by John Bowen » Wed Sep 16, 2015 9:25 am
Following up on my previous post here:
1) I was wrong - patterns are loaded not on boot up, but when you select them, directly from the CF card (as noted by minor guy).
2) Until now, there’s been no concern about having different arp patterns from user to user, as there’s been no way to create alternate factory patterns. All Solaris CF cards have the same pattern data currently.
3) The pattern data does not include any of the parameters you can see, except the Pattern Length. There are 3 parameters that the user cannot edit from the Solaris which are stored in the pattern files: Step On/Off, Step Velocity, and Step Gate Length (related to the ‘Length’ parameter in the display, which is an overall offset to the individual step gate times). I had thought the pattern data included everything, so I was surprised!
4) Because of (3), this means that all the other parameters you see are stored in the Preset only.
5) Currently, when you select a non-user pattern, the default pattern length does get reset to 32 steps, and the display doesn’t update that. This was a bug in the pattern data file, and has been fixed with the new Editor (see 6).
6) And finally, one of our brilliant users here (Jim) has offered to work on the unfinished Arp Pattern Editor, and I’ve been testing it for the last 2 days! Currently it’s Windows only, so I’ll have to see if I can get a Mac OS version compiled as well, but it’s just about ready to be released. Jim and I have discussed just adding a function for automatic loading of the pattern when editing, so once this is done, I can release the Editor for general use.
Many thanks to Jim, who has done this very quickly, I must say! A release announcement is forthcoming...
Following up on my previous post here:
1) I was wrong - patterns are loaded not on boot up, but when you select them, directly from the CF card (as noted by minor guy).
2) Until now, there’s been no concern about having different arp patterns from user to user, as there’s been no way to create alternate factory patterns. All Solaris CF cards have the same pattern data currently.
3) The pattern data does not include any of the parameters you can see, except the Pattern Length. There are 3 parameters that the user cannot edit from the Solaris which are stored in the pattern files: Step On/Off, Step Velocity, and Step Gate Length (related to the ‘Length’ parameter in the display, which is an overall offset to the individual step gate times). I had thought the pattern data included everything, so I was surprised!
4) Because of (3), this means that all the other parameters you see are stored in the Preset only.
5) Currently, when you select a non-user pattern, the default pattern length does get reset to 32 steps, and the display doesn’t update that. This was a bug in the pattern data file, and has been fixed with the new Editor (see 6).
6) And finally, one of our brilliant users here (Jim) has offered to work on the unfinished Arp Pattern Editor, and I’ve been testing it for the last 2 days! Currently it’s Windows only, so I’ll have to see if I can get a Mac OS version compiled as well, but it’s just about ready to be released. Jim and I have discussed just adding a function for automatic loading of the pattern when editing, so once this is done, I can release the Editor for general use.
Many thanks to Jim, who has done this very quickly, I must say! A release announcement is forthcoming...