Silvan wrote:
> We talked about a solution,
> but nobody has ever gotten around to doing anything yet.
I've been thinking about this again lately. I had been considering
a couple of features:
a. Add a toggle (on the bank dialog) to declare that you want
this device to use Roland-style Variation controllers instead
of bank selects, sending the bank MSB as the variation value.
This wouldn't change the layout of the rest of the dialog (you'd
still be entering programs in banks instead of as variations)
but would cause the instrument parameter box to switch to
showing Program and Variation combos instead of Bank and
Program ones (i.e. Program combo containing Electric Piano 2,
then Variation combo containing Electric Piano 2 and Detuned
Electric Piano etc). This would just be GUI niceness for a
Roland synth that supports bank selects, but I guess older
Rolands and Roland-compatibles don't always.
and
b. Instead of making a Bank consist internally of LSB and MSB only,
make it consist of LSB, MSB and "percussion flag". Same LSB
and MSB but different flag => different bank. Optional switch
to say that selecting a percussion bank should cause some sysex
or other (entered into a text field) to be sent. (If that's not
set, then the synth will actually see same LSB/MSB as same bank
regardless of the percussion flag, but you'll still be able to
have two sets of names at the GUI.) Optional switch to say show
the percussion programs on channel 10 without requiring explicit
bank settings.
This stuff would all be saved as part of the device definition.
One problem here is that a. and b. are not actually quite compatible:
you don't exactly want percussion showing up as variations on non-
percussion. The details would come out in the wash I guess.
I don't much like adding specialised GUI stuff to support a single
manufacturer's weirdnesses, but I guess Roland is kind of a popular
make. On the other hand, I'm concerned that users of some other
synth will then pop up to say theirs works in yet another completely
incompatible way -- we should probably try to catch as many of these
freakishnesses as possible at the first attempt. Anyone want to
comment on how things like percussion banks work on other makes of
synth? (At least ones that don't just use bank selects.)
Chris
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