Thanks for the response.
>A1: The original Poly-800 has no velocity sensitivity whatsoever. The HAWK adds velocity sensitivity. Check out the owners manual page 20 and 21. Even though the HAWK has some wonderful features including velocity sensitivity, I really haven't had enough time to dedicate to creating demo sysex dumps. If you do some velocity based patches then please share them with me! I do know that the velocity operators are really quite good.
Got you, suspected as much. I've been playing around and it's excellent, really brings the synth to life :)
Again, if you create patches, please share them with me if you like.
I've got those and uploaded them to the 800. Perfect.
>A3: The memory limitations of the Poly-800 used to mean that high speed MIDI would overwrite your patches. That was really bad. I implemented stack monitoring so that if MIDI comes in too fast the HAWK will restart Poly rather than losing your patches.
No problem, makes sense. Certainly much better than potentially overwriting existing data!
I notice if the 800 is part of a MIDI chain, sending Sysex to my other boxes also restarts the 800 too - I guess it's not possible to filter out sys-ex because until it's been received (in software) it's not possible to tell if it's destined for the 800 or not.
If you create one, please also share it with me.
Got that. Good start, but very basic. I want to add things like say DEG3 ADSR, where each param is mapped to a single control on my X-Station. Slider per param.
However, I can't make a single control send CC or groups of messages. As well as the CC messages including 84/85, is there a dedicated sys-ex command set, whereby I can send a sys-ex string containing e.g. FF .. <id stuff> ... <param bank> <param id> <$dv> F7 or similar, as a single midi message? Then I can map single params to my controller just perfectly. Without that, I'm not sure how to get it to work as desired.
>I am revamping the HAWK website soon and I need content including patches, sound samples, sysex, templates etc.
Great - well I'll happily contribute where I can.
In particular if I can get my controller set up how I'd like to, I'll create some patches, maybe a whole bank using the new features and share it.
Generally it would be great to get some patch sharing going here.
I'll wait until a) got the atoma-hawk/fm installed and working and b) got my MIDI controller template set up (I'll share this too when working correctly) before getting into patch / bank creation properly.
Also have some pics from the build process too and some feedback on it generally. I'll email you the details later.
Thanks again.
All the best, Louis