Hi Mike,
I finally got a chance to upgrade to V2.4.5 this past weekend. I made a 27C64 V1.5 eprom from the binary. Then flashed the new rev. <- Try that on any 80's digital/analog hybrid... Awesome!
I haven't played with the sequencer too much yet. I did play a sequence and crank the speed way up to have an arpeggio in a project I was working on.
I also populated all 4 patch banks using 2 velocity banks of mine, 1 Synthetik bank, and of course Mike's FM-800 bank. Nice patches Mike! Using the FM-800 mod pot I have installed in this beast with these patches enables some very expressive sounds. The velocity banks work very well with the Remote 25LE controller I'm using. I mainly apply the velocity control to the filter to get very dynamic resonance or cutoff blips. I did notice a neat feature by playing both keyboards at the same time. Whatever velocity was last played on the Remote set the Hawk-800 MkII to the same velocity. This was really neat as I could fine tune the sound then play it on the Hawk. Nice! Changing patches then would revert the Hawk keyboard back to velocity 64 since I'm wasn't using a global velocity offset. When I did use the offset I could get the same sound again. Man, what doesn't this thing do???
Enough for now. Thanks for the new rev. No bugs here it's too cold.
Test her some more later, Fran
--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Michael Hawkins <korgpolyex800@...> wrote:
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> Hi Poly fans,
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> I have been measuring the lag in the HAWK-800 compared to the original Poly-800 and I have found that there is about 40-50mS of lag introduced by all of the extra work the CPU is doing with the new features.
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> One of my newest customers is quiet flustered that this lag is present.
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> Since there are about 50 HAWK customers out there, what do you all think of that extra lag? If you discovered it, what did you do to work around it?
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> Does it make your Poly-800 unplayable as my new customer suggests?
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> I know I could probably wrench some better response out of the software but I just don't think I will get much better performance.
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> I am little worried that I may get a bad reputation for having produced a kit that slows down Poly that much.
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> Help!
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> Mike.
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