In the standalone version of ctrlr, if I change a patch on the synth by pressing one of the membrane buttons, the ctrlr panel receives the patch settings, name of the patch, etc. I'm having some trouble getting this to work properly in Ableton 9.5 on OSX, but standalone mode is working with my Alpha Juno 1. Note the font I used for the LCD Label was LCD-Dot. For the time being I have moved over to the Kawai K3 panel. By the way I use OS X Lion for my music so I can’t verify that everything works the same via Windows. Please post a comment here or in this thread if you find any errors or suggestions. With Midi Lock off you can search your tones and patches and the select action won’t overwrite your current Ctrlr panels settings. I did this in case you create a sound you like but need to find a slot to save it in. Again I suggest double clicking the tone button to send the parameters.įinally the MIDI LOCK button will stop the controller from reacting to transmitted midi. Annoyingly you will need to do this every time you turn on the synth. To get the MKS-50 to send the parameters for tone and patch you need to turn on transmitting for both on (manual pg. Make sure you turn Memory Protection off (via page 36 of the manual). If you want to save your sound I recommend transmitting the patch (Update Patch button) then saving, then transmitting the tone (Update Tone button) and saving. The unison mode didn’t seem to have this problem and it worked better with Portamento as well. The reason I did this is because I found that for at least my MKS-50 the monophonic mode didn’t work very well and would cut off at times. If you want the mono mode to work correctly via this controller you should keep to the default setting on chord mode 1 which uses all the 6 voices for one note. You can still make change via the Synth’s button panel (see manual), and you can also “select” a chord mode via the controller slider. Frankly I believe the selections that are included with the Synth pretty much cover what you would want to use anyway. (Again blame Roland…)Īs for as changing the Chord Mode I decided not to make that a part of this controller. So since it ended up being wrong a lot of the time in testing I decided not to include it. (Thanks Roland!)Īlso I didn’t include the patch or Tone number id because the transmission of this information was not consistent between tone and patch. Because there is no midi command when you change to patch/tones via the controller’s Next/Previous buttons you won’t see any of the controls on the Ctrlr panel change until you physically push the buttons on the Synth. I say Tone button because the Patch button doesn’t send the tone parameters, however the tone sends both tone/patch. At the present the best way is to double click on the Tone button (manual pg. (If someone can figure out a midi command to do it I will gladly change this). The only way to do it is to push the tone or patch button twice or change the tone patch using the physical Synth buttons. Fixed a few small errors in the pg-300.Ī few notes: There doesn’t seem to be any way to make the Synth send parameters via a midi command.Next and Previous patch, tone selection (both are selected at once and together).Added chord mode “Selection” (though you can’t change chord settings but you can select them).Receive and update patch/tone names (double click on the patch/tone label).However I ended up basically recreating the whole thing and adding a lot of other features. Originally I was just going to add the ability to receive the current patch settings. Basically and upgrade of the Layzer’s very well done pg-300. So here is my MKS-50 Advanced Synthesizer Programmer.
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