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by minorguy
Fri Jan 08, 2021 8:01 pm
Forum: Solaris bug reports
Topic: OS 2.0 : ARP don't work
Replies: 8
Views: 6871

Re: OS 2.0 : ARP don't work

To get the ARP working back I had to set Realtime to Off in the page 2 of Midi paramaters. What's this option made for ? The RealTime parameter is explained in the User Guide. This is for when you want the Solaris to sync to some other device such as a drum machine where the other device is sending...
by minorguy
Sat Oct 17, 2020 2:54 pm
Forum: User Feature Requests
Topic: Developer Fund Update - Important!
Replies: 46
Views: 232183

Re: Developer Fund Update - Important!

MPE could probably be implemented. But as you know the Solaris is designed in a way that each DSP handles two voices and those two cannot be manipulated separately (except for one or two aspects like poly aftertouch). So at most only the first five voices would be independently controllable. The nex...
by minorguy
Sat Sep 19, 2020 1:51 pm
Forum: Owners General Discussion
Topic: Sequence .PAT file format
Replies: 3
Views: 4526

Re: Sequence .PAT file format

I think that aspect of the sequencer needs some work. The file holds the 16 steps of the 4 tracks as 4-byte signed integers. But it doesn't contain any of the other parameters. So the file size is (16 * 4 + 1) * 4 = 260 bytes. The +1 is for the 4-byte version number. The data is arranged this way. A...
by minorguy
Thu Jun 11, 2020 1:06 pm
Forum: Solaris keyboard music/examples
Topic: Playing 24 custom presets
Replies: 3
Views: 5302

Re: Playing 24 custom presets

Great sounds, every one of them! I really like these presets. Everyone who may be considering a Solaris should give these a listen.
by minorguy
Tue Apr 28, 2020 11:37 am
Forum: Solaris Discussion
Topic: New Owner #311
Replies: 4
Views: 4438

Re: New Owner #311

Hi Eric. I hope you've been enjoying your Solaris. Anyone who gets played on Star's End is a celebrity in my book!

Jim
by minorguy
Thu Apr 02, 2020 7:17 am
Forum: Solaris Discussion
Topic: Send [nrpn: abandoned] sysex messages
Replies: 10
Views: 7247

Re: Receive nrpn message

For exemple with DT 00 00 and DT0 the attack go from 0.0ms to -1638.4 (no s or ms indicated for -1638.4) The parameter values are actually all signed values. That first byte is the high byte of the number. So if you have the high bit of the value set to 1 it gets interpreted as a negative value. Of...
by minorguy
Wed Apr 01, 2020 8:24 pm
Forum: Solaris Discussion
Topic: Send [nrpn: abandoned] sysex messages
Replies: 10
Views: 7247

Re: Receive nrpn message

It seems you got pretty far to send the correct SysEx message. The Time parameters (and Frequency parameters) are kind of tough because they have a range of 0 - 200000 with a resolution of 0.1ms across the whole range. That resolution is useful at the low end but not at the higher end. The SysEx mes...
by minorguy
Sun Feb 16, 2020 9:37 am
Forum: Solaris Discussion
Topic: How to load samples into Solaris
Replies: 10
Views: 31105

Re: How to load samples into Solaris

If you're using version 1.4.3 or later, this has changed. There is now a parameter on page 3 of the Home section called SmpPool which is essentially what SampImg was. You can select a sample pool and load it by pressing Enter. However, samples can now be made to load automatically when the preset is...
by minorguy
Thu Jan 16, 2020 4:45 pm
Forum: Solaris Discussion
Topic: Solaris Expander Announced
Replies: 25
Views: 34076

Re: Solaris Expander?

Any combination where the number of voices is an even number. So for example, 4+2+2+2 or 4+4+2+0 or 6+4+0+0 or even 2+4+0+0, etc.
You could not do 4+4+1+1.
by minorguy
Sun Nov 03, 2019 6:30 am
Forum: Solaris Discussion
Topic: Solaris preset management
Replies: 3
Views: 7294

Re: Solaris preset management

Beginning with version 1.4.2 bank numbers no longer need to be consecutive. You can skip bank numbers. And they don't need to start at zero.
by minorguy
Mon Oct 14, 2019 3:41 pm
Forum: Owners General Discussion
Topic: Global LFO
Replies: 4
Views: 18065

Re: Global LFO

Since the voices are handled by separate DSPs which don't communicate with each other, I don't think the LFOs could be synced in a sample-accurate way. The LFOs are retriggered only when a note is played. So the only way I could do a kind of pseudo-sync in code is to play 10 short notes with re-trig...
by minorguy
Sun Sep 08, 2019 6:58 am
Forum: Owners General Discussion
Topic: Envelope release time
Replies: 3
Views: 12200

Re: Envelope release time

Also note that if the slope is set to 127 (exponential) the time will seem shorter. Try setting it to 0 (linear).
by minorguy
Sun Aug 25, 2019 9:01 am
Forum: Owners General Discussion
Topic: would you be interested in SOLARIS editor ?
Replies: 54
Views: 137075

Re: would you be interested in SOLARIS editor ?

At the time I didn't want to implement the file saving because I wasn't totally sure about the format of preset files. Since then, I just haven't updated it because I've been busy working on other things. The only changes I've made have been to keep up-to-date with the Solaris OS versions.
by minorguy
Thu Jun 27, 2019 8:28 am
Forum: Owners General Discussion
Topic: USB freeze Nuendo on init
Replies: 3
Views: 19508

Re: USB freeze Nuendo on init

I don’t have Nuendo to test with but I did try with Cubase 10 and didn’t see a problem. You might try to disable plugins and see if that makes a difference. Without knowing what data is being sent it’s hard to know what is causing the freeze. So if you have any way to capture the data as John said i...
by minorguy
Fri May 31, 2019 12:41 pm
Forum: Owners General Discussion
Topic: MIDI Thru from USB?
Replies: 1
Views: 12664

Re: MIDI Thru from USB?

No. Actually, MIDI thru is not accessible by the internal software. MIDI thru is just a direct electrical connection to the MIDI in connector.