turn off 14-bit and only send 7-bit on the stage II

[mr-g]

In the slim phatty firmware 3.03 upgrade I have noticed the following

- can also turn off all 14-bit output and only send 7-bit data, if you need to

is this possible on the Stage II ??

[nikola]

no.

[mr-g]

will it be possible in the future ?

[Sir Nose]

Yes. The next LP OS should enable all the Slim features except a full midi thru. Not sure about using the mod amount knob as the mod wheel since it would be redundant on the LP. Also, the ability to turn of the volume CC out is added.

[mr-g]

Thanks! thats ok a midi thru can be achieved by enabling the midi merge on the LP stageII

I was more concerned of just enabling 7bit sending on the cutoff and modwheel. I could achieve this via potmapping, but thats meh

Any idea when the new firmware will be released?

[mr-g]

all full midi thru would be nice tho...

[Sir Nose]

Yeah, not sending clock thru makes the merge of little use to me.

The OS will hopefully be out by the end of the year, February at the latest I think.

[jeepo]

Does anybody know why the clock is not sent thru?

[Amos]

Clock is not merged because the little LP processor already has a lot of work to do... at fast tempos, merging every clock message from input to output adds enough extra CPU load to be a bit of an issue. More importantly, a soft merge such as this does not retain absolute timing, because the LP is handling a lot of other priorities in addition to MIDI... this means that additional jitter would be introduced into your clock stream by merging, which is not good.

A passive MIDI Thru (such as on Voyager and Slim Phatty) does not add any jitter... only perhaps some delay if you're using long runs of MIDI cable. This is why the best solution is a powered, multi-channels-wide MIDI splitter; that way you can propagate exactly the same clock to multiple devices without adding any jitter or lag to speak of. Unfortunately, there aren't too many such devices available these days.