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AdmiralQuality wrote:Synths since the Prophet 5 (1977) no longer had knobs and sliders directly connected to the voice circuitry anyway... the knobs' positions were first digititized, so they could be stored in digital memory, and that numeric value in memory was converted to a suitable control voltage that was sent to the knobs.
Is this true of the Pro One, do you happen to know?
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foosnark wrote:After a whole bunch of messing around going through all those banks, digging out the patches I care about and tweaking them, etc. -- I'd have to say I'd really like to be able to pick the waves via dropdown list. Deciding I want all three oscs to be triangle instead of saw means a lot of precision knob-fiddling, and it shouldn't :)
Well, the GUI might not win prizes at this point, but it has some surprises up it's sleeve. Try double clicking on the field with the wave name... ;)
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inverseroom wrote:
AdmiralQuality wrote:Synths since the Prophet 5 (1977) no longer had knobs and sliders directly connected to the voice circuitry anyway... the knobs' positions were first digititized, so they could be stored in digital memory, and that numeric value in memory was converted to a suitable control voltage that was sent to the knobs.
Is this true of the Pro One, do you happen to know?
The Pro-One has no digital patch memory. So, no.

The Pro-One was essentially going for... "let's take a single Prophet 5 voice and make a Minimoog competitor out of it."
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inverseroom wrote: Is this true of the Pro One, do you happen to know?
The P1 has no memories. The knobs are directly connected to the analog circuits. The only thing digital is the keyboard scanning circuit and the sequencer. :)
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bk wrote:Anyone else using this successfully in Tracktion 2?
I get it to make sound, but the GUI jumps all around when I try to click some of the buttons. :help:

edit: Wrapping it in EnergyXT solves the jumping gui. I guess it must be a Tracktion specific issue.

A bit more detail on the problem: The title bar of the plugin, when used in Tracktion 2, sometimes disappears when attempting to click on a button (especially the patch change buttons). When attempting to click a button the entire gui shifts up, and covers the title bar, then moving the mouse up to attempt to click the same button, causes it to shift back down and show the title bar again. This makes it a little hard to use... :hihi:

I must say, this thing really takes me back. It brings up fond memories of my ESQ. This plug sounds remarkably like it. Thanks for that! :)
I have the same problem in Tracktion. Really frustrating since I do like this synth a lot. I don't have EnergyXT so if someone else has a solution; let us know. It would be even better if this bug could be fixed (though it's apparantly only a problem in Tracktion)
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I also miss the seeing the preset display, and think that could even be improved over the hardware, showing all loaded presets on one compact page, where the current preset is shown underlined and can be played/auditioned, or you can click through the list.

Also the banks of 40 aren't cutting it for me since a fully loaded SQ could hold 120 presets (CartA + CartB + Internal, 40 each = 120) OK 121, if you count the edit buffer. I'm thinking of springboarding off tomg's great bank conversion work and consolidating them into groups of 3. Just a matter of finding the time at this point.

Also, I seem to recall an ESQ-1 librarian software out there that automatically culled duplicate patches? This would help in coming up with a nice library for Sig's great work.

Sorry - just thinking out loud :)
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1-2-Many wrote:I also miss the seeing the preset display, and think that could even be improved over the hardware, showing all loaded presets on one compact page, where the current preset is shown underlined and can be played/auditioned, or you can click through the list.

Also the banks of 40 aren't cutting it for me since a fully loaded SQ could hold 120 presets (CartA + CartB + Internal, 40 each = 120) OK 121, if you count the edit buffer. I'm thinking of springboarding off tomg's great bank conversion work and consolidating them into groups of 3. Just a matter of finding the time at this point.

Also, I seem to recall an ESQ-1 librarian software out there that automatically culled duplicate patches? This would help in coming up with a nice library for Sig's great work.

Sorry - just thinking out loud :)
Yes, an overview page for all loaded patches and using the cursor keys to step through them would be nice.

However about your other point, I think the plugin already handles 127 patches...
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c_huelsbeck wrote "Well, the GUI might not win prizes at this point, but it has some surprises up it's sleeve. Try double clicking on the field with the wave name..."

I tried double-clicking on most things in the display field and it either shows all the options or if it's a switch it switches.

Brilliant. Thanks so much... :D

LTP.
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I think value increment/decrement buttons are in order too. The originals had them as well as a data entry slider.
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c_huelsbeck wrote:
foosnark wrote:After a whole bunch of messing around going through all those banks, digging out the patches I care about and tweaking them, etc. -- I'd have to say I'd really like to be able to pick the waves via dropdown list. Deciding I want all three oscs to be triangle instead of saw means a lot of precision knob-fiddling, and it shouldn't :)
Well, the GUI might not win prizes at this point, but it has some surprises up it's sleeve. Try double clicking on the field with the wave name... ;)
Hmm, I never thought of double-clicking, usually right-clicking does this sort of thing. Thanks :D
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If your looking for SYSEX Librarians, this is the place to go!!!
http://www.harmony-central.com/Software ... itors.html

A whole shitload for all kinds of Synths! 8)
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bk wrote:Anyone else using this successfully in Tracktion 2?
I get it to make sound, but the GUI jumps all around when I try to click some of the buttons. :help:

edit: Wrapping it in EnergyXT solves the jumping gui. I guess it must be a Tracktion specific issue.

A bit more detail on the problem: The title bar of the plugin, when used in Tracktion 2, sometimes disappears when attempting to click on a button (especially the patch change buttons). When attempting to click a button the entire gui shifts up, and covers the title bar, then moving the mouse up to attempt to click the same button, causes it to shift back down and show the title bar again. This makes it a little hard to use... :hihi:

I must say, this thing really takes me back. It brings up fond memories of my ESQ. This plug sounds remarkably like it. Thanks for that! :)
I'll try it out in T2 and get back to ya.
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confirmed. it's flaky in T2. it jumps around and I cant click on anything. glad I have eXT/phrazor :)
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sorry to post here but your PM's are disabled :)

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Liquidclear wrote:
inverseroom wrote: Is this true of the Pro One, do you happen to know?
The P1 has no memories. The knobs are directly connected to the analog circuits. The only thing digital is the keyboard scanning circuit and the sequencer. :)
AdmiralQuality wrote:The Pro-One has no digital patch memory. So, no.

The Pro-One was essentially going for... "let's take a single Prophet 5 voice and make a Minimoog competitor out of it."
I'm aware it has no patch memory...I have one! And IMHO, it's absolutely a Minimoog competitor. But mine has a MIDI retrofit and I wondered, briefly, if I could somehow train it to receive sysex. Which obviously I cannot.

The P1 and SQ-80 have been my main workhorses for some time now.
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