Love, love, love the synth (except please, fix the tempo on the lower layer at least! The rest can wait for the poor S6 users to be looked after).
I want to be able to select the patch and struggling a bit with how bank and patch translate. Anyone worked it out? I’d imagined that patch B1 would be bank 17 and patch 1? Doesn’t seem to be!
Performances are number Group A Bank A 0-7 B 8-15 up to Group B bank H 120-127. The synth supports “performance change” rather than “patch change” as of today. Midi bank is always the first bank 0.
To work it out it’s;
Group 0-1 * 64
Plus
Bank 0-7(A-H) * 8
Plus
Patch 0-7(P1-P8)
So “Group B, A-1” is
1 *64 + 0 *8 + 0 = 64
It’s a bit “old school” but conceptually simple and flexible when you get your head around it!
Paul Hartnolls orbital live rig is a masterclass in Midi sequencing and program change messages. I watched him show me how the Gemini and other instruments are sent PC messages on the fly and configure as the songs play it was very fascinating
Hi, I really wish next update will bring program change for patches and performances group B ones. Quite amazed it’s not there tbh…
Also can not reach performance A1 in group be using 64 as PC number. I only can select perf 1 to 64 in group A using PC number 0 to 63.
While i’m at this, If you are in patch mode and your sequencer send a program change to SG to choose a perf, SG will stay on patch mode even if the perf is selected (provided you ask for perf group A 1-64, group B not responding).
When you will implement program change for patches, please make sure too that SG follow the patch bank when receiving a PC (ex: if it is on patch A bank and received a PC message to go a bank B patch, then it should reflect the bank changed on the hardware). I really hope you will work on this, it’s a flagship synth i did not know i would have to check this point before getting a synth of this level (SG sounds amazing by the way). Hope MPE is coming too. Thanx