Good points.
I never found any other way to set instruments except thru (BankSel/ProgChng) pairs... which is odd, since the QY does it with a single plus/minus button press...but of course they are probably just setting both behind the scenes. ?
Always wished I could set one rotary as an instrument selector on the Novation, but could not as it only allows one sysex or CC per control. ?
The MIDI 1.0 Spec is definitely 16 channels, but the new MIDI 2.0 spec (present in Jan 2020) will increase this to 256.... The QY70/100 can send/recieve 16 channels (by swapping tracks 9thru 16 and 17 to 24)..
Of course, then there is the QY700, than has 48 tracks (16 pattern, 32 song)...which has gotta be like stuffing 10lbs of potatos in a 5lb bag when it comes to sending it over 16 channels. ?LOL!?
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On Jan 31, 2021, at 4:11 AM, QYedit via groups.io <domgoold@...> wrote:
?Hi Eric,
remember your Novation RemoteSL MIDI templates? and that we found out that MIDI CC reset at the top each time, and that sysex commands were better for 'setting'? (parameters) ?
actually there is another matter here with this that i remember, that might have some bearing: if you want to use a sysex command - say, to switch Local Off on any given Track/Part (which is what i was doing one time, so that i could have some QY sounds -drums-, whilst sequencing an exterior sound module on other Tracks) - i had to set up the sysex messages at the top of one of the SONGS, so that i could have the MIDI Local Off on those Tracks, in PATTERN mode.
so i'm thinking, maybe, these Bank/ProgramChange messages need to be sent to the QY on Song tracks, for them to be effective in the Pattern mode. you were saying there were 8 + 16 = 24 tracks. but it is still just 16 midi channels, and the Pattern mode voice assign uses the Song mode assignments (1-8 or 9-16), and maybe this has some bearing here. (i can't remember if there was a way to assign voices via sysex instead of BankSel/ProgChng)
(soz, response is a bit convoluted .. )
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