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2 hours ago, GisserD said:

So you ask a question, don't like the answer and give 0/10 for customer support.

Nice.

Technical issue, not covered in documentation (in fact docs suggest their numbering starts at 1) or pre-sales, suggested a fix, bluntly told it's not their problem, 0/10.

Not nice.

But anyway - I only mentioned it because there had been an assertion that there had been no complaints.

Your responses seem a bit aggressive: "it was your misunderstanding and inability to understand what actually was going" and a sarcastic "Nice".

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43 minutes ago, prowla said:

Your responses seem a bit aggressive: "it was your misunderstanding and inability to understand what actually was going" and a sarcastic "Nice".

 

I think you are a troll. Dredging up negativity to get a reaction, and spread misinformation that suits your personal narrative. 

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42 minutes ago, prowla said:

Technical issue, not covered in documentation (in fact docs suggest their numbering starts at 1) or pre-sales, suggested a fix, bluntly told it's not their problem, 0/10.

Not nice.

But anyway - I only mentioned it because there had been an assertion that there had been no complaints.

Your responses seem a bit aggressive: "it was your misunderstanding and inability to understand what actually was going" and a sarcastic "Nice".

As it has always been, it is in the manual (though I will see if I can make it less open to misinterpretation). As it states, (Actual) PC 1 recalls preset slot 1. The potential confusion arises in that PC0 is not assigned to anything, but no off-by-1 error, which MIDI monitoring software will verify.

 

I’m not going to belabour this any further as I’ve got recovery to do.

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24 minutes ago, Quatschmacher said:

As it has always been, it is in the manual (though I will see if I can make it less open to misinterpretation). As it states, (Actual) PC 1 recalls preset slot 1. The potential confusion arises in that PC0 is not assigned to anything, but no off-by-1 error, which MIDI monitoring software will verify.

 

I’m not going to belabour this any further as I’ve got recovery to do.

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Yep - that's it; the Program Change says it does 1-99, which lends itself to the interpretation that it uses the 1-128 numbering convention.

It would be good at a minimum to mention that it's using 0-127 but 0 is unused.


Now, the "off-by-one" is a known issue in MIDI; according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_MIDI:

  • In MIDI, the instrument sound or "program" for each of the 16 possible MIDI channels is selected with the Program Change message, which has a Program Number parameter. The following table shows which instrument sound corresponds to each of the 128 possible GM Program Numbers.[3] There are 128 program numbers. The numbers can be displayed as values 1 to 128, or, alternatively, as 0 to 127. The 0 to 127 numbering is usually only used internally by the synthesizer; the vast majority of MIDI devices, digital audio workstations and professional MIDI sequencers display these Program Numbers as shown in the table (1–128).

In other words, the 1-128 convention is supposed to be akin to the real world (ie. you don't stand in the 0th position in a queue, you're not the 0th person to cross the line in a race), whereas the 0-127 one reflects the underlying digital  implementation (ie. the 8-bit registers within the device).

That wiki page says that the "vast majority" of products display 1-128; by that, the FI doesn't align with the "vast majority" of products and it doesn't have an option to change it.

Some better products (eg. the MIDIMan I mentioned earlier) recognise the dichotomy and have a switch to choose.

 

According to this GM2 wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_MIDI_Level_2, the patches are numbered 1-128.

The issue with the FI is that it's surfaced the underlying implementation 0-127 numbering to the UI, but then the docs suggest the numbering starts at 1.

It's only when you try and use it with other equipment that the mismatch is revealed.

 

Anyway, I only spoke up because I happened upon the thead at a point where the assertion being made that nobody had any issues with the FI; I ditched the product and it's not my problem anymore.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I just realised that some polyphonic playing is actually possible with the new FI firmware: if you play an external polyphonic synth and set its release time to be somewhat longer, then it is possible to play an arpeggiated line and have the notes overlap! This is really quite cool. (You do still have to play the line monophonically as usual for it to work though.)

 

Bit rough but shows the idea:

 

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just want to say thank you so much, upgraded to to 4,11 via mac yesterday in 10 mins and after a few failed attempts all was good.

 

New presets are a deffo improvement for people looking to plug and play and ditch a keyboard player treading on out territory - particularly the DI presets  in, I think bank 3

 

I got v4  a month ago - not got beyond p40 of the(well written 😁) manual yet or dabbled with editor but very excited about experimenting and learning how to use this and adapt into my set up

- currently investigating splitting signal in HX stomp and merging with clean bass tone,  which seems  to work well for the some of the more extreme  sounds. The Di type presets seem better by themselves. 

 

My only initial complaint is the inability to easily switch between presets - ok to go up but not easy to go down on the pedal itself? Double click don't work for me = older person, slow!

 

I have a few days off work next week and will be delving into the editor.

 

My only previous synth experience was with  a mini moog in the early 90s- I lost a year down a psychedelic rabbit hole. Here I go again...

 

 

 

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14 minutes ago, Marti T said:

just want to say thank you so much, upgraded to to 4,11 via mac yesterday in 10 mins and after a few failed attempts all was good.

 

New presets are a deffo improvement for people looking to plug and play and ditch a keyboard player treading on out territory - particularly the DI presets  in, I think bank 3

 

I got v4  a month ago - not got beyond p40 of the(well written 😁) manual yet or dabbled with editor but very excited about experimenting and learning how to use this and adapt into my set up

- currently investigating splitting signal in HX stomp and merging with clean bass tone,  which seems  to work well for the some of the more extreme  sounds. The Di type presets seem better by themselves. 

 

My only initial complaint is the inability to easily switch between presets - ok to go up but not easy to go down on the pedal itself? Double click don't work for me = older person, slow!

 

I have a few days off work next week and will be delving into the editor.

 

My only previous synth experience was with  a mini moog in the early 90s- I lost a year down a psychedelic rabbit hole. Here I go again...

 

 

 

Definitely get hooked up to the editor. There are loads more sounds I shared in the cloud.

 

Try patch 86 for a classic MM-type bass sound.

 

You can double-click and hold to quickly scroll down patches. Or click and turn the encoder to scroll through banks, then you’re only a few presses away from whatever preset you want, and can do that using up only. Or hook up a MIDI controller or Panda’s 4Control with a couple of footswitches.

 

Glad you find the manual well-written; I’ve put many hundreds of hours into that since 2019, refining it each time. 

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