[A6] RE: A6 Digest, Vol 120...bug list

[Chris Pickett]

Actually the A6 sends out NRPN's with a 12-bit, 0--4095 range.

Chris

Tom Remi Flygel wrote:
> This could be because your other synths only receive normal MIDI CC 
> (0-127) codes, but the Andromeda sends only NRPN codes (0-16000). Thus 
> it is useless for controlling functions on other synths or softsynths or 
> computer sequencers. They simply can't read the code the A6 sends out 
> because it is totally out of range.
> It is not a bug, it is something they left out of the OS. To get it as a 
> feature would require lots of programming on their part as they'd have 
> to make every knob send out 0-127 signals instead of 0-16000.
> The Alesis Ion had the same thing, but so many begged for MIDI CC aswell 
> that Alesis put it in the latest OS update last year. Only they messed 
> up the code so knobs send 14-114, again making it rather useless as you 
> can't max out OR minimize the values the knobs send out.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sparrenberger, William" 
> <William.Sparrenberger at coors.com>
> To: <a6 at code404.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 9:57 PM
> Subject: [A6] RE: A6 Digest, Vol 120...bug list
> 
> 
> Does the A6 issue of not always reliably sending NRPN to another
> controller constitute a bug???....honestly that's the only thing this
> "guitar player" has ever had a major gripe about...it simply won't play
> right with my Kurzweil. Could be the Kurzweil's fault, but it plays fine
> with all the others ( Korg, EMU. Etc... ) and their method of MIDI CC
> messages...
> 
> I gave up after a month and a few posts here about it.
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