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Re: [bc2000] Re: Tweaking Yamaha FB-01 with BCR2000

2010-07-07 by Léonid Brédikhine

it's clear... :(
thanx for your answer



Le 7 juil. 2010 à 16:08, "Royce" <rpcfender@...> a écrit :

> Hi
>
> > I’m trying to program my BCR2000 to tweak Yamaha FB-01 sound  
> generator.
> > FB-01 recognizes a sysex messages only.
> I'm not sure this is true. I had a quick look at the Midi spec (yuou  
> can download it at Yamaha) and looks lik eyou can use controllers to  
> also change stuff
>
> > To do my job I found a PC patch editor for FB-01 â€" I plugged FB- 
> 01 to my computer: it works well, no problem here.
> > To find what kind of sysex messages a PC patch editor sends to  
> Yamaha, I observed a sent data of PC patch editor with the SysEx  
> window of BC Editor.
> > I noticed that most of the time, the same Parameter N° is shared  
> by two, three, or four orders: in my example, the parameter #57 is s 
> hared by “Sustain level” and “Release rate” order 
> s.
>
> This is true of many early synths when memory was very costly.
> Two or more parameters were packed into a single byte
> 0xxx xyyy where xxxx was one parameter and yyy was another.
>
> Unfortunately with the BC you can't access the value of another  
> parameter (say Sustain Level) to add it to the new value of Release  
> Rate, and then output the resulting byte
>
> Royce
>
>

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