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Re: Brave New EDP



Ah Gary
Always so enthousiastic
:=)
we're fighting the last problems....
the doc.
it leans towards the end but we dont know when yet

Cheers

Claude







Gary Lehmann wrote:
> 
> Hey guys--
> Check it out--the new OS is going to have PRESETS!  Sysx is swell but it
> looks like you can store your options in slots and call them up with 
>program
> changes.  I call that real good news. (EDP finally using p ch!)
> I can't wait for this!!!!
> Gary
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jim palmer [mailto:jimp@pobox.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 11:08 AM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: SV: A New EDP Bein' Born
> 
> could you explain why sysex is more flexible and more efficient?
> it seems like it will be more difficult to program a pedal.
> won't we have to enter binary data for each switch?
> and aren't midi controller's designed for just this purpose?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kim Flint" <kflint@loopers-delight.com>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 4:05 AM
> Subject: Re: SV: A New EDP Bein' Born
> 
> > At 11:51 PM 2/18/2002, Per Boysen wrote:
> > > > Från: Matthias Grob [mailto:matthias@grob.org]
> > >
> > > >>  > As if 8th/Cycle would be accessible via midi?
> > > >>>  (that's a no-brainer for my wish list ;-)
> > > >>
> > > >>You mean other than the current implementation?  Because all front
> panel
> > > >>functions are accessable via MIDI.
> > > >>
> > > >>By adjusting the 8ths/beat (via front panel, custom footswitch, or
> > > MIDI) you
> > > >>can adjust the rate at which the EDP emits MIDI sync pulses.
> > >
> > > > Thanks to Claude, in the upgrade, this 8th/beat change only happens
> > > > at the first loop end after you come back from parameter state. 
>With
> > > > this, you dont jump arround timings and keep the beat one in 
>relation
> > > > to the slaved sequencer.
> > >
> > > >>I understood that in the Update many of these parameters will have
> > > dedicated
> > > >>midi cc #s...?
> > > >
> > > > uh, no, we thought that Sysex is more efficient!
> > > > --
> > >
> > >Do I get this right now? To be able to change 8th/cycle, while 
>playing,
> you
> > >have to use a midi pedal board that is capable of sending sysex when a
> pad
> > >is pressed?
> > >(not the same as "doing a sysex dump of program parameters")
> >
> > one way is sysex control of individual parameters. If your pedal can't 
>do
> > that it's lame, get a real pedal. sysex is the most flexible approach.
> >
> > 2nd way is using the new presets feature with a different setting in 
>each
> > one, then use midi program change commands to change it on the fly.
> >
> > 3rd is what you have already, use midi to virtually press the front 
>panel
> > buttons to edit a parameter. Kind of awkward, but you can sequence the
> > presses to go quickly.
> >
> > kim
> >
> >
> >
> > ______________________________________________________________________
> > Kim Flint                     | Looper's Delight
> > kflint@loopers-delight.com    | http://www.loopers-delight.com
> >