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On 18/09/06, Jon <jondl_2000@...> wrote:
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> Chck the Ptich Offset value, make certain it is not '0'
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> Jon


Thanks Jon, but I've discovered that this issue can't be fixed.
Searching through the DX200 discussion list's archive, I found
exchanges covering this topic, which revealed that the pitchbend
wheels can only be used to control the 200 series on MIDI channel 1.
Channels 2 to 16 don't respond to such control messages at all.

I'd set up my AN200 synth part to be controlled on MIDI channel 4
because the Red Sound Systems DarkStar I use alongside it
automatically defaults to channel 1.  So that's why the AN200 isn't
responding to my keyboard's pitchbend wheel.

Quite an annoying limitation, I think.  Why would anyone program in
such a constraint on user flexibility?  It surely wouldn't have cost
Yamaha any more to make the AN200 responsive to pitchbend control data
on all MIDI channels.

I guess I'll have to live with it, though.

Regards,

Steve Cooke
smcooke@...