Re: Hardware programmer for DX7/TX7

"Bruce Wahler [email protected] [YamahaDX]" <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Sep 2019 11:19:37 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.music.equipment.yamaha-dx
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Agreed.  My DSI Tetras are the same:  one can only change 20-25 out of 
about 200 parameters using CC; the rest are NRPN.  And yes, the NRPNs 
are 14-bit.

Regards,

-BW

On 9/12/2019 9:03 AM, [email protected] [YamahaDX] wrote:
>
> As well as MIDI CCs, it would be a good idea to support NRPNs, and 
> maybe RPNS.
>
> I can think of two synths I own that rely heavily on NRPNs, for 
> external control / patch editing - the DSI Mopho Desktop, and the Bass 
> Station II.
>
> On both, CCs only allow you to change a small subset of the parameters.
>
> Although CCs are 14 bit, it's probably acceptable to treat MSB and LSB 
> as two separate 7 bit numbers, if that makes things easier, and it 
> seems fairly common to use an NRPN to just represent a 7 bit value - 
> but it could be either as the MSB or the LSB, depending on the 
> manufacturer, or maybe even the particular model of synth.
>
> - Andy
>
>