LAYOUT: Roland JD-990 (V1.7.0 - 01/2015)by popup

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MIDI Target Manufacturer(s): Roland
Summary: Open up, discover and explore the soul of your JD-990, wirelessly, from your iPad. Create complex patches with ease while manipulating multiple controls and tones at the same time. MIDI Designer's control overlay feature makes editing the JD on a touch screen feel much more analog like than any other editor can.

This layout is extensive and beautiful and redefined the boundaries of what's possible with MIDI Designer.

[There is no download link in the in-app browser for this layout. Hit the "See on Q&A Site Link" instead]

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Open up, discover and explore the soul of your JD-990, wirelessly, from your iPad.  Create complex patches with ease while manipulating multiple controls and tones at the same time.  MIDI Designer's control overlay feature makes editing the JD on a touch screen feel much more analog like than any other editor can.

Features:-

• Makes understanding and creating patches on the JD990 easy.
• Every parameter of the JD patch editing mode mapped.
• Includes every Waveform name and from every Expansion Card.
• Makes use of the excellent split screen feature of MIDI Designer; allowing you to pick and mix control selections to meet your needs.
• Control all four Tone Layers at any time and change active Tones with a simple swipe.

New to 1.7.0:-

• Upgrade to control sizes to help those with smaller iPads
• Link to website for help articles on info page
• Lots of little changes and fixes + graphical upgrades

VIDEO

BASIC HELP

http://jd990.blogspot.co.uk/p/about.html

DOWNLOAD

Tap the PICTURE of the expansion card in your JD to download that version. Select  'Open in' and select MIDI Designer from your iPad to load it.  If you prefer to save on your computer, right click the image and 'Save Link as'.

Remember to save any Layouts before downloading.

           

             

             

             

          

          

    

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Comments

Thanks for the call. I've adjusted the question a tiny bit.

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More features planned...

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Impressive stuff, thank you! I need to go back and review your dropdown question in detail. Soon.

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Just to let everyone know I have a new version with some fixes and new features to be released with MIDI Designer 1.4.4.  I will upload a video of it in action soon for those interested.

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This is awesome. Regarding the presets not working for now: is it the volume of message traffic or something crashing the target? We'll have a fix for that in the future.

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Amazing stuff, popup, thanks for sharing yet again. Great.

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Wow, almost makes me want to buy a JD-990! :-) splendid work, you must really love the JD!

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I'm dropping a dummy answer here, don't mind it, it's just for lists.

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Unbelievable, this is fantastic. I only recently discovered the JD990 and how good it is, this makes it even better still. Brilliant work! Just need to find/make something half as good for my other hardware now...

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I offsited your layout and read me, popup. Let me know if you cannot access the share, please.

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Hi this template looks great ! Is there a way to see waveform names as you change them, can presets you make be stored on the app as well as the iPad,. if so can they be exported for safety ? Can we name our presets & how does one do these things ? I am brand new to iPad apps,.. Thanks : )

P.S. does this work well with Sonar ??

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Hi Anzeigen,

  I intend to add waveform names but it will be quite the task!  Also, depending on the SR-JV80 card that you have in the synth, the waveforms would change so I may either make a different version for each (very unlikely!!!) or just leave the last chunk of waveforms as a mystery (more like it) :)

  I think it is rather cool that, thanks to a great MD feature,  the presets can indeed be stored on the App and allow the fairly quick changing between them on-the-fly if needed.  The basic video I posted shows this happening btw :)  To my knowledge, saving presets will happen in MD and when it does, it will be possible to share presets over the internet if required which would be great.  The MD community could also make patch packs for synths too which sounds exciting!

  I am using the layout with sonar 8 so I think you stand a great chance of it working (the read-me file lists one option I had to tick to make it work for me, again with Sonar)

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Thanks popup. Just noting (again) that you need global-preset sharing. It's on my list, but I don't have a delivery date yet.

Also, one thing that will be out in 1.5.1: you'll be able to copy controls and use different sizes in different locations. This will allow you to create additional pages that control just a few parameters for realtime control.

Thanks!!!
Dan

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Hello.

Thank you very much for LAYOUT: Roland JD-990 (V1.5.2 - 05/2013).

I am new to the program and there is something that does not work.

When I want to change the wave, the program renames the wave and sends a message to Roland JD-990. The Roland JD-990 receives the message but does not change the wave number. It is always the same. All the others work correctly but not the wave number.

I do something wrong or is a bug in the program?

 

Thanks for your time.

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Hi KitoKan11,

I will look into this and get back to you :)

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Oops.  Thanks for spotting that :)  It seems all the trouble I went to getting the named ticks working over a 255 scale somehow made me lose track of the actual MIDI data.  I will fix it and post an update!

Thanks again.

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Thanks for the quick response.

This really is a good technical support.

I think that many companies should learn from the illusion and effectiveness with which you work.

Thank you for your work and your time.

Greetings from Spain.

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Thanks for the kind words :)

I have re uploaded the file with the fixes in place.  

At the time of writing this, You will need to exit MIDI Designer and close the app before you use the link to 'Open in Midi Designer again from your browser.

It turns out that the last two layers were okay but the first two were on another planet.  Any feedback or bugs found are very much appreciated.

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OK, Perfect!

Time from detection of a bug to fix this bug in less than an hour.

I think it's a new world record !, I can not believe !, I'm crying with joy !.

I decided to buy the Midi Designer, for this layout and I think I am right.

As the presentation of the layout says: It really is a pleasure to have you in this community.

Thank you very much.

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Thanks popup as always for your amazing layouts. Thanks kitokan11 for your question and comments.

La verdad es que Chris G. (popup) no hace parte oficial de la compañía que hace MIDI Designer (que es de una persona, yo, realmente). Chris es un usuario MUY dedicado y apasionado, y su trabajo para la comunidad de MIDI Designer es una suerte increíble. Estamos muy agradecidos.

Gracias por tu compra. Con cualquier duda, comentario, etc., ponete en contacto a través del sitio Q&A (acá) o a través de midiDR.com/contact. Oh yeah, I almost forgot: puse el primer video en español el otro día. A ver qué se opina: midiDR.com/bounceback Gracias!

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hi! cannot access latest version of template, 1.5.4. file not found, otherwise great work, both of you!

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Fixed :)  Sorry about that!

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This looks amazing!
Can't wait to try it, thank you for your hard work this must have taken a very long time to do!

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Will this also work with my jd800 ?
The jd900 seams to have more options as my jd800 eg tone structure
Would i be able to control those even on my jd800 with the editor ?
Does the editor follow edits you do on the hardware ?
Is it possible to manage presets with the editor ?

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Hi Ansolas,

I don't think the JD-800 will be compatible with JD-990 Sysex, but don't know that for sure. As for your other questions, they have already been answered below - also check out the video that shows that presets can be stored in Midi Designer. In short: yes, you can store presets, and no, edits or presets in the synth can't be synced to the editor on the iPad if I understand Popup's answer correctly.

Cheers,
Rainer

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Bloody hell, Popup. That expansion list is crazy. :)

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Is anyone successfully using the JD990 template? I'm having an issue where only very few knobs are sending midi cc info. I'm using midimuxx with midi-ox and loopbe for a virtual port. Midi communication is working great in both directions with other ipad apps. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

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Have you looked at the knobs in Design Mode to see what they're sending? It's probably sysex, and perhaps one of your pieces is filtering?

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am I being a complete idiot for asking this, the images of the expansion packs above - are they the system exclusive patch messages for the midi designer to send to my JD990 - I ask this as I understand that midi designer cant request patches from the hardware. Did someone create all the patches to be able to load them from midi designer ??? IF SO AMAZING !!!!!

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That's correct: it's all Popup's work. Amazing. Deep. Extensive. And the Community has several authors like him. Check our Ibo Kai's work, or Helfried's work, to name just two of several. This is crowd-sourcing and open-source at it's best. We're very proud of our Community!

Answer 1

JD-990 layout is in the question, and it's awesome.

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It really is awesome. I use it with JD-990 and Vintage synth and it's really fun.

I have a question though, should the layout be able to read the current patch settings. Say I select a new patch and want to tweak it, or even tweak something via the front panel, can that cause the layout to update to reflect it? Not sure if it's supported and I've just not set something up properly or it's not supported. For controlling many devices it's probably not even that useful a feature but there are many good existing 990 patches as starting points, often I want to load and then tweak them. And when I select a new patch from the front of the JD it would be really handy to have a way to get Midi designer to reflect the patch as a starting point. Can this work? If so do I need to configure something somewhere?
Many thanks and great work!

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Hi Louis,  thanks for the kind words :)

I am afraid that the features you mention are not currently possible with Midi Designer.  You kind of have to start from a blank canvas so that both units are 'synced' although You can always store your created patches as presets on MD and then recall them.  The saving of presets was (and still maybe) a planned feature that would be an interesting addition as people could post 'preset packs' of patches online.

  There was a very interesting thread started on this Holy Grail feature here:-  http://mididesigner.com/qa/2441/fr-get-all-current-values-from-target-hardware

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Thanks for reminding me about exporting presets, popup. It'll be happening sooner than other things... "Preset Packs" is a great name, too.

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Hi, I really want this layout to work, but when I'm using it nothing happens. I guess I'm doing something wrong, but I can't figure out what the problem is.

My setup is this:

- iPad connected to mac with USB with the Music.io app
- Ableton sending all midi outputs via my soundcards midi out to the midi in on Roland JD-900
 
Whenever I move a knob/fader etc on the layout no midi in is registered in Ableton. But when using my own layouts it does register midi  coming in. I'm not sure wether Ableton register sysex as midi in or not. My understanding is this layout is sending sysex to the JD-990.

Hope that someone knows what my setup problem is. I would really like to use this layout.

Kind regards,
Paal

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I don't think Ableton will faithfully send the sysex onwards to the JD-990. 1) you need a MIDI monitor, like Snoize MIDI monitor, to figure out what's going on 2) musicIO will route the MIDI directly to the MIDI out for the JD-990. Check the "MIDI To" tab. Thanks!

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Thanks! Sending MIDI from the music.io app to my soundcards midi worked :)

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Awesome! If you ever feel like leaving an awesome review in the App Store for MIDI Designer Pro and/or for musicIO, please do! Most importantly... enjoy!

Thanks,
Dan (Author, MIDI Designer)

Answer 2

JD-990 layout is in the question, and it's awesome.

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