Hey all,
I'm not a MIDI guy at all, although I work with software quite a bit at the day job, so I'm not afraid to learn new software. I recently upgraded from a Nord Electro 3 to a DMC-122/Gemini combo, to play splits and for the awesome B3 emulation.
Love it so far, and once I got the hang of writing down potentiometer and button numbers next to the PC numbers on my cheat sheet, it was pretty easy to assign a lot of what I wanted. Assigned the EP effects to drawbars, reassigned some of the stuff I didn't like.
I'm left wondering a few things. For one, there's just not enough potentiometers to control EQ for both the upper and lower channels. You can set the drawbars to control each channel, but obviously I don't want to load them with stuff like EQ when I want to use them to play B3. Since EQ is so important when playing live, I'd really like to be able to modify it for presets and save them on the lower manual. I could assign EQ on/off to a button, but I'd lose a preset button.
Also not sure if there's a way I can save changes to the presets on-the-fly or if I need to open the Gemini editor, which is obviously not going to happen mid-song.
Right now I can have the controls I want on the upper manual or the lower or both at the same time, but I can't figure out whether I can just change the controls to work on one OR the other, not both at once or either. There's no obvious program change number for this, but I think there MUST be a way to either turn the encoder or enable a button to change all my controls to work on the lower channel and then press the button/turn the encoder again to go back to the upper channel.
The manual says this about modifying the upper and lower channel:
The last two types are “Upper Modifier” and “Lower Modifier”. In this case, buttons don't send any MIDI message but serve to modify the MIDI Channel and/or the MIDI port of the upper or the lower keyboard. This function is particularly useful when it is necessary to switch between two cascaded MIDI devices responding on different channels. At the simple press of a button a keyboard is immediately reconfigured to send to a new channel and/or to a different port.
Not sure if that is what I need at all. It looks like I could also use the encoder to send a program change, which would be useful, since it hasn't worked well as a potentiometer, probably because it just turns and turns rather than reaching a maximum value by default.
When Type is set to Send Program Change, the encoder sends MIDI Program Change events ranging from a given minimum value to a maximum value on the selected bank. When a limit is reached, the value is not incremented / decremented even though the rotation continues.
I'm definitely a MIDI newbie, and I haven't tried any software meant to ease this like MIDI Designer. I suuuuuspect there's a way to design this program change but I don't know what it is.
I'm not a MIDI guy at all, although I work with software quite a bit at the day job, so I'm not afraid to learn new software. I recently upgraded from a Nord Electro 3 to a DMC-122/Gemini combo, to play splits and for the awesome B3 emulation.
Love it so far, and once I got the hang of writing down potentiometer and button numbers next to the PC numbers on my cheat sheet, it was pretty easy to assign a lot of what I wanted. Assigned the EP effects to drawbars, reassigned some of the stuff I didn't like.
I'm left wondering a few things. For one, there's just not enough potentiometers to control EQ for both the upper and lower channels. You can set the drawbars to control each channel, but obviously I don't want to load them with stuff like EQ when I want to use them to play B3. Since EQ is so important when playing live, I'd really like to be able to modify it for presets and save them on the lower manual. I could assign EQ on/off to a button, but I'd lose a preset button.
Also not sure if there's a way I can save changes to the presets on-the-fly or if I need to open the Gemini editor, which is obviously not going to happen mid-song.
Right now I can have the controls I want on the upper manual or the lower or both at the same time, but I can't figure out whether I can just change the controls to work on one OR the other, not both at once or either. There's no obvious program change number for this, but I think there MUST be a way to either turn the encoder or enable a button to change all my controls to work on the lower channel and then press the button/turn the encoder again to go back to the upper channel.
The manual says this about modifying the upper and lower channel:
The last two types are “Upper Modifier” and “Lower Modifier”. In this case, buttons don't send any MIDI message but serve to modify the MIDI Channel and/or the MIDI port of the upper or the lower keyboard. This function is particularly useful when it is necessary to switch between two cascaded MIDI devices responding on different channels. At the simple press of a button a keyboard is immediately reconfigured to send to a new channel and/or to a different port.
Not sure if that is what I need at all. It looks like I could also use the encoder to send a program change, which would be useful, since it hasn't worked well as a potentiometer, probably because it just turns and turns rather than reaching a maximum value by default.
When Type is set to Send Program Change, the encoder sends MIDI Program Change events ranging from a given minimum value to a maximum value on the selected bank. When a limit is reached, the value is not incremented / decremented even though the rotation continues.
I'm definitely a MIDI newbie, and I haven't tried any software meant to ease this like MIDI Designer. I suuuuuspect there's a way to design this program change but I don't know what it is.
