Hi,
Is anyone working on Matrix6 and/or Nord Lead enhancements? If not I
might be able to sign up to do some. I don't have any Java or C++ exp.
but I do a lot of C programming and know some people at Sun. Of course
I don't have much time but who does?
I also appreciate the opensource nature of this project, and think it's
great that you wrote this program for people to use wihtout trying to
gain (man I love GNU sometimes).
If you're interested in the details of my testing then read on - I'm
away from my studio at the moment but I did some testing with the 0.18
jSynthLib and saw the following:
This is all dome on Mac OSX 10.3.4
$ java -version
java version "1.4.2_03"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_03-117.1)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2-34, mixed mode)
Testing Conducted on a Matrix 6 ->
Strange behaviour + enhancements:
- Main Window - drop-down menus tend to disappear and have to be
reselected to get at the menu contents.
- would be nice to be able to type the patch
number or select it from the list (faster).
- turned my trash icon into a java icon...
- Edit Window - sometimes the sliders don't appear.
- values cannot be entered via text in the boxes.
- values seem to do what they should on synth
after being stored (good!).
- Bank Support - I could look into adding it if I knew the
format, I could probably use the 1000 as a
reference and compare to the Matrix6 dump using
a hex editor.
- Patch Get - recognises the patches as being from a Matrix6
(good!).
- Matrix6 only sends sysex on MIDI 1 for some
reason (synth issue/feature).
- the Patch Name is all unrecognised characters.
- changing the patch name sort of works (as long
as all capital letters are used).
- Patch Edit/Store - Modifying the parameters seems to work.
- the click option for DCO's does nothing (no
sound, is synth issue?).
- the DCO source check boxes should be
exclusive not additive (wave + pulse +
noise) - I think but maybe I'm wrong.
!!! - after getting a patch (sucessfully) I can send it to
Matrix6 (sucessfully but using MIDI ch 1 again).
- can edit the patch (but see some strangeness as above).
- can still send it to Matrix6 and it seems to work OK.
- but trying to 'get' the sent patch has problems JSynthLib
tells me that it is not in Matrix6 format but it's
"probably an Oberheim patch" (I guess Oberheim used
a weird format). So something is not working right.
May just be the PatchName but I'm not sure yet.
Nord Lead ->
I see that only the edit buffer of slot1 is used for the
patches, would it be useful to have a setting in JSynthLib that
will send to any slot? I think it's just a field in the systex data
that picks the slot.
In the Nord L2 manual the sysex info says the data can be sent
to the edit buffer or slots 1-4 (via values 0-5). I'll check
which one JSynthLib uses but I think the 0 (current edit buffer
is likely what it is). Was there a problem using the slot
numbers?
So perhaps I can contribute. I know anything about Java dev but I think
all the basic tools (javec etc.) are already in OSX so that's a start.
I have also grabbed a copy of your programming ref. page.
Thanks again and sorry for the very long mail. (PS I just downloaded
the .20 version and will try all this again once I'm back near my gear).
--
Sean Scott
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