Re: [Bluemusic-users] change presets

[Menno K. <mag...@gm...>]

Feature is requested, and i was thinking a bit on the subject some more. I
hope it makes sense.

At the time i was working a lot with Cubase and midi (AtariST - still got
it!). It takes a little while to transmit all the initialization data to the
hardware/software synth - this i did using sysex midi data or simply a
Program Change.
A Program Change was a quicker way because one only changes instruments with
their preset parameters already set.
 
When i tried to send over this long list of sysex data to change ALL of the
parameters of the synth (so that the sound was more or less changing live),
then, while playing, the synth would choke and hang and i had to manually
reset the synth :)

To make sure that the synth and all its settings was available just BEFORE
playing, i put on the timeline a Part containing only the Program Change or
SysEx data. It takes a few milliseconds to load, just as expect a ftable
containing init data for the BSB will take.

This leads me to the idea that perhaps a seprerate Object (PresetObject)
could be created and be used to insert right before the actual notes start
playing.
Another advantage would be that the user can move the PresetObject around at
a later time, copy it etc.

The ftable (= PresetObject) gets its time from the timeline. It would all be
csd compatible :)



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