zebra2 question: midi program change

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hi
a friend show me the zebra2 quickly last night
very impressiv sound and capability
but on his mac we can't manage to do a
program change even with bank select
we ve try on sx and live6
is there a trick here ?
anyway seems to be the new generation plugins
great

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Zebra 1.5 had Midi Program Change/Bank Select, to the effect of many, many support incidents when it crashed.

It's a conceptual problem of hosting plugins in audio software that Midi information is passed on to the plugins in time critical threads. Thus, any program change that involves a lot of data mangling (i.e. thousands of parameters, sample loading etc.) will cause timing issues and thus in some hosts even crash.

To avoid crashes, I have dropped support for Midi Program Changes.

However, I'm working on concepts to use them for other needful things.

Cheers,

;) Urs

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ok
thanks for your reply
i understand that pgm change can cause a huge CPU peak
but if it's just to switch from a preset to another
between songs ....at this point there s no difference with
the mouse preset selection? same cpu peak etc....
anyway good job

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