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Re: Expanding the encoders

2007-08-20 by abhunkin

Royce,

That sounds wonderful; I'm looking forward to it.

With regard to Mark's comments; I hadn't read the B-control-
Tokenreferenz because my German is not that good. So I got Google 
to "translate it"; now I can understand quite a bit more. Thanks for 
pointing out that the article was worth pursuing.

Art Hunkins

--- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, "rpcfender" <rpcfender@...> wrote:
>
> > I was really just wondering if there were any further goodies 
similar 
> > to ifp and ifn. (I gather not?)
> > 
> > Art Hunkins
> 
> Art,
> 
> There are quite a few "goodies" in .tx that far expand on 
the .easypar
> parameter, not to mention the fact that you can sent multiple MIDI
> messages with the one .tx message.
> I suspect that the .tx came first and then a simpler version using
> easypar was developed. So you can do everthing with .tx that you can
> do with .easypar except (as far as I have found - ) the increment
> parameter.
> You can really only edit the easypar parameter on the BC itself. .tx
> is used in the 'Learn' mode, but this only works for buttons.
> A PC is needed to use the .tx to its full and I guess that is why it
> has been a bit of a secret. From my reading of the internet, very 
few
> people even knew that you could sent sysex out on an encoder.
> 
> $encoder 49
>   .minmax 0 127
>   .default 1
>   .tx $F0 $41 $10 $00 $6B $12 $10 $00 $20 $07 val cks-1 6 $F7
>   .resolution 96 96 96 96
>   .showvalue on
>   .mode bar
> 
> Moves the volume fader on channel 1 in the mixer section of the 
FantomX
> val is the value of the encoder and cks-1 calculates a checksum.
> Very useful stuff!
> 
> I am in the middle of writing a .tx doc, but I am away for a few 
days.
> I'll post it when I get back.
> 
> Royce
>

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