[A6] greetings and hopefully some help

[Robert van der Kamp]

On Friday 26 December 2003 20:41, The Deliverator wrote:
> Greetings All,
>
> I'm the proud new owner (as of yesterday) of an A6.  What
> an awesome thing it is.

Congrats! And how right you are! ;)

>
> I've been RTFM and pouring through the archives, but a
> couple of things haven't made it through my thick skull
> just yet, so please bear with a couple of newbie
> questions.
>
> I'm using Emagic Logic as my main midi sequencer.  I
> found the environment object for the a6 (thanks to
> whoever wrote that!) and have it set up with the proper
> bank change messages etc.
>
> I notice that when in program mode I can only get logic
> to play one voice/patch on the A6.  Is this actually the
> case?  It would appear so based on the documentation.

In program mode the A6 plays one program (patch) only, but 
you can play up to 16 voices (audible tones) from that 
patch.


>
> To get multiple voices out of logic, I believe I need to
> create a custom mix while the synth is in mix mode that
> enables all of the midi channels that I need.  Is this
> correct?  

Yep. See the manual, it is all explained there.

> Just making sure I get this right.  Is there
> anyway that I can call what patch is on what voice/midi
> channel from within Logic while the synth is in mix mode?
>  Or do I need to define these on the synth itself?

Don't know about midi control, but it surely works fine from 
the synth itself. Again, read the manual.

>
> The A6 seems to think a little differently than other
> synths I own, and I'm still trying to get my head around
> it, so my apologies if these questions have been answered
> a million times before.

No prob, take your time. It's a deep synth.


> I've also been searching around to see if there's an A6
> faq to no avail.  Does such a thing exist?

See my sig for a link to a great document written by Chad 
(and reformatted by moi). Lots of great info there!

-- 
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http://home.planet.nl/~robnet/a6/A6TipsAndTricks.doc
http://home.planet.nl/~robnet/a6/A6TipsAndTricks.rtf
http://home.planet.nl/~robnet/a6/A6TipsAndTricks.pdf
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