Hi Bruce and Jimmy and Joe... and all others
Well... as I figured out (and as far as I remember there is some notice in the manual about it) it works depending on assignation of RbX to Pitch Up in Ctrl Matrix this way :
Just assigning RbX to Cutoff with no other assign of RbX in the whole Matrix to anything else makes ribbon stay at the position where you pulled finger from it.
Assigning RbX to "Pitch Up" (with 0 amount) in another slot makes it return to default position, which (AFAIR and AFAIN) may be different (meaning center or the left edge of ribbon) on the destination to which RibbonX is routed..
This all works as it should for me practically always, but I think I had a situation not long time ago, when I couldn't figure out why it was working still one way when I thought that conditions were for another..
This may be linked to : I am not sure how it works when there are several destinations (besides Pitch Up) selected .. does anything change or not.
Currently, I just checked the simple Cutoff and Pitch Up thingy on a Init patch to be sure about what I am writing..
Hope that helps a bit, but let me know if it doesn't work this way or anything else you'll find about it.
Ray.
----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce Wahler
To: AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: [AN1x] Ribbon stuck at lowest level
Hi Joe,
>I'm new to the An1x and the list. I just picked up an An1x and it
>seems that once I touch the ribbon controller, whatever value it is
>assigned to drops down to its lowest value as if my finger was still
>on the ribbon at its lowest point. I know it can be set to relase to
>the last touched position but it goes to the lowest no matter where i
>leave off.
>is this something anyone else has experienced? Is the ribbon bad?
>Does anyone know if it a new ribbon controller can be purchased and
>replaced?
Jimmy's right: This is a bug/feature of the AN1x. If you program the modulation matrix to use Ribbon X on all of your patches, you'll probably find that some of them latch at the last-touched point, while others drop to zero. There's probably some method to this madness, but nobody on the list has figured it out yet. Part of the problem seems to be that the setting changes over time -- I can go back to a patch that I could swear works one way, and it's working the other way! I've given up on depending on the ribbon controller for long-term modulation tasks.
If you find out what's going on, please post the information here. I'm sure lots of owners would like to know what the secret is.
Regards,
-BW
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