[A6] Beware ribbon hold

[David Evans]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 12:15:55PM -0800, Doug Pearson wrote:
> Note that the mod wheel behaves in essentially the same way: if you
> change mixes with the mod wheel set to a value other than zero,
> programs in the new mix will behave using that non-zero mod wheel
> value, but will reset when the mod wheel is moved, UNLESS the mod
> wheel is turned OFF for that mix channel.
> 
...
> I don't know that I'd necessarily call that a bug, but the A6 mix mode
> sure has a TON of quirks that it's good to be aware of ...
> 

  I'd call it a bug, but it's easy to see how it came about.  Getting
all the edge cases right for this sort of thing is a major PITA.  It's
a good argument for writing synth firmware in soemthing like Haskell, I
guess.  :P

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David Evans
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Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada  http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/