Analogue-sequencer

Hi Colin,
Well, I definitely don't want you to break it for other users!

I figured that you might have used  Midi CC "0" instead as that stands 
for Bank Select instead of 17.
But I didn't know that you had added the Part select with the Program 
Change yet, so I'm
quite happy to have both Bank Change and Part Select remotely now!

I don't know if this is possible, but is there a way to configure the 
P3, so that
when it receives the Midi CC 17 program change request, that it switches the
bank instantly?  Right now it has the same behaviour as when I use the 
Bank Select
on the P3 itself.   Which is that it waits until the next bar to switch 
banks.

What I'm trying to do, is when I'm using my MPC which is the Master, I 
hit "next sequence"
and select a sequence, at the end of it's loop, it will switch it's 
sequence and that next
sequence will have the P3 Bank Change Midi CC embedded in the
sequence, so what happens now, is the MPC switches sequences, and 
immediately sends
the Midi CC of 17 and value of the Bank that I want, but it doesn't 
switch the P3 until the
next bar.  Since my MPC sends out a number of different Program Changes 
to the various
hardware, I end up hearing the older sequence playing the synth patches 
for the new song.
It can be quite comical :)  But I think any other sequencer that is 
sending a Bank Change
request will see this behaviour unless they are both stopped. 

Does anybody else use an external sequence to switch P3 banks, with 
their sequence switches, and
how do you work around this?  My MPC has an option to do this, perform 
an immediate sequence switch
if a remote request is sent via a config option, so I may just reverse 
everything around and have the
P3 as the master and use it's Program Change option to switch the MPC's 
which will then switch the rest of the
equipment, but the current reasoning for my current setup, is that I can 
shut the P3 down and
upload it with sysex while the rest of the setup is still going.   This 
was more of a need before my
memory upgrade came :)  But I still tend to do 1 Song a Bank..... so if 
I want to do more then 16 songs
with the P3, then I would have to shutdown the entire setup to do the P3 
Sysex upload.  I think that
I'll probably just end up trying to time switching the bank and then the 
mpc sequence manually, with the
P3 switch done the bar before the MPC switches its sequence....  Since 
switching banks is a two handed
option on the P3 itself, I may use the 16 buttons on my BCR2000 
programmed to switch the P3 banks,
so I can have a hand on the MPC's pads to switch it's sequence and a 
hand on the BCR2000 to switch the
P3's sequence.

I'm only wanting this behaviour for remote switching of banks.....FYI.

If it's not an option (both code space and logically), I understand.

Thanks,
Dave



Colin Fraser wrote:

>
> > Hi Colin,
> > If your open to Begging, I would love a Midi Program Change
> > to switch
> > "Parts" and "Banks".
>
> With remote control enabled, a program change message already switches 
> part,
> and allows you to specify a part chain length.
>
> I could change it to select a bank and part number, but then there 
> would be
> no way to select a chain.
> If anyone is using program change messages this way already, they might be
> upset if I break it...
>
> Best regards,
> Colin Fraser
> Sequentix Music Systems Ltd
> http://www.sequentix.com <http://www.sequentix.com>
>
>