i've been out of the game for about the last six months, and hoping to
soon pick up my soldering iron and synths again.
late may, my wife and i separated. this is a big change for both of us,
but we're both better off for it and remaining on friendly terms. then in
early sept i got a nasty concussion, which i'm still recovering from. i'm
very lucky to have woken up in this world.
looks like mike and the gang are still rockin' out with the
[Atoma]Hawk-800 features. i still haven't upgraded to the v1.3 circuit
board.
i'm looking through the MIDI-Implementation-Chart-V2.43.pdf and it's
looking good! i see that CC-74 is routed to VCF... i'm assuming that's the
"normal" VCF; could it also control the moog-slayer cutoff on a per-patch
basis? or could that be "hard-wired" to another CC? same questions apply
to moog-slayer resonance. or are those determined by the setting of "P2 58
- Aggressive Resonance"?
from the Owners-Manual-V2.4.3.pdf: "NRPN messages MUST be sent as three
consecutive messages starting with the MSB, followed by the LSB and then
the data value." does the kit understand running status of NRPNs?
starting n page 2, the Parameter-Quick-Reference-V2.43.pdf refers to
"CC#"... is that actually the NRPN LSB?
"MIDI CC 'Hardware Controller Friendly' Method" - ROCK!! i don't remember
hearing about that before, but that will save a lot of memory on my
pc1600x!
"Poke data into an address location" - wtf!?! would that allow someone to
enter "illegal" values into a patch? or crash the synth while trying?
will upgrading the firmware upgrade the boot version? or does that require
an EPROM burner?
i still intend to put my EX800 in a 1U case. has anyone done that yet? i'm
thinking about doing that with a very minimal front panel (power, volume,
tune, write, LEDs, and maybe the speed knob?) similar to a matrix-1000. it
seems like i would be able to do everything except emulate the front panel
number buttons. i think the only (possibly?) missing functionality (with a
pc1600x) would be the ability to save an edited patch into a different
location than what i started editing. is that correct? or could i press
"write", then send a PC over midi, then "write" again?
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