> Biggy this one, any chance of a osrt of functional spec?
> I mean, how many sequences can it store, how many
> simultaneous sequences can
> it play.
> What play modes exist, what you can control in each sequence
> and so on..
I've made a start on the user manual - that will have all the juicy
details in full.
I'm on a CISSP training course this next week, which is a 12 hour day,
so it'll certainly not be done before this weekend.
In brief, there are 3 memory banks.
Each bank holds 16 monophonic patterns of 16 steps for each of the 8
tracks (128 patterns per bank, 384 patterns in total).
Each step in a pattern has a note, velocity, gate delay, gate length and
4 continuous control values; gate, tie, skip and 4 cc status bits.
In play mode, keys 1 - 8 control the mute status of the 8 tracks.
Each track plays back one pattern at a time, and can be assigned to any
midi channel, with all 8 tracks on the same channel if you want to do
chords.
Keys 9 - 16 select one of 8 'parts'.
A part defines the initial mute status of the 8 tracks, plus the
selected pattern or sequence of patterns that will play on each track.
This allows rapid changes of pattern across all 8 tracks at the press of
a single button.
The pattern sequence for each track has 16 steps - each step holds a
pattern number, transpose value, and repeat count (1 - 8).
In pattern edit mode, there are two sub modes.
In note edit, the LEDs and switches are toggled between displaying and
editing the gate, tie and skip bits for each step.
The lower knobs always edit note value, the upper knobs toggle between
velocity, gate length and gate delay.
Switching to cc edit mode, the LEDs and switches toggle between showing
the step active status for each of the 4 continuous controllers.
The two rows of knobs switch between editing the cc values for cc A & B,
or cc C & D.
The continuous controller numbers used (not the values) are currently
globally set in the configure menu for all tracks, but I'll be extending
it so that they can be set to 4 different controller numbers for each
track.
There are special functions in edit mode for pattern rotation, setting
the last pattern step, and copy and paste functions that allow you to
copy whole patterns, or fragments of patterns.
I'm pretty much convinced I should add 2 extra buttons and 8 indicator
LEDs to select/show what the switches and pots current functions are.
At the moment, these are shown on the LCD, and soft keys do the
toggling, but this is not quite as slick as it could be.
More details when I get the time.
Cheers,
Colin f