You mentioned the high note priority of the Pro2 but then follow up with
your special modes. If it was actually high note priority, why would it jump
to lower values? How do they differ? Maybe I'm not reading you correctly.
You are talking about a mono channel right? (not a polyphonic group of CVs?)
The world's greatest MIDI->CV would probably be the world's most expensive.
Very few people are willing to pay for that. Compromise is something that
needs to be assessed all along the product path but most importantly in the
product definition stage. Who says key assign modes are the most useful
parameter to attach to switches? That may be the best use for you, but what
about hundreds of other uses? Why not use patch programs to store little
configuration changes like that, and simply change patches? Many of our
(Encore, Kenton, JKJ, Doepfer, etc) CV boxes have that. You can then
configure things anyway you want to and change them with a panel operation
or from MIDI.
We all contribute to the "cause" with this little feature or that little
feature, but it takes time. Think about MY competition at the time the
Expressionist was released. What MIDI-CV boxes were all 16bits? How about
FLASHROM upgradeable through MIDI? Shoot, how many synthesizers were FLASH
upgradeable?? Not many. Now it's common, but when I did it, there were few
examples in our industry.
Things get better...look at computers, cell phones, etc. Keep asking for
feature and eventually you might see them.
Tony Karavidas
Encore Electronics
http://www.EncoreElectronics.comDesigners of "The best MIDI to CV converter on the planet." -Keyboard Oct.
1997
> BTW, I have a few more modes, discovered by accident when I
> built the CV interface for the CS-50. A top note which
> will ∗not∗ jump to lower values unless all keys are released
> can be very useful for certain things.
>
> What I really don't understand about you guys that are skilled
> in uC programming (and this includes all commercial manufacturers
> of Midi/CV devices): Once you have a good core to process Midi
> and a good circuit with DAC and MUXes, you could build the world's
> greatest controller by just adding a number of switches (use another
> MUX if you don't have enough ports) for some extra key assign
> modes and options, but nobody does it. You all stop at more or less
> standard stuff, and different manufacturers have a different set
> of standard functions. Why does nobody take a all-in-one approach ?
> Where is the "Mother Of All Midi Interfaces" ??
>
> JH.