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Korg in no way endorses this emulation of their classic synthesiser and have
their own emulation product that gives the features offered here. Korg,
Mono/Poly, Poly-6, MS-20, Vox and Continental are all registered names or
trademarks of Korg Inc of Japan.

Quite a few liberties were taken with this synth. There were extremely few
differences between the original and the Roland Juno 6, they both had one osc
with PWM and a suboscillator, one filter and envelope, a chorus effect, and
inevitably both competed for the same market space for their given price. To
differentiate this algorithm some alterations were made. There are two separate
envelopes rather than just one, but the option to have a gated amplifier is
still there. In addition glide and noise were added, both of which were not in
the original instrument. With respect to the original instrument this was
perhaps not a wise move, but there seemed little point in making another Juno
with a different layout. The net results is that the two synths do sound quite
different. The emulation does not have an arpeggiator.


   Volume: Master volume of the instrument

   Glide: length of portamento

   Tune: Master tuning of instrument

   Bend: Amount of pitch wheel that is applied to the oscillators frequency.


   VCO section:

      Octave: What octave the instrument's keyboard is in.

      Wave: Waveform selection: Triangle, Saw, Pulse and Pulsewidth

      PW PWM: Amount of Pulsewidth (when Pulse is selected) and Pulsewidth
         Modulation (When Pulsewidth is selected).

      Freq: Frequency of PW/PWM

      OFF/SUB1/SUB2; Adds a square sub-oscillator either off, 1 or 2 octaves
         down from a note.

   MG (Modulation Group):

      Freq: Frequency of LFO

      Delay: Amount of time before the LFO affects the destination when a key
         is pressed.
      Level: How strongly the LFO affects the destination

      VCO/VCF/VCA: Destinations that the LFO can go to:

         VCO: The Voltage Controlled Oscillator:
            Affects oscillator pitch, producing vibrato

         VCF: The Voltage Controlled Filter:
            Affects Filter, producing a wah effect

         VCA: The Voltage Controlled Amplifier:
            Affects the Amplifier, producing tremolo

   VCF section:

      Freq: Cut off frequency of the filter

      Res: Resonance of the filter

      Env: By how much the filter is affected by the envelope.

      Kbd: How much Keyboard tracking is applied to the envelope. note:

         A low setting doesn't allow the filter to open, making the notes
         seem darker the further you go up the keyboard.

   Hold: prevent key off events

   Mono Mode: Gang all voices to a single 'fat' monophonic synthesiser.

   Poly: One voice per note.

   Envelope Section:

      Top:

      Filter envelope:

         Attack: Amount of time it takes the filter to fully open.
            A high value can produce a 'sweeping filter' effect.
         Decay: Amount of time it takes for the filter to close to
            the sustain level
         Sustain: Amount of filter that is sustained when a key is held

         Release: Amount of time it takes for the filter envelope to stop
            affecting the filter. Combining a low filter release with a
            high amplitude release time can cause an interesting effect.

      Bottom:

      Amplitude envelope:

      Attack: Amount of time it takes for the signal to reach its peak.

      Decay: Amount of time it takes for the signal to drop to the
         sustain level
      Sustain: How quickly the sound decays to silence.

      Release: How long it takes the sound to decay to silence after
         releasing a key.

   VCA:

      Env: When on, this causes the Amplitude envelope to affect the sound.
         I.E, If you have a long attack time, you get a long attack time.
      Gate: When on, this causes the Amplitude envelope only (not the filter
         envelope) to be be bypassed.
      Gain: Gain of signal.

   Effects Section:

      0: No effects
      1: Soft Chorus
      2: Phaser
      3: Ensemble

      Intensity: How much the effects affect the output.

Bristol thanks Andrew Coughlan for patches, bug reports, this manual page,
diverse suggestions to help improve the both this emulator, other emulators
and the application in general.

Korg in no way endorses this emulation of their classic synthesiser and have
their own emulation product that gives the features offered here. Korg,
Mono/Poly, Poly-6, MS-20, Vox and Continental are all registered names or
trademarks of Korg Inc of Japan.

    Sample #1: memory #22, Unison (mono), slow PWM, mild chorus, -detune 100.
    Sample #2: memory #23, Poly mode, LFO filter sweep

Both of the above patches were contributed by Andrew Coughlan.

This first was played from my laptop QWERTY so timing is pretty bad. The second
one was donated by Andrew and plays considerably better.