Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

If I follow you, I use MULTIMODE_BASIC_CHANNEL to target the preset I want to send sysex to. This was where I was going wrong. I was trying  MULTIMODE_CHANNEL_SELECT. 

I'll give this a try now and let you (though I'm sure you already know how it will turn out.)

Thanks very much Steve. (Hope you got some sleep after all.)

Scott
--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "steve_the_composer" <smw-mail@...> wrote:
>
> So far as I can tell, when you set the basic channel, that's the channel that has the preset that gets edited via the preset parameter sysex edit commands. Lemme break that down:
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> You already figured out how to edit the sound on the fly using the edit buffer (instead of the presets saved in User memory). 
> 
> The missing link was: 
> How do you tell subsequent parameter edit commands what channel has the preset you want to edit?
> 
> Answer:
> Set the basic channel!!! 
> (In other words, set the MULTIMODE_MASIC_CHANNEL.)
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> For my test, I started pattern arps on channels 1, 2, and 3 and set CC64 to 127 so they would keep playing.
> 
> I had already pointed PRESET_SELECT to the edit buffer.
> 
> I set the basic channel (via sysex: MULTIMODE_BASIC_CHANNEL) to Channel C01B and set the arp mode to 0 (via sysex). That turned the arp on C01B to up mode and the pattern stopped playing.
> 
> Next, I changed the basic channel (again via sysex) to C02B and set the arp mode to 0 (with the same result). 
> 
> Finally, I did the same for the arp pattern on C03B.
> 
> (As simple as 1, 2, 3).
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> 
> Hope this makes sense. (Of course, now I'm wide awake when I should be sleeping!!!)
> 
> 
> 
> --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "oasys_user" <sleporester@> wrote:
> >
> > You are a MACHINE Steve.
> > 
> > I don't quite follow what MULTIMODE_BASIC_CHANNEL does.
> > 
> > 
> > --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "steve_the_composer" <smw-mail@> wrote:
> > >
> > > BINGO!!!! (At least it seems to work in my tire state.)
> > > 
> > > BTW, for id = 139, 140, and 141 max = 31 (not 15) on two port (A/B) E-Mus.
> > > 
> > > In short:
> > > Use MULTIMODE_CHANNEL_SELECT for Multi Mode Parameters.
> > > Use PRESET SELECT = -1 for edit buffer (preset parameters). 
> > > Use MULTIMODE_BASIC_CHANNEL to set the basic channel.
> > > 
> > > Hope this helps.
> > > 
> > > Steve
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "steve_the_composer" <smw-mail@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > FOOTNOTE:
> > > > 
> > > > Maybe this is it: look at p. 42, id = 139 - MultiMode_Basic_Channel. Perhaps that's what you use to select the basic channel that the edit buffer works on.
> > > > 
> > > > I will try it.
> > > >
> > >
> >
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