Analogue-sequencer

--- In analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com, "ferrograph632" 
<ferrograph@a...> wrote:
> >> I'm working on adding midi remote control to P3. Obvious TBIs are
> bank select or program change messages to change P3 bank, CCs for
> mute/unmute tracks, maybe also CCs for edit track 1 - 8, pattern
> select, note input for PXPos, that sort of thing. Seems like a good
> idea to discuss it before I implement stuff no-one wants...<<
> 
> ah. ah-hah. so.... stuff that takes more than one button push would 
go
> on my list... like dropping in & out of record, & selecting the 
track
> to record into... is that what you meant by "cc's for edit"?
> 
> what about.... mapping some program changes onto a bunch of
> user-defined macros? given that nothing's more than a few button
> pushes away anyway, you wouldn't have to store very much. 
> 
> you'd put the p3 into "learn" on power-up, by holding down the tempo
> knob & blowing in a southerly direction. paul does this anyway. then
> push a step key to select a macro to edit. the display would say
> something like: "whatever buttons you push now, I'm going to push 
the
> same buttons in the same order when I receive the PC corresponding 
to
> step whatever, on the global channel". with scope in there somehow 
for
> a PC followed by a CC so you could do things like change the length 
or
> timebase of a pattern.....
> yikes.
> could it stand that much switching on & off?
> 
> (I deleted a load of thinking-out-loud, you'll be glad to know...)
> 
> d/r.m.i.

I'm going to think out loud Colin ....

Duncan's learn idea is really neat (I assume its you Duncan). But am 
I right in assuming that ram space is as critical as ever?

The Bank Select and Pattern select stuff I assume speaks for itself, 
but have you thought about this ...

What if you implement something similar to the Packed NRPN feature on 
Novation Supernovas, Novas etc. The Novation kit have an NRPN or CC 
for every knob tweak, every button press, and every single user menu 
option that is possible, which makes them 100% remote controllable. 
They happen to have a massive number of tweakable options, but have 
managed to squeeze it all in to the limited number of CC's and NRPN's 
by using the Packed NRPN feature. I suggest you download the novation 
manual pdf's if you need to check it out. 

You could adapt the Packed NRPN concept and have a couple of Packed 
CC's to allow setting of things like the P3 User Config options, Midi 
channel setups and all that stuff.

This should move the bias from ram to rom because this would all be 
coded as rom based lookup tables and jump tables I suppose.

Like I said ... Thinking aloud (and probably whackily)

One question though Colin. Do you intend to transmit the same CC's 
that you receive?


Dave