At first glance, I thought 'wow, 4 addl banks of 64?!, I'd never
fill all those up.'. Considering that there will be new parameters
available for editing, those banks could be useful. How about
dedicating one bank to sequence banks (allowing multiple sequences
to be stored in memory) I personally dont use the sequencer at all,
but I might use it more often if I can store multiple sequences and
access them via program change or other 'on the fly method'.
Refresh me, will the mod be able to take advantage of any of the
hardware mods (i.e. Moog SLayer and FM mod?) If so, I guarantee
those banks will get filled!!! Also, what's the possibility of
adding addl' filter features (i.E Bandpass, 12\24 LPF, peak.) I
remeber that there were addl envelopes that were possibly going to
be implemented as well (Panning envelope or Random pan a
possibility?) Just a few things to think about...
Erik
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korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Michael Hawkins
<korgpolyex800@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Poly fans,
>
> Here's another little software progress update for today.
>
> I've completed the guts of the global mode code. You press the
step key to get into global mode. You are then presented with 11 GL
11 on the display. You then use the numeric keypad to select the
desired global parameter and use the up down buttons to set the
value. There are potentially 64 different global parameters. Global
11 is an important one because it is used to execute specific
commands (up to 63 commands are possible). The command that you
execute is determined by the data value of global parameter 11.
Current planned commands are:
>
> 11 - No Operation
> 12 - All Notes Off - (for those panic stuck note situations)
> 13 - Sysex dump all operating patches
> 14 - Sysex dump sequencer data
> 15 - Sysex dump single patch from operating bank
> 16 - Sysex dump all patches from selected patch bank
> 17 - Sysex dump single patch from selected patch bank
> 18 - Sysex dump all patches from all banks
> 21 - Copy operating bank to selected bank
> 22 - Copy selected bank to operating bank
> 23 - Copy current operating patch to selected patch in selected
bank
> 24 - Copy selected patch in selected bank to current operating
patch
>
> To execute a command, you select global parameter 11 then set the
parameter value to the desired (as table above shows) command number
and then press the write key to execute it.
>
> Then, the current global parameters for controlling the function
of the EX800 are as follows:
>
> 21 - Omni On, Off/auto - The module will come up with omni off
when set to off here, 0 or 1
> 22 - Keyboard MIDI TX channel - 0=off, 1-16 is TX channel
> 23 - Joystick MIDI TX channel - 0=off, 1-16 is TX channel
> 24 - Local keyboard control on off - 0 or 1
> 25 - Local joystick control on off - 0 or 1
> 26 - Sequencer MIDI TX channel - 0=off, 1-16 is TX channel
> 27 - Joystick X axis MSB assigned CC change number - 0-63
> 28 - Joystick Y axis MSB assigned CC change number - 0 - 63
>
> 31 - Extended playing range on off - 0 or 1
>
> Now you can see I have already started allocating various globals
that will be used with the Poly 800 (for joystick and keyboard for
example) and the only executable global I have working as of right
now is the All Notes Off command (which I just got working last
night) but you get the idea. Also, you may have noticed that some of
the commands mention the "operating" patch bank and the "selected
patch bank". This is referring to the four additional banks of
patches that I envisage will be available when I write the software
to support them. The question is, who of us really needs another
four banks of 64 patches? Or is that just plain overkill for this
instrument?
>
> Mike H.
>
>
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