Re: Vortex features?

[Jon Durant <74074.1316@CompuServe.COM>]

Michael pleads:

>How do you change patches on the Vortex if it doesn't have MIDI?  If it's
>supposedly a performance-based processor how do you change patches during
>performance? Is it just by up/down pedals, or what???

I thought someone *had* answered, but maybe I dreamt it. Anyway, there are
up/down pedals for changing programs. You have the ability to store your 
sounds
in any register you want, and you can "clear" a register, so that you set 
up a
chain of effects (1-2-3; 5-6-7-8; etc.--thus avoiding having to scroll 
though
all 16 registers in a given bank). Also the A/B (bank/morph) switch also 
has the
added bonus of sending a relay off to a channel switching amp. This, I 
know, has
been commented on earlier.

Also: I don't know the final status of this, but at one point Digital 
Music Corp
(Ground Control MIDI foot controller) and Lex had discussed a special set 
of
software for the Ground Control that would have specific JamMan commands, 
and
also sent analog switching off to the Vortex. I don't know if it ever 
evolved,
but someone out there might have heard.