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hello people,

 i got kinda bored today and decided i was gonna finish up my
consoles 
for the an1x.  all total there are 5 of them.  one for the synthy 
parameters using the second control matrix.  i initially was making 
them with sysex strings, but then someone on the list enlightened me 
to the two control modes.  you just gotta remember to fire up the an 
with the function button held down to get into the second mode.  the 
next 3 are for each effect block.  performer's consoles aren't as 
thorough as i'd like them to be, but suffice it to say i think i did 
as good a job as they will get.  you can't tell exactly what the 
values are unless you've navigated your an1x to the particular 
parameter your tweeking or in the case that your one of those people 
who can multiply and divide 3 digit numbers in their head, on the fly, 
there are tables which correspond to real world values in the second 
manual.  

 what is nice about the sysex for the efx section is that each sysex 
string works universally for every parameter in each 
algorithm(msb-lsb), what 
isn't so great is that there are different parameter change values 
between the different efx algo's parameters.  so i had to set each
knob 
or slider to whatever the highest parameter value was, between the 
algo's(gosh, shoot me now).  another disadvantged thing about 
performer's consoles is that any parameter change rougly above 1000 
will step coursely.  this problem only affects the delay console and 
it's delay and feedback times. these both have 6599 different values. 
soooo....they unfortunatley step in increments of 8 all the time(will 
have to talk to motu about this) :(.  the parameter names themselves 
you'll have to refer to the table i put beside the knobs and sliders 
for the variation efx and delay efx consoles, most are roughly the 
same, but some efx have different functions.  it's a little akward, 
but that's the price you pay for getting on screen efx tweeking in 
your sequencer!  bleh bleh bleh, the last console is one for the 
onboard partially parametric eq.  most of these consoles only give
you 
a rough idea of what values your tweaking to, but i much prefer 
sliders and knobs and only roughly knowing what their value is than a 
 few dinky rocker switches and rotary knob and knowing the value, 
sometimes...that is hehe.


hasta luego,

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christian