At 03:23 AM 9/13/2006 -0000, djbrow54 wrote:
>I would expect so. It depends on how the 650 treats the pedal.
The sustain pedal holds the first 16 notes played. That's the size of the note buffer, so sustaining the notes with an external keyboard or sequencer like Dave is doing won't increase that.
Here's something that Dave's program might not do - when holding the sustain pedal with the 650's arpeggiator, if ALL keys are released, they will arpeggiate until new notes are played. At that time, the old notes get dumped and the new notes start arpeggiating. I think that's pretty standard for midi arpeggiators.
>I wanted no operator intervention so when I get a sequence I like then I
>am free to do other stuff including wandering around.
Me too. The enhanced version of the firmware will have a similar foot-free "hold" feature, but with a twist. When "hold" is on, the sutain pedal can be used to add to the playing arpeggio. For example, play 3 notes, walk away from the keyboard and tweak the patch, then come back, press the sustain pedal and play a note, and the arpeggio will be 4 notes long. If you don't press the sustain pedal, the arpeggio is only 1 note.
The cool thing about this is, you can double select notes in the arpeggio, say, ABACAB.
Uh oh, I've probably given Dave too many ideas. ;)
Jeffrey