Still no idea what it will go for when they’re done with the free introduction, but now you can try it out in your favorite DAW. Still needs interface work, but they’ve expanded the available sounds (10 new Sound Packs) and added what they describe as a Pro Edit Mode.
Picked up a Roland J-6 a few days ago and have been loving it. Was (shouldn't have been) surprised my 3yo adores it. Remembered I had this TC box and hooked it up... A pop setup so simple and good sounding my 3yo daughter loves it and can at least be put on phones. So do I, but I'm using it to get better at composing and funking out.
The TC Electronic Perform VE is a midi-driven harmonizer, vocoder, and sampler. The J-6 chord output - with or without the sequencer - gives preposterously quick access to pretty harmonies.
I stumbled on something this morning I hadn't seen in the manual or yt tutorials: if you record into the sequencer in chord mode, you can disable chord mode in playback without it affecting the notes but helpfully displaying which notes on a standard keyboard would make the chord. So it has a sneaky full chord value display after all!
I'm not a musician but the J6 has been great for making quick simple background music
heres some tunes made with it
Released earlier today:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/102731
After upgrading, all projects are gone. Still shows that the last backup before the upgrade has the files, so I’ll restore and just wait before I upgrade. FYI.
First pick a dice roller you prefer and it’s best if the dice can show all the results in order.
Google has one and DDDice has one, too but use whatever you like.
Now, prepare your Roland J-6 by holding Pattern and turning the Value knob to 1, that sets your beat. Then, select the empty Step 1, turn ON the button under Variation and set it to 3,4 (With the beat set to 1, quarter note will play for the whole step). Do the same to the empty Step 5.
Now, roll the dice in this order (for Google, just tap the ones you want to roll, for DDDice tap them at the bottom of the screen then tap ROLL!)
Roll 2 10 sided dice, 2 12 sided dice, and then 4 8 sided dice. (or 2d10+2d12+4d8 for short)
Now, here’s what the dice mean. :)
The first two define your Chord Set.
The two 12 sided die represent the keys, 1=C and 12=B (ignore the top C)
-Steps 1 and 3 get the first number, Steps 5 and 6 get the second
-Once the notes are set, select Step 3 and press HOLD once, select Step 6 and press HOLD twice
The first pair of 8 sided die is what you should set the Sound to. And,
the last two are the Style for Step 3 and 4.
This means your options for dealing with what you’ve gotten are
Adjusting the Variation of the style to bring out a rhythm you like, or
Tweaking the Filter and Envelope buttons (plus the SHIFT of both). Note how they affect the Sound and use that to make it something you like.
I just rolled 3 8 8 1 4 2 4 2 and…
well, the sounds in the group of 4 are hard to work with 😆 BUT I tried anyway and even though 4,2 is EXCEPTIONALLY difficult to deal with, I still had fun trying to make it work.
I think this is good for if you’re new to the Roland J-6 or if you’ve been using it awhile and want to be pushed to use some options you’ve been avoiding!
Link:
https://www.rolandj6.com
Not sure if it’s new, but it was my first time seeing it. It has the “nice to have’s“ of other sites, all 100 Chord Sets available (well, one tool doesn’t have that), showing a diagram of which keys are pressed when playing the chord and which key on the J-6 is pressed to get those. Where it goes further is in allowing you to choose a number of chords (all the way up to 12) and it has a diagram which shows what notes you’re using AND tells you what scale it’s close to. So, if I have a scale/mode in mind I can try different chords until I find a set that matches that mode 100%.
It also adds audio. After choosing the chords (again up to all 12), you can hit the play button and it starts to play the pattern. There’s a simple sequencer for choosing how the chords will play, and for how the arp will play when you tap the arp button. There’s some configuration of the synth engine (filter envelope tempo volume).
There’s different color themes, a light and dark mode... and I think that’s it. I found it useful earlier today so thought I’d share as I hadn’t seen it posted.
Sharing this impressive work!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6hoNwWadR8
(Download links in the description)
If you’ve ever wanted a description of each of the sounds on the J-6 to go right to the kind of sound you’re looking for, this is for you. There’s so much good information about what each sound is doing here (I don’t see a legend for what the asterisk means, though).