The Instant Inspiration Machines // AIRA COMPACT J-6 // WAVESTATE

Demo of a really fun and creative idea and inspiration dawless setup.
Featuring ROLAND AIRA COMPACT J-6 CHORD SYNTH and KORG WAVESTATE WAVE SEQUENCING SYNTHESIZER, the descendant of my favorite KORG WAVESTATION vintage synth! Full tutorial and review coming soon.
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[@Nervejam]

Really like the Theremin patch

[@paulhedley2864]

I have a J-6 and must admit to it being fun with a set up with korg volca's. Never had any issues with it being only a four voice. But another great unit for taking out on trip and playing around esp if on long boring train journeys. Always great to have some juno sounds in kitbag too

[@Acrimonious_Snake]

I'm sure this tiny box will sound just as beautiful when paired with any other instrument. Great companion

[@barrystevens3550]

Your "Symphony no 1" is taking shape, keep building, join some bits together . Nice ideas.

[@sonarfreq]

Beautiful pieces Woody, thanks for sharing.

[@Martin-mb7yb]

I never use the juno sounds. I use it as a midi controller with pigments. I love the sounds you made with the two! Its obvious that your passionate about synths and your music in these vids inspires me!

[@jimsuber6784]

very nice Woody

[@mudi2000a]

Very nice!! Those two fit very well together!’

[@michaelalberson126]

Endless possibilities especially paring it with a drum machine.

[@user-xe4ur2mb7v]

What a good combination ( it had never occurred to me ?!), the Modwave would work well. The AIRA range of instruments are quite versatile. Thanks again Woody , kind regards Mick.

[@sonic2000gr]

I was also looking at the J-6 recently, I like the idea of a chord synth. I didn't buy it for the same reason: a 4 voice Juno? so many years after the original you can't even squeeze 6 voices from modern hardware? Cmon Roland... Your jam is lovely. The wavestate mixes very well with the J-6

[@djkanyon]

J-6 can really help us, you know... guys who can only play with one hand and can't stand the bass clef. But i have a hunch that Wavestate was too good for J-6 today and stole the show!

[@FRANCCO32]

I liked the tunes reminded me of 80s TV drama theme tunes

[@godzil42]

You managed to do much more than me with the j6. I love it but I get inspiration blocked most of the time. Would love to see the creation process you had with these songs Wanted to buy the latest they released, but had to postpone for later, I think it would work great with the j6

[@odmusicman]

I hear the intro to a movie Woody

[@danbad1380]

excellent

[@GertBoers]

I don't think this synth will ever end up on my desk. I already own a MC-101, which afaik would get me very close in the ball park. And I own a Dreadbox Nymphes, which gives me that analogue (!) Juno style sound. But I must admit that those Roland Aira devices really look appealing.

[@pascalferriot6233]

Beautiful and inspiring, thanks a lot for this work of art :-) I do have a question : Why do you connect the Midi OUT of the Wavestate to the J-6 ? Thanks in advance

[@WoodyPianoShack]

thanks and that is a good question. i am using midi to sync the clocks of the wavetate and j6 so that they are in time, although not sure if I actually bothered to configure and use this feature!

[@WildernessMusic_GentleSerene]

Great melody with those chords, really sounded fantastic...your melody that is. The sequence sounds like ...a...sequence, a robot, not human. Maybe if you create your own sequence you can adjust the quantize to zero, or maybe it has 0%-100% quantize increments?

[@AndrewTSq]

I love swing parameters if that is availble. My native instruments maschine sounds so different with that tuned up.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

good point, some of these are swung, but no humanization

[@WoodyPianoShack]

yeah using swing on a few of these, makes all the diff

[@josephbates1142]

Hi woody, please,please,please show how you connected that up. Thankyou

[@WoodyPianoShack]

just went from headphone output into a mixer iirc, nothing advanced

[@briandavis812]

Is there anything like a song-mode on this?

[@WoodyPianoShack]

no, but easy to change patterns manually and they can be very long

[@sergiodeoliveira5358]

Ended up selling my J-6 and T-8. The archaic user interface is just too obtuse and gets in the way of being creative IMO. They are noisy as heck when you daisy chain them and charge via USB-C.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

i know what you mean, gotta run these on batteries for clean sound!

[@RaquelFoster]

I like the J-6 but I really don't know how useful it is. The sequencer is bizarre and unintuitive, and while you can make really cool patterns by piecing together variations (see the Phrase List in the manual), it's a ridiculous workflow and not a skill I want to spend time on. I really wanted to use it to translate monophonic sequences into chords, because that SHOULD be something it can do in Chord mode. You can send it notes and it will give you the chords on the MIDI out, but it's got a bug where it transposes the chords down several octaves. And the biggest problem with ALL the Boutique / Aira Compact stuff is that Roland doesn't support it. They'll probably never fix the bugs. And the screen is such an insult. Volcas are fine with a segmented display because they're not making you menu dive with it. But all the Roland Boutiques and Aira Compacts actually make you scroll through lists of options on that awful 4-digit screen.