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Ribbon release

2014-11-28 by Michael Laursen

Hi I just recently bought this great synth.

according to the manual the ribbon -X should stay where i lift my finger, but it reset to zero. that makes it almost useless, if the sound is not designed to that ribbon control behaviour.
I have looked inside, there is two potentiometers on the Ribbon plate, but they both adjust the Z plane.
Any ideas ?

"When you release your finger from the [RIBBON] controller, the value may remain
at the same position as at the time of release, or reset to the centre position
depending on the Control Matrix setting. (See page 73.)"

while I am at it thank to this group for making all those great soundsets available

Michael

Re: Ribbon release

2014-11-29 by Daniel Boles

Basically, it's sort of a bug, but you can work around it: There is sort of a 'hidden' parameter that controls whether the ribbon X resets or not. This is sometimes toggled on and off globally (not per-voice) in a strange fashion,

Quoting a post from a different site (this is the only post there you need)

"Not sure if anyone else has noticed this, but if you make a new patch and save it then assign a parameter to the X-axis of the ribbon it glitches. What I mean by this is, normally if you press the ribbon down and let go it will hold where you left off. If you switch to a factory patch where the ribbon X-axis is set to reset once letting go, then go back to your patch the X-axis now resets. The only way to get it to work properly again is to switch to another factory patch where the X-axis is set to hold, or turn the AN1x off and on again. Discovered this yesterday when I was trying to set up the X-axis to reset. Also if you switch from your patch with X-axis hold to another of your patches with X-axis reset and back to the first, the X-axis will still be set to hold on that first patch. If you still have all the original patches, or have replaced all of them you won't have this problem."

The chosen behaviour can maybe also be changed by sysex - I have not checked. Just passing on this info since I remembered reading it before. Also don't know whether it is ROM/OS version specific.

Re: [AN1x] Ribbon release

2014-12-18 by Michael Laursen

Hi and thanks for answers and excuse me for the long response timem, but something came up.

I have ried to load factory banks but I can't repeat the described situations, as my anx seem to always go down to zero, or the far left position.

. I opened the synth again, took the contact from the ribbon board of and put them in again.
checked again, and still the same, it didnt do anything different to the ribbon action
or well now when set to
Pitch Up and Dp+24. The ribbon plate only reacts on the right half part - doing pitch up. - on release it resets on correct pitch. !
if set to
Pitch down and Dp+24 The ribbon plate only reacts on the left half - doing pitch down - on release jumps down to the outermost left fingerposition and stays there. ... Faulty.

Now I wonder if some of the blue cables connecting the ribbon board with the 'mother' board can be damaged or what; guessing that there may be some memory that remembers the original or programmed position, and another to remember the finger release position on the ribbon board.
I can not grasp that from the service manual, or / and may not have the knowledge to read it properly.

The sentence :
If you switch to a factory patch where the ribbon X-axis is **set to reset** once letting go,
**set to reset** the original poster of that seem to indicate that there is some way to control how the ribbon reacts??

"Not sure if anyone else has noticed this, but if you make a new patch and save it then assign a parameter to the X-axis of the ribbon it glitches. What I mean by this is, normally if you press the ribbon down and let go it will hold where you left off. If you switch to a factory patch where the ribbon X-axis is set to reset once letting go, then go back to your patch the X-axis now resets. The only way to get it to work properly again is to switch to another factory patch where the X-axis is set to hold, or turn the AN1x off and on again. Discovered this yesterday when I was trying to set up the X-axis to reset. Also if you switch from your patch with X-axis hold to another of your patches with X-axis reset and back to the first, the X-axis will still be set to hold on that first patch. If you still have all the original patches, or have replaced all of them you won't have this problem."

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