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RE: Using CS as a sound module. What the best way to save patches with song.
2014-02-19 by <smw-mail@...>
I sort of understand some of what you are trying to do. It seems like you want the CS to be a slave to the MPC, but you want to save various CS parameters as well to play the pads on the CS and possibly other gear. Assuming your round-trip midi routing doesn't present any problems, it seems to me that you might want to have either a song or a chain of patterns track the MPC (if that is possible--I'm not sure at the moment).
Can you embed sysex commands in the MPC and send them to external gear? If so, you might be able to automatically call up specific patterns on the CS at specific moments with sysex commands. If this can be done, you should be able to record parameter changes right in the CS patterns themselves.
As for multis [multisetups] on the CS, those are not the same thing as songs, though it is frequently useful to have a multi associated with a song. They are a snapshot of quite a number of setting--including some system/midi settings.
With the CS, patterns can retain the presets assigned to channels. So if all you wanted to do was have a way to preserve the initial preset assignments for each channel in a song you could have otherwise empty patterns that simply have your preset assignments. THis might just be a starting point, since you want your setup to other things as well.
Of course, without knowing your midi wiring and your midi data configurations, it is really hard to tell what will work and what won't.
As for the the use of a dedicated CS track for !FX presets, I am guessing that should work if you call up presets from the MPC. (I would post links to discussions of how to do the !FX control, but I still don't have a handle on the new Yahoo User Interface.)
Hope this helps.
Steve