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Greetings and the Roland TB-3

Greetings and the Roland TB-3

2015-10-23 by nigsnet@...

I think maybe I should have not left the notify button ticked when I upload the file, so apologies for the junk:-(

Anyway, my first post, just had the BCR200 for a couple of weeks and been hanging around having a look to see what's what. What I was really after with the BCR was to aid in programming my old Roland stuff (JD880, JV1080 and D110) but it hasn't worked out that well, so I thought I'd start with something simple - the TB-3.

There's not really that much sysex available for the TB-3, so a fairly straightforward implementation, which I've uploaded. If anyone has one, perhaps they'd like to try it and let me know of any problems.

TR-8 and MX-1 next on the list;-)

Cheers and have fun,

Nig


Re: Greetings and the Roland TB-3

2015-10-24 by sghookings@...

Hi there

Have you also checked out Ctrlr? Run on most common platforms.

Panels | Ctrlr - Control your MIDI life (MIDI editor for all your hardware)



For example, they have a D50 - I wonder if this is close to a D110?
I guess if you can get the MIDI implementation of the two you can see what is common, or close. I did this with the Kawai K1r/K4 recently. Most of the time one byte changed :-)

I like to keep the PC out of the garage - I am old enough to favour tactile hardware, but for my K1r and K4 recently I put some into ctrlr based on SYSEX from this site. In other words, the common headache is the CC/NRPNs/SYSEX -- once you have that Mark's BC Software or Ctrlr make the next step easier.

I got myself a Raspberry Pi2 for my birthday - I hope to see if I can build Ctrlr on it because I can bury a RPi2 into my UF80 and put a screen mount on it - make my own Oasys :-)

But simply to say, you can download the panels from Ctrlr, there is a need to read Lua but this is like a Tcl/JavaScript language, and from that you can decode any Sysex they used and trial it with your machine. Dont forget MidiOx (or equivalent - I think you can print raw midi from a Pi - can help to both debug that you are sending what you think from BCR|Ctrlr and observe what the synth is transmitting

Re: Greetings and the Roland TB-3

2015-10-26 by nigsnet@...

That's a good call on CTRLR thanks. I did try messing with it a couple of years ago but didn't have much joy but I've practically upgraded all my gear since then, so will look at it again.

The problem I had with the D-110 was that it just didn't appear to respond to any sysex commands, so I turned to the TB-3 thinking it would be a way of getting to grips with all this stuff, which i think it has. Just need to apply what I learned with that to the other stuff.

Cheers for the info, and good luck with the Pi. No unix apps you can put on there for MIDI?

Re: Greetings and the Roland TB-3

2016-05-05 by steve@...

Was just browsing old stuff and came across your message. If you have a JV-1080, hopefully you've seen that I have a "mini" JV-1080 preset for the BCR in the files section. Instead of attacking the whole problem, this is just a few controls, and an accompanying JV-1080 sysex file, that treats the JV-1080 like a less complicated virtual analog synth, something like a Mini Moog.

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