JSynthLib

Guys,

I haven't got very far with the K1 driver. I'm having a bit of a dilemma 
and wondered if anyone could point me to any other synths that have a 
similar bank/patch structure as the k1.

I know the K1 is a bit like the K4 but there's a difference; as I 
understand it they both have 64 'single' patches and 32 'multi' patches, 
but the K4's single patches seem to be in one block, e.g. A-1..D-16, 
whereas the K1 has them split in to two blocks; A-1..D-8 and a-1..d-8. 
The patch numbers in the single blocks go:

A-1 = 0
..
D-8 = 31
a-1 = 32
..
d-8 = 63

Unfortunately though a "ALL SINGLE DATA DUMP" sysex message contains 
either A-1..D-8 or a-1..d-8.

So I guess my questions are:

1) are there any other synths you know of with this kind of structure 
that I could use as a template

2) would you treat the 'pair' of banks as one, in which case, you'd need 
to send and receive two separate sysex messages to download the data, or 
treat them as separate bank?

Hope I'm not confusing you too much; I'd better stop there as I'm 
confusing myself a bit!:-)

Thanks for listening.
John

Re: [Jsynthlib-devel] Looking for Kawai K1 advice or pointers From: Frankie Fisher <jsynthlib.org@te...> - 2011-12-07 22:39 On 07/12/2011 22:21, John McCabe wrote: > > 2) would you treat the 'pair' of banks as one, in which case, you'd need > to send and receive two separate sysex messages to download the data, or > treat them as separate bank? > It sounds like 2 banks might be the more convenient way to treat it, although it could probably work either way. frankie

Re: [Jsynthlib-devel] Looking for Kawai K1 advice or pointers From: William Zwicky <wrzwicky@po...> - 2011-12-09 02:29 On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:21 PM, John McCabe <john@...> wrote: > 2) would you treat the 'pair' of banks as one, in which case, you'd need > to send and receive two separate sysex messages to download the data, or > treat them as separate bank? This is really a question of how people use the synth. You'll need to determine if it makes more sense *to a user of the synth* to manage the K1's patches as two banks or as one. This might mean the K1 code will be different from the K4 code, but if it makes more sense for the synth, then you should do it that way. -Bill Zwicky

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