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v2.6.0 - 2020-March-17
LIBRARIAN EDIT MENUS
This chapter contains a lot, so let’s break it down a bit. When Librarian View is set to PATCH BANK mode, Bank Edit menu contains different elements compared to PERFORMANCE BANK mode.
I.e., You can write SINGLE patches to a certain RAM bank in hardware, whereas in PERFORMANCE mode, there is only one destination available for data write.
We will cover PATCH MODE functions from the menu first and compare those to PERFORMANCE MODE functions in the context.
After BANK functions are done with, we will check how to import banks to Librarian and how to save banks to HDD. There is also some helpful actions in the menu as well.
Let’s begin!
BANK EDIT menu overview
BANK EDIT MENU [1] is only accessible in the BROWSER view. Bank Edit menu content varies based on the currently selected LIBRARIAN MODE [2]. We will cover Single Patch Mode first with request and store functions and all of the other general functions as well. Performance Mode will follow after that.
JP-80×0 Editor User Manual – Bank Edit Menu
There are different segments in the menu to keep functions in order:
- Request Patch / Performance Data…
- Store Patch / Performance Data…
- Sync Current Data from HW
- Push Current Performance to HW
Functions above represents hardware to software and software to hardware specific commands.
- Save (Overwrite current bank)
- Save As…
- Import…
- Refresh Folders
Functions above are HDD to librarian and librarian to HDD specific commands. Rest of the functions are not relevant to Librarian usage, and we will discuss them later in the manual.
Request PATCH Data from Hardware
Open BANK EDIT menu and select Request Patch Data… [1] item from the menu. This will open a sub menu, with different request options:
[2] from Active Layer to Plug-in GUI
- Requests temporary Patch data from JP based on which layer is currently active on the plug-in – to the plug-in user interface.
Example: If plug-in has lower layer selected when the request is made, then plug-in will make a request to JP’s lower layer and will get its data to the user interface.
[3] from Active Layer to Librarian
- Requests temporary Patch data from currently active layer on plug-in user interface to active slot in the librarian view.
Example: If lower layer is active in plug-in user interface, patch data from lower layer is going to be requested to Librarian slot which is currently selected.
[4] from Selected Program Slot
- Requests Patch data from JP memory based on the currently selected Librarian slot and current REQ DATA FROM selection.
Example: If “slot 11” in librarian view and “User Bank U:A” from REQ DATA FROM is selected, program number 1 from JP bank 0 will be requested. In other words; U:A11
[5] All Patches from RAM A … B (*)
- Requests all Patch programs from currently selected REQ DATA FROM bank location.
Example: If REQ DATA FROM “User Bank U:B” is selected, then all 64 programs from that bank will be requested to librarian.
JP-80×0 Editor User Manual – Request Patch Data Options
Store PATCH Data to Hardware
Open BANK EDIT menu and select Store Patch Data… [1] item from the menu. This will open a sub menu, with different storing options:
[2] To Currently Selected Slot & Bank
- Store selected librarian slot patch to hardware memory based on currently selected STORE DATA TO value.
Ie: If “slot 11” and STORE DATA TO “U A:11 – A:88” is selected, program number 1 will be overwritten in that bank location. In other words; U:A11
[3] from Selected Bank to RAM A … B (*)
- Store all patches from currently active Librarian list to currently selected STORE DATA TO bank destination in JP.
Example: If “U A:11 – A:88” is selected, all patches will be overwritten in that bank location.
JP-80×0 Editor User Manual – Store Patch Data Options
TIP #6: You can toggle on Search filter on the Librarian and store search result patches to the hardware memory if you wish to do so! Just remember to make the lower list active before storing data.
TIP #7: Do not disturb the data flow while writing is in progress. Let it complete the write task and start your tweaks after it is finished.
Request PERFORMANCE Data from Hardware
When Librarian View is in PERFORMANCE MODE [1], open BANK EDIT menu and you can see that it has different items compared to PATCH MODE. Select Request Performance Data… [1] item from the menu. This will open a sub menu, with different request options:
[3] from Temp Buffer to Plug-in GUI
- Requests temporary Performance data from the JP’s memory buffer to the plug-in user interface.
Works like Sync Current Data from HW but without System specific settings.
[4] from Temp Buffer to Librarian
- Requests temporary Performance data from plug-in user interface to currently selected librarian slot.
[5] from Selected Program Slot
- Requests Performance data from hardware memory based on the currently selected Librarian slot and current REQ DATA FROM selection.
Example: If “slot 11” in librarian view and “User Bank U:” from REQ DATA FROM is selected, program number 1 from JP bank 0 will be requested. In other words; U:11
[6] All Performances from Selected Bank
- Requests all Performance programs from currently selected REQ DATA FROM bank location.
Example: If REQ DATA FROM “User Bank U:” is selected, then all 64 programs from that bank will be requested to librarian.
JP-80×0 Editor User Manual – Request Performance Data Options
Store PERFORMANCE Data to Hardware
Open BANK EDIT menu and select Store Performance Data… [1] item from the menu. This will open a sub menu, with different storing options:
[2] To Currently Selected Slot & Bank
- Store selected librarian slot performance to hardware memory based on currently selected STORE DATA TO value.
Ie: If “slot 11” and STORE DATA TO “U:11 – U:88” is selected, program number 1 will be overwritten in that bank location. In other words; U:11
[3] All Performances from Current Bank
- Store all performances from currently active Librarian list to currently selected STORE DATA TO bank destination in JP.
Example: If “U:11 – U:88” is selected, all patches will be overwritten in that bank location.
JP-80×0 Editor User Manual – Store Performance Data Options
Sync Data with HW
Sync Current Data from HW [1] will request the entire Performance, Upper & Lower layer and System settings from the JP to the plug-in user interface. Same function is achieved with “SYNC DATA FROM HW” button.
Push Current Performance to HW [2] will push your current plug-in user interface settings to the hardware temp memory. Same function is achieved with “PUSH DATA TO HW” button.
JP-80×0 Editor User Manual – Sync and Push Data Options
Save (Overwrite current bank)
This option will overwrite your currently chosen bank in the Left Librarian View. In this case we would overwrite “Alan Marcero – Trance Soundset A.mid” permanently!
JP-80×0 Editor User Manual – Overwrite Current Bank
NOTE #1: If bank is previously saved with JP-8000 configuration and your current model is now set to JP-8080 model, bank will be overwritten with JP-8080 format standards. Same rule applies when current model is set to JP-8000 and bank is in JP-8080 format resulting JP-8000 formatted bank in HDD.
Save As…
[1] Standard MIDI (*.mid)
- Writes the current upper list bank as a Standard MIDI (*.mid) file to your HDD.
[2] JP-80×0 Format (*.j8k)
- Writes the current left list bank as a JP-80×0 formatted (*.j8k) file to your HDD.
JP-80×0 Editor User Manual – Save Bank As..
NOTE #1: Save your bank to Patches folder / sub-folder to view it in Patch Librarian.
NOTE #2: Set the bank name after selected option is chosen. Keep the name simple!
Import…
[1] Standard MIDI (*.mid)
- Import Standard MIDI files to Librarian. See notes below!
[2] SysEx (*.syx / *.j8k)
- Import System Exclusive / JP-80×0 Editor J8K files to Librarian. See notes below!
[3] WinJPLib Performance (*.pfm)
- Import WinJPLib Performance files to Librarian. If you have WinJPLib performance banks in your archives, you can import the bank to our JP-80×0 Editor!
[4] WinJPLib Patch (*.pat)
- Import WinJPLib Patch files to Librarian. If you have WinJPLib patch banks in your archives, you can import the bank to our JP-80×0 Editor!
JP-80×0 Editor User Manual – Import Bank..
NOTE #1: Librarian will only import data to librarian if the file contains Roland JP-8000 / JP-8080 formatted Patches / Performances.
NOTE #2: Individual Patch / individual Performance import is not currently supported.
Refresh Folders
If you have made changes to the Patches folder outside the plug-in, you can click Refresh Folders to reload the Patches folder content and rebuild the menu structures.
JP-80×0 Editor User Manual – Refresh Menus for New Banks
Other Helpful Things…
Some helpful actions and sources have been collected on this menu. Open BANK EDIT menu and choose Other Helpful Things … [1] to view the sub menu with following options:
[2] Open Data Folder
- Open Data Folder will open the data folder based on you OS. If you run macOS, different location is opened compared to Windows. See data location notes earlier in the manual!
[3] Open User Manual
- Opens the JP-80×0 Editor User Manual in PDF format. Keep in mind, online version is up-to-date!
[4] Open Support Ticket
- Opens your browser and sends you towards our ticket submission page. Report any bugs or feature request from Tickets page.
[5] Check for Updates
- Checks for available product updates from internet.
[6] DAW Setup Guides
- Opens your browser and sends you towards our knowledge base site for DAW Setup Guides.
JP-80×0 Editor User Manual – Other Helpful Things..
Register Plug-in… / REGISTERED
Indicates if the plug-in has not yet been or is registered. We covered this topic earlier in the user manual.
JP-80×0 Editor User Manual – Register plug-in…
About this Plug-in…
Opens About window. Click anywhere in the background to exit.
JP-80×0 Editor User Manual – About This Product
Librarian View Right Click menu
We are not done with Librarian functions yet. We still have right click menu functions to cover.
Right click in right list only shows option to copy, whereas in left list it has a lot more options because the left list is our edit buffer like mentioned earlier.
Let’s dive into the details!
JP-80×0 Editor User Manual – Right Click on Left List View
Right list Right Click
Like mentioned above, there is only one option in the right list, which is Copy. This will copy the right clicked librarian item to the clipboard.
JP-80×0 Editor User Manual – Right Click on Right List View
Left list Right Click
Left list has a lot more options than the right list because this is our “edit buffer” like mentioned earlier.
[1] Paste
- Paste data from clipboard to chosen slot.
[2] Rename
- Opens a new dialog to rename the patch in the librarian.
[3] Initialize Slot
- Initializes the currently selected slot
[4] Get DATA from..
[4.a] Plug-in (active patch)
- Gets currently active layer data from the plug-in user interface to selected slot.
[4.b] Hardware Edit Buffer
- Gets data from currently active hardware layer to selected slot.
[4.c] Hardware by Prog No.
- Gets data from hardware based on the selected librarian slot.
JP-80×0 Editor User Manual – Right Click on Left List View
This is it – You’ve got it all from the plug-in perspective.
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