Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

Select Next Pattern:
F0 18 0F dd 55 01 02 07 21 xx yy F7
F0 18 0F dd 55 01 02 04 21 xx yy F7


dd is the Device ID
xx is the Pattern Number
yy is the Pattern Bank


You have to send both commands in that order for it to work correctly.  The first does what the dial does (choose the next pattern) and the second does what the enter key does (confirm the choice).  The interaction between this and the other parameters is complicated, so be careful.  Don't call this while you couldn't do it manually.  You're on your own if you call it while in song mode or one of the editing screens or pretty much any time other than when you're on the pattern home screen.  I've tried it and it seems to work while both playing and stopped, but certainly not during recording.

-Aaron


----- Original Message ----
From: Aaron Eppolito <synthesis77@...>
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 6:52:35 PM

There might be a way to do this with hidden sysex much like the song change sysex I posted earlier.  It's slightly more complicated though.  There's actually three pattern parameters, one that's playing, one that's next, and one that you're scrolling through with the knob.  Also, worse is that each of those is actually a combination parameter (meaning it's not just one value) so that'll be hard too.  I think if you just set the "next" pattern, it'll work, but I'm not entirely sure.

I'll look up the param and see if there's a way to do it.

-Aaron

----- Original Message ----
From: steve_the_composer <smw-mail@...>
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 6:36:49 PM

Hmmmm. This is a good question; I am not sure if it has been 
discussed before. I haven't done much with E-Mu sysex in a while, but 
I will take a look if no one else has the answer. Let me make sure I 
understand what you want to do:
You want to be able to switch from one pattern to another via sysex. 
(That is, you don't want to change the notes in a pattern on the fly 
via sysex.)

If I remember correctly, you can simulate XMIX via remote control 
mode using sysex commands, but if I understand, you basically want to 
switch to a different pattern entirely.

It seems to me it should be doable; but I will have to dig oout my 
syex manual.

--Steve

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Atom Smasher <atom@...> wrote:
>
> i'm looking at the manual (rev G) and the sysex manual (2.2) and i 
don't 
> see an obvious/simple way to do this: change the pattern via midi.
> 
> it looks like this can be done by emulating the front panel knobs & 
> buttons via sysex (YECH!).
> 
> so... is there a better way to do it?
> 
> ideally, there should be a way to enter a bank/preset and instead 
of 
> interpreting it as a patch-change, interpret it as a pattern change.
> 
> and yeah, i know i could use the trigger-select-pattern feature, 
but 
> that's limited to 16 patterns per multi-setup.



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