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

On 12/19/02 1:53 PM, "Andre Lewis" <andrel@...> wrote:

> Is there a way we could display briefly what the quick edit knob is linked to
> and it's value while we are turning it?  This is done on the Virus's and it
> makes it a lot easier to figure out what is going on.
> 

Good idea but unfortunately not very practical.  In the Virus and other
synths that use this feature there is a fairly simple relationship between
knob and what is controlled.  On the XX-7 any given knob can potentially be
attached to 24 different modulation destinations on each of four layers.
And if that complexity isn't enough you can have two additional presets
link.  So the total number of possible, simultaneous destinations is 96*3 =
288!

Of course that is not very likely but it is not all that uncommon for a
single knob to be controlling two or more different destinations on a single
layer, with multiple layers active.

So the information may not be all that useful except in the most basic
situations.  It would work fine for many of the presets but it would also be
fairly easy to "break".  I can imagine a number of ways of handling the
special case of one or two identical assignments on all layers but handling
more is not very elegant and probably not useful.


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