENTATION EUROPA USER GUIDE Value ___ Value BPM Value BPM Value BPM 0
7. 3 0 127 0 127 Set LFO 1 s delay time 0 127 Page 67 EUROPA MIDI IMPLEMENTATION EUROPA USER GUIDE Byte Valid Name Description range 0 127 0 127 PWM Pulse width Set the PWM pulse width I 25 0 127 PWM Pulse width Set the PWM pulse width source amount pL uM Set the XMOD 1 slider 28 0 127 1 Range Set VCO 1 s operational range 2 17 92 29 44 16 56 71 83 98 110 125 126 127 Values between each tuning range provide various tunings between them Values 0 1 provide an almost subharmonic oscillation 29 0 127 2 Range Set VCO 2 s operational range 2 17 32 29 44 16 56 71 83 98 110 125 126 127 Values between each tuning range provide various tunings between them Values 0 1 provide an almost subharmonic oscillation 0 127 Set z s fine tune level 31 0 127 MIXER Set the VCO MIXER level 0 1 entirely 127 2 entirely 63 veo 1 VCO 2 evenly balanced Page 68 EUROPA USER GUIDE EUROPA MIDI IMPLEMENTATION Byte Valid Name Description ense C j Switch data nibble 1 Switch data nibble 2 Switch data nibble 3 Switch data nibble 4 Set LFO 1 s waveshape only one bit is valid Bits 7 4 Bit 3 V Bit2 Bit 1 HL Bit 0 Set PWM VED Bits 7 4 Bit 3 Bit 2 Bit 1 Bit 0 Set to 0 Triangle Sawtooth Square wave 1
8. Command 05h Write block request Europa system exclusive header Begin sysex EXAMPLE 4 ASSIGN AFTERTOUCH TO FREQUENCY FOh 41h 10h 4ah 36h 07h 02h 2ch f7h End Sysex Frequency CC 44 Aftertouch Command 07h Assign controller Europa system exclusive header Begin sysex Page 76 EUROPA USER GUIDE EUROPA INTERNAL ARCHITECTURE 13 EUROPA INTERNAL ARCHITECTURE Europa is a completely new operating system replacement for the Roland Jupiter 6 The code is an entire rewrite from the original Roland code and uses a compatible microprocessor with modern features such as flash storage and double performance of the original 8051 8031 at the same clock rate The source code is over a megabyte of MCS 51 assembly language which compiles down to roughly a 32K binary executable The additional processor performance allows Europa to expand the Jupiter 6 s feature set and perform tasks the original Roland Jupiter 6 controller board could not Due to backward compatibility Europa s installation is greatly simplified as compared to many other synthesizer retrofits Europa is comprised of two images BLOCK The boot block provides basic flash writing services Jupiter 6 controller board diagnostics check coding of the Europa image itself firmware transfer mode and other boot time diagnostics This area is never written to and is guaranteed to be there e
9. 2 and 1 X X 0 15 1 Select 1 s waveforms Voice Waveform Bits 7 4 Set to 0 unused Bit 3 7 1 Triangle wave 0 Disabled Bit 2 1 Sawtooth wave 0 Disabled Bit d tus 1 Pulse wave 0 Disabled Bit 0 1 Square wave 0 Disabled NOTE If an attempt is made to turn the pulse and square wave on simultaneously the square wave will become active and the pulse wave inactive It is valid to shut off all waveforms 70 X X 0 15 vco 2 Select VCO 2 s waveforms Voice Waveform Bits 7 4 Set to 0 unused Bit 3 7 1 Triangle wave 0 Disabled Bit 2 1 Sawtooth wave 0 Disabled Bit 1 1 Pulse wave 0 Disabled Bit 0 12 Noise 0 Disabled It is valid to shut off all waveforms 71 X X 0 2 Filter modes Set the vB F s mode Voice 0 High pass filter Low pass filter 2 Band pass filter EUROPA USER GUIDE EUROPA MIDI IMPLEMENTATION Ctrl Valid Name _ Alters values X 0 3 Sync modes Set VCO sync mode Voice 0 Sync mode disabled 1 2 Syncs to VCO 1 2 1 Syncs to 2 3 1 amp VCO 2 Sync to each other X ENV Set the ver envelope modulation control Voice 0 Altered by ENV 1 1 Altered by ENV 2 1 Polarity Set the polarity of ENV 1 Voice 0 Negative polarity Positive polarity KEY MODE Set the KEY MODE Preset 1 SPLIT 2 4 mode 2 SPLIT 4 2 mode 3 WHOLE mode L
10. Random waveform MOD enables Set to 0 1 PWM ENV 1 1 PWM LFO 1 vco 1 MOD 1 vco 2 MOD Set VCO 1 waveform s Bits 7 4 Bit Bit Bit Bit x m al Set to 0 1 Triangle wave 0 Disabled 1 Sawtooth wave 0 Disabled 1 Pulse wave 0 Disabled 1 Square wave 0 Disabled NOTE Bits 0 amp 1 pulse and square waves cannot be enabled simultaneously Setting it this way will cause the entire patch to be ignored Set VCO 2 waveform s Bits 7 4 Bit Bit Bit Bit Switch data nibble 5 Bits 7 4 Switch data nibble 6 Set filter mo Bits 7 4 Bits 3 2 Set to 0 V 1 Triangle wave 0 Disabled N 1 Sawtooth wave 0 Disabled ALA 1 Pulse wave 0 Disabled 1 Noise 0 Disabled Set VGF SYNG setting s Set to 0 Bits 3 2 Type 00 Invalid 01 High pass 10 Low pass 11 Bandpass l veo 1 gt veo 2 Sync l veo 2 1 Sync de setting s Set to 0 ENV POLARITY 00 Invalid 01 Negative 10 Positive 11 Invalid 1 Modified by ENV 1 1 vcrF Modified by ENV 2 Figure 22 Patch save data format block type 000 Page 69 EUROPA MIDI IMPLEMENTATION EUROPA USER GUIDE Instructs Europa to write a patch to a given flash location or to either of the patch edits If the destination is to either patch edit the patch is immediately changed and heard and the patch changed indication occurs the NUMBER LED blinks If any data in the patch
11. This clock signal is sent to amp Sync both arpeggiators when in SPLIT mode or to the upper voice one selec arpeggiator when in whole mode Upper and lower arpeggiator sync sources are not independently selectable The clock sources are a global setting and are saved with the board NVRAM not in the presets MIDI CLOCK MIDIIN Clock synchronization is a new feature with Europa It synchronizes at 24 parts per quarter note per step assumes no divider or multiplier Receipt of a MIDI start message will start the arpeggiator back to the beginning of the arpeggiation stepping more on that later MIDI Clock is not transmitted when synchronized to MIDI clock INTERNAL CLOCK Europa s internal clock is far more accurate than the original Roland code s clock and exact BPM speeds are selectable and are accurate within 0 276 se Figure for the clock rate table MIDI Clock will be transmitted when set to the internal clock EXTERNAL GLOCK The external clock advances the arpeggiator at a rate of a single step per pulse MIDI Clock is transmitted at the rate of the external clock pulses 12 This assumes that the external clock is one pulse per eighth note MIDI Clock and other arpeggiator clocking features will not behave in a predictable manner if the external clock is not received at a regular interval From this point forward it is assumed that a single clock is equal to one step of the arpeggiator regardless of the so
12. an empty sequence will produce no notes Either record a sequence or unset an arpeggiator sequence mode described in ARPEGGIATOR AND SEQUENGE MODES e Isa blank rhythm set Double check it by pressing and holding the RANGE button and ensuring that at least some of the PATCH PRESET A F 1 8 and MANUAL LEDs are set If no rhythm is programmed the arpeggiator will not step e Isacombination of the rate being set very low and the divider multiplier being set to a large divider If clocked internally try setting the RATE knob to about midrange 5 and set the divider to 1X as documented in the IMULTIPLIER DIVIDER SETTINGS 1 B s ction GET TWO NOTES FOR EVERY ONE PLAY OR NOTES SOUND FLANGED Ensure the sequencer being used is not looping back notes If it is either set the sequencer to not do MIDI loopback or shut local mode on the Jupiter 6 off press and hold TAPE and press A until it blinks This is not a problem with Europa rather one that can be noticed with Europa due to voice watch THE ENV 2 SLIDER DOESN T WORK Turn off velocity transmit Press and hold TAPE and press D until it blinks This restores the 2 slider to normal operation instead of controlling the velocity of played notes PM NOT RECORDING SYSEX GCS FROM EUROPA IN MY SEQUENCER Check the sequencer and ensure that continuous controllers and or system exclusive messages are not filtered out By default most sequencers fill filter out drop all sy
13. with Europa oversimplified architecture shown i 1 Figure 2 Page 13 OPERATIONAL DIFFERENCES EUROPA USER GUIDE MIDI Notes Local keyboard P Arpeggiator enable e Internal clk v Arp clk in Arpeggiator MIDI Clk Y Voice assign MIDI Note Transmit Y Voice board s Figure 2 Oversimplified Europa arpeggiator clocking and voice assign structure This is a far more flexible architecture It allows the arpeggiator to be clocked from MIDI the arpeggiator to drive the voice assignment and arpeggiator notes to be transmitted via MIDI The highly detailed Europa arpeggiator voice architecture and operation is documented in Chapter 9 Arpeggiator page 20 ARPEGGIATOR UI ASSIGN MODES The BANK A F and NUMBER 1 8 buttons allow setting of various options on the arpeggiator when the arpeggiator s up and pawn buttons are held Details on their settings and operation are documented in Chapter 9 Arpeggiator ARPEGGIATOR UP DOWN BUTTON DIFFERENCES The original Roland code required both the up and pawn buttons to be held to set the arpeggiator s leadoff direction With Europa pressing either or pown alone will turn on or off the arpeggiator and or set the leadoff direction VCO 1 VCO 2 WAVEFORM SELECT BUTTONS 1 2 waveform select buttons with t
14. 42915 42915 uO JO 3 pieoq y w 9 30N IGIIN Bumes 42915 Figure 8 Europa s arpeggiator clocking and note flowchart architecture Page 31 ARPEGGIATOR EUROPA USER GUIDE Even though the arpeggiator diagram is initially intimidating Europa s arpeggiator architecture really is simple when broken down into its individual components The interaction between them can be very simple to extremely complex depending upon the settings and features used The important thing is to understand at least the basic interaction between the modules even if the entire functionality of the modules is not understood Regardless it is still possible to be creative with the arpeggiator Note that when in SPLIT mode there are two arpeggiators lower and upper The clock is the only component that is shared between the two arpeggiators The rest of the settings are completely independent ARPEGGIATOR ARCHITECTURE This section describes the arpeggiator s architecture systematically to help make the architecture easier to understand ARPEGGIATOR CLOCKING SOURCES The arpeggiator can be synchronized to one of three different clock sources MIDI Clock the internally generated clock or the eot podes poda external clock input found on the back of the Jupiter 6 labeled trigger in on the back of the Jupiter 6
15. AND UNISON ASSIGN LEDS LIT SOLIDI Pressing the SOLO and UNISON buttons at the same time lights both the SOLO and UNISON LEDs and puts the board in SOLO UNISON mode The SOLO UNISON mode works just like SOLO mode only all available voices are used to play each note If the board is in WHOLE mode six voices sound at one time and in SPLIT mode either four or two This makes for some very fat sounds The fatness can be adjusted by using the UNISON DETUNE knob just to the left of the ASSIGN buttons A setting of tunes the voices very close together while a setting of 10 detunes the voices so much that it starts sounding nasty but not a good sort of nasty Page 27 VOICE ASSIGNMENT MODES EUROPA USER GUIDE UNISON UNISON LED LIT SOLID Pressing the UNISON button once lights the UNISON LED solid and puts the board in UNISON mode UNISON 5 polyphonic mode meaning more than one note can be played at a time The idea behind UNISON is to make the fattest sound possible The UNISON mode works like SOLO UNISON for the first note played then things start getting strange If two or more notes are being played the voices divide between the notes played Since the number of different voices available depends on if the board is in WHOLE or SPLIT mode the number of voices per note depends on the KEY MODE as well It is confusing so here is a table to make it easier to understand WHOLE SPLIT 4 SPLIT 2 1 Key All 6 voices 1 Key 4 Voices 1 K
16. BANK being lit solid with NUMBER 1 lit solid and 2 8 blinking giving an opportunity for a proper image to be uploaded See chapter 12 Europa firmware update utility for further information If the Europa image is good there is no reason to update firmware to the same version The EFUU will alert the user to any bad images and if the image is not bad updating to the same version will change nothing B EUROPA EXECUTION BEGINS Europa continues the diagnostic process by waiting for the voice boards to become idle If either board does not become idle in a period of 5 seconds a voice board failure code is shown indicated by BANK F being lit solid with NUMBER 6 lit solid This indicates one or both voice boards failing or swapped cables to the controller board 9 VOICE BOARDS TUNED A command is sent to both voice boards for them to tune themselves Europa waits for up to 5 seconds for the voice boards to become busy and up to 5 seconds for them to become idle If the voice boards do not become idle a voice board failure is assumed and a voice board failure code is shown indicated by BANK F lit solid with NUMBER 6 lit solid 10 BENDER BUTTON TESTED If the BENDER button is held and memory protect is not on Roland factory patches and presets are loaded into the Jupiter 6 s as well as Europa s flash memory A boot code of E 6 is shown 11 PORTAMENTO BUTTON TESTED If the PORTAMENTO button is held and memory protect is not on
17. Europa copies the patches and presets into Europa s flash memory A boot code of E 2 is shown 12 GLISSANDO BUTTON TESTED If the GLISSANDO button is held and memory protect is off Europa copies the patches and presets that are in Europa s flash memory to NVRAM A boot code of E 7 is shown Page 20 EUROPA USER GUIDE POWER UP DIAGNOSTICS AND ACTIONS 13 NVRAM SETTINGS VERIFIED NVRAM Is checked for proper Europa settings Europa stores all board settings except patches and presets in NVRAM in the same location as the Roland code s BANK amp D of presets If this NVRAM region has bad settings a boot code of E 4 or E 5 is shown depending upon the exact problem This also occurs if the NVRAM region s checksum is invalid In either situation the default Europa board settings are reloaded 14 FLASH PATGHES AND PRESETS ARE VERIFIED All patches and presets stored in flash are verified for valid content If an invalid patch is found a boot code of E 1 is shown The bad patch es are corrected regardless of the memory protect switch s position If an invalid preset is found a boot code of E 3 is shown As with patches presets are also corrected regardless of the memory protect switch setting At this point the board has passed all diagnostics and has booted into operational Europa mode POWER UP ACTION FUNCTIONS Europa has several actions that it can perform on powerup Each is performed by holding the keys
18. Europa to write an arpeggiator step rhythm sequence to either the upper or lower step rhythm edits Byte Value Description CO Write patch edit preset edit or sequence edit to flash Bitwise Bit7 Unused set to 0 Bits 6 4 Block type to write to flash 000 UPPER WHOLE patch edit 001 LOWER patch edit 010 Preset edit 011 111 Not valid Command will be ignored its 3 Unused set to 0 other values will invalidate the message causing the command to be ignored Depends Write UPPER WHOLE or LOWER patch edit to flash 000 or 001 on bits 6 4 on block 00h 2fh A1 F8 Destination in flash to write patch edit type Write preset edit 001 on bits 6 4 00h 1fh A1 D8 Destination in flash to write preset edit Figure 25 Command 06h Write patch or preset edit to flash Instructs Europa to write the currently active patch or preset edit to flash This command acts as if the user has written a preset or patch to flash Any invalid bits being set will cause this command to be ignored The command will also be ignored if the Jupiter 6 memory write protect is on Page 74 EUROPA USER GUIDE EUROPA MIDI IMPLEMENTATION Description ___ 00001 O 7 Assigncontroller I y O 1 0 3 Bits 7 2 Unused set to 0 Bits 1 0 Controller to assign 00 Mod wheel 01 Pitch wheel 10 Channel aftertouch 11 Note ON velocit 2 32 127 Controller destination sed Figure 14lfor controlle
19. GUIDE The Europa Firmware Update Source Code folders contain the source code required to build the Windows and Macintosh Europa Firmware Update Utilities If you are not a programmer or have no intention of modifying the EFUU or porting it to another platform skip on Note that Synthcom is not under obligation to provide support for source code recompilations Phone support will not be given for source code questions Send email instead documented in the Contract of the manual It is assumed anyone who wishes to modify the EFUU is fully knowledgeable about programming and the environments described below The Windows EFUU was compiled with Microsoft Visual C 6 0 service pack 2 The Windows EFUU contains all of the necessary project files and resources to compile the application start with efuu dsw No additional libraries or third party code is required to recompile the application The Macintosh EFUU was compiled with Mertrowerks Code Warrior 8 It uses OMS 2 0 SDK dated 5 23 96 that will need to be obtained from Gibson due to licensing restrictions The Macintosh EFUU also uses the FinderProgressBar 2 0 library written and copyrighted by Chris Larson 1993 1995 Used with permission per the FinderProgressBar license The best code to work with for designing a completely different port is located in Europa Firmware Update Source Code Windows Core It is written in ANSI C This contains all of the necessary code
20. Image Update The process of updating can take anywhere from 15 seconds to a minute depending on the size of the image the speed of the host computer and the number of other running processes The LEDs on the Jupiter 6 will shimmer during updating this is normal If any errors occur during the update a window will pop up indicating the failure To cancel the update process click the Cancel button AND CONTINUE HOLDING THE MOUSE BUTTON DOWN until the Cancel button is highlighted which may take up to three seconds The mouse button can then be released and the process will cancel A successful update will look like this Europa Firmware Update Utility Transmit to Europa was successfully updated Find Image Update Click OK to continue Europa was successfully updated The new version number will be shown in the main window ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE MACINTOSH EFUU Manually setting the firmware image file s creator and type codes both to EFUU should result in the file getting the official EFUU document icon This is not required in order to use the file with EFUU but it does help aesthetics EFUU Doesn t support opening the image file by double clicking the file s icon or by file drag and drop However double clicking the file s icon will open EFUU as will file drag and drop only if the file s creator has been set to EFUU In any case the Find Image button will still need to be used t
21. NE 27 Street Portland Oregon USA 97212 Page 78 EUROPA USER GUIDE EUROPA LIMITED WARRANTY 15 EUROPA LIMITED WARRANTY Synthcom Systems Incorporated is referred to as Synthcom throughout this chapter Synthcom reserves the right to alter the contents of this warranty without notice at any time USER INSTALLED EUROPA UPGRADES Synthcom will guarantee the Europa chip for 6 months from the date of purchase All Europa upgrades are fully tested including flash updating before shipment Replacements will be given for DOA units upon receipt of returned malfunctioning chip s to Synthcom at the expense of Synthcom Synthcom reserves the right to determine the root cause of the failure and if Synthcom determines the failure to be end user damage warranty will not be honored If Synthcom determines the failure to be non end user damaged Synthcom will pay for shipping charges to and from the customer If the customer paid for shipping already the customer will be reimbursed reasonable shipping charges as defined by Synthcom Synthcom will not guarantee Europas that have broken or bent pins or Europa chips that have been installed incorrectly Synthcom will not guarantee Europa against damage done during installation of Europa by a third party to any Europa component or Jupiter 6 component Synthcom Systems cannot be held liable for incorrect installation by a third party or incidental damage incurred by the installation process of a third pa
22. OPERATIONAL DIFFERENCES 4 OPERATIONAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN EUROPA AND ROLAND CODE This section gives a brief overview of how Europa differs from the base Roland user interface and feature set Further detail is found in appropriate sections of this document We have tried to keep Europa s user interface as close as possible to the Roland user interface but several improvements to the user interface were made The front panel on the Jupiter 6 is limited and extending functionality with such limitations was extremely challenging ARPEGGIATOR VOICE AND SYNCHRONIZATION STRUCTURE Europa has changed the architecture of how the arpeggiator interfaces to the assign modes With the regular Roland code a user has a choice of the arpeggiator OR the assign mode being enabled as shown in This means enabling the arpeggiator will disable the voice assign mode and vice versa Notes Local keyboard Arpeggiator or assign 47 modeswtch TERN Internal dk gt Arpeggiator Voice assign Arp dk in Voice board s Figure 1 Roland code arpeggiator clocking and voice assignment structure This is somewhat limiting as with this architecture it is impossible to arpeggiate any of the voice modes For example arpeggiation with unison mode voice assign sounds cool but is not possible with the Roland code It is possible however
23. a global board setting Page 35 ARPEGGIATOR EUROPA USER GUIDE INTERNAL CLOCK The arpeggiator is clocked from Europa s internally generated clock The rate is settable via the RATE knob on the front panel under the ARPEGGIO section of the front panel This selection will generate standard 24 MIDI clock EXTERNAL CLOCK B This setting synchronizes the arpeggiator to the external clock on the back of the Jupiter 6 The arpeggiator is clocked at one step per pulse just like the Roland code This selection will generate a standard 24 PPON MIDI clock MIDI CLOCK C The arpeggiator is synchronized to the incoming MIDI clock at a rate of 24 pulses per step PPON The arpeggiator s standard stepping is on a eighth note basis MIDI Clock unlike internal and external settings will NOT be transmitted when synchronized to an external MIDI clock source External and MIDI clock sources can be multiplied and divided by the setting of the multiplier divider and by polyrhythm The arpeggiator needs a regular interval clock to function properly at any multiplier divider setting other than 1X or if polyrhythm is enabled Gradual changes will be tracked and followed but uneven irregular or sudden drops in clock pulses from any source will yield unpredictable behavior This does not apply when the arpeggiator is synchronized to the internal clock MIDI CLOCK TRANSMIT D Controls whether or not Europa transmits MIDI clock
24. connections to the controller board were installed backwards or are not making a solid connection to the controller board F 7 Identical to E 7 above but indicates that the copy to NVRAM is not possible because the memory protect switch is on Page 18 EUROPA USER GUIDE Board power on POWER UP DIAGNOSTICS AND ACTIONS N Yes Reload factory CPU Stack Sh de A 1 patches presets to RAM OK NVRAM and flash Show E 6 Yes CPU XRAM No Convert NVRAM OK Show code A 2 Portamento id patches presets button held and copy to flash x Show E 2 es No Board tch oard scratc Convert flash Show code A 3 RAM OK Yes patches presets Glissando and copy to button held Yes NVRAM Show E 7 No Yes Boot Roland cod No Load NVRAM A Board settings settings defaults No in NVRAM OK Show boot code E 4 or E 5 Yes Yes TAPE Button held No NO Flash stored co 2 patches Show E 1 Yes Vas WRITE Buttons ddl ite transfer mode No No Flash stored p lt presets OK p 3 Boot firmware transfer mode Yes m i No Y daos Show code F 6 Europa boots idle in 5 sec Yes Figure 4 Europa boot and diagnostic flowchart EUROPA BOOT AND DIAGNOSTIC FLOWCHART This
25. in several ways When first entering manual mode with the Roland code the current state of the knobs and sliders are read and sent to the voice board s however the switches such as waveform polarity etc are changed to the Roland default settings Europa also reads the current state of the knobs and sliders but uses the state of the switches as they are set in the patch edit when entering MANLIAL mode Europa allows comparisons to be made between the MANUAL mode settings and either the patch or patch edit by pressing the MANUAL button to toggle between them This allows the user to jump quickly between the edited patch and MANUAL mode to position the sliders knobs to match the patch edit The Roland code requires the user to save the patch edit remember which memory it is in and alternate between pressing that location s button and the manual button The Roland code maintains a separate memory for the switch settings in manual mode and Europa does not With the Roland code if the user switches from MANUAL mode to patch edit mode moves sliders changes switch settings and returns to MANUAL mode the slider settings change but the switch settings revert to where they were before leaving MANUAL mode We found this to be counterintuitive and unlike the way MANUAL mode works in several other synthesizers With Europa the switch settings for MANLIAL mode are kept in the patch edit If the user leaves MANLIAL mode the switch settings ARE ON
26. is system exclusive messages will cause the contents of the patch edits to change whereas continuous controllers alone will not change the patch edits Each column in the table has the following meanings Ctrl MIDI Continuous Controller number in decimal RX If checked indicates Europa receives and responds to the continuous controller TX If checked indicates Europa transmits this controller through front panel button presses and knob slider movements Valid values Valid ranges that Europa responds Name function of continuous controller Description Functional description and detail of controller values Alters Indicates what reception of the continuous controller will alter Global Modifies a board global setting those not stored with a patch or a preset Various Modification will depend on assignment Preset Modifies preset edit Voice Makes a temporary modification to the voice but does not alter the patch edit Ctrl R Valid Name Description Alters X IX values ee ae Sets current patch preset memory storage slot Global MEAE 0 127 Mod wheel Function varies user assignable to other CCs S ERE TE 0 127 Modifies GLIDE time same as CC 62 0 127 Volume Sets output level on either SPLIT or entire Global voice if in WHOLE mode Outputs are set to max 127 when board is powered and volume setting is not retained across power cycles NOTE The volume knob on the front panel will not
27. j 0 15 LOWER voice arpeggiator range and direction LOWER arpeggiator divider polyrhythm setting UPPER WHOLE arpeggiator divider polyrhythm setting UPPER WHOLE patch partial UPPER WHOLE patch LOWER patch partial Page 72 EUROPA USER GUIDE Bits 7 4 Set to 0 Bits 3 2 LOWER arpeggiator RANGE 00 Range 1 01 Range 2 10 Range 3 11 Range 4 Bits 1 0 LOWER arpeggiator direction 00 Up 01 Down 10 Up Down 11 Down Up Bits 7 4 Set to 0 Bit 3 Polyrhythm 1 On 0 Off Bits 2 0 LOWER arpeggiator clock divider 000 4X 001 2X 010 1 5X 011 1X 100 1 5 101 2 110 3 111 4 Bits 7 4 Set to 0 Bit 3 Polyrhythm 1 On 0 Off Bits 2 0 UPPER WHOLE arpeggiator clock divider 000 4X 001 2X 010 1 5X 011 1X 100 1 5 101 2 110 3 111 4 Bits 7 4 Set to 0 Bits 3 0 Lower 4 bits of upper patch Combine with offset 33 to form 6 total bits for the UPPER patch 0 A 1 7 A8 8 B1 etc Bits 7 2 Set to 0 Bits 1 0 Upper 2 bits of upper patch for this Preset Combine with 4 bits in offset 32 above for a full 6 bits Valid range is 0 47 A 1 F8 Set to 0 Bits 7 4 Bits 3 0 Lower 4 bits of lower patch Combine with offset 31 to form 6 total bits for the LOWER patch 0 1 7 8 B1 etc EUROPA USER GUIDE EUROPA MIDI IMPLEMENTATION Byte Valid Name Description range 35 0 3 and LOWER patch Bits 7 4 S
28. local keyboard which helps make understanding the arpeggiator s interaction with local mode easier Also keep in mind that this chapter assumes the arpeggiator is enabled Local mode is shown as several separate switches in the arpeggiator architecture diagram Figure for the sake of simplicity but it should be viewed as a single standard local mode setting described in the in either SPLITS mode When local mode is on the locally played keys and incoming MIDI notes are routed to the arpeggiator engine which in turn sends notes to the voice assign component Locally played keys will transmit MIDI notes of the played keys and not the arpeggio itself When local mode is off the local keyboard still sends notes to the arpeggiator engine but the arpeggiator transmits the MIDI notes of the arpeggiated sequence without sending those notes to the voice assign component Incoming MIDI notes will be routed directly to the voice assign modes to play voices and will not have any effect on the arpeggiator s operation This allows the Jupiter 6 to be used as a sound module while externally transmitting arpeggiated MIDI notes to a remote MIDI device Page 33 ARPEGGIATOR EUROPA USER GUIDE Although not explicitly shown in the diagram sequence recording is simple If recording was initiated from the Jupiter 6 s front panel the source of the recorded notes is the Jupiter 6 keyboard If recording
29. mode e Power on the Jupiter 6 Any patches presets edited while in Roland mode will NOT automatically appear in the Europa flash Also Europa formatted presets will lose setting information such as non Roland mode supported assignment modes sequences rhythms etc since the Roland code does not have these features RESTORE ALL PATGHES AND PR 2 Provided that the steps in the p ioe were followed the only step required to restore all patches presets is to simply play the sequence back to the Jupiter 6 The Jupiter 6 s front panel lights will shimmer or flicker during restoration this is normal The Jupiter 6 hardware requires that Europa strobe the front panel lights and strobing is not possible when Europa is writing to flash If these steps have not been followed ensure that there is at least a 70 millisecond gap between all system exclusive messages otherwise restoration of patches presets will be intermittent if not incomplete Page 43 HOW DO 1 2 EUROPA USER GUIDE SAVE ALL PATGHES AND PRESETS TO MIDI Europa stores patches presets as a series of individual MIDI system exclusive messages It is a requirement that the recording device dedicated sequencer or computer running a sequencer package is capable of receiving and recording system exclusive messages If unsure consult the documentation that came with the recording device Follow these steps for a successful save and future load of all p
30. played keys e Set Poly 1 mode With voice watch still enabled repeatedly press a single key The A F LEDs should sequence as the key is being played e Asa last resort restore factory patches by powering off the Jupiter 6 holding the BENDER button and turning on the Jupiter 6 A boot code of E 6 will show press any front panel button or keyboard key to boot Europa Take the board out of PRESET mode and select patch A 2 Press some keys If no sound is heard at this point then most likely one or both of the sound boards is at fault EUROPA WON T RESPOND TO MIDI Europa has many additional features that the Roland code does not A handful of these features can expose problems that have existed all along that were not possible to see on a synthesizer with a brain dead MIDI implementation e Ensure the Jupiter 6 has proper MIDI connectivity Is there an IN cable plugged in Does the TUNE LED blink with receive activity If not then check the sequencer or the master device for problems e If the tune light blinks is the correct MIDI channel selected Most Roland code would allow reception on any MIDI channel OMNI mode Europa will not respond in OMNI mode MIDI Data must be received on the set MIDI channel described in the lens EUER BASE MIDI cHANNEL for Europa to respond to it Isthe memory protect switch on Was the channel set earlier but now is set to some other channel Make sure the memory protect switch is turned off otherw
31. release TAPE The last slider knob moved before TAPE is pressed again is where the modulation wheel will be assigned To unassign e Press and hold TAPE e Press and release button 1 modulation wheel assign e The TAPE light will blink Don t touch any sliders or knobs e Press and release TAPE This unassigns the modulation wheel from anything it is currently assigned to PITCH BEND ASSIGN 2 Identical to modulation wheel assign but instead assigns incoming MIDI pitch bend messages to a controller controlled slider or knob Follow the instructions in the MODULATION WHEEL ASSIGN Section above but instead press button 2 as documented if Figure 6 Pitch bend messages can vary in range from 8192 to 8191 which is far more resolution than any controller on the Jupiter 6 has Europa scales pitch bend values 8192 through 0 to 0 63 and pitch bend values 0 through 8191 to 64 127 A centered pitch bend wheel will set a slider or knob to mid scale 64 AFTERTOUGH ASSIGN 3 This assigns incoming MIDI channel aftertouch messages to a given slider knob Follow the instructions in the MODULATION WHE section above to assign channel aftertouch but instead press button 3 as documented id Figure 6 VELOCITY ASSIGN 4 This assigns note velocity to a given slider or knob In addition to the MIDI note on turning on the appropriate note it also sets the assigned slider knob to the value of the note s velocity on receipt of each note As a
32. respective SPLITS e If link mode is enabled the notes are recorded first to the upper and then the lower sequence for a maximum of 32 notes Both arpeggiators use the same sequence when link mode and SPLIT modes are set Sequences are stored as separate board settings and are not stored in the preset edit Recordings initiated from the front panel as described above will only accept sequence notes from the local Jupiter 6 keyboard Recordings initiated from MIDI will only record notes from the incoming MIDI stream ARPEGGIATED SEQUENCE MODE 5 Pressing a single note will play back and loop while the single note is held the sequence recorded in the key that was pressed If multiple notes are held the sequence is played transposed by the first key held then again transposed to the second Key etc for as many keys held SEQUENGED ARPEGGIO MODE 6 The recorded sequence dictates which keys the currently held notes will be played in For example if C E and G are held and the sequence has recorded A B and C the held notes will be transposed to the key of A and played transposed to the key of B and played and finally transposed to the key of C and played repeat INTERVAL MODE 7 Causes the arpeggiator to arpeggiate from a base note to an ending note at a step dictated by the distance of the base note to the interval note The base note interval note and ending note must be recorded in a sequence in one or more groups of 3 not
33. step calculators keep track of the next note to be played in each respective note list The arpeggio step calculator determines the next note in the arpeggio note list to use based upon the arpeggiator mode The incoming arpeggiator clock the range setting and the uP DOWN direction settings are also an influencing control when only an arpeggio mode is selected The sequence step calculator determines the next note in the sequence note list to be used based upon the sequence mode As with the arpeggio step calculator the sequence step Upper whole arp range up amp down directions Arp mode enable calculator is influenced by the clock range and n 5 UP DOWN directions P peggio step e lt q calculator calculator If only an arpeggiator mode is selected the 4 range and direction affect the held notes in the arpeggio note list If only a sequence mode is selected the range and direction affect the notes recorded in the sequence note list The held keys are treated as a one octave UP arpeggio which cycles the recorded sequence through each note of the arpeggio transposing it by the distance between the note and middle C No transposition occurs if middle C is played Page 34 EUROPA USER GUIDE ARPEGGIATOR If both an arpeggiator and sequence mode are selected the arpeggiator gets the notes to play from the recorded sequence using the held notes a
34. steps or 24 steps in link mode to make the rhythm fall on even measure intervals Page 41 HOW DO l1 EUROPA USER GUIDE g How DO TRANSFER PATGHES FROM TO EUROPA When Europa is initially installed and powered on for the first time Europa will automatically copy all of the patches and presets stored in NVRAM into Europa s internal flash so there is no need to follow these steps to do a first time transfer NOTE These steps will clobber the patches prese saved do so by following the instructions in the S4 NS section below This process will also clobber Europa s persistent state so any edited patches MIDI channel or other board settings should be saved if desired A tape restore is accomplished by performing the following steps e Power off the Jupiter 6 e Press and hold TAPE while powering on to boot up to Roland mode e Load the patches presets from tape as done before the Europa upgrade e Verify that patches presets are OK while still in Roland mode all banks and all numbers e Power off the Jupiter 6 e Press and hold PORTAMENTO while powering on This will force patches and presets to be copied from into Europa s internal flash Keep holding PORTAMENTO down until a boot code is shown If this step is skipped preset bank C amp D will be overwritten with Europa s persistent settings e Boot code E 2 will be shown indicating that patches presets have be
35. than 1 second Buttons A F and 1 8 then have the meaning as shown in Figure 10 Page 36 EUROPA USER GUIDE ARPEGGIATOR Arpeggiator options Arpeggiator modes Sequence modes lp w eh F T v sis NU Mz NL Legato Rest note Chord enable enable et count Interval Upper lower Sequenced A B Off No repeat sequence and arpeggio A Off B On 1 Repeat rhythm link Arpeggiated sequence Random Ping pong Ordered A On B Off 2 Repeats A B Off 3 Repeats Normal Figure 10 Arpeggiator mode and options when the UP button is held REPEAT COUNT A amp B This tells the arpeggiator the number of times to repeat each note in the arpeggiated sequence As an example if C E and G were held and the repeat count is set to 1 Europa would play C C E E G G The repeat count is settable on the upper and lower SPLITS independently and is saved with the preset edit The c button has no function and is not settable LEGATO ENABLE D Legato mode causes the arpeggiator to release the prior note after the current note has been played This is useful in conjunction with synthesizers that have fingered portamento so that a slide occurs between the notes very similar to what the Roland TB 303 can do It is also useful when the Jupiter 6 is in SOLO voice assign mode and retriggering of the attack is not desired Legato mode is settable on both SPLITS independently and is saved with the pres
36. the board arrives damaged to the customer Synthcom will do whatever is necessary to collect funds from the shipping company Funds will first be obtained by Synthcom from the shipping company which in worst case can take months and then the customer will be reimbursed for the insured amount Synthcom may require the damaged board to be sent back to Synthcom systems before reimbursement can proceed Synthcom will not ship controller boards by any method that is not insured for at least 51000 05 and trackable Jupiter 6 controller boards are no longer manufactured and cannot be obtained anywhere even from Roland The only alternative is to purchase a used Jupiter 6 as the replacement Synthcom reserves the right to change the price of the insured amount to reflect market prices on used Roland Jupiter 6s Synthcom is not expected nor required to send out updates via postal mail It is assumed the end user can keep current with postings of the manual and new firmware images on Synthcom s web site Synthcom guarantees the included CD will provide advertised Europa functionality Bug fixes feature enhancements or Europa documentation may be obtained from Synthcom s web site free of charge Page 80 EUROPA USER GUIDE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 16 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Special thanks go out to Europa s beta testers Here they are in no particular order Rod MacQuarrie Kent Williams Geoff Rittmeyer Steve Grace Jeff Needham Rob Lodes Doug Terrebo
37. was initiated from MIDI the recorded note source is the remote MIDI device This helps separate the two note sources so they can act independently helpful when performing live More information on recording a sequence is described later in this chapter Note the LOWER arp enable and UPPER WHOLE arp enable shown ir Figure This is not a physical switch or setting in Europa It means an arpeggiator mode a sequence mode or one of each is enabled Notes are only routed to the arpeggiator if the arpeggiator is enabled ARPEGGIATOR MODE SELECTIONS The arpeggiator has four arpeggiator modes and four sequence modes and one of each can be independently or simultaneously selected The arpeggiator mode controls the order of the arpeggiated notes played anc enced notes are used described with examples in th NOTE LISTS The arpeggiator keeps two lists of notes to use as criteria in driving the arpeggiator ARPEGGIO NOTE LIST This is a list of currently held notes In arpeggiator mode selections this becomes the list of notes to be arpeggiated In sequence mode these notes are the base keys that will be used to transpose the sequence notes relative to middle C Arpeggio note Sequence note list list SEQUENCE NOTE LIST This is a recorded sequence of notes and is used as the list of notes to be used by the sequence mode when selected ARPEGGIATOR SEQUENGCE STEP CALCULATOR Both arpeggio and sequence
38. A S MIDI TRANSMISSION RECEPTION CAPABILITIES The following table describes all MIDI messages how Europa responds to them and whether or not they are transmitted by front panel actions With this chart it is assumed that Europa keeps in sync with the incoming MIDI messages even though some MIDI messages are ignored MEE S Note on X X Note on with a velocity of 0 is treated as a note off Locally played notes will transmit a note on command with a velocity of 0 when a key is released and a velocity of 70h when a key is pressed Key velocity may be mapped to ENV 2 level if transmit velocity mode is enabled Note velocity is ignored unless assigned to a CC via velocity assign Note off Same as a note on with velocity of 0 Poly aftertouch Understood but no action taken Control change X X Transmits only when continuous controller transmit is enabled Always receives CCs Program change Program changes 0 47 select patches in the current slot Program changes 64 95 select presets and will place the board in preset mode Channel aftertouch _ Only recognized ifaftertouch assign is enabled mm o Only recognized if pitch bend assign is enabled NOTE Pitch bend receives will not alter the pitch in a traditional pitch bend fashion Europa signature and will ignore all others Song position pointer X Understood butnoactiontaken 4 4 4 4 4 Song select X Understood bu
39. Clock polyrhythm on 7 MIDI Clock 24 polyrhythm on 82 X X 0 15 Arpeggiator Set arpeggiator mode Preset mode Bits 7 Set to 0 unused Bit 6 1 Arpeggiator enabled 0 Disabled Bit 5 1 Sequence mode enabled 0 Disabled Bit 4 1 Arpeggiator mode enabled 0 Disabled Bits 3 2 Sequence mode 00 Arpeggiated Sequence 01 Sequence arpeggio 10 Interval 11 Chord Bits 1 0 Arpeggiator mode 00 Normal 01 Ordered 10 Ping Pong 11 Random 83 X X 0 7 Arpeggiator Set arpeggiator clock multiplier divider Preset clock applies to all sync sources divider multiplie 0 4X r 1 2X 2 1 5 3 1X 4 1 5 Dus 6 3 7 4 84 X X 0 3 Arpeggiator Set arpeggiator direction Preset direction 0 Up 1 Down 2 Up lead down 3 Down lead up Arpeggiator Set arpeggiator range Preset range 0 1 Octave 1 2 Octaves 2 3 Octaves 3 4 Octaves EUROPA USER GUIDE EUROPA MIDI IMPLEMENTATION Ctrl T J Valid Name Description Alters X I X values X X 0 1 Sequence record Sequence record control Preset 0 Stop sequence record Start sequence record 87 X X 0 127 Sequence rest Set sequence rest note Value of 0 127 Preset note corresponds directly to a note 88 X 0 127 Arpeggiator Set arpeggiator rhythm nibble Preset rhythm Bit Z 5 0 Bits 6 4 Rhythm nibble select 000 011 Upper or lower rhythms 000 111 Whole mode w seq link enabled Bit 3 0
40. E FIGURE FIGURE FIGURE FIGURE Page 6 EUROPA USER GUIDE TERMINOLOGY AND SYMBOLS 1 INTRODUCTION Congratulations on your purchase of Synthcom System s Europa upgrade for your Roland Jupiter 6 Europa is an operating system replacement for a fantastic sounding classic analog synthesizer giving it new flexibility while increasing the operational and storage reliability of the original board The goal of Europa is to increase the Jupiter 6 s feature set maintain an affordable price keep the upgrade process simple and increase the Jupiter 6 s reliability It is assumed the reader is familiar with the basic operation of the Jupiter 6 It is not the goal of this document to replace the Roland user manual rather supplement it with Europa s new features The terminology used in this document is that of Roland s Jupiter 6 manual without the odd phrasing and strange descriptions Familiarity with Apple Macintosh MacOS based and or Microsoft Windows 95 98 NT 4 x ME XP 2000 based IBM compatible personal computers is also assumed for the purpose of the firmware update utility Europa itself is compatible with any MIDI capable device but firmware updates do require the use of a personal computer Shall we get started WHAT S ON DISG Europa should have come with a CD ROM that contains this manual the Europa Firmware Update Utility source code to the Europa Firmware Update utility and Adobe Acrobat If one was
41. E is held Arpeggiator sync options Arpeggiator clock multiplier divider MZ Ww IND 7 MZ NZ V V Polyrhythm enable 4X 2X 1 5X 1X 1 5 2 14 MIDI Clock Xmit MIDI Clock sync External clock sync Internal clock sync Arpeggiator sync clock multiplier divider and polyrhythm options when DOWN is held Arpeggiator options Arpeggiator modes Sequence modes EM dM als 6 7 NY AZ ae 3 MAI Legato Rest note Chord enable enable m Repeat count interval Upper lower Sequenced A B Off No repeat sequence and arpeggio A Off B On 1 Repeat rhythm link i A On B Off 2 Repeats pity 3 Repeats Random Ping pong Ordered Normal Arpeggiator mode and options when the UP button is held was Arpeggiator step rhythm beat 1 patch preset through beat 16 manual On Step Off No step waw Patch Manual preset leas Trrrrrrri Arpeggiator step rhythm programming buttons when the RANGE button is held Example shows steps 1 3 6 7 9 11 and 13 16 enabled Page 82
42. ENV effect on the vGF X 47 0 127 Set LFO 1 s effect on the vGF mod 0 127 Set the vGF keyboard modulation level 0 127 Set ENV Z s effect on the Level 0 127 55 X X 0 127 ENV 1 Key Set ENV 1 5 key follow Voice follow 58 Voice 59 Voice X X 0 127 ENV 2 Key Set ENV Z s key follow Voice follow 61 X 0 127 Arpeggiator rate Set arpeggiator rate Rate is applied to both Preset SPLITS if board is in SPLIT mode See the arpeggiator rate table later in this chapter for controller value to BPM mapping 4 4 4 x 45 X 46 x s x a Page 59 EUROPA MIDI IMPLEMENTATION EUROPA USER GUIDE Ctrl R Valid Description Alters Paes P Set Portamento or glissando rate whichever selected 0 Fast 127 Slow 63 X X 0 127 UNISON Set UNISON detune level O No detune Preset C UP Dmm 63 Sustain pedal off 64 127 Sustain pedal on 63 Portamento off 64 127 Portamento on X X 0 3 LFO 1 Set LFO 1 s waveshape Voice Waveform 0 Random waveform des Square wave 2 Sawtooth 3 Triangle 67 X X 0 3 Set PWM modifier control enables Voice 0 No PWM modifiers 1 PWM Modified by LFO 1 only 2 PWM Modified by ENV 1 only 3 PWM Modified by LFO 1 amp 1 X X 0 3 vco Modulation Set vBO MOD enables Voice 0 No modulation active for either vco 1 Modulation active for 2 2 Modulation active for 1 3 Modulation active for
43. GENERATOR Europa can generate a random patch It is great when you re looking for inspiration or just want to make strange noises IMPROVED USER INTERFACE 1 And vcn 2 s waveforms can be enabled and disabled individually without having to hold down multiple buttons Many people do not know that more than one waveform can be enabled because Roland s interface was not set up this way Page 10 EUROPA USER GUIDE NEW FEATURE SUMMARY CIRCULAR OSCILLATOR SYNG 1 And vcn 2 can be synchronized to each other Good for making interesting sounds OSCILLATORS INDEPENDENTLY DISABLEABLE veo 1 2 oscillators can be completely disabled This is to allow the creation of patches that use the resonant filter as the oscillator or for single oscillator patches something not possible with the original Roland code even with the oscillator balance set to either extreme ADDITIONAL HARDWARE DIAGNOSTICS Europa includes additional hardware diagnostics on boot up that are valuable to both the Jupiter 6 owner and the repair technician VOICE WATCH Voice allocation can be monitored on the front panel This is useful for gauging voice utilization during performance as well as assisting in debugging a malfunctioning Jupiter 6 PATCH EDIT COMPARE The patch edit compare feature allows comparing the current patch edit with any stored patch This makes hunting for a good spot to put the new patch edit easy and allows A B comparisons t
44. LL Figure 17 Command 01h Reset NVRAM and Europa s internal flash to factory patch preset settings This will write factory Europa board settings to the Jupiter 6 5 It will not write factory patches or presets back to NVRAM only Europa board settings This command will not have any effect if the memory protect switch is on Byte fj Value Description 0 O oh SetEuropa s base MIDI channel Base MIDI channel desired All other values ignored Figure 18 Command 02h Set Europa s base MIDI channel Sets Europa s base MIDI channel The new MIDI channel is retained across board power cycles This command will not have any effect if the memory protect switch is on Bytes Value Description _ O 08h Generate a random patch on one of the SPLITS O 00h 7fh 00h Random patch is generated on lower SPLIT non 00h Random patch is generated on the upper SPLIT upper SPLIT used when in WHOLE mode Figure 19 Command 03h Generate random patch Generates a random patch on either of the key mode SPLITS The patch edit buffer is modified and the voice boards are set to the newly randomized patch If the board is set to whole mode and a random patch is created for the lower voice the lower patch edit is modified but is not heard Setting the board in either SPLIT mode will allow the randomized lower patch to be heard The upper patch is used for whole mode By
45. LY MAINTAINED IF THE PATCH IS NOT EDITED BEFORE RETURNING TO MANUAL MODE This means it is possible to leave MANUAL mode look for a patch memory location to write to return to MANUAL mode and write the patch PATCH EDIT COMPARE Europa also includes a patch edit compare to allow comparison of the patch edit and any stored patch This allows toggling between a reference stored patch and the current patch edit to easily hear differences It is also useful in hunting for a place to store a given patch edit as stored patches can be recalled and heard without modifying erasing the edited patch The user interface for this feature changes the way patch recalls work To toggle between the patch edit and a stored patch simply press the A F or 1 8 while in patch mode If the patched change indication one of the NUMBER lights is blinking is present press the blinking NLIMBER light again and it will light solid indicating the patch heard is the stored patch Unlike the Roland code this will not recall the stored patch into the patch edit buffer even after multiple recalls of patches throughout any BANK or NUMBER Press the solidly lit LED again and it will begin blinking indicating the sound heard is now the patch edit and not the stored patch To copy a stored patch into the edit buffer select the patch desired Ensure the NUMBER light is not blinking If it is press the corresponding NUMBER again until the appropriate NUMBER LED is steady M
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47. No step Patch Manual preset rrr TTTTTTT Figure 11 Arpeggiator step rhythm programming buttons While the arpeggiator is running a winking LED indicates the current beat This is very similar to the operation of the Roland TR 707 TR 808 and TR 909 drum machines Pressing one of the buttons shown in uns toggle the step on or off A lit LED indicates the arpeggiator will step to the next note s when that beat is reached while an unlit LED indicates the arpeggiator will not step on that beat Page 40 EUROPA USER GUIDE ARPEGGIATOR The rhythm programming buttons show different results depending upon the SPLIT mode and whether or not link mode is enabled In whole mode with link mode disabled the rhythm shown is the upper patch s 16 step rhythm sequence In whole mode with link mode enabled the display alternates between the upper rhythm beats 1 16 and the lower rhythm 17 32 In SPLITS mode with link mode disabled the rhythm shown for the upper or lower SPLIT is dependent on the LOWER and UPPER buttons state Obviously when LOWER is lit the lower SPLIT S 16 step rhythm is shown and when UPPER is lit the UPPER SPLIT S 16 step rhythm is shown In SPLIT mode with link mode enabled the display alternates between the upper rhythm beats 1 16 and lower rhythm 17 32 The 32 step rhythm is applied to both SPLITS If the clock multiplier divider is set to X1 5 1 5 or 3 the rhythm is shortened to 12
48. OWER UPPE Set the PANEL MODE Global R select 0 LOWER 1 UPPER Voice assignment Set the voice ASSIGN mode Preset mode 0 Poly 1 Poly 1 steal 2 Poly 2 3 Poly 2 steal 4 Unison 5 Unison steal 6 Solo 7 Solo rotate 8 Solo unison Miscellaneous Set miscellaneous settings Preset settings Bits 7 4 Set to 0 unused Bit 3 1 HOLD mode on 0 Disabled Bit 2 1 GLISSANDO on 0 Disabled Bit 1 1 PORTAMENTO on 0 Disabled Bit 0 1 BENDER on 0 Disabled NOTE If GLISSANDO and PORTAMENTO ate both set on GLISSANDO settings are not changed Master tune Set master tune value 0 Tuned flat Global 127 Tuned sharp 63 Normal tune 0 127 SPLIT Balance Sets volume balance between upper and lower Preset SPLITS No effect in WHOLE mode 0 LOWER SPLIT 127 UPPER SPLIT 64 Equal SPLIT between upper and lower See also CC 8 Page 61 EUROPA MIDI IMPLEMENTATION EUROPA USER GUIDE MIDI IMPLEMENTATION EUROPA USER GUIDE Mes m l Alters p ae 81 0 7 sync Set arpeggiator sync source is a setting Preset that applies to both upper and lower SPLITS if in SPLIT mode 0 Internal clock polyrhythm off External trigger polyrhythm off 2 MIDI Clock polyrhythm off 3 MIDI Clock 24 polyrhythm off 4 nternal clock polyrhythm on 5 External trigger polyrhythm on 6 MIDI
49. OWN RANGE HOLD for more than one second Each of the aforementioned buttons will perform their original function as it would operate in the Roland code With Europa pressing the button and holding it for more than one second will enable one of three supermodes all of which have options that are settable in the A F and 1 8 buttons as documented below In all supermodes a blinking LED indicates that an option is settable but is currently not set A solid LED indicates that particular option is enabled An unlit LED indicates no settable option ARPEGGIATOR SYNC OPTIONS AND CLOCK MULTIPLIER DIVIDER This supermode is enabled by pressing and holding the DOWN button for a period of more than one second During the time that the DOWN button is held buttons A F B become arpeggiator sync source clock multiplier divider and polyrhythm options as shown ocd Arpeggiator sync options Arpeggiator clock multiplier divider A B C D E F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 m WY SY sl d d Polyrhythm enable 4X 2X 1 5X 1X 1 5 2 3 14 MIDI Clock Xmit MIDI Clock sync External clock sync Internal clock sync Figure 9 Arpeggiator sync clock multiplier divider and polyrhythm options when DOWN is held The following three synchronization sources are selectable Only one synchronization source is selectable at any time The synchronization source is applicable to both arpeggiators if in SPLIT mode and is saved as
50. PA FIRMWARE UPDATE UTILITY If communication is not established acknowledge the failure by clicking on OK on the MIDI Response timeout dialog double check the MIDI cabling and the transmit receive buses selected in the dialog and try connecting again If communication is established click OK in the Connection established dialog The update utility will now show the original dialog box with Europa s serial number and the currently installed Europa version number If the Europa image is bad a serial number and current version will not be displayed STEP 2 LOCATE AN IMAGE TO UPDATE The Find image button will become active and can be pressed to locate an update image Europa Firmware Update Utility Y1 02b Creative 401 7 Creative MPL 401 7 Europa Firmware Update Utility file selector Europa 1 0 Desk ta Europa Firmware Image Select the image by double clicking on the filename or single clicking on the filename and clicking on the Open button Another alternative to using the Find image button is to click on the Image filename line on the main dialog and manually type in the path and filename of the image to apply Changing focus to another part of the dialog will cause the update utility to check the file and will inform the operator of a bad filename or corrupt image If the file is good the Update button will become active Euro
51. able update e prior firmware update has failed e The Jupiter 6 is booting to Firmware Transfer Mode and Europa never executes e The Jupiter 6 is not booting at all In the case where the Jupiter 6 is not booting press and hold WRITE and TAPE while turning on the Jupiter 6 This will force Europa to boot to Firmware Transfer Mode A non booting Jupiter 6 indicates that the Europa image has become corrupt most likely from an incomplete update If the firmware update fails or is canceled during the update process DON T PANIC It is recoverable As with a corrupt image press and hold WRITE and TAPE while turning on the Jupiter 6 Europa will boot to Firmware Transfer Mode and rerunning the update utility is all that is required THE WINDOWS FIRMWARE UPDATE UTILITY The Windows update utility runs on Windows 95 98 98SE NT 4 x XP or 2000 It will not work on Windows 3 x Windows NT 3 x or Windows For Workgroups If the update utility complains there are no MIDI interface installed or the expected MIDI interface s do not show up in the receive transmit ports double check that the MIDI interface drivers are installed and working properly Page 49 EUROPA FIRMWARE UPDATE UTILITY EUROPA USER GUIDE A NOTE ABOUT SOUND CARD MIDI INTERFACES The Europa Firmware Update Utility requires bidirectional system exclusive communication Flaky operation has been observed and root caused to the sound card s MIDI drivers dropping outgoing d
52. affect the 2 voice board and the channel voice messages received on the base MIDI channel 1 will affect the 4 voice board The following diagram illustrates the relationship of MIDI continuous controllers and system exclusive messages to the voice boards the preset edit and patch edits MIDI CCs gt Preset edit lt MIDI Sysex Y Y Upper whole Lower patch edit patch edit whole mode Y Y Y 2 Voice board 4 Voice board Figure 12 Europa s patch preset and voice board architecture Some things to note e MIDI CCs affecting the patch will go to the voice boards only They are temporary changes to the patch that are not recorded nor saved in the patch edit buffers e MIDI System exclusive messages affecting the patch will go to both the voice boards and the appropriate patch edit s These messages will cause the changed number light to blink as a modified patch in Roland mode would e MIDI CCs or system exclusive messages that affect preset parameters will both change the preset edit buffer There is no temporary setting distinction as there is in patches since preset settings are rarely used in performances and it would make the user interface very confusing e The upper patch edit is used when the Jupiter 6 is in WHOLE mode Page 56 EUROPA USER GUIDE EUROPA MIDI IMPLEMENTATION EUROP
53. ake a change to the patch As before the NUMBER light will start blinking indicating the patch has changed All stored patches will copy from the edit buffer only Page 15 POWER UP DIAGNOSTICS AND ACTIONS EUROPA USER GUIDE gt POWER UP DIAGNOSTICS AND ACTIONS POWER UP DIAGNOSTICS Europa s onboard diagnostics are quite extensive much more so than the original Roland code An NVRAM corruption on the Jupiter 6 can render the board useless with the Roland code Europa is not susceptible to crashing with a corrupt NVRAM and will repair it if corruption is found Also patches and presets are stored in the Europa chip s flash so it is not susceptible to losing patches if the controller board s battery fails When problems arise Europa will display boot codes Boot codes are identified by the board s LEDs being in the following state just after board powerup e All LEDs are off except e LFO 1 LED Is blinking steadily lit or off e LFO 25 Rate LED is blinking or other bender board LEDs are lit e Only LEDs on the BANK and NUMBER buttons are lit solid or blinking indicating a boot code As an example if the text indicates that a code of A 2 is shown only BANK A and NUMBER 2 are shown along with the LFO 1 and LFO 2 LEDs as described above Like this A B C D E F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Figure 3 Boot code 2 shown on bootup Some boot codes are fatal and the board will not boot and others are purely informational All boot c
54. and are clock divider saved in the stored preset multiplier unit 1 5 2 4 or X1 1 5 2 4 Once the step rate has been multiplied or divided it is fed into the lower and or upper rhythm The rhythm determines whether or not the arpeggiator should advance on the current beat The lower and upper rhythms are comprised of 16 possible steps each can be enabled or disabled Receipt of MIDI start stop or disabling the arpeggiator will reset the step counter to the beginning of the rhythmic pattern programmed in each SPLIT When the upper lower rhythm link option is enabled rather than a 16 step rhythm for each of the SPLITS one 32 step Upper lower rhythm link rhythm drives both upper and lower SPLITS starting at the lower rhythm and continuing through the upper rhythm Upper Whole Lower rhythm e _ rhythm From here the command to step is given to the arpeggiator note calculator which figures out what note to step to next For the time being set aside the rhythm calculation for discussion on other aspects of the arpeggiator SOURCES OF NOTES BE PLAYED AND KEYBOARD MIDI INTERACTION Arpeggiated notes can come from MIDI notes the local keyboard or from a user programmed sequence inside the Jupiter 6 As with arpeggiated notes the user programmed sequence can be recorded from either MIDI or from the local Jupiter 6 keyboard The arpeggiator can be thought of as an extension to the
55. and thus no way for the EFUU to automatically uncheck the Async option Execute the Macintosh EFUU either from the provided CD ROM or from Synthcom Systems web site Note that the version encountered on the CD or web site may differ from the examples below but operation remains the same STEP 1 ESTABLISH COMMUNICATION WITH EUROPA When the EFUU is launched it will look like this Europa Firmware Update Utility Serial Number Current Europa Version Image File Marne Connect Find Image Update The Async checkbox is enabled and defaulted to checked when OMS 2 0 or greater is installed This checkbox controls the method used to transmit data from EFUU to the Jupiter 6 The box should normally be left checked unless problems are encountered when transmitting to the Jupiter 6 It s far more likely that a problem will occur when unchecked as some USB interfaces like the Opcode MIDIport 32 may not work with the box unchecked Page 53 EUROPA FIRMWARE UPDATE UTILITY EUROPA USER GUIDE Using the pop up menus on the Transmit to and Receive from selections select the Jupiter 6 from each list All buttons will be disabled until both MIDI buses have been selected If the Jupiter 6 is not present in both lists refer to OMS setup for proper configuration before continuing A selection of the transmit and receive ports will appear as follows Transmit to Eeceive from Serial Number Current Euro
56. ansmitting MIDI system exclusive messages when knobs sliders or buttons are pressed on the Jupiter 6 s front panel System exclusive messages are designed for patch editors librarians rather than performance due to the length of the system exclusive message When played back to Europa system exclusive messages will cause the current edit buffer to be changed as well as the affected voice board if applicable just as if it was being changed from the front panel The continuous controller s meanings are documented thd EuRoPA MIDI IMPLEMENTATION hapter VELOCITY TRANSMIT D DEFAULT DISABLED Enables or disables the velocity transmit function When velocity transmit is enabled moving the ENV 2 LEVEL slider will no longer alter the ENV 2 LEVEL but instead will change the note on velocity for each note transmitted When this feature is disabled Europa will transmit a note on velocity of 70h Velocity transmit is particularly useful for externally controlling a device while the arpeggiator is running VOICE WATCH E DEFAULT DISABLED Enables or disables the ability of watching which voices are being allocated When enabled the BANK A F LEDs indicate which voices are allocated when notes are played via the local keyboard or from MIDI Normally the BANK LEDs show which patch or preset bank is currently selected When voice watch is enabled pressing any button on the front panel will temporarily cause voice watch to shut of
57. ata Don t be surprised if it takes a couple of tries to connect and successfully update using these interfaces Execute the EFUU EXE file that has been downloaded from Synthcom Systems web site or on the provided CD ROM Note that the version encountered on the CD or web site may differ from the examples below but operation remains the same STEP 1 ESTABLISH COMMUNICATION WITH EUROPA After executing the Windows EFUU EXE file a dialog box will pop up and look like this Europa Firmware Update Utility V1 U2b X Choose MIDI part Choose a MIDI part Click on the down arrows in the Transmit to and Receive from shown as Choose MIDI port in the dialog box above drop lists and select the input and output MIDI bus where the Jupiter 6 is located Europa Firmware Update Utility v1 2b Choose MIDI part Creative FM Synthesizer Creative 401 Microsoft GS Wavetable 5 Synth mate The drop list will show all available input and output MIDI buses Once the MIDI buses have been selected the Connect button becomes available Click on the Connect button A Connecting dialog box will appear briefly and if communication is established the following dialog is shown Europa Firmware Update Utility 026 X Creative MPU 401 Creative MPU 401 Europa Firmware Update Utility Page 50 EUROPA USER GUIDE EURO
58. atches presets e Setup the recording device called a sequencer from here forward to record Be sure system exclusive messages are not filtered out Many sequencers filter out system exclusive messages by default This is dependent on the sequencer itself consult the sequencer s manual for specific information on how to verify that it is enabled e Make sure that the Jupiter 6 5 MIDI OUT is connected to the input or of the inputs to the sequencer e Start recording on the sequencer e Press and hold TAPE e Press 7 This will dump all patches presets to MIDI e Release any held buttons The dump process takes about 6 seconds The TAPE LED will go out when the dump is complete e Stop recording on the sequencer The sequencer should have recorded about 6 seconds of system exclusive messages It is important that the timing of the system exclusive dump is kept Europa places a 70 millisecond delay between each patch and preset which is required for a successful restoration Europa writes all patches presets to flash and during this write Europa is not executing code and will lose incoming MIDI data Page 44 EUROPA USER GUIDE COMMON PROBLEMS 10 GOMMON PROBLEMS CAN T GET ANY SOUND OUT OF EUROPA FROM THE LOCAL KEYBOARD In order check the following and try playing local keys at each step to see what cures the problem e Verify that the volume is turned up to an acceptable level e Does sound come out with headph
59. board parameters in real time SEND AND RECEIVE PRESETS PATCHES VIA MIDI One of Europa s primary new functions Europa includes the ability to save and load patches presets via MIDI Never use that unreliable tape interface again Trade patches with other Europa upgraded Jupiter 6 owners EUROPA FIRMWARE UPDATES VIA MIDI The Europa operating system can be updated by way of the MIDI interface from any Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh based personal computers No need to open the board Source code for the update utility is available so it may be ported to any platform PATCHES PRESETS STORED IN FLASH Europa stores all patches and presets in its onboard flash This means no more lost patches or presets when the controller board battery goes bad ADDITIONAL VOIGE ASSIGNMENT MODES Europa includes 4 additional voice assignment modes over the factory Roland code BOARD STATE RETENTION Europa remembers the state of all of the Jupiter 6 s settings even after power down If you re in the middle of editing a patch and you power down the board will be in the same state when it was powered off This of course is only possible if the memory protect switch is not on as the board s current settings are stored in the onboard controller s NVRAM CONFIGURABLE MIDI CHANNEL Most versions of Roland s firmware for the Jupiter 6 did not allow changing of the MIDI channel Europa allows this and retains this setting even after power off RANDOM PATCH
60. ce great for the service tech Each voice mode is described in detail in this section SOLO SOLO ASSIGN LED LIT SOLID Pressing the SOLO button once from any assign mode other than SOLO mode being set already lights the SOLO button s LED solid and puts the board in SOLO mode SOLO Mode will only sound note at a time the last note played If a note is held down and another note played the voice will jump to the new note but the envelope will not retrigger This allows playing of smooth solo lines If the second note is released before the first note the first note will sound again If the sound quickly dies away try increasing the SUSTAIN level of ENV 2 A patch with a quick ATTACK and DECAY with no SUSTAIN does not work well in SOLO mode because the envelope only gets retriggered when all notes are released Only one voice is used in SOLO mode SOLO ROTATE SOLO ASSIGN LED BLINKING Pressing the SOLO button a second time makes the SOLO button s LED blink and puts the board in SOLO ROTATE mode As with SOLO mode SOLO ROTATE sounds only the last note played However each new note is assigned to a new voice which makes the envelope retrigger for each new note This is good for playing short percussive sounds with a long RELEASE because new notes will not immediately interrupt the RELEASE with a new ATTACK like in SOLO mode unless many notes are played quickly All available voices are used in SOLO ROTATE mode SOLO UNISON SOLO
61. ches presets in and in Europa s flash have been restored to factory defaults Page 42 EUROPA USER GUIDE How DO l1 Boot TO ROLAND MODE When booting Roland mode be forewarned that if Europa has run already preset bank amp D will contain junk presets Europa uses this area to store persistent state such as the current patch edits MIDI channel and other persistent board settings not patches or presets though Recalling preset bank C OR D under Roland mode may cause the board to crash The Roland code does not check for invalid memory settings and usually causes the board to lock up To boot Roland mode e Power off the Jupiter 6 e Press and hold the TAPE button e Power on the Jupiter 6 The board will boot to the original Roland code NOTE Patches and presets made with Europa will not be available to the Roland code See the next question for details on how to get Europa patches presets to NVRAM so the Roland code can see it COPY PATEHES PRESETS FROM EUROPA TO NVRAM 50 THAT ROLAND CODE SEE THEM We re not exactly sure why this is desirable maybe to make tape for someone who doesn t have Europa but it is included for the sake of completeness e Power off the Jupiter 6 e Press and hold the button e Power on the Jupiter 6 e Wait for boot code E 7 to show DO NOT PRESS ANY KEYS OR BUTTONS e Power off the Jupiter 6 e Press and hold the TAPE button to boot to Roland
62. dump a patch preset or sequence from the board 05h Write a patch preset or sequence to flash or NVRAM 06h Write patch edit preset edit or sequence edit to flash 07h Assign controller Commands 20h 7fh are identical to continuous controllers 32 127 documented extensively in the LI 5 5 55 sy with the addition of making modifications to both the patch edit and the currently active patch This will cause the number light on the currently selected patch or preset to blink just like the Roland code There must be at least a 70 millisecond delay between each system exclusive command that writes to flash Each of the following descriptions of the commands are contained within the table Each table assumes a Europa system exclusive header before the bytes in the table and an end system exclusive byte after the table Byte Value Description _ O 008 Reset the Jupiter 6 to Europa s factory settings 1 _______ w w 5 l l l W l l D P P lB k 8 Figure 16 Command 00h Write factory Europa settings to the Jupiter 6 s NVRAM This will write factory Europa board settings to the Jupiter 66s It will not write factory patches or presets back to NVRAM Page 65 EUROPA MIDI IMPLEMENTATION EUROPA USER GUIDE Byte Value Description Reset the Jupiter 65 and Europa s internal flash to factory patch preset settings E MAR e e o C f L LIIB CCILlllL
63. e messages in the recorded sequence NOT ALL PATGHES PRESETS WERE RESTORED PROPERLY FROM A SYSEX DUMP Europa requires that there be 70 milliseconds of delay between each system exclusive message that stores a patch or preset in the Jupiter 6 This is a requirement due to the hardware putting the processor to sleep when writing to internal flash sections This clearly outlines how to reliably save and restore patches presets and board state If patches presets are not being restored properly check the following e Was the saved patch preset sequence played back at the same tempo it was recorded If not restore it to the original tempo and try again Europa dumps patches and presets with the delays needed for successful restoration so they will be recorded e Are the start and end markers in the sequencer playing the entire system exclusive sequences recorded Double check it e dedicated system exclusive recorder was used instead make sure the sequencing package can place delays between system exclusive messages and verify that there is at least 70 milliseconds of delay between each message The actual MIDI bytes do not have to be paced only a delay between entire system exclusive messages is necessary HEAR UNPLAYED OR MISSING NOTES IN MY ARPEGGIATIONS There can be a variety of reasons for missing or skipped notes within an arpeggiation and it is important to find the root cause of the missing note s e Verify first tha
64. e s POLY 1 POLY 1 LED LIT SOLIDI Pressing the POLY 1 button once lights the LED and puts the board in POLY 1 mode POLY 1 Mode is another polyphonic mode and is designed to preserve a note s RELEASE as long as possible Here is an example of how it works If A B C D E F are played in WHOLE mode releasing the keys in reverse order F E D CB A will cause the next allocated voice to be That is because it has been released the longest so it has the best chance of having completed the RELEASE cycle of its envelopes As with LINISON mode when too many notes are played the later notes will not sound at least until one or more of the other notes playing are released POLY 1 STEAL POLY 1 LED BLINKING Pressing the POLY 1 button a second time blinks the LED and puts the board in POLY STEAL mode It works like the POLY 1 mode until there are no free allocated voices Then like UNISON STEAL it will steal the earliest note s voice to play the new note If voice watch is enabled the stolen voice will be indicated by a LED wink on that voice POLY 2 POLY 2 LED LIT SOLIDI Pressing POLY 2 lights the LED and puts the board in POLY 2 mode POLY 2 Is as the name implies polyphonic and is designed for use with PORTAMENTO If a chord is played then release the notes and play a new chord The notes of the new chord will be reassigned to the same voices Normally this just means that the RELEASE of the notes gets cut off but if PORTAMENTO is on a s
65. en copied from and converted in Europa s flash e Boot code E 4 and or E 5 may appear indicating that is corrupt This is expected as Europa uses NVRAM occupied by Roland s preset bank C amp D to store its internal settings Reloading patches presets from tape will most likely clobber Europa s settings e Press front panel button or a key on the keyboard to continue booting e Verify that patches presets are OK They are now preset in Europa s flash Repeat as necessary for the number of tapes with patches presets on them Save them to MIDI and throw the tapes away SET EUROPA S MIDI CHANNEL Not only is Europa s MIDI channel settable it is also remembered across board power cycles if memory protect is disabled To set press and hold the TUNE button Pressing A allows channel selection of 1 8 through the 1 B NUMBER buttons and B allows channel selection of 9 16 also by selecting it via the 1 8 NUMBER buttons See the SETTING THE JUPITER 6 S BASE MIDI CHANNEL for further details RELOAD FACTORY PATCHES AND BOARD SETTINGS The following steps will reload factory patches into NVRAM and Europa s flash as well as Europa s default settings Be sure to save off any critical patches presets to MIDI beforehand e Power off the Jupiter 6 e Press and hold the BENDER button e Power on the Jupiter 6 e Wait for a boot code E 6 Press a front panel button or key on the keyboard to continue e All pat
66. ent patch and preset edit buffers and the settings of all board options to MIDI via Europa s system exclusive messages Refer to for further details This feature will function regardless of the system exclusive transmit setting GENERATE RANDOM 8 This is one of the more fun features of Europa a random patch generator Executing the random patch generator will cause the currently edited patch to be randomized in the following fashion e The VCA ENV 2 LEVEL is always set to 127 for maximum output e The following potentiometers sliders are randomized with an inverse logarithmic response That is they most likely will be 0 and least likely to be 127 maximum All other potentiometers sliders are completely random LFO DELAY MANUAL CROSS MOD 1 RANGE VGA LFO ENV 1 KEY TRACK ENV 2 KEY TRACK The 2 mixer is center weighted meaning the most likely values will be near the center with a 50 50 mix split e filter settings have a 50 chance of being low pass 25 of being high pass and 25 of being band pass e All other buttons are completely random though only valid settings will be chosen Remember in synthesis there are more ways to make no sound than a sound That is why the random patch generator does not randomize all settings to help minimize the possibility of complete silence If the generated random patch does not make sound initially hold down on the key for a few seconds a
67. es e The first note is the base note or in other words the starting note e The second note is the interval The distance in notes between the base note and the interval note in of notes dictates how many notes the arpeggiator will skip per step when advancing toward the end note e The third note pressed and held is the ending note Arpeggiations will go up to but not higher than this note If the ending note is lower than the starting note then the only note played in the arpeggiation is the starting note If anon multiple of 3 notes is recorded the extra notes are ignored For example if a sequence of 8 notes has been recorded the first interval will be notes 1 3 the second interval 4 6 and notes 7 and 8 will be ignored If less than 3 notes have been recorded Interval mode will not sound Interval mode will cycle through all groups of intervals recorded in the sequence The held notes will dictate the key in which the intervals are played Page 39 ARPEGGIATOR EUROPA USER GUIDE CHORD MODE 8 Chord mode causes 4 notes to be played simultaneously or 8 notes to be played if link mode is enabled The recorded sequence is divided in to groupings of 4 notes or 8 notes if in link mode and all notes are played simultaneously A maximum of 4 chords can be recorded either four 4 note chords or four 8 note chords if in link mode If non multiple of 4 or 8 notes is recorded the remaining notes are considered short ch
68. es We would like these features ourselves but adding them would have extended the development time increased cost and increased the complexity of the upgrade all beyond the project s goals In the future Synthcom Systems may provide such an upgrade but one is not available at the time of this writing LFO 2 CONTROL AND PITGH BEND The LFO 2 and pitch bend controls are direct wirings from the bender board to the voice boards The controller board has no control over the bender board which means Europa has no control over it This modification would require additional hardware MIDI SYNCABLE LFOS MIDI Syncable LFOs is a feature that everyone would like to have The voice board LFOs are software generated and their rates are preprogrammed in the voice board code The controller board has no way of telling the voice boards to retrigger the LFO or setting the rate to a granular enough level to make syncable LFOs possible However most sequencer packages provide continuous controller based LFOs so the behavior of a MIDI syncable LFO can be simulated by the sequencer via MIDI CC messages TAPE OPERATION Tape support was not included for hopefully obvious reasons Once you have the ability to save and restore patches via MIDI what use is the tape interface If you have old patches lying around on cassettes you can still boot the Roland code and retrieve your patches reboot to Europa and save them via MIDI Page 12 EUROPA USER GUIDE
69. ess and hold TUNE The board will briefly tune and the BANK NUMBER LEDs will look something li Ww WV V Wy Z Wy COT rTTTTTTI Figure 5 MIDI Channel select display Example above shows MIDI channel set to 10 Continue to hold the TUNE button A solidly lit LED indicates selection and a blinking LED indicates a possible selection but not currently selected The A and B buttons select MIDI channel group 1 8 or 9 16 The 1 8 buttons select a MIDI channel within the group selected with A or B Here is the MIDI channel setting chart SELECTION BASE MIDI CHANNEL SELECTION BASE MIDI CHANNEL A 1 1 B 1 9 A 2 2 B 2 10 A 3 3 B 3 11 A 4 4 B 4 12 A 5 5 B 5 13 A 6 6 B 6 14 A 7 7 B 7 15 A 8 8 B 8 16 When the base MIDI channel selection is complete release the TUNE button The new base MIDI channel takes effect immediately and is retained even when power is shut off CONFIGURATION 5 FUNCTIONS OVERVIEW Europa also has various board configuration options as well as a few critical action functions Pressing and holding the TAPE button allows access to configuration options and action functions and the context of this chapter assumes that TAPE is held This causes the function of the A through F BANK and 1 through 8 NUMBER buttons to change their functions as shown ih Figure 61 Page 22 EUROPA USER GUIDE CONFIGURATION OPTIONS AND ACTION FUNCTIONS Europa configuration options Europa action functio
70. et edit UPPER LOWER SEQUENCE AND RHYTHM LINK E Upper lower rhythm sequence link causes the arpeggiator to step through both 16 step rhythms starting at the upper rhythm and working its way through the lower rhythm for a total of 32 steps This option is available in all SPLIT modes and is saved with the preset edit REST NOTE ENABLE F This enables the option to have a rest note in a sequence of held notes When the rest note is enabled it affects both arpeggiators UPPER and LOWER and is saved with the preset However the actual rest note for each SPLIT is independently settable SETTING A REST NOTE set sequence s rest note perform the following steps e Turn rest note on press amp hold UP then press F as described above e Continue to hold uP and while doing so press the key on the keyboard to assign to the rest note functionality If the board is in SPLIT mode pressed keys in the upper SPLIT will set the upper sequence rest note and pressed keys in the lower SPLIT will set the lower sequence rest note The upper sequence rest note is what s used for whole mode rest note e Release The last note pressed will be assigned rest note functionality Rest notes are stored as a global board setting and are not stored in the preset edit Page 37 ARPEGGIATOR EUROPA USER GUIDE ARPEGGIATOR AND SEQUENGE MODES The arpeggiator modes options 1 4 control the type of arpeggiation and the sequence modes optio
71. et to 0 8 11 Bits 3 2 KEY MODE 00 Invalid 01 SPLIT 4 2 10 SPLIT 2 4 11 WHOLE Bits 1 0 Upper 2 bits of LQWER patch for this Preset Combine with 4 bits in offset 30 above for a full 6 bits Valid range is 0 47 1 F8 36 0 15 LOWER arpeggiator Bits 7 4 Set to 0 options 1 Bit 3 1 Link upper lower in whole Bit 2 LOWER arpeggiator legato mode 1 On 0 Off Bits 1 0 LOWER arpeggiator of repeats 00 No repeats 01 1 Repeat 10 2 Repeats 11 3 Repeats 37 Q 15 UPPER arpeggiator Bits 7 4 Set to 0 options 2 Bit 3 Rest note 1 On 0 Off Bit 2 UPPER arpeggiator legato mode 1 On 0 Off Bits 1 0 UPPER arpeggiator of repeats 00 No repeats 01 1 Repeat 10 2 Repeats 11 3 Repeats 38 0 Unused _______ Bits 7 0 Setto0 39 0 Unused _______ Bits 7 0 Setto0 40 0 127 LOWER voice Bit 7 Set to 0 UNISON Bits 6 0 LOWER voice UNISON DETUNE time DETUNE time GLIDE time Bits 6 0 LOWER voice GLIDE time 42 0 127 UPPER WHOLE Bit 7 Set to 0 voice UNISON Bits 6 0 UPPER voice UNISON DETUNE time DETUNE time voice GLIDE time Bits 6 0 UPPER voice GLIDE time 44 0 127 BALANCE Bit 7 Set to 0 Bits 6 0 BALANCE setting 45 0 127 Arpeggiator rate Bit 7 51 Bits 6 0 See Figure for value information Figure 23 Preset save data format block type 001 Instructs Europa to write a preset to a given preset location either to the current preset edit or a preset location
72. ey 2 Voices 2 Keys 3 Voices each 2 Keys 2 Voices each 2 Keys 1 Voice each 3 Keys 2 Voices each 3 4 Keys 1 Voice each 4 6 Keys 1 Voice each If more keys are held down than there are voices available then only the first voices will play For example in WHOLE mode only the first six notes will be played The seventh note will play when one of the first six notes is released When the seventh note sounds it will not retrigger the envelope This is useful for subtle changes to the color of a chord As with SOLO UNISON the UNISON DETUNE knob will make the sound fatter UNISON STEAL UNISON LED BLINKING Pressing the UNISON button a second time makes the LED blink and puts the board in UNISON STEAL mode It is just like UNISON mode until more notes than there are available voices are played Then the oldest note playing has its voice stolen to play the new note For instance in WHOLE mode when the seventh note is played it plays but the first note goes silent The second note goes silent to play the eighth note and so on Each new note retriggers the envelope with new ATTACK Now if a note is released while the first and second notes are still held the second note will sound Release another key and the first note will sound The notes that have their voice stolen and get replayed will not retrigger the envelopes The STEAL modes are great for playing chords If voice watch is enabled a winking LED will indicate the stolen voic
73. f and the current bank to be shown instead After one second with no other button presses it will revert to voice watch mode and the meaning of the BANK A F LEDs is as shown in A B C D E F Voice 1 on 4 voice L Voice 1 on 2 voice board Voice 2 on 4 voice board Voice 1 on 2 voice board Voice 3 on 4 voice board Voice 4 on 4 voice board Figure 7 Voice activity indication with voice watch mode this example has 3 voices on When unison or any steal voice modes are enabled described in th VOICE ASSIGNMENT MODES chapter if a voice is reallocated to a new note the LED will wink Voice watch mode is also useful for diagnosing missing or malfunctioning voices and during operation it is fun to watch EUROPA ACTION FUNCTIONS Europa uses the NUMBER 1 8 buttons to perform various actions They are not settable options but rather one shot actions One press equals one action Page 24 EUROPA USER GUIDE CONFIGURATION OPTIONS AND ACTION FUNCTIONS MODULATION WHEEL ASSIGN 1 Europa can assign incoming messages to any controller controlled slider or knob on the Jupiter 6 s front panel This function assigns the modulation wheel input to a given slider or knob Here is how to assign e Press and hold TAPE e Press and release button 1 modulation wheel assign e The TAPE light will blink e Release the TAPE button e Move any slider knob desired This will not alter the current patch or preset e Press and
74. ge every 2 seconds looking for a response from the Jupiter 6 Look at the TUNE LED to see if it is blinking at that interval If not then there is no communication from the computer to the Jupiter 6 e If using the Macintosh uncheck the Sync box and try connecting again e Be sure there are no other MIDI applications running at the time the EFUU is running PC or Macintosh This includes but is not limited to sequencers and MIDI monitors These programs will most often interfere with MIDI operations Page 48 EUROPA USER GUIDE EUROPA FIRMWARE UPDATE UTILITY 11 EUROPA FIRMWARE UPDATE UTILITY EFUU Europa comes with a utility for both Windows and the Apple Macintosh running Macs any version prior to OSX It is used to update Europa with new images that are released by Synthcom Systems Inc New Europa images may add new features or fix bugs Throughout this chapter the update utility refers to either the Windows or the Macintosh version of the Europa Firmware Update Utility EFUU Both the Windows and Macintosh versions of the EFUU have been designed to operate and function as closely as possible for ease in switching between platforms The update utility requires the Jupiter 6 to have both a MIDI In and MIDI Out cable connected as the communication between the utility and the Jupiter 6 must be bidirectional This may require temporary rewiring of MIDI cables but firmware updates seldom occur The Europa image files are c
75. ggiator clock multiplier divider set to a desired value See section d apEHG qi how to set the multiplier divider to the proper value he proper source See section S MG AN fbr how to set the arpeggiator synchronization source If the clock source is set to external arpeggio if an external clock stops advancing Europa will continue to provide clocking at the last rate received The only way to clear this condition is to feed the Jupiter 6 a new arpeggio clock or change the clock sync to internal or MIDI e Check the rhythm and ensure that no unintended beats are missing See section Budae the ARPESDIATOR STEP RHYTHM for details on how to check and set the rhythm THE EUROPA FIRMWARE UPDATE UTILITY TIMES OUT WHEN TRY TO UPDATE The EFUU needs bidirectional communication That is both the MIDI IN and OUT cables to the Jupiter 6 must be connected to the computer running the EFUU Check the following e Be sure to connect the Jupiter 6 s MIDI IN to the computer s MIDI OUT and the Jupiter 6 s MIDI OUT to the computer s MIDI IN Do not connect INs to INs and OUTs to OUTs e Verify communication between the computer and the Jupiter 6 works properly by playing a sample sequence to it Also make sure the computer can record MIDI messages from the Jupiter 6 e Once the EFUU is executed be sure to select the Jupiter 6 5 MIDI IN and OUT buses When the EFUU connect button is pressed it will send out a messa
76. he checksum of the board settings area is bogus Checksums are not reliable enough to detect all corruptions so both checking in block data and entire block data is needed Page 17 POWER UP DIAGNOSTICS AND ACTIONS EUROPA USER GUIDE E 6 Roland factory patches reloaded This occurs when Europa has been ordered to reload Roland factory patches presets into its NVRAM and flash via holding BENDER and powering the board on E 7 Patches and presets copied from internal flash to NVRAM This converts presets from Europa format back to Roland format so the Roland code can read the patches and presets Note that many Europa specific settings are lost if the data is copied to NVRAM and then back to flash This is accomplished by holding GLISSANDO and powering up GROUP F BOOT CODES The F group of boot codes indicates diagnostic failures that Europa has detected but cannot correct due to the memory protect switch being on One or more of these codes will be shown but the board will not boot further as they are hard failures that need to be corrected before board operation can occur F 4 TO F 5 Identical to E 4 and E 5 as listed in the prior E group section but the conditions are not correctable due to the memory protect switch being on To correct power off the Jupiter 6 disable the memory protect and power the Jupiter 6 on F 6 Indicates that one or both voice boards are not responding This fault can also show up if the voice boards
77. he original Roland code required the end user to hold down on all desired waveforms Many users of the Jupiter 6 did not know that more than one waveform could be enabled simultaneously due to this clumsy interface Europa allows toggling of these waveforms by just pressing the desired waveform button It will not clear other waveforms when a single waveform is pressed VCO SYNC BUTTONS The original Roland code did not allow the sync buttons to be synchronized to each other Europa allows this The net effect is a fatter and heavily detuned oscillator sync WRITING PATCHES PATCH PROTECT NONEXISTENT Writing a patch with Europa requires pressing write the BANK and the NUMBER twice Europa does not include the single patch write protect feature that exists in the Roland code WRITING PATCHES WITH MEMORY PROTECT ON BLINKS ENTIRE BOARD If a patch or preset write is attempted with memory protect on Europa will blink all of the processor controlled LEDs on the board This is an extremely visible reminder to the end user that memory protect is on The original Roland code would not do anything when write was pressed Page 14 EUROPA USER GUIDE OPERATIONAL DIFFERENCES ADDITIONAL VOIGE ASSIGNMENT MODES Europa includes four additional voice assignment modes that extend the LED behavior on the assign buttons See chapter 8 voice assign modes for more detail MANUAL MODE Europa s MANUAL mode operates differently from the Roland code
78. hecked against corruption so it is not possible for the file itself to be bad and still properly work as the firmware update utility will indicate so It is assumed that the MIDI interfaces on both supported platforms have been installed and are working properly If MIDI operation has not been verified please do this first Instructions for installation of the MIDI interface can be found in the MIDI interface s manual Do not modify the system s MIDI configuration while the EFUU is running The MIDI configuration is checked on the startup of the EFUU and is not checked again until the EFUU is restarted So if modification to the system s MIDI configuration is required do so before running the EFUU NOTE Do not update the firmware image in Europa if it is good and its version matches that of the update file Europa s image is heavily guarded against corruption and self checks on bootup see the Diagnostics chapter for intimate detail on this Reupdating with an identical image when the Europa image is OK will do no good The update utility will warn the user against this It will not alter any of the board s settings nor reload any defaults Do not expect it to fix anything except a bad image If the update utility has updated the image before and indicated that the image is good the update was completely successful The only reasons to update a Europa image e Anew Europa image is posted on Synthcom Systems web site and it is a desir
79. in flash If the write is to the current preset edit the front panel will change according to the preset s settings and it will load up the patches associated with the preset The preset changed indication blinking the preset s NUMBER LED If any data in the preset is invalid or any unused bits are set to 1 the write block command will be ignored Page 73 EUROPA MIDI IMPLEMENTATION EUROPA USER GUIDE Byte Valid Name _ ___ range 0 1 UPPER WHOLE Arpeggiator sequence destination LOWER rhythm 7eh Store to upper arpeggiator rhythm sequence select 7th Store to lower arpeggiator rhythm sequence Arpeggiator step rhythm represented as follows Byte 1 Bits 3 0 Bit 0 Beat 1 1 Step step Bit 1 Beat 2 1 Step step Bit 2 Beat 3 1 Step step Bit 3 Beat 4 1 Step step Bits 4 7 Unused set to 0 Byte 2 Bits 3 0 Bit 0 Beat 5 1 Step step Bit 1 Beat 6 1 Step step Bits 4 7 Are required to be set to 0 The incoming message will be ignored if any of these bits are set Note sequence Notes that make up this sequence The note numbers are the same as MIDI notes If no notes are provided this will clear the sequence for the appropriate edit If 0 127 there are more than 16 notes present the entire command is ignored Figure 24 Arpeggiator rhythm sequence save format block type 011 Instructs
80. is invalid or bits 4 7 are set in any of the switch data the write block will be ignored Byte Valid Name d GC C C j Preset number Preset name length 0 127 Preset name Page 70 Bits 7 4 Bit 3 Bit 2 Bit 1 Bit 0 Bits 7 4 Bits 3 2 Bit 1 Bit 0 Bits 7 4 Bits 3 2 Bits 1 0 Bits 7 4 Bits 3 2 Bits 1 0 me Place to store preset 0 31 Is preset flash positions A 1 through D 8 127 Preset edit Length of preset s name Can be up to 16 ASCII characters Preset s name in ASCII This is actually a variable length field and is only as long as the data in byte 3 Set to 0 UPPER Arpeggiator enable 1 On 0 Off LOWER Arpeggiator enable 1 On 0 Off LOWER Sequence mode enable 1 On 0 Off LOWER Arpeggiator mode enable 1 On 0 Off Set to 0 Unused set to 0 UPPER Sequence mode enable 1 On 0 Off UPPER Arpeggiator mode enable 1 On 0 Off Set to 0 LOWER Sequence mode 00 Arpeggiated sequence 01 Sequenced arpeggio 10 Interval 11 Chord LOWER Arpeggiator mode 00 Normal 01 Forward 10 Ping pong 11 Random Set to 0 UPPER Sequence mode 00 Arpeggiated sequence 01 Sequenced arpeggio 10 Interval 11 Chord UPPER Arpeggiator mode 00 Normal 01 Forward 10 Ping pong 11 Random EUROPA USER GUIDE Byte Valid Name d J LOWER voice allocatio
81. ise Europa cannot memorize any board settings such as the MIDI channel e Europa responds to continuous controller 7 volume Roland code does not Is the sequencer sending out a volume control change that is muting or reducing the volume of the voices Most sequencers set volume values on sequence start Ensure the volume value is set in the sequencer to something reasonable try 127 the maximum for full volume output Page 45 COMMON PROBLEMS EUROPA USER GUIDE THE ARPEGGIATOR IS ENABLED BUT IT WON T START Europa adds several features to the Arpeggiator that can cause the Arpeggiator to not start or step e 5 the clock source set properly Press the DOWN button for at least one second and hold it Look at the A B and G LEDs in the BANK group of buttons only one of the LEDs will be lit Internal clock rate adjustable by the RATE knob in the arpeggio section is the RATE something other than 0 Try turning the RATE knob to mid scale External clock Verify that there is a cable plugged in to the ARPEGGIO GLOcK IN jack on the back of the Jupiter 6 and that the master clocking device is generating one pulse per step MIDI Clock Is the MIDI clock source transmitting MIDI clock Note that most sequencers have MIDI clock transmission turned off by default Consult the documentation for the sequencer being used e Is a sequence arpeggio mode selected with no recorded sequence A sequence arpeggio mode with
82. m The LEDs will shimmer during updating this is normal Timeouts or other errors will be reported if the update is not successful If the update is successful the following is shown Europa Firmware Update Utility 1 026 x Creative 401 Creative 401 Europa Firmware Update Utility Click OK and then click on Exit or the X in the upper right hand corner of the dialog box to exit Update complete The serial and Europa Version is updated at the end of the update to reflect the new version Page 52 EUROPA USER GUIDE EUROPA FIRMWARE UPDATE UTILITY THE APPLE MACINTOSH EUROPA FIRMWARE UPDATE UTILITY The Macintosh firmware update utility works on any Macintosh with OMS 1 2 or an equivalent such as FreeMIDI 1 35 which emulates OMS 1 2 installed and running OMS 1 2 or equivalent must be configured to send to and receive from the Europa enhanced Jupiter 6 It is assumed the system is already set up and working as it is beyond the ability for this manual to give specific instructions for any given MIDI hardware software configuration Refer to the MIDI interface s manual for proper setup and configuration Special note for FreeMIDI 1 35 and later users If a hang is experienced when running the EFUU try unchecking the Async box and running the EFUU again There s no technical way for the EFUU to differentiate between a real OMS implementation and FreeMIDI s OMS emulation
83. mentioned below turning the Jupiter 6 s power on and holding until no longer required as documented TAPE Boot to Roland mode No need to hold the TAPE button after the board has booted Once it has booted the board is ready for operation Note that patches created under Europa will not be usable under Roland code without a manual conversion step documented below Conversely patches created under Roland code will also need conversion to Europa But then again once the patches have been converted to Europa why go back to the Roland code WRITE Force firmware transfer mode boot The only reason to use this is if the operational code image is good but crashes when firmware transfer is attempted and standard contact with the Europa Firmware Update Utility does not work A lit B LED 1 LED and 2 8 blinking indicates a successful boot to FTM Follow the instructions in the Europa Firmware Update Utility chapter BENDER Restore factory patches presets and default Europa board settings It reloads the Roland factory patches and presets to NVRAM writes a converted version of the NVRAM to on chip flash and loads Europa factory defaults into the board settings Be sure to hold BENDER until boot code E 6 shows up Once E 6 is displayed press a key or button to continue the boot process PORTAMENTO Copy patches and presets to internal Europa flash and convert to Europa patch preset format This is used to conver
84. mmand This ensures the patches and or presets will be properly restored when played back to the Jupiter 6 as this delay is required for writing to Europa s flash memory Byte Value fDescription 111 0 Oh Write block patch preset or sequence 1 Bitwise Unused set to 0 Block type to write 000 Patch 001 Preset 010 Reserved not valid 011 Arpeggiator step rhythm sequence 100 111 Not valid Command will be ignored Unused set to 0 other values will invalidate the message and it will be ignored 2 n Depends on the See tables below for appropriate patch preset or sequence dump block type Figure 21 Command 05h Write block command Instructs Europa to store a patch preset or sequence block in flash or edit buffer Note that any patch or preset written to flash must delay at least 70 milliseconds afterward to give time for Europa to write to internal flash otherwise any subsequent command for that time period will be ignored dropped Depending upon byte 1 of the command 05h data stream one of the following three tables will be applicable range 2 0 47 Patch number Place to store patch 0 47 are patch flash positions 126 127 A 1 through F 8 126 Lower patch edit 127 Upper patch edit used in WHOLE mode Length of patch s name Can be up to 16 ASCII characters 4 19 0 127 Patch name Patch s name in ASCII This is actually a variable length field and is only as long as the data in byte
85. n example assigning ENV 2 LEVEL to velocity will cause the ENV 2 LEVEL to be changed after every MIDI note ON received NOTE The velocity assign will change the value of the controller for the entire voice board not just the incoming note The instructions in th MODULATION WHEEL ASSIGN 1 section above will assign note velocity but instead press button 4 as documented ih Figure 6 Page 25 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS AND ACTION FUNCTIONS EUROPA USER GUIDE DUMP CURRENTLY EDITED TO MIDI 5 This will dump the current patch edit to MIDI via Europa s system exclusive patch dump message If the board is in SPLIT mode the UPPER and LOWER LEDs will determine which patch is dumped In WHOLE mode the UPPER patch is dumped Sce thd EXGLUSIVE BPERATINS Section for further details on the format of Europa s system exclusive messages This feature will function regardless of the system exclusive transmit setting DUMP CURRENTLY EDITED PRESET TO MIDI 6 Similar to dumping the currently edited patch this will dump the preset currently being edited to MIDI via Europa s system exclusive patch dump message cc E VERT contains further detail on the format of the preset system exclusive message format This feature will function regardless of the system exclusive transmit setting DUMP EVERYTHING TO MIDI 7 This is effectively a Save board state It will dump all patches in flash all presets in flash the curr
86. n mode UPPER WHOLE voice allocation mode UPPER WHOLE voice BENDER PORTAMENTO GLISSANDO and Modes UPPER WHOLE voice arpeggiator range and direction LOWER voice BENDER PORTAMENTO GLISSANDO and Modes EUROPA MIDI IMPLEMENTATION Description Bit Bit Bit Bit Bits 7 4 Set to 0 Bits 3 0 Voice ASSIGN mode 0000 Poly 1 0001 Poly 1 steal 0010 Poly 2 0011 Poly 2 steal 0100 Unison 0101 Unison steal 0110 Solo 0111 Solo rotate 1000 Solo unison 1001 1111 Invalid Bits 7 4 Set to 0 Bits 3 0 Voice ASSIGN mode 0000 Poly 1 0001 Poly 1 steal 0010 Poly 2 0011 Poly 2 steal 0100 Unison 0101 Unison steal 0110 Solo 0111 Solo rotate 1000 Solo unison 1001 1111 Invalid s 7 4 Set to 0 3 1 HOLD On 0 HOLD Off 2 1 GLISSANDO O GLISSANDO 1 PORTAMENTO 0O PORTAMENTO Off 1 BENDER On 0 BENDER Off s 7 4 Set to 0 Bits 3 2 UPPER WHOLE arpeggiator RANGE 00 Range 1 01 Range 2 10 Range 3 11 Range 4 Bits 1 0 UPPER WHOLE arpeggiator direction Bit Bit Bit Bit Bit 00 Up 01 Down 10 Up Down 11 Down Up 8 7 4 Set to 0 3 1 HOLD On 0 HOLD Off 2 1 GLISSANDO O GLISSANDO 1 PORTAMENTO 0O PORTAMENTO Off 1 BENDER On 0 BENDER Off Page 71 EUROPA MIDI IMPLEMENTATION EUROPA USER GUIDE MIDI IMPLEMENTATION Byte Valid Name Pd
87. ned within this CD ROM and is not required nor expected to ship updated CD ROMs to existing owners TRADEMARKS All brand names and product names used in this CD ROM and manual are trademarks registered trademarks or trade names of their respective holders Synthcom Systems Incorporated is not associated with any product or vendor mentioned in this book nor does it necessarily endorse any product or vendor EUROPA USER GUIDE TABLE OF CONTENTS 4 OPERATIONAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN EUROPA AND ROLAND TABLE OF GONTENTS EUROPA USER GUIDE rer EUROPA USER GUIDE TABLE OF GONTENTS COPY PATCHES PRESETS FROM EUROPA TO NVRAM SO THAT ROLAND CODE CAN 1 2 WE 8 81 EUROPA SUPERMODE REFERENCE SHEET s ssss s 8 A Page 5 TABLE OF GONTENTS EUROPA USER GUIDE TABLE OF FIGURES FIGURE 1 FIGURE 5 MIDI GHANNEL SELECT DISPLAY EXAMPLE ABOVE SHOWS MIDI HANNEL SET 1 Lj 2222222222222222222222222222222222222222222242255225 2 22 FIGURE 6 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS AND ACTION FUNCTIONS LOCAL MODE MIDI CONTINUOUS CONTROLLER TRANSMIT AND VOICE WATCH NABLED IN THIS EXAMPLE WHEN IS HELLD 2 3 FIGURE 7 VOICE ACTIVITY INDICATION WITH VOICE WATCH MODE THIS XAM PLE HAS VOIGES ON FIGUR
88. nne Charles Scheffold Lior Zelmanowicz Jochen Feldkoetter Marc Frajola Gary Weber Greg Easley and Jeff Koepper for helping test Europa Thanks guys The progress bar control FinderProgressBar 2 0 used in the Macintosh Europa Firmware Update Utility was written by Chris Larson and is copyrighted by him 1993 1995 Used with permission per the FinderProgressBar license Thank you Chris The library can be found here http macinsearch com infomac2 development src finder progress bar 20 c html And thanks to all of those who waited literally years for Europa to be released Sooner certainly would ve been better than later but Europa is a far better product because of advancements in microcontroller technology It is now time to write some music Neil Bradley Jeffrey McEachin Synthcom Systems Incorporated Page 81 EUROPA SUPERMODE REFERENCE SHEET 17 EUROPA SUPERMODE REFERENCE SHEET Europa configuration options Europa action functions EM EM AZA AVAA aly ay Wi gt 14441 wheel assign _ Pitch bend Voice Watch assign Velocity transmit Aftertouch assign Sysex transmit Velocity assign Continuous Controller Transmit Dump patch edit to MIDI Local mode Dump preset edit to MIDI Dump ALL to MIDI Random patch Configuration options and action functions local mode MIDI continuous controller transmit and voice watch enabled in this example when TAP
89. not provided in the received package please contact Synthcom Systems for prompt shipment of one The Europa CD ROM can be read on a Windows PC or a Macintosh The folder layout is identical for both parts of the disc While the folder tree below is shown as it appears under Windows Explorer the layout is identical on the Macintosh The disc does not automatically execute when it is inserted so it is assumed the user know how to navigate a folder tree on their computer E25 31 00 All Europa documentation in Adobe Acrobat format and to E BH Adobe Acrobat Reader read it Adobe Acrobat Reader must already be installed or imm installed from the CD ROM Adobe Acrobat Reader is provided on the Europa CD ROM in the Adobe Acrobat Reader folder as shown in the tree Both Windows and Macintosh versions are provided Europa s installation instructions and user guide are contained in the Documentation folder Europa s Firmware Update Utility EFUU executable is contained in the Europa Firmware Update Executables folder Choose the appropriate update utility version under the Windows and Macintosh folders hf MacEFUUDewv 101 2 73 Windows E core EE efuu Europa s reference release image is contained in the Europa Images folder It is only needed in case of a corrupt Europa image The latest image can always be found on Synthcom s web site m Eurapa Images Page 7 INTRODUCTION EUROPA USER
90. ns A B C D E F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 gt N Z WY IY NI NIL NI NIL _ Mod wheel Watch assign Pitch bend assign Velocity transmit Aftertouch assign Sysex transmit Velocity assign Continuous Controller Transmit Dump patch edit to MIDI Local mode Dump preset edit to MIDI Dump ALL to MIDI Random patch Figure 6 Configuration options and action functions local mode MIDI continuous controller transmit and voice watch enabled in this example when TAPE is held EUROPA CONFIGURATION OPTIONS Europa includes several board wide configuration options that can be enabled or disabled They are contained on A through F of the BANK row of buttons In Europa s configuration options context the LEDs on the A F buttons indicate the following LED ON Option enabled LED BLINKING Option disabled but enableable LED OFF No option A lit LED blinking or steady can have its setting toggled between enabled LED on and disabled LED blinking by pressing it LOCAL MODE DEFAULT ENABLED Enables or disables playing the internal voices with the local Jupiter 6 keyboard and arpeggiator Local Mode should not be turned off by an inexperienced user If the Jupiter 6 is not making sound from the local keyboard make sure Local Mode is on Local Mode has the following effects on the Jupiter 6 s internal voices and incoming MIDI notes This is described in further detail in thf BOURGES Sr NEFES TG
91. ns 5 8 control sequence related arpeggiations One arpeggiator mode and one sequence mode can be selected simultaneously as well as only one of the two NORMAL MODE 1 When this mode is set the arpeggiator works as it did with the Roland code If the up direction is selected notes are played in lowest note held to highest note held If down is selected the notes are played in highest note held to lowest note held Up down and down up modes cause the notes to follow their respective directions ORDERED MODE 2 Ordered arpeggiator mode causes arpeggiation to occur in the order the notes were played or recorded If the up direction is selected notes are played in first note played to last note played order Conversely if the down direction is selected notes are played in the last note played to first note played order Up down and down up modes cause the notes to follow their respective directions PING PONG MODE 3 Notes are played in the order of first pressed last pressed second pressed second to the last pressed etc For example if the following notes were played and held and UP mode is selected CDEFGAB Ping pong mode would arpeggiate them as CBDAEGFCBDAEGE Setting DOWN reverses this order and up down and down up modes cause the notes to follow as expected RANDOM MODE 4 Notes are played in a completely random order The UP pawn settings will have no effect in random mode SEQUENCE MODES AND OPTIONS The follo
92. o open the Europa image file Page 55 EUROPA MIDI IMPLEMENTATION EUROPA USER GUIDE 12 EUROPA MIDI IMPLEMENTATION Features of Europa s MIDI implementation are contained within this chapter Europa offers a vast feature set over the Roland code including realtime control of the voice parameters via MIDI continuous controllers CC and the ability to save and load patches via MIDI system exclusive messages Sysex It is assumed the reader is familiar with binary and hexadecimal notation BASIC MIDI FUNCTIONALITY This section describes Europa s MIDI operation Details on system exclusive commands and continuous controller messages are documented in later sections of this chapter Europa responds to all channel voice messages any channel specific MIDI message on its base MIDI channel or also on its base MIDI channel 1 if SPLIT 4 2 or SPLIT 2 4 modes are enabled When in SPLIT mode the lower voice is always the base MIDI channel and the upper voice is always the base MIDI channel 1 If the base MIDI channel is 16 and the Jupiter 6 is in either SPLIT mode the upper voice is addressed on channel 1 If the Jupiter 6 is in SPLIT 4 2 mode the channel voice messages received on the base MIDI channel will affect the 4 voice board and the channel voice messages received on the base MIDI channel 1 will affect the 2 voice board If the Jupiter 6 is in SPLIT 2 4 mode the channel voice messages received on the base MIDI channel will
93. o the current patch edit and any stored patch MIDI ACTIVITY MONITOR Europa will blink the TUNE LED when MIDI data is being received Great for debugging and knowing when activity is present GLIDE TIME AND UNISON DETUNE STORED SEPARATELY FOR SPLIT MODES Europa s preset format stores glide time and unison values one for each SPLIT The Roland code only allows a single detune and glide time in SPLIT mode FOOT PEDAL ADAPTATION Europa allows either normally closed or normally open foot pedals to be used ASSIGNABLE MIDI MESSAGES Europa can assign incoming pitch bend modulation wheel channel aftertouch and note velocity to any continuous controller It will respond to incoming pitch bend messages as an assignable controller but will not alter the pitch of the notes played as a traditional pitch bend would Incoming note velocity is changed on a per voice board basis and affects all held notes on a given SPLIT Europa will not transmit pitch bend key press velocity or aftertouch FACTORY SETTINGS RESTORATION Europa can restore factory patches and presets and will not malfunction if NVRAM becomes corrupt LOCAL MODE CONTROL The Jupiter 6 s local keyboard can be enabled and disabled Page 11 NEW FEATURE SUMMARY EUROPA USER GUIDE WHAT IS NOT INGLUDED We have not included some features that would be expected in an upgrade like Europa This section documents the reasons for not including these desirable featur
94. odes are indicative of a problem With recoverable boot codes pressing a key or a button on the front panel will cause the Jupiter 6 to continue booting Fatal boot codes will cause the board to hang since they indicate a problem that prevents Europa s operation Diagnostic information is not particularly useful to an end user of Europa but is extremely valuable to the technician who is diagnosing or repairing a malfunctioning Europa enhanced Jupiter 6 While the A F and 1 8 lights are being strobed left and right Europa is running the diagnostics as described in Figurd 4 10 his chapter gives a sequential list of power up diagnostics that Europa performs as it boots GROUP A BOOT CODES The A group of boot codes indicates unrecoverable component diagnostic failures in either the Europa chip itself or the scratch RAM chip on the controller board They are not recoverable and Europa will not run A 1 Internal CPU RAM failure This is a failure of the Europa chip itself If the Europa is still under warranty contact Synthcom Systems Inc to arrange a replacement A 2 Scratch RAM failure This failure occurs when Europa cannot get reliable data storage on the scratch RAM chip on the Jupiter 6 s controller board Either the scratch RAM chip itself is bad or the interconnecting circuitry is making communication with it unreliable This 15 not a failure with the Europa chip If this occurs directly after a Europa installation look for solder b
95. ones plugged in to the PHONES jack on the back of the Jupiter 6 If using the balanced or 1 4 outputs on the back of the Jupiter 6 is the mixer it is connected to powered and the track nonmuted e Is local mode enabled Press and hold TAPE Make sure the LED is lit solid local mode enabled if it is If it isn t while still holding TAPE press A to turn local mode back on 5 the arpeggiator turned on If it is shut it off for the sake of testing e Is the board in SPLIT mode Is the SPLIT point reasonable Press and hold one of the KEY MODE buttons SPLIT 4 2 SPLIT 2 4 WHOLE and press a key such as middle C indicated by the white arrow on the front panel that points to the keyboard to set a reasonable SPLIT point e Hasan external sequencer sent a continuous controller 7 Volume to Europa Europa responds to board level volume control where the Roland code did not Power cycle the Jupiter 6 to clear this condition though if this is cures the problem check with the sequencer documentation for volume change information Europa will restore the Jupiter 6 to full volume after each power cycle e Does the current patch make a sound Try recalling other patches e Isthe HOLD LED If so shut it off e Turn voice watch mode on by pressing and holding TAPE and ensuring the E LED is lit solid If not press it to turn on voice watch Press some keys on the local keyboard Do any of the A F LEDs light in sequence to the repeatedly
96. ord and are played If the following 16 note sequence is recorded into Europa CEGA DFAC HEG BEFACE Assuming chord mode enabled link mode is disabled and C is held each step of the arpeggiator would play each line assumes notes are played simultaneously DFA C FACE s repeat If E F and G are held down the above 4 chords play in the key of E F G and repeat If only 14 notes of the above listed note sequence were recorded missing the C and E off the last chord then the 4 chord would just play the short chord of F amp A When link mode is enabled the behavior as described above is the same with the exception of the sequence being a maximum of 32 notes and eight note chords are played instead of four note chords Also link mode joins the upper and lower rhythms and sequences so if the Jupiter 6 is in either SPLIT mode and chord mode is enabled both SPLITS follow a 32 step rhythm and four note chords PROGRAMMING THE ARPEGGIATOR STEP RHYTHM The arpeggiator has two 16 step rhythms upper lower rhythms or one 32 step rhythm when sequence link mode is enabled It is always active when any arpeggiator mode has been selected Enable the rhythm programming mode by pressing UP and waiting for 1 second The PATCH PRESET A F 1 8 and MANUAL buttons become beats 1 through 16 as shown ih Figure TT MEN Arpeggiator step rhythm beat 1 patch preset through beat 16 manual OnzStep Offz
97. pa Vera Studia 4 Modem 5 245 Image File Marne we EM Connect Find Image Update Once the transmit and receive ports have been selected click on the Connect button The progress window will open briefly while connecting If the connection is successful the serial number and version number will be displayed If communication is not established an error message will be displayed In this case double check the Jupiter 6 s IN and OUT MIDI cables be sure the computer has the ability to communicate bidirectionally with the Jupiter 6 and the proper MIDI ports are selected STEP 2 LOCATE AN IMAGE TO UPDATE The Find image button will become active and can be pressed to locate a Europa image Cy Europa 127 8 Folder EuropaVv127 8 efi Macintosh HD Relnotes txt Eject Cancel Current Europa Version Image File Mame Find Image Update Using the dialog box select the desired Europa firmware image file to update and click the Open button The filename is then displayed in the main window Page 54 EUROPA USER GUIDE EUROPA FIRMWARE UPDATE UTILITY STEP 3 UPDATE THE JUPITER 6 Once the image is selected click Update to update Europa Europa Firmware Update Utility Transmit to Update Europa Image Updating Europa area Cancel Connect Find
98. pa images have a efi file extension and are always named the update version they contain NOTE Do not rename the Europa update image filename The update utility recognizes full length Windows filenames It will just cause confusion later on if multiple ef i files are present After the image is selected it is completely verified to ensure the file does not contain any corruptions and is not malformed If the image is bad a dialog box will pop up indicating that the file has a CRC error Redownload the image from Synthcom Systems web site Page 51 EUROPA FIRMWARE UPDATE UTILITY EUROPA USER GUIDE STEP 3 UPDATE THE JUPITER 6 Once the update file has been selected and verified good the Update button becomes active If the Jupiter 6 s Europa image is bad the serial and Europa version fields will be blank Notice that Europa s serial number is shown as well as the version of the currently installed Europa image Europa Firmware Update Utility 1 02b Creative 401 Creative MPU 401 7 1 0 _ To update Europa click Update A small progress dialog will pop up Europa Firmware Update Utility 1 02 Creative MPL 401 MEM The entire update process will take between 15 and 60 seconds to complete depending upon the image size the number of other programs tasks running and the speed of the platfor
99. r number information If controller 127 is given the assignment becomes inactive Figure 26 Command 07h Assign controller This assigns modulation ims bend channel aftertouch note on velocity to one of Europa s continuous controllers see for controller number information If controller 127 is provided as a destination it becomes unassigned Page 75 EUROPA MIDI IMPLEMENTATION EUROPA USER GUIDE SYSTEM EXCLUSIVE EXAMPLES The following is a list of system exclusive message examples in complete byte form to help understand how the various tabled components fit together EXAMPLE 1 RESTORE FACTORY SETTINGS FOh 41h 10h 4ah 36h 00h 68h 36h 7h L End Sysex Required for command 00h see figure 16 Command 00h Restore factory settings Europa system exclusive header Begin sysex EXAMPLE 2 REQUEST DUMP OF ALL PATCHES FOh 41h 10h 4ah 36h 04h 00h 7dh 7h End Sysex Dump all patches from flash Dump patch Command 04h Dump block request Europa system exclusive header Begin sysex EXAMPLE 3 WRITE A PATCH TO FLASH 41h 10h 4ah 36h 05h 00h 08h 04h 54h 65h 73h 74h f7h o o o o End Sysex Patch data byte 20 54 Figure 22 Patch name in ASCII Test Patch name 4 bytes in length Write to flash patch location B 1 Write patch
100. ridges or unintentionally cut traces Page 16 EUROPA USER GUIDE POWER UP DIAGNOSTICS AND ACTIONS Internal external CPU RAM failure The Europa chip contains an additional 1K of onboard static RAM and this indicates its failure This is a failure with the Europa chip itself As with boot code A 1 contact Synthcom Systems Inc to arrange replacement if still under warranty GROUP BOOT CODES The B group of boot codes indicates that Europa is executing firmware transfer mode It is indicated by the B BANK LED being lit solid and one 1 8 NUMBER LED lit solidly with all other NUMBER LEDs blinking All B boot codes are recoverable B 1 Europa image is bad not present or TAPE WRITE force Firmware Transfer Mode was held on board powerup The Jupiter 6 is waiting for a Europa image to be programmed in This code can come up if a prior Europa firmware update failed or the Europa image is bad Not to worry This just means the Europa Firmware Update Utility needs to send the board a good image Europa image area prepared and awaiting programming Europa programming in process Europa programming complete Check code image is good Europa programming complete Check code image is bad GROUP CODES The group of boot codes indicates diagnostic failures that Europa has detected and corrected For example it is possible for E 6 to be shown requiring pressing a button key followed by E 2 also requiring pre
101. roller board speaks to the voice board over a serial port so it is possible for Europa fall behind in processing incoming notes and controllers We ve found that Europa and the Jupiter 6 voice boards can sustain a flood of controllers and notes at the rate of 3274 notes 500 beats per minute roughly a single event every 3 8 milliseconds It s highly unlikely that anyone would ever realistically reach this limitation especially considering most other synthesizers would drop notes or lock up at much lower rates Changes at this rate are nonmusical Arpeggiator clocks are maintained in a separate queue Clocking takes priority over all regular events This contributes to Europa s ultra stable internal clock performing to within 0 276 of the desired BPM setting over a range of 60 240BPM The Europa source code itself is an object oriented design Each subsystem is its own independent bit of code allowing for great modularity and ease of development making Europa much easier to expand or modify in the future The code took about a year to write No Roland code was used or harmed in the process it s completely Synthcom developed code Page 77 CONTACT INFORMATION EUROPA USER GUIDE 14 CONTACT INFORMATION Synthcom Systems Inc is contactable in several ways The preferred method of contact is through the internet due to after hours accessibility but we can also be contacted via regular United States mail or by telephone VISIT SY
102. rty Synthcom is liable for shipping of the Europa upgrade kit to the end user or installer If it is damaged upon receipt Synthcom will provide a new upgrade replacement upon receipt of the damaged package to Synthcom The customer will be reimbursed any additional shipping charges incurred in the return of the damaged package to Synthcom Synthcom will provide support for the installation process but will not provide walkthroughs or assistance in basic soldering installation techniques or board troubleshooting unrelated to the Europa upgrade process It is assumed the installer has knowledge of the Europa upgrade process and if not qualified the installation should not be attempted Users asking for textual or verbal descriptions of detailed changes to the board will immediately be referred to the installation guide for accurate pictorial examples Subcomponents of the upgrade which include a socket and resistor are not subject to a warranty of any kind except for shipping damage as outlined above All parts are examined for damaged before shipping and will not be shipped if they exhibit damage SYNTHCOM INSTALLED EUROPA UPGRADES Synthcom will verify the controller board upon receipt works fully upon receipt before any work is done If the board is not found to be fully functional Synthcom s discretion Synthcom will notify the owner by whatever means available for a course of action Additional repair charges may apply Synthcom will no
103. s attack time may be a bit longer than immediate If after 10 or so seconds there is no sound or you just get too impatient press 8 again to create another random patch The random patch generator was designed to help guide sound generation rather than being a polished patch Tweaking of the random patch is encouraged and expected Creating a random patch will always transmit a generate random patch system exclusive message Page 26 EUROPA USER GUIDE VOICE ASSIGNMENT MODES 7 VOICE ASSIGNMENT MODES Several voice modes have been added to the Jupiter 6 s voice assign feature When in either SPLIT mode the voice allocation on each voice board can be set independently This section documents the entire assignment operation as well as the Europa extensions to it Since the Jupiter 6 s keyboard has 61 keys but can only play six notes at a time the Jupiter s CPU must have some way to decide what to do when a key is pressed on the local keyboard or a note is played through MIDI The ASSIGN mode buttons are used to select how the Jupiter 6 assigns a note to one of its six voices or four or two voices when in SPLIT mode Each of the nine ASSIGN modes in Europa does this differently because each mode has different musical uses section will help in understanding of the various modes and turn on the operation of each of the ASSIGN modes becomes obvious Ihisi is also a handy way of identifying an out of tune or nonfunctional voi
104. s transpositions for sequence playback just like with a sequence only mode however the range and UP DOWN directions affect the arpeggiator mode This might be the most difficult concept to understand about the Europa arpeggiator but play with it it is easier to understand by playing with it than reading about it ARPEGGIO NOTE CALCULATOR The arpeggio note calculator takes the note to play peace from the sequence step calculator and or the arpeggio Octave step calculator It uses the RANGE octave legato Y Seq and number of repeats as influence to decide which mode note to play next The arpeggio note calculator will Pune da ents cno lt se also transpose the note if necessary If local mode is disabled the arpeggiated notes are transmitted over pore OEE en Local mode MIDI only Internal voices are not used If local mode Off is enabled the arpeggiated notes are sent to the local Y e n voices and only the physically played notes on the Voice assign keyboard are transmitted over MIDI MIDI Note transmit Voice board THE ARPEGGIATOR USER INTERFACE Europa s user interface employs supermodes That is the meaning of various buttons changes depending upon what other buttons are held The arpeggiator settings above and beyond the Roland code s arpeggiator settings are accessed by holding arpeggiator related buttons D
105. section is a walkthrough of the chart shown in Figure 4 Page 19 POWER UP DIAGNOSTICS AND ACTIONS EUROPA USER GUIDE 1 INTERNAL GPU STACK RAM IS TESTED The internal RAM on the CPU is tested for data integrity If this test fails BANK and NUMBER 1 light brightly The board is halted at this point since it cannot function without working CPU RAM 2 INTERNAL GPU 15 TESTED The Europa CPU has 1K of general purpose RAM on chip and is checked If the XRAM check fails BANK A and NUMBER 2 are light brightly The board is halted at this point and cannot function without working internal XRAM EXTERNAL SCRATCH RAM IS TESTED This test checks the off CPU volatile scratch RAM present on the controller board If it fails BANK A and NUMBER are lit brightly and the board is halted 4 JIG MODE IS TESTED Europa will look at the position of the JIG switch located on the controller board If it is set to the JIG position the Roland code is booted so the diagnostics steps in the Jupiter 6 service manual can be followed 5 TAPE BUTTON 15 TESTED If TAPE is held on power on the Roland code is executed and Europa is bypassed 6 TAPE WRITE BUTTONS ARE TESTED If TAPE and WRITE is held on power on Europa enters firmware transfer mode 7 EUROPA IMAGE INTEGRITY TESTED Europa does a binary check code on the Europa image If the image check code is not valid firmware transfer mode is entered signaled by
106. ssing a button key Pressing a button or key will cause the board to continue the bootup process More than one E code can be shown simultaneously as well as sequentially E 1 Bad patch data found in flash and corrected This usually indicates that Europa has trashed a patch most likely due to a bug Note that this code is expected after a first time Europa installation This is because the Roland code does not validate its patches or presets and Europa does If E 1 codes are persistent it may indicate the Europa chip is failing or has failed Corrections can occur even if write protect is thrown because the flash writability is not controlled by the memory protect switch Indicates operator has pressed the PORTAMENTO button and powered the Jupiter 6 on causing the contents of the NVRAM to be copied in to flash This is not a failure It is positive feedback to a user requested action Bad preset data found in flash and corrected This is identical to E 1 in terms of root cause Bad Europa board settings found and defaults loaded Europa uses part of the NVRAM for storing current board state and settings This code is shown when the area contains bad bogus settings This failure can also be shown when the board is first powered up after Europa is installed the controller board s battery is failing or if a boot to the Roland code was performed Bad Europa board settings checksum defaults loaded Similar to code E 4 listed above t
107. stem exclusive messages during recording It must be manually enabled Check with the sequencer documentation to verify that system exclusive messages will be recorded Assuming the sequencer is properly set to record system exclusive and or continuous controller messages press and hold the TAPE button on the Jupiter 6 Verify that B is lit solid This indicates that continuous controllers will be transmitted on knob slider and button changes If system exclusive recording is desired verify that is lit solid NOTE System exclusive messages should not be used for recording or performance purposes The messages themselves are significantly larger than continuous controller messages and can induce sloppy MIDI timing Instead record continuous controller messages Page 46 EUROPA USER GUIDE COMMON PROBLEMS TIMING IS SLOPPY WHEN PLAYING BACK A SEQUENCE WITH CONTROLLER CHANGES Does the sequence contain system exclusive messages Check with the sequencer to ensure that none s mentioned in the ection system exclusive transmission on the Jupiter 6 should not be enabled when recording a sequence Even if the sequencer is not recording the system exclusive messages it still takes up MIDI bus time and will cause the continuous controller timing to be sloppy Disable system exclusive transmission by pressing and holding the TAPE button and press until it is blinking and rerecord the sequence Either that or eliminate all system exclusiv
108. t holds patches presets and with Europa board settings Turning power off and then on again Roland s user guide calls these Patch presets simplified for ease of understanding Original Jupiter 6 operating system prior to Europa Booting Europa to Roland code TAPE powerup Roland s user guide refers to it as the TAPE MEMORY button The Jupiter 6 s buttons LEDs knobs and sliders Microsoft Windows 95 98 98SE Millennium Edition NT 4 x XP and 2000 An LED being shut off and turned on quickly An unlit off LED A lit steady on LED A blinking LED Page 9 NEW FEATURE SUMMARY EUROPA USER GUIDE 3 NEW FEATURE SUMMARY This section briefly summarizes the new features that are present in Europa Each is described in detail later in this manual ADDITIONAL ARPEGGIATOR MODES In addition to regular Roland Jupiter 6 arpeggiator operation Europa adds many new arpeggiator modes some exclusive to Europa ADDITIONAL ARPEGGIATOR SYNCHRONIZATION SOURCES The arpeggiator can now be synchronized from external clock trigger MIDI clock or the improved internal clock Europa s internal clock is extremely steady and can now be used to trigger and clock external MIDI equipment SEND AND RECEIVE MIDI CONTINUOUS CONTROLLERS Almost all excluding master volume and bender board controls sliders knobs and soft switches have the ability to be changed via standard MIDI continuous controllers This is great for modifying
109. t no action taken Tune request Europa transmits a tune request on powerup and press of the kaa 3 G s clock MIDI Start X X Transmitted when the arpeggiator is enabled set to internal clock and the first note is pressed If received and arpeggiator is enabled the arpeggiator starts persons point where it stopped tempere o the arpeggiator is enabled the arpeggiator Active sensing X Understood but no action taken Understood but no action taken but no action taken System reset X Understood but no action taken Running status X Received and memorized for all channel voice messages Base MIDI Channel 1 assumed on board powerup Europa will need to receive at least one full channelized MIDI message to synchronize with the MIDI stream Figure 13 Europa s overall MIDI reception and transmission capabilities CONTINUOUS CONTROLLERS SUPPORTED The following table is a layout and description of each of the continuous controllers that Europa receives and or transmits It is assumed that the reader understand binary notation as it is used in the descriptions of several of the continuous controllers Page 57 EUROPA MIDI IMPLEMENTATION EUROPA USER GUIDE Each of the continuous controller numbers listed in this table is synonymous with the controller number mentioned in the system exclusive section of this chapter The only difference
110. t recently restored patches and presets via tape over to Europa One such use would be booting Roland code and loading patches and presets from cassette NVRAM Is only used as a copy source and is not altered Hold until boot code E 2 is shown Note that Europa will automatically do this the first time the chip is installed GLISSANDO Copy flash patch presets to and convert the to Roland format The only reason to use this feature is to share patches and presets with non Europa upgraded Jupiter 6 owners Note that many preset settings mostly related to the arpeggiator are lost since Roland s NVRAM preset format doesn t store Europa specific settings Page 21 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS AND ACTION FUNCTIONS EUROPA USER GUIDE 6 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS AND ACTION FUNCTIONS SETTING THE JUPITER 6 S BASE MIDI GHANNEL With Europa the Jupiter 6 has a settable base MIDI channel Only later revisions of the Roland code allowed this Unlike the Roland code Europa will remember the base MIDI channel after the board is powered off When the Jupiter 6 is in either SPLIT mode the lower patch is addressed by the base MIDI channel and the upper patch is addressed by the base MIDI channel 1 If the Jupiter 6 s base MIDI channel is set to channel 16 and SPLIT mode is enabled the upper patch is accessed on channel 1 The MIDI channels for upper and lower patches are not individually selectable To set the base MIDI channel pr
111. t the rhythm itself is not missing any beats Do this by pressing and holding the RANGE button and observe the PATGH PRESET A F 1 8 and MANUAL buttons Are any of the LEDs on those buttons blinking If so and it is not desired press the missing beats until the LED a Setting the rhythm is described in the R ction e 5 the range going beyond the Jupiter 6 s note range capability or beyond MIDI note number 127 entirely This is very easy to do by setting the range to 4 and pressing the top note of the Jupiter 6 Notes that go beyond the Jupiter 6 s note range capability become a rest If the note range is beyond the Jupiter 6 s capability but still within the MIDI note range of 0 127 that note will still be transmitted even though the Jupiter 6 will not sound If the arpeggiated note is beyond note 127 no note will be played and it will act like a rest for that step e 5 the rest note enabled As a temporary check disable it by pressing and holding the uP button and checking the F LED If it is enabled steady LED press the F button until it blinks This will disable the rest note If this is the source of the problem change the rest note described in the A REST section rerecord the sequence or press and hold notes that do not contain the rest note Page 47 COMMON PROBLEMS EUROPA USER GUIDE THE ARPEGGIATOR RUNS TOO FAST SLOW OR DOESN T STAY IN SYNG Check the following e Is the arpe
112. t upgrade a nonfunctioning controller board Shipping charges to from Synthcom systems still apply regardless of the health of the controller board Synthcom will not accept entire Jupiter 6s shipped to Synthcom It will be refused upon delivery On site entire board upgrades can be performed Please contact Synthcom to arrange the upgrade Synthcom will upgrade the controller board and be liable for any damage to the board incurred by the upgrade process Synthcom will do full controller board verification before and after the upgrade so it is known to be working upon receipt and when shipped back to the customer Page 79 EUROPA LIMITED WARRANTY EUROPA USER GUIDE Synthcom will not be held liable for shipping damage from the customer to Synthcom If the container appears to be damaged when shipped to Synthcom systems photographs will be taken and the owner contacted with the information before anything is done It is assumed the owner has provided sufficient insurance 1000 US to cover damage and it will be the responsibility of the customer to obtain compensation from the shipper Return shipping charges regardless of the condition of the controller board from Synthcom to the customer will still apply Synthcom will work with the customer in the case of a shipper mishandling dispute Synthcom will not be held liable for shipping damage from Synthcom to the customer If the controller board is determined to be lost on behalf of the shipper or
113. te table of arpeggiator rates IMPROVED USER INTERFACE uP And DOWN do not have to be held to select UP DOWN and DOWN UP arpeggiator modes A simple press of the leadoff direction desired will advance the setting ARPEGGIATOR DRIVES VOICE MODE The Roland code would give the user a choice of the arpeggiator OR the voice assignment mode Europa s arpeggiator drives the voice assign mode ARPEGGIATOR CAN BE LOGIGALLY SEPARATED FROM INTERNAL VOICES With local mode enabled the arpeggiator will play internal voices as well as transmit arpeggiated MIDI notes Incoming MIDI notes will add to the existing arpeggiated note list as if played from the local keyboard With local mode disabled the arpeggiator will only transmit MIDI notes and arpeggiate the notes held on the local keyboard It will not play internal voices Incoming MIDI notes will instead play Jupiter 6 voices through the voice allocation scheme and bypass the arpeggiator completely This allows Europa s arpeggiator to drive external equipment while retaining the ability to use the internal synthesis functions Information how to set local mode is described tha LOCAL Default Enabled section Before going in to great detail about Europa s arpeggiator features it is best to understand the arpeggiator and how it fits in with the synchronization voice and preset architecture Page 30 ARPEGGIATOR EUROPA USER GUIDE
114. tes Value fDescipion ___ 00000 000 0 0 0 0 Bitwise i Unused set to 0 i Block dump type 000 Dump patch 001 Dump preset 010 Reserved not valid 011 Rhythm sequence 100 Board state All settings patches and presets everything 101 111 Not valid Command will be ignored its 3 Unused set to 0 other values will invalidate the message and it will be ignored Varies Dump patch 000 on bits 6 4 depending 00h 2fh Dump patches A 1 through F 8 from flash on block 30h 7ch Invalid command will be ignored dump 7dh Dump all patches from flash xmit delays included type value Dump lower patch edit in byte 1 7th Dump upper patch edit Page 66 EUROPA USER GUIDE EUROPA MIDI IMPLEMENTATION Dump preset 001 on bits 6 4 00h 2fh Dump preset A 1 through D 8 in flash 30h 7eh Invalid command will be ignored 7th Dump preset edit Dump sequence 011 on bits 6 4 00h Dump upper arpeggiator rhythm sequence 01h Dump lower arpeggiator rhythm sequence Figure 20 Command 04h Dump block request command Requests a sequence patch or patch block preset or preset block dump from Europa It responds with one or more write block commands 05h In the case where multiple presets or patches are dumped multiple write block commands will be sent one for each patch or preset Europa delays 70 milliseconds between each write block command transmitted because of this co
115. to verify and parse the Europa image file as well as the code to format the system exclusive messages and translate error codes The porter must provide a series of platform specific APIs for full compilation The best example is in Europa Firmware Update Source Code Windows efuu win32 c Look at all procedures that begin with the name Host for what needs to be implemented It is assumed the porter is familiar enough with coding and working by example enough to answer their own questions so no further information is provided Synthcom places no restrictions on Synthcom written code It is public domain Synthcom retains the copyright and trademark of the Europa icon Synthcom will only support Synthcom compiled or Synthcom approved code Page 8 EUROPA USER GUIDE TERMINOLOGY AND SYMBOLS 2 TERMINOLOGY AND SYMBOLS This section documents the terminology and symbols used throughout this manual BOLD Flash LED Macintosh NVRAM Power cycle Presets Roland code Roland mode TAPE User interface Windows Wink Indicates a hyperlink Jupiter 6 front panel button or button group The Europa chip s on chip nonvolatile flash memory Used for storing patches presets Light Emitting Diode refers to the various red indicator lights on the Jupiter 6 s front panel Apple Computer Corporation s MacOS based personal computers Nonvolatile RAM Refers to the Jupiter 6 s controller board nonvolatile battery backed RAM tha
116. transmit this CC 0 127 SPLIT Balance Sets volume balance between upper and lower Preset SPLITS No effectin WHOLE mode O LOWER SPLIT 127 UPPER SPLIT 64 Equal SPLIT between upper and lower Identical to CC 80 2 X x X x Set LFO 1 s delay time 0 vco MOD Set LFO 1 s effect on VCO Voice 0 127 Set ENV 1 s effect on veo ENV 1 0 127 PWM Pulse Set the PWM pulse width Voice width E 0 127 PWM Pulse Set the PWM pulse width source amount Voice width source amount 0 127 XMOD Set the XMOD MANUAL slider Voice MANUAL MINUM e a Page 58 EUROPA USER GUIDE EUROPA MIDI IMPLEMENTATION Ctrl R Valid Description Alters values 40 X 0 127 veo 1 Range Set VCO 1 s operational range Voice 2 17 32 29 44 16 56 71 83 98 110 125 126 127 Values between each tuning range provide various tunings between them Values 0 1 provide an almost subharmonic oscillation 41 X 0 127 veo 2 Range Set VCO 2 s operational range Voice 2 17 32 29 44 16 56 71 83 98 110 125 126 127 Values between each tuning range provide various tunings between them Values 0 1 provide an almost subharmonic oscillation 0 127 Set 2s fine tune level tune 43 X X 0 127 MIXER Set the VCO MIXER level 0 vcn 1 Voice entirely 127 2 entirely 63 vco 1 and vcn 2 evenly balanced 0 127 Set the vF S frequency 0 127 0 127 Set the VGF
117. uper cool polyphonic glide sound will be heard that will make you the envy of your friends POLY 2 Like POLY 1 and UNISON does nothing when more notes are played than allocatable Page 28 EUROPA USER GUIDE VOICE ASSIGNMENT MODES POLY 2 STEAL POLY 2 LED BLINKING If you ve been paying attention you ve probably figured out that the second press of the POLY 2 button enables POLY 2 STEAL mode witha blinking POLY 2 LED indicating so POLY2 STEAL works like POLY 2 until there are no more allocatable voices at which point it acts like the other steal modes Page 29 ARPEGGIATOR EUROPA USER GUIDE ARPEGGIATOR Europa s arpeggiator is one of the main features of Europa It is far more capable than the Roland arpeggiator offering more features and better flexibility to aid in musical creation All of the originally arpeggiator features are still present with an improved user interface This section documents the entirety of Europa s arpeggiator including the features that are also present in the Roland code The following changes have been made to the base feature set STABLE ARPEGGIATOR CLOCK Europa s arpeggiator clock unlike Roland s is stable accurate to within 0 276 of the desired BPM Individual BPMs can be selected from the front panel from 60 to 234 BPM or by way of MIDI continuous controllers See section FIGURE 15 CONTINUOUS CONTROLLER 61 ARPEGGIATOR RATE VALUE TD beats per minute settingd for a comple
118. urce clock Polyrhythm enable The clock signal blue line at the top of the diagram to the right is then fed in to each of the arpeggiators If polyrhythm is disabled the clock is routed directly to the multiplier divider If polyrhythm is enabled T From note the number of steps between clocks is equal to the number of notes held list currently held As an example if one note is being held one step will occur per clock If two notes are being held two steps will occur per clock and so on Regardless of the polyrhythm setting the clock is Y routed through the multiplier divider Polyrhythm Page 32 EUROPA USER GUIDE ARPEGGIATOR Polyrhythm is independently selectable for upper and lower arpeggiators and settings for each are stored in the preset The arpeggiators keep track of all notes held and feed the note count to the polyrhythm module indicated by the purple arrow When polyrhythm is disabled the clock passes through unaltered After the optional polyrhythm processing the clock is sent in to the multiplier divider module as outlined in the figure on the right At this point the clock can be set to divide by 1 5 2 or 4 to slow down the incoming clock or multiplied by 1 unaltered 1 5 2 or 4 to increase the clock speed As the diagram shows this is done after the polyrhythm step D M Upper w hole Note that separate upper and lower clock divider multipliers can be selected
119. ven after a bad Europa upload The boot block will not attempt to execute a Europa image if it is bad or missing or if the board s uncorrectable diagnostics fail EUROPA The Europa operating system itself All runtime board functionality is present in this image It can be updated by the Europa Firmware Update Utility Europa contains a custom message queued operating system When Europa has no messages to process it puts the microprocessor to sleep waiting for the next event Europa runs with a single foreground thread MIDI Messages and timer callbacks for user interface and clocking are run as interrupts Timers check for other events such as arpeggiator advancement and clocking the buttons LEDs are checked and strobed and potentiometers sliders are checked looking for changes in board operation Changes are deposited in the message queue at timer interrupt time for processing by the foreground process The differences in messages deposited from MIDI and the front panel is a single bit To Europa s messaging system the front panel is a MIDI device The same code literally handles the processing of MIDI and front panel events Internally the message queues have a depth of 128 outstanding messages Almost all messages excluding those that write to flash are processed in under 1 millisecond giving the best possible performance As a comparison the original Roland code had a latency of as much as 15 milliseconds Note that the cont
120. when synchronized to the internal or external clock sources MIDI Clock is not transmitted when the arpeggiator is synchronized to MIDI clock Button E is not used and has no action when pressed POLYRHYTHM SETTING F Polyrhythm evenly divides the number of steps per clock by the number of currently held notes Holding a single note would play one note per step holding two notes would play two notes per step etc up to maximum of 16 notes with the time evenly divided between the notes If the 17 note is played the polyrhythm mode will revert to operating as if one note is held At high tempos with many notes held the effect is more like an LFO modulating a VCO than it is of distinct notes being played At extreme tempos the arpeggiator will not have time to transmit the voice allocation requests to the voice boards and will revert to operating as if only one note is held Polyrhythm is an independently enableable feature on a per SPLIT basis The polyrhythm enable is saved with the preset edit MULTIPLIER DIVIDER SETTINGS 1 8 The 1 8 buttons select a multiplier buttons 1 4 or a divider buttons 5 8 on the incoming step clock Only one of the eight options can be set The multiplier divider is independently selectable for both the upper and lower SPLITS when in SPLIT mode and is saved with the preset edit ARPEGGIATOR MODE AND OPTIONS Arpeggiator mode and options are selected by pressing the UP button and holding it for more
121. will not be transmitted mr is enabled see section SYSTEM ExcLusivE TRANSMIT DEFAULT r details Page 64 EUROPA USER GUIDE EUROPA MIDI IMPLEMENTATION System exclusive messages in Europa area used for the following reasons e Provide a means for setting and restoring board settings that have no corresponding continuous controller e Allow patches and presets to be saved and restored via MIDI in an efficient fashion Europa listens to all system exclusive message activity It will only respond to the system exclusive request if the message header ID and MIDI channel matches otherwise Europa will ignore the message Europa processes the message once it has been fully received which includes the terminating F7h end of system exclusive message Europa s system exclusive message format is as follows Fh Standard MIDI system exclusive header 41h Roland MIDI ID Oxh MIDI Channel or 10h if the receive channel doesn t matter omni 4ah J For Jupiter 36h 6 All Jupiter 6 system exclusive messages are preceded by this series of bytes The next byte is the command Europa is to execute Note there are more bytes to follow in each system exclusive message 00h Resets the Jupiter 6 5 to Europa defaults 01h Reload factory patches and presets into both NVRAM and Europa flash 02h Set the base MIDI channel 03h Generate a random patch in one of the patch edits 04h Request Europa to
122. wing four options cover the sequence modes All sequence modes settings 5 8 arpeggiate the recorded sequence and one must be recorded before these modes will function When a sequence mode is enabled the UP DOWN directions and RANGE settings affect the sequence and the sequence is transposed by the held notes in order from first to last played If both an arpeggiator and a sequence mode are enabled the UP DOWN directions and the RANGE settings determine the transposition order of the sequence Page 38 EUROPA USER GUIDE ARPEGGIATOR RECORDING A SEQUENCE Recording a sequence is accomplished as follows e Press and hold the HOLD button e Play the notes desired in the sequence After the first note the HOLD LED will start blinking indicating sequence record mode It is not necessary to continue to press the HOLD button after the first recorded note e If link mode is not enabled up to 16 recorded notes are possible When the 16 note is played the HOLD LED will stop blinking indicating termination of record mode e link mode is enabled up to 32 recorded notes are possible When the 3274 note is played the HOLD LED will stop blinking indicating termination of record mode e shorter than maximum sequence is desired press the blinking HOLD button to stop recording e fin WHOLE mode and link mode is disabled the notes are recorded to the UPPER sequence e fin SPLIT mode and link mode is disabled the notes are record to their

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