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by EMwhite » Sat Jan 01, 2011 6:59 pm
Depending on the patch, settings for ARP might be enabled and set appropriately (for Midi Sync), or not.
As an example, I have a Tribute with the 2.0 upgrade (which was a hardware upgrade that gave it more memory so that it could run newer code; basically putting it on par with Stage but no USB). A "Restore Factory" on mine will bring back the Factory Patches and ARP is enabled on many if not the majority of them, however on a backup set of patches that I have in my Mac (dragged in via SysEx 'record'), there is no ARP enabled; simply because the patch was saved off prior to the code for Arp (and related parameters within the 370-something byte SysEx file).
So on these patches (the 'old' ones), pressing the select button allows for scrolling 10 patches at a time in either direction (this is old behavior). If enabled, pressing it will drop into Arp mode.
If you have a look at the Slim Phatty manual and the code addendums (there are two of them), you'll see new functionality and implementation of a "Global" setting for Midi / Internal which can be set across all patches. This is handy. A prereq is that each Patch will need to be tweaked such that the Global setting is used but it's a big step in the right direction and removes the tedium from managing all of the settings within nested menus of the 100 patches.
Ultimately, I would hope that this functionality will make it's way to code for LP Tribute, and Stage models.
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