Great enhancements. Bring 'em on - looking forward to it. Also,
anything to increase the length of the buffer from 16 would be great
also.
Any chance of sending the notes to midi out? I don't think the
current implmentation does that.
- Dave
--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "J.D. McEachin" <jdm@...> wrote:
> At 03:23 AM 9/13/2006 -0000, djbrow54 wrote:>
> 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. 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
>