The hint in these posts appears to be it is possible to send a 14 bit NPRN with a button.
I have downloaded the BC Manager, and if I click on the b33, I can indeed setup normal NPRN (7bit) as one can from manually programming the BCR.
But no idea how / where to enter these .easypar or .tx command.
I took a quick look on this forum but couldnt find a "start here" tutorial.
Anyhow, in terms of the Miniak, I am now all too aware of the non-standard things it does.
I have written my own editor for it, but want to use a BCR since I prefer tactile controls.
The only "CC" buttons on the synth appear to be latch on/off. Most of the other buttons do not send their midi, so no easy way to automate those.
So what I did instead was to map button b33 to the NRPN for F1 (43, 0 0 inc 1 so it just sends the 99/98 and a 0 06).
Map button b34 to F2 type (49 again with this 0 06).
Then I mapped b41 to CC 38, with a 20 -> 0 decr (I am still a noob at this, but the incr/decr always seems to be wrong way around to me :-)).
And similarly b42 to CC38, with a 0 -> 20 inc.
So that one can press one of two buttons to choose between F1 type/F2 type.
And then one button to incr/one to decr.
This is non-ideal, but at least I can use some buttons to sort of control some NPRNs with small ranges.
If you could point me to a noob doc on which software is easier to enter these easypar/tx command I would be eternally grateful.
Since the synth ignores "out of range" values, I guess I could extend this technique to the wave forms, unison voices etc leaving knobs available for the 0 - 100 type ranges.
Bummer about the lack of -ve support.
Regards
Steve H
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> Woot, had a little time tonite, and I successfully used a custom .tx script to make the buttons use 14bit NRPN with both MIDI CC's 6 and 38 for the data entry part!! I can now take all the parameters that are "switches" or "continous" but only have 3 or 4 possible values, and step through them with repeated button presses. I'm so stoked.
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> Now for the negative NRPN issues...
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> Woot, had a little time tonite, and I successfully used a custom .tx script to make the buttons use 14bit NRPN with both MIDI CC's 6 and 38 for the data entry part!! I can now take all the parameters that are "switches" or "continous" but only have 3 or 4 possible values, and step through them with repeated button presses. I'm so stoked.
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> Now for the negative NRPN issues...
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