[A6] Ribbon Tracking

[Chris Pickett]

David Evans wrote:

>On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 03:53:32PM -0400, Chris Pickett wrote:
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>>when i press the hold button, it locks the current value of the ribbon, 
>>and subsequent touches to the ribbon don't affect the value.  is this 
>>the correct behaviour?  i was expecting to be able to change the ribbon 
>>value whilst the hold light is on.
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>  I certainly can do that.  I don't recall a preference for it anywhere.
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>>also, why are there two hold buttons?
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>  So you can reach the closest one while you're wailing on the ribbon?
>That's my guess.
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That was my guess too.  Actually, aren't you able to split the ribbon 
into two halves?  Then one hold button would work for one half and one 
for the other.

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>>finally, when i press the "ribbon" button, it doesn't light up, but it 
>>takes me to the croutes section.  this is correct, right?
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>  Right.  It should light up when you use the ribbon, though.
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No, it doesn't light up when i use the ribbon.  Not really a big deal.  
What about you, Mark?

I made an mp3 of the problems I'm having with the ribbon.  The patch is 
#106 is factory program bank 2, "Lucky You".  I'm holding down a note, 
and then sliding my finger smoothly from one end of the ribbon to the 
other.  I think at the end of the mp3, I'm just going from right to 
left, releasing, and then going from right to left again.  Do you hear 
the little glitches?

The file is:

http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~cpicke/chris.pickett-ribbon.mp3

(you can also find two sides of a derrick carter mixtape in the same 
directory, and a recently remastered mixtape from 2001 that I did).

Cheers,
Chris