Some good news!
But first of all a bit of history about what happened since December…
By adapting the ML XD editor, I discovered an issue with xml loading in the last CtrlrX 5.6.34 that my fellows CtrlrX colleagues could quickly solve. This is a key feature for the S8G as well.
I also discovered another issue that I could also quickly solve. So days were passing…
I have now converted all my simple editors and patch mappers to 5.6.34 and it went well.
Will now update the manuals so I can provide them to users.
I have also adapted the S8G editor and I’m currently finalizing the adaptation of the S6 one.
As this topic is related to the S8G, during the coming weeks I will concentrate back on the S8G.
I remember there were issues with the Midi output for the two layers (also due to old version of Ctrlr) so need to look at that.
Once I will have reviewed most functionalities, I’ll resend a test version to @trond.olsen.
As usual, I’ll keep you posted about progress or blocking issues (hopefully none anymore).
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Thank you @goodweather for working on this project! It’s much needed, and I’m shocked that UDO hasn’t made one on their end already. I can help test out the beta when you’re ready. Cheers!
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Thanks, Goodweather. Please reach out if you need an additional beta tester. Peace.
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Will be a complete game changer for the Gemini when this is released shame this young man has so little help with this project. Here we are well over a year since the project was announced.. Such a shame UDO hasnt made this a priority themselves, makes no sense to me whatsoever.
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Re-started the work.
Already added all changes that are common to all my editors.
Now re-focusing on the specific S8G stuff.
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Just out of curiosity, why name it and focus on the S8G when the Super Gemini has out sold it 20 to 1?
Surely S8G stands for Super 8/Gemini so both are included.
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Yes indeed!
You have a switch to adapt the look according to your taste.
If you have a Super 8, you can enjoy the look of the Super Gemini and opposite 
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lol. You seem to have a highly motivated customer base for this product.
Once it’s available, I’ll be buying it in a New York minute. Just being able to name and organize presets, see parameter values, makes it worth it.
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Can’t wait until this drops! Going to be a life saver!
Thx for all the support guys!
Status:
Found a bug iin CtrlrX handling the max value of CC / NRPN messages (the S8G can switch between CC and NRPN so we need that functionality) but it was easy to correct.
Identified and know the way to use the 2 layers via Midi. Tested OK:
Midi input to be set to All. Midi output setting defines the upper layer channel. Lower layer is ch+1.
Reception is well done separately as it is for sending messages.
Tonight I’ll implement the editing of both layers at once (I implemented that on the Wave editor so should be done quickly).
Then I’ll look at the librarian. I already prepared it so need to review what I already did and what remains to be done. First bank mgmt then performance and program mgmt.
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Yeah! Keep going @goodweather ! So excited for this. I love sound design on my super 8. It’s such an amazing synth. My only complaint is that I can’t remember where everything is. It’s a bit of a disorganized mess honestly… having a patch editor is going to be amazing!
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In the meantime I can heartily recommend something as old fangled as having a little notebook on hand. I have a nice little orange notebook which sits in the blank space of my Gemini and matches its colour scheme nicely. Write down the location of patches and a few notes about them. Then every now and then copy across to the computer and manually rename the files. Even with an editor there might come times when you don’t want to turn your computer on (I know there is for me).
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I’m (weirdly) enjoying the return to the experience I had with my Juno 60 and Jupiter 6 back in the day. I also automate my patch changes so I don’t have to memorize locations. I’m just grooving on having presets at all – the Super 8 is allowing me to retire a Minimoog from my live rig because it sounds that good. For that I had “patches” as a printout of front panel settings. Much faster song transitions now!
Of course I too wish I had a way to at least review what the settings are in a file – if for no other reason than some of the factory sounds are so sick that I want to study how they got the sound. I love having front panel control – my other car is a Nord G2 Modular so I get way too much screentime with that beast, so I’m not hankering for a full editor just yet.
I have already started poking around the file format, from other discussions where I learned where layer and performance tuning settings are stored. I’d like to expand this into a simple utility to dump all the settings as YAML or something, if I could acquire documentation of the s8/g file format.
@goodweather has udo shared this information with you? Is it something you can share?
