[sdiy] How many synth patch changes "per-song"?

[Paul Cunningham]

don't prog rockers just add another keyboard to get another sound ;) -pc

On Oct 5, 2012, at 12:02 PM, Donald Tillman <don at till.com> wrote:

> On Oct 5, 2012, at 8:51 AM, MTG wrote:
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>> I'm working on the firmware for the MIDI Patch Changer keypad again. The device holds 200 Presets (think of them as "patches" or parts in a song ... verse, chorus, etc). I'm adding 50 Chains to the firmware (these being more like "performances" or songs ... a chain is a list of presets that you step through).
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>> I figure that for a device that can hold 200 presets (patches), 50 chains (songs) would be more than enough.  But how long should each chain be??  Put another way, how many patch changes on a MIDI synth/rig would there reasonably be worst case in one "song"?  I realize some Prog Rockers might have pretty long songs.
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> Speaking as a prog rocker, 3.
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>  -- Don
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> Don Tillman
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