Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

Hi, great , great atmosphere here !!

What about possibility to implement your kit here in Europe ? 

> In short, if you send an On message to a specific controller then 
the Poly will switch to that particular mode and if send an Off 
message to ANY of those three modes the Poly will return to Poly mode.

- What, if Poly is in Arp mode, and will recieve Hold command ?

- Regarding name : Korg AtomAhawk is wonderful.  
But idea :
MiKORG 008   
(MiK from Mike + sounds like My Korg - I think all of us feel "my 
korg" emotion, otherwise we wouldn`t disscuss here...;
008 - year + refers to original 800)
MiKORG X08 for EX-800 .



--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Michael Hawkins 
<korgpolyex800@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Poly fans,
> 
> More quick advancements are being made. Even last night, I spent 
about an hour writing the code to add a MIDI controller to turn 
portamento on and off - and it works!  So now, when you cascade two 
Poly's together, you can have one unit put the other into the mode 
that you wish. This was driving me nuts over the weekend when I was 
toying around with cascade mode but was not able to put my EX800 into 
Portamento mode (or any other mode) because it lacks the three mode 
buttons. Over this weekend I will add additional controllers to allow 
switching into Chord and Hold modes. But I need your input or 
suggestions as to which controllers I should use to do that. I don't 
possess any hardware MIDI controller at all, so I am completely 
unaware of what various MIDI controllers out there have in the way of 
push buttons that would send MIDI control messages. Most of them seem 
to have plenty of knobs but not many push buttons. Anyway, there is a 
MIDI controller message available for Hold
>  Pedal (64) and Hold 2 Pedal (69). So to me it would make sense to 
use those two to enable Hold and Chord Modes.
> 
> So the set up would be that if you send a MIDI Controller Hold On 
(64) message to the Poly then the Poly would switch to Hold mode. 
And, if you send a MIDI Controller Hold 2 On (69) message then it 
would switch to Chord mode. And of course, if you send an On message 
to Portamento control (65) then the Poly would shift to Portamento 
mode. 
> Finally, if you send an Off message to either 64, 65 or 69 then the 
Poly returns to normal Poly mode.
> 
> In short, if you send an On message to a specific controller then 
the Poly will switch to that particular mode and if send an Off 
message to ANY of those three modes the Poly will return to Poly mode.
> 
> Does this make the most sense?
> 
> And the other thing I thought about was that I think each patch 
should store the playing mode as well. This occurs to me to make some 
sense because I am quite certain there will be certain patches that I 
would set up specifically for portamento mode. And I think it follows 
that there would be other patches that I would prefer to set up for 
chord or hold modes too. I think it would be relatively easy to set 
this up in the extended patches area. Would it be a nice thing to be 
able to change patches and have the mode also change to the mode that 
you had saved for that patch?
> 
> What does everyone think about that?
> 
> Mike.
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