Message
Re: Make BCR2000 into a Kiwi Patch Editor -- Common / Default parameters across multiple synths / presets
2014-03-29 by <rpcfender@...>
It would be great if they just all called the setup of patches a Performance or the components of a patch (or Preset if you prefer) tones not voices.
Although it works OK for a car to have standard controls or a violin or a piano, different synths work differently.
How do you set up a standard that will be OK for a Jupiter8 and a DX7?
In my attempts to close couple the BCR2000 and hardware synths, www.bwalk.com.au, the control layouts were a significant amount of work, but I feel sure that many who have tried my programs for the TQ5 or the DW6000 could feel the layout is rubbish.
So there is difference in synths, difference in personal style and difference in what you want to acheive in performance. I think people think I am joking when I say the hardest part of programming the BC is working out the layout.
Because I learnt synthesis through building hardware instruments I still think of them as modular and so that is a convenient way for the controls to be layed out for me. I'm not sure that is true for other players.
I usually approach the problem by programming the BC to my standard workflow and understanding.
Here is the screen of my current project showing the layout.as if it is a JP8
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bc2000/photos/albums/961897953
The whole thing is setup using a XML file so different synths can use the same program.
The XML file contains the details of what sysex (or NRPN or ???) the program puts out when it receives the CC messages from the BCR .
So if I were you I would play around with a BCR patch until it works for you and then just do a 'save as' and modify the new version for your next synth.
All the best
Royce