Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

Last Weekend I tried to post this and another post, but they never posted at all.
I will try again today....


Here's another shot at a GUI for the HAWK 800.

You can download it here:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZplvUvlyPAdlo9yosb6rOWR3_3SNv89Y

its on my Google Drive.  You simply click the little download arrow button at the top left to download the zip file.
Inside the zip is the standalone GUI, a ReadMe file (read it!) and the .dll VST file that should let you load the GUI up in a DAW.
Right now I've had problems getting the VST to work right, especially the Automated Controls bit.  But you might play around with it and at least get a Midi Controller's controls mapped to any control you want quickly using the VST.

For help in figuring out how the GUI works, see this video

https://youtu.be/mQTHqcihyw8



/Blaine

Correction... Download arrow is at top RIGHT of the download page.

me too, correction 8-) did see the link, and had downloaded it.
i'll try to load it up now.

confession too: i have STILL not fitted the Hawkmod kit i've had
sitting here for years. i think the stars are coming into alignment
for that over the coming couple of weeks - BUT: i'm going to be
having a few fraught questions - particularly as i chop into the DIL
socket. the first BIG question i have is:
 
does the hawkmod+atomahawk introduce any timing difference
with midi response after installation? - think i saw that mentioned,
relative to an old processor having more to do. what's the score?

high time i re-integrated the ex800 one way or another.

as for Ctrlr panels etc. i'm happy to discuss if i can help - it will help
me finish a panel. also interested in mapping up Hawk800 to a Novation
Remote.

...brilliant...now virus software wants to check it over before it can load...
i have had issues, btw, with ctrlr standalones that don't run properly the
1st time after unzip: you have to close and re-open. also having problems
with some initial panel load scripts not loading on startup.

in your zip, you have the standalone and the dll, but no panel, so i can't
load it in the editor -i think-. in fact, it's the "bpanelz" that is needed if you
have any external resources to bundle with it.

ah: i've run it with 'run anyway', and it's open in ctrlr (v.5.4.2) so i can have a
look at it. at the moment, the Lua methods list is displaying jumbled, so i'll
re-open (have another project opened at same time?)
(display seems ok, i can see the Lua, and open modulator properties)

if i may comment, on layout and UI: lol it's a bit psychedelic/busy to the eye ;-)
i would personally favour something more uniform, fewer colours - ie: do a really
boring functional layout, and then bring back some colours and design jazz at
the end.

what did you say was not working?

If you want the .bpanelz file you can either-

Open the Standalone and click: File > Export > Export Compressed Binary + Resources
  Then save it to whatever name you wish, then reopen it in Ctrlr.
  But that standalone is an editor already.. you can even open other panels in it.


If you want, you can just download the file here:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1cH7wmcvgxEgDxmQAYZp-7b7lE41pAL7q

That file could let Mac users goto Ctrlr.org, download the Mac OS version of Ctrlr, then use that bpanelz file to open up the GUI.



Yea, the GUI can be a bit "busy" and colorful.  It was one of my first GUI's I tried to make several years ago and I didnt bother to change it.
All the colors were intended to help indicate where certain controls were and how they related to other areas.
Feel free to change it as you wish, the editor is built into the Standalone.
The hardest parts were doing all the LUA scripting to get the controls to autoset each time the patch changed.
Most likely I wont be working on it anymore.  I just simply dont have the time anymore with work and re educating my self for a future in the robotics industry.

AFAIK, all the controls work in the GUI.  My problem was when using it in a DAW as a VST that "Automated Control" didnt want to work correctly everytime.  When it worked it was cool!  But many times it would not work and cause glitches in the GUI.. like setting all the knobs to zero.



The HAWK's midi message limitations I encountered was when I would be playing an appergiator/several notes at once and changing 3+ controls all at the same time.
Otherwise if a simple sequence is playing and just two controls are tweaked, it should be fine.
I did notice that if you try to send it a sysex msg too quickly, it will stumble too.. in fact the GUI has some built in midi msg delays for the ADBSSR copy feature because the GUI was sending all the msgs together too quickly for the HAWK to respond.
It would change Attack, but then Decay, etc would all get ignored.  So I did some simple For/If loops to make the GUI sit and count a moment before sending the next msg.


If I were to do another HAWK mod to a Poly 800, I would dremel that socket out as carefully and as much as I could to get the individual pins exposed.  Then just desolder and remove each pin separately.