That all sounds great, Michael! Unfortunately I haven't got around to installing my FM800 mod yet. Hoping to do that next week, and (fingers crossed) not wreck my EX-800 in the process.
Looking forward to all the new features once I've got that out of the way...
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--- On Tue, 11/8/09, korgpolyex800 <korgpolyex800@...> wrote:
> From: korgpolyex800 <korgpolyex800@...>
> Subject: [korgpolyex] HAWK-800 - update
> To: korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, 11 August, 2009, 4:25 PM
> Hi Poly fans,
>
> It's very quiet around here lately so here is a little
> update to let you all know how the HAWK-800 software
> development is coming along.
>
> At this point most of the features that have been promised
> have been delivered.
>
> Some of the important sysex features added recently include
> the ability to send a sysex patch dump to the operating
> patch scratch memory (allowing real time editing of sounds
> without changing any actual saved patch).
>
> Sequencer data sysex dump send and receive. Now you can
> send and receive sequences completely independent of patch
> dumps.
>
> There are three global parameters that display counts of
> MIDI bytes sent and received as well as over run errors.
> This is very useful for checking that your MIDI rig is
> working.
>
> Also, in parameter edit mode you can step back and forth
> between P1 and P2 editing using the step key (go from P2 to
> P1) and the prog/para key (go from P1 to P2). This makes
> editing patch parameters less tedious.
>
> The two most important features that have not been
> delivered as yet are the arpeggiator and velocity
> sensitivity.
>
> The good news is that a new version of the software is
> almost ready that will include velocity sensitive features.
>
> You will be able to map VCF cutoff to velocity. This
> feature is already tested and working (and sounds sweet even
> if I do say so myself).
>
> There will be two velocity "operators" that can be mapped
> to any two (different) EG parameters. This means you will be
> able to change EG1 attack or EG3 release or (almost) any
> other two EG parameters in between based upon incoming MIDI
> note velocity.
>
> For both VCF and EG velocity, you can invert the behavior
> (less cut off with greater velocity or more cut off with
> greater velocity) and there are depth parameters that
> determine the velocity influence too.
>
> The EG velocity sensitivity is in the closing stages of
> testing. Assuming that the testing shows no serious
> performance degradation then the software should be
> available within a week or so.
>
> The arpeggiator is quite a complex task. First, the
> sequencer code has to be rewritten to handle different
> "modes". Second, the arpeggiator functions have to be
> decided and designed. And third, the arp code itself has to
> be written and tested. So the arp is going to take a while
> longer.
>
> But, I think the velocity sensitivity should keep a lot of
> you happy for a while.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike.
>
>
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