one button at a time

This is the place to share tips, tricks and questions about Moog's controller products; the MP-201 Multi-Pedal and the EP-2. There are a world of applications for these expression enhancers. Explore...
Amos
Posts: 2438
Joined: Wed Jul 23, 2003 3:11 pm

Post by Amos » Fri Nov 14, 2008 12:53 pm

The Moog engineers are pretty much all on board with this feature; we're sorry we didn't think of it first! :)

Anyway what we're looking at doing right now is really simple... think about how it and tell me if this would work for you.

We're thinking about doing this basically as an option for Quad Mode... so quad mode would have a choice of working exactly like it does now, or (the new option) exactly like it does now except that turning on one channel automatically turns off the previous channel. Remember the radio selector buttons in old car stereos? (some folks might be too young to know what I'm talking about) -- like that.

So, as far as what the pedal does when you turn on a channel now... this would not change. The way it works now is that expression channels have an "initial value" that is programmable, and that's the voltage that gets output when you first turn on a channel. Then whenever you move the expression pedal after that, the output snaps to the real pedal position. One-channel-at-a-time mode would work the same way.
As far as channels that you turn off, meaning the previously-active channel if we are talking about one-button mode, what should happen is that the output of that channel stays at exactly whatever it was when you switched channels. In the case of LFOs, you have different "off modes" that control what the LFO does when a channel is off. It can freeze at its last instantaneous value, can turn off completely, or can keep running as an LFO, only with no further influence from the expression pedal once the channel is off.

So let me know if a set-up like I just described here would work for you guys.

Thanks!

-Amos

EricK
Posts: 6015
Joined: Fri Apr 09, 2004 2:09 pm

Post by EricK » Fri Nov 14, 2008 12:58 pm

Does it have something in the menus that will let you turn this feature on and off?
Support the Bob Moog Foundation:
https://moogfoundation.org/do-something-2/donate/

I think I hear the mothership coming.

Amos
Posts: 2438
Joined: Wed Jul 23, 2003 3:11 pm

Post by Amos » Fri Nov 14, 2008 1:04 pm

EricK wrote:Does it have something in the menus that will let you turn this feature on and off?
Well yes, that is certainly the idea. I am thinking something in the utilities menu, like QUAD MODE: (mono) or (poly)
poly is the current quad mode,
mono is one button at a time.

Bryan T
Posts: 812
Joined: Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:23 pm

Post by Bryan T » Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:42 pm

Amos wrote:So let me know if a set-up like I just described here would work for you guys.
That sounds solid to me.

Bryan

User avatar
Voltor07
Posts: 5197
Joined: Sun May 25, 2008 3:04 am
Location: Waukegan, IL USA
Contact:

Post by Voltor07 » Fri Nov 14, 2008 8:44 pm

Amos, that would be simply grand! Actually, I am too young to remember the car radios of which you speak, but I have seen them in junkyards, so I have an idea of what you describe. Works for me! :mrgreen:
Minitaur, CP-251, EHX #1 Echo, EHX Space Drums/Crash Pads, QSC GX-3, Pyramid stereo power amp, Miracle Pianos, Walking Stick ribbon controller, Synthutron.com, 1983 Hammond organ, dot com modular.

teddykjam
Posts: 26
Joined: Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:56 am
Location: Brooklyn, NY

Post by teddykjam » Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:44 am

Amos...

Woweeeeee

you guys ROCK completely... that is wonderful... and a perfect implementation.

I am back to waiting patiently for me MP-201 to arrive instead of thinking about canceling the order. Thank you soooo much.

really amazing support. Why isn't every company like this?

Teddy
Teddy

http://teddyjam.com

User avatar
Voltor07
Posts: 5197
Joined: Sun May 25, 2008 3:04 am
Location: Waukegan, IL USA
Contact:

Post by Voltor07 » Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:41 pm

teddykjam wrote:
really amazing support. Why isn't every company like this?

Teddy
If every company had Moog support, you wouldn't be able to afford anything, because they would have Moog prices as well! $300,000 car, anyone? $20,000 computer? :lol:
Minitaur, CP-251, EHX #1 Echo, EHX Space Drums/Crash Pads, QSC GX-3, Pyramid stereo power amp, Miracle Pianos, Walking Stick ribbon controller, Synthutron.com, 1983 Hammond organ, dot com modular.

User avatar
latigid on
Posts: 1579
Joined: Mon Jan 30, 2006 3:47 pm
Location: Auckland, New Zealand

Post by latigid on » Wed Nov 19, 2008 12:17 am

At least it would be an analog/modular computer that would fill up a room. :D

User avatar
Voltor07
Posts: 5197
Joined: Sun May 25, 2008 3:04 am
Location: Waukegan, IL USA
Contact:

Post by Voltor07 » Wed Nov 19, 2008 2:42 am

latigid on wrote:At least it would be an analog/modular computer that would fill up a room. :D
YES!! A UNIVAC! :lol: Incidentally, I would totally buy a discrete transistor form of the UNIVAC...IF I could afford the hotel to put it in. :lol:
Minitaur, CP-251, EHX #1 Echo, EHX Space Drums/Crash Pads, QSC GX-3, Pyramid stereo power amp, Miracle Pianos, Walking Stick ribbon controller, Synthutron.com, 1983 Hammond organ, dot com modular.

teddykjam
Posts: 26
Joined: Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:56 am
Location: Brooklyn, NY

one at a time mode update

Post by teddykjam » Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:03 pm

I finally have an MP201 in front of me now...

I think one at a time mode should also be implemented in single mode.

just my opinion
Teddy

http://teddyjam.com

Post Reply