Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

That would be cool!

alx



On 6 Jul 2009, at 02:32, Michael Hawkins wrote:

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> What if I provided a special MIDI CC that allowed the on/off per  
> harmonic function to be used even though the harmonics were  
> actually stored in one parameter?
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> Mike.
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> From: Alex Drinkwater <the_voder@...>
> To: korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, July 5, 2009 1:24:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [korgpolyex] question for HAWK-800 owners
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> I'm a bit resistant to this idea, I'm afraid. This is mainly because
> it makes it more difficult to edit the Poly/EX-800 from an external
> editor (like my Novation XStation, for example).
> It's relatively easy to setup a hardware control to send out the
> relevant control data, but the result of using that control makes no
> intuitive sense, and it's not possible to program useful feedback on
> what a given value actually means, on most hardware controllers. A
> simple serial of on/off buttons, on the other hand, are much easier to
> deal with.
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> Just my initial feeling. I'd also say that if an LFO mapped to the
> harmonics is just going to turn the preset harmonics on and off
> (rather than fading them in and out smoothly), I'm not completely
> convinced I'd ever find a use for that particular functionality, to be
> honest.
>
> a\x
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> On 5 Jul 2009, at 15:49, korgpolyex800 wrote:
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> > Hi HAWK-800 owners,
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> > I have a question for you all.
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> > I am about to put LFO/EG control of DCO harmonics into the HAWK-800.
> > However, due to the reduced number of available parameters, I am
> > thinking about combining the harmonics parameters into one
> > parameter. That is, parameters 13 to 16 would all be combined into
> > 13. And, parameters 23 to 26 would be combined into 23 also.
> >
> > Then, parameters 13 and 23 would have available values 0 through 15.
> > 1 through 15 would engage the DCO harmonics in a fixed manner using
> > binary math to determine the actual engaged harmonics.
> >
> > So the harmonics would be engaged as follows where X means the
> > harmonic is ON:
> >
> > 16' 8' 4' 2'
> > 01 = X
> > 02 = X
> > 03 = X X
> > 04 = X
> > 05 = X X
> > 06 = X X
> > 07 = X X X
> > 08 = X
> > 09 = X X
> > 10 = X X
> > 11 = X X X
> > 12 = X X
> > 13 = X X X
> > 14 = X X X
> > 15 = X X X X
> >
> > This arrangement provides a couple of advantages. First, it frees up
> > the next three parameters for other purposes. Second, it allows MIDI
> > and user parameter control of the harmonics in one parameter which
> > will provide real time improvement over control of the harmonics.
> >
> > Most important though, the next three parameters will be able to be
> > used for new harmonic controls.
> >
> > Parameter 14/24 will be the LFO or EG3 modulation selector.
> > Parameter 15/25 will be the harmonic order selector.
> > Parameter 16/26 will be the harmonic velocity sensitivity selector.
> >
> > I'll go into the details of those later but right now, is everyone
> > OK with dropping the single harmonic selector parameters and using a
> > combined parameter for all four harmonics?
> >
> > Mike.
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