[A6] First Post: fx sync / voice stealing

[Davide Bruzzi]

Hello everybody, this is also my first post
and i am a recent and very excited owner of an A6 in Paris
man I love this sound ... it's nothing like the VAs I used to own ...

While browsing through the manual and the mailing list, i had noticed that
no sync was possible between fx and clock .

This made me think about a very small wishlist about the A6 OS, from small
things such as delay sync up to big features like a programmable arpeggiator
...
I also read that no OS updates were planned from Alesis, that the
developpers
where gone so a new OS is nor planned neither possible

Reading the last mail and the wishlist "archives" made me end with this
question :
has Alesis made the OS sources available ? if not is there anything that can
be done ?

I know it seems a very hard work to understand, compile and test a new OS,
but i
belive that something interesting can come out either from the effort of an
individual ( me? )
or from the Open Source community ... is there any hope about all this ?

thanks and "a bientot"

Davide Bruzzi

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <MelloT at aol.com>
To: <A6 at code404.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: [A6] First Post: fx sync / voice stealing


> Unfortunately, no synchronization of the effects. On the A6, the effects
> section was just a quick Add-On to make it do some nice things, but not a
deep
> device. It would have been nice, but as they really had to rush it out,
the
> programming ALL went into making the OS for the synth.
> Question: Is there any way to synchronise delay / chorus effects to
incoming
> midi clock. I can't seem to find it in the manual, or by browsing the A6
> effects interface?
>
> Also, I created a mix of 7 programs, each on separate midi channels, 3 of
> which contained arps as part of the program and 2 with sequences. I heard
serious
> voice stealing / notes cutting off. Now, it is a farily busy midi
sequence,
> but I was still surprised to witness what happened. Would I be better off
to
> export the arp notes and sequence notes as midi to my sequencer
(ProToolsLE on
> XP) and drive from there?
> I don't think it will change anything. In order for voices to be "stolen"
you
> have to exceed the note capability (as I'm sure you know). Where the notes
> are played from is not an issue - but you might check to see that some
voices
> are not "stacks" of 2 or 4 notes, and maybe shorter Release times. It's
hard to
> say without knowing the patch better, but it can run out of notes fairly
> easily depending on what you're doing.
>
> Welcome, Dublin! (A cool city - nice people there...)
>
> BrianK
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