by John Bowen » Sat Nov 15, 2008 12:58 am
SepticStudio wrote:Yamaha Motif XS for instance, I love the editor BTW for the synth, I've got the rackmount edition of the XS.
Dave Smiths (Poly) Evolver also, that one has a special destination that can be set to midi out, so you can use even 3 lines for the internal synth and 1 line for the midiout port. The Prophet08 aswell I think as it is based on the Evolver.
Thanks!
I took a look at the Poly Evolver manual, and I now understand how it can send a sequence track out over MIDI - since the sequencer, when enabled, only plays one voice of the four available voices, it is essentially a monophonic sequence stream, although it says you can have all 4 sequence rows outputting MIDI note-on events. (I guess this means you can feed a polyphonic synth this MIDI stream, and it will play 4 notes of the same timbre at once? Can someone verify?)
However, it seems the Prophet '08 does not share this functionality - at least, I could not find anything in the manual saying it does. Likewise for the Arpeggiator (and of course, the Evolver series do not have arpeggiators).
I did find that the Virus TI has a parameter to send out MIDI notes from the arpeggiator.
Looking at the Motif XS manual, I see the Transmit MIDI channel for each track, and I think for a workstation, of course they do this (I'm sure now that Korg workstations must as well).
I would agree with your point more if the Solaris was designed with that workstation approach, but the step sequencer we are planning is more of an 'event sequencer', for processing internal parameter values, and not so much a full-fledged music composition sequencer (more along the lines of the PolyEvolver). I mean, each sequence is a maximum of 16 notes, unlike the workstation approach where you are transmitting entire MIDI songs (which can run 10 minutes long, or more!).
We can take a look at transmitting a single voice's sequencer output, as the PolyEvolver does, since that makes the voice handling much simpler, but I won't say it can be implemented in the first release, if at all....it's something I have to discuss with the coders.
Thanks for your input,
John B.
[quote="SepticStudio"]Yamaha Motif XS for instance, I love the editor BTW for the synth, I've got the rackmount edition of the XS.
Dave Smiths (Poly) Evolver also, that one has a special destination that can be set to midi out, so you can use even 3 lines for the internal synth and 1 line for the midiout port. The Prophet08 aswell I think as it is based on the Evolver.[/quote]
Thanks!
I took a look at the Poly Evolver manual, and I now understand how it can send a sequence track out over MIDI - since the sequencer, when enabled, only plays one voice of the four available voices, it is essentially a monophonic sequence stream, although it says you can have all 4 sequence rows outputting MIDI note-on events. (I guess this means you can feed a polyphonic synth this MIDI stream, and it will play 4 notes of the same timbre at once? Can someone verify?)
However, it seems the Prophet '08 does not share this functionality - at least, I could not find anything in the manual saying it does. Likewise for the Arpeggiator (and of course, the Evolver series do not have arpeggiators).
I did find that the Virus TI has a parameter to send out MIDI notes from the arpeggiator.
Looking at the Motif XS manual, I see the Transmit MIDI channel for each track, and I think for a workstation, of course they do this (I'm sure now that Korg workstations must as well).
I would agree with your point more if the Solaris was designed with that workstation approach, but the step sequencer we are planning is more of an 'event sequencer', for processing internal parameter values, and not so much a full-fledged music composition sequencer (more along the lines of the PolyEvolver). I mean, each sequence is a maximum of 16 notes, unlike the workstation approach where you are transmitting entire MIDI songs (which can run 10 minutes long, or more!).
We can take a look at transmitting a single voice's sequencer output, as the PolyEvolver does, since that makes the voice handling much simpler, but I won't say it can be implemented in the first release, if at all....it's something I have to discuss with the coders.
Thanks for your input,
John B.