Hi Poly fans,
More quick advancements are being made. Even last night, I spent about an hour writing the code to add a MIDI controller to turn portamento on and off - and it works! So now, when you cascade two Poly's together, you can have one unit put the other into the mode that you wish. This was driving me nuts over the weekend when I was toying around with cascade mode but was not able to put my EX800 into Portamento mode (or any other mode) because it lacks the three mode buttons. Over this weekend I will add additional controllers to allow switching into Chord and Hold modes. But I need your input or suggestions as to which controllers I should use to do that. I don't possess any hardware MIDI controller at all, so I am completely unaware of what various MIDI controllers out there have in the way of push buttons that would send MIDI control messages. Most of them seem to have plenty of knobs but not many push buttons. Anyway, there is a MIDI controller message available for Hold Pedal (64) and Hold 2 Pedal (69). So to me it would make sense to use those two to enable Hold and Chord Modes.
So the set up would be that if you send a MIDI Controller Hold On (64) message to the Poly then the Poly would switch to Hold mode. And, if you send a MIDI Controller Hold 2 On (69) message then it would switch to Chord mode. And of course, if you send an On message to Portamento control (65) then the Poly would shift to Portamento mode.
Finally, if you send an Off message to either 64, 65 or 69 then the Poly returns to normal Poly mode.
In short, if you send an On message to a specific controller then the Poly will switch to that particular mode and if send an Off message to ANY of those three modes the Poly will return to Poly mode.
Does this make the most sense?
And the other thing I thought about was that I think each patch should store the playing mode as well. This occurs to me to make some sense because I am quite certain there will be certain patches that I would set up specifically for portamento mode. And I think it follows that there would be other patches that I would prefer to set up for chord or hold modes too. I think it would be relatively easy to set this up in the extended patches area. Would it be a nice thing to be able to change patches and have the mode also change to the mode that you had saved for that patch?
What does everyone think about that?
Mike.
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