Taurus 3 firmware update v1.2 - now with new features!

[sunny pedaal]

how is the state of the update ?
or is time consumed completely by completing the minitaurusthing ?
still lot's of good mooglovingpeople hoping and waiting for The upgrade.
amos , please....


fr.gr. sunny

[Amos]

Hello! Minitaur is OK since last week. This week I resume work on Taurus. Thanks!

-Amos

[Mr Arkadin]

Thank the lord. I was worried our 'old' Taurus was going to get forgotten.

OK as well as the fixes (particularly the broken arp), something on the Minitaur struck me. It has keyboard tracking, but only available via MIDI. And I seem to remember you hadn't decided whether to make it 100% or 200% (seems you've settled on 200% judging by the manual).

This suggests to me that the keyboard tracking on the Minitaur is software driven, so any chance it could added to the Taurus 3 firmware too?

[sunny pedaal]

50/100/200 % ?

[Amos]

Taurus 3 gets its filter tracking via a fixed resistor from the pitch-CV, just like the Taurus 1.
I might be able to add *more* pitch-CV to filter in software, but I can't take it to zero.

[MC]

Could you negate the pitch CV and sum it to get zero tracking?

[Amos]

Could you negate the pitch CV and sum it to get zero tracking?

Unless there was some kind of "null calibration" to dial in just the amount of negation required for each unit, then it would be impossible to guarantee zero tracking this way, due to small variations in the analog circuitry from unit to unit. So, not impossible, but it quickly becomes pretty involved...

[MC]

Zero keyboard tracking wouldn't be a terrible loss. The Taurus I was 50% tracking, as should be the Taurus 3. I would be happy if it could track 50/67/100, "67" mimicing the original model D 2/3 behavior.

[francesco]

At the moment, it is very difficult to tap the tempo for a 16th arppegio or lfo speed with the foot in a live situation.
Would it be possible to modify the tap-tempo function in a future update to tap in the desired BPM directly?
This would be a great help for me.

[Mr Arkadin]

I may have discovered something odd. Not sure if it's a bug yet, but I can't figure out what's going on. I haven't used MIDI in a while (been using the pedals), but decided to play some stuff from a keyboard.

The problem is if a play an F I'm actually hearing the C below that. I have no transpose on the Taurus 3 and none on th MIDI channel in Cubase. I cannot for the life of me find any transpose setting that could be doing this.

Is there another place I could be transposing it without realising? If not can anyone confirm if this happens on their T3?

[Amos]

I may have discovered something odd. Not sure if it's a bug yet, but I can't figure out what's going on. I haven't used MIDI in a while (been using the pedals), but decided to play some stuff from a keyboard.

The problem is if a play an F I'm actually hearing the C below that. I have no transpose on the Taurus 3 and none on th MIDI channel in Cubase. I cannot for the life of me find any transpose setting that could be doing this.

Is there another place I could be transposing it without realising? If not can anyone confirm if this happens on their T3?

I added some new MIDI transpose In/Out functionality in v1.2... check the MIDI SETUP menu for new items. That's probably it...

[Mr Arkadin]

Looking in the MIDI pages I have some odd things that I don't understand what they mean. Here's what I see:

MIDI Transpose
I65-65 Semitones (I think the I is supposed to say In)

Next page:
MIDI Transpose
Out6-65 Semitone

Next page:
MIDI Filter
In: (then just garbled/corrupted characters)

Next page:
MIDI Filter
Out: Vers: (no values in here for some reason)

I'll try a re-flash.

[edit]Same problems after re-flash[/edit]

[bichuelo]

@Mr Arkadin Did you try a Factory Restore? It worked for me.

You'll have to backup your presets before because it erases all of them

[persona]

where can i download the latest version of the update?

is it the link on amos' first post in this thread?

[Amos]

I'm back to work on Taurus 3 now. I might have a new version by the end of the day; if not I will work on it over the weekend. My goal is to have a finished version with no known bugs by Monday, if at all possible.

Cheers,

Amos