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Jerry,

By all means, post the patch!  Obviously, at a certain level of patch 
complexity, the CPU can't keep up with the demands of the patch.  Rather 
than giving up (and hanging), the engineers decided to throw out 
"unnecessary" functions and plow ahead.  Early HP Laserjets did a similar 
thing when page data got too complex:  they printed all of the data up to 
that point, and reset the printer.

I posted another patch about a month ago, where the use of two hands (on 
the mono patch) caused a very perceptible delay in the playing of notes -- 
as much as 1 second!  It's called "Whacked," and it's in the Files area on 
the site.  Perhaps we should start a collection of these "over-the-top" 
patches.  FWIW, my patch was also a guitar-like lead patch ...

Regards,

-BW

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At 12:51 p 5/5/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>Ok. I found another area where this synth has "personality."
>
>Remember the discussion we had about when the ribbon controller
>resets to mid-point (for pitch up/pitch down) and when it doesn't?
>Well I have got a patch that seem to break some of the rules. It is a
>patch with osc 2 detune by the ribbon (x dimension) and it resets
>when you take your finger off the ribbon.
>
>When I add one aditional mod routing to the patch, it stops re-
>centering. The type of mod routing I add to send it over the edge
>doesn't seem to matter (I have tried varying source and destination
>to see if it was a pitch calculation constraint in the synth engine).
>
>So I have two patches side by side in my user bank. One patch has N
>routings and resets osc 2 pitch to center, when I take my hand off
>the ribbon. The other has N+1 routings and does not reset to center.
>Apart from this, the patches are identical.
>
>Weird huh? Anybody want to see this patch? It is kinda cool actually.
>The kind of patch that out-guitars most guitars. I'll play with it
>and try to come up with a general rule.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Jerry