Re: [yoshimi-user] More MIDI controllers
- From: Will J Godfrey <WillGodfrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: yoshimi-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:03:01 +0100
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:13:47 +0400
alex stone <compose59@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:24 PM, allcoms <allcoms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
And a better way might be to just use CC messages? ZASFX uses
about 20 CC messages right now which means you can assign another 108 ;)
Thats what I'm rooting for - 108 remaining should be enough to cover
all the important controls people might want to automate I should
imagine, not that I've counted.
Best,
Jeremy
Talking about MIDI controllers in general, there is one that I've been
interested that simply has not been practical up till now, and that is Program
Change.
Recently, while working on a new composition I discovered that now, you can
indeed, change voice patches in a non sounding channel while others are
sounding. You only get a slight disturbance in the sound if it is one of the
very large patches that you are loading.
This means it is practical to do both voice and voice bank changes on-the-fly.
There aren't many soft or hard synths that can do that! With some care and
thought, while still only having 16 channels you can have a *lot* more
voices - 16384 in theory :)
I don't have any idea how much effort that would take to implement, and I'm
quite aware that our long-suffering dev (yes, that's you Cal) can only work on
a limited set of priorities at any time, so please regard it as a 'that would be
nice' rather than a 'the sky will fall without this'.
P.S.
No I'm not planning on creating new patches to fill all those slots :P
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Will J Godfrey
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