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Re: Matrix-12 Owner's manual Supplement (UPDATED)

2010-07-03 by jleroux2010

Thank you Greg...

I will look at that.
Actually, I would like to create a clone of the Xpander user interface, but I like the idea of the MidiBox modules..





--- In xpantastic@yahoogroups.com, "baumont987" <geebeex@...> wrote:
>
> jleroux2010,
> 
> In addition of my reply, you can find the source code and the front
> panel of the Chaos Matrix programmer here:
> http://midibox.org/forums/index.php?/topic/13313-chaos-matrix/
> <http://midibox.org/forums/index.php?/topic/13313-chaos-matrix/>
> 
> --- In xpantastic@yahoogroups.com, "jleroux2010" <jleroux2010@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > it looks like that my reply to this post, earlier today, was not sent
> or was lost...  Here is a simpler version of what I am looking for:
> >
> > On page 21 of the Matrix-12 Owner's manual, there is a reference to a
> manual called the "Matrix-12 Owner's Manual Supplement".
> >
> > The quote:  "...there are a total of 59 Primary pages and related
> Sub-Pages lurking within the Matrix-12. As a learnig aid, we have listed
> every one of the 59 Pages' displays in the Matrix-12 Pages Directory".
> >
> > The Xpander manual and the Matrix-12 manual are not showing all the
> drawings for all the options available for the Xpander or Matrix-12,
> > even if the Matrix-12 manual is more verbose than the Xpander one.
> >
> > What I would like to get is a text file (or a video on Youtube), that
> would list or show the contents of all the displays (with their column
> position), the leds' status from the Page Modifier section, etc. For
> example, pressing the button for VCO1, which leds are ON,
> > which buttons are inactive, what is seen when we use the encoders,
> etc. Is someone interested?
> >
> > Of course, I would not need to ask all this if I could spend one hour
> with an Xpander..
> >
> > I have a project to create a personal standalone programmer
> (microprocessor based, emulating the Xpander User Interface) to be used
> with my Matrix-6: I am tired of the membrane switches.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --- In xpantastic@yahoogroups.com, "baumont987" geebeex@ wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > The only official thing I know about pages is the list of pages in
> the document "OberheimXpanderMidiSpec.zip" in the  Files/Documents
> section, of this group.
> > > Could you explain a little bit more what are you trying to emulate,
> I do not understand clearly your needs.
> > >
> > > On the Xpander, to change a parameter, you first need to send a page
> select, and then a parameter change:
> > > ex:
> > > page select: F0 10 02 0B 20 00 F7 (VCO1, subpage 0)
> > > param change: F0 10 02 0A 00 08 00 00 00 63 00 F7 (bottom button...)
> > >
> > > see the OberheimXpanderMidiSpec doc for details.
> > >
> > > You don't need to resend a page select for the next param if it is
> still in the same page/subpage than the previous one.
> > > Page/subpage select takes a lot of time to be taken in account by
> the Xpander.
> > >
> > > /Greg.
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In xpantastic@yahoogroups.com, "jleroux2010" <jleroux2010@>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi
> > > > I am a new member to this list.
> > > >
> > > > I am looking for the "Matrix-12 Owner's manual Supplement" (scans
> or PDF) that the Matrix-12 Owner's manual (first edition) mentions on
> page 21.
> > > >
> > > > It is supposed to show all the 59 pages and sub-pages for
> programming the Matrix-12: a Matrix 12 pages directory...
> > > >
> > > > I would like to emulate the Xpander or Matrix-12 programmer
> > > > for my Matrix-6.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thank you very much.
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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