Hello everyone,
I am packaging LP OS v3.04 for release, right now. It's done. Sorry it took so long.
Is it perfect? No, of course not... there are still features I want to add in v3.05
However, it's good enough to release as-is.
The only task remaining is to complete the update instructions and documentation for Mac and PC.
As soon as this is done, I will post the update files.
For the most part, OS3 brings the improvements which are already found in the Slim Phatty, to the Little Phatty series. Firmware v3.04 will run on all Little Phatty Stage and Stage II editions, and any Tribute Edition which has already had the EEPROM upgraded (as is necessary to run TE OS 2 or higher).
Changes include:
Alternative Scales & Scale Editor - up to 32 custom tunings can be saved in the hardware at a time, and tuning scales can be created and managed using the free Phatty Tuner software.
Big improvements to the Arpeggiator:
- arp can remain running while you change presets
- arpeg timing is improved; easier to play freely while preserving the timing of your pattern
- global "arp setup" menu allows you easily to change arp clock source, clock divisions on the fly
- LP can now output MIDI clock messages in time with the internal arp clock
- while arp is running, the keyboard can: (1.) output arpeggiated patterns of MIDI notes; (2.) output only the literal MIDI from playing the keys (for use as a controller, independent of what the arp is doing); (3.) output no MIDI notes.
- Arpeggio NOTE LENGTH has been reduced to 50% rather than 100%, as previous...
this means you can use the GATE CV output of Little Phatty (with CV output option) as an analog step clock, which previously did not work so well.
- arpeggiator Latch on/off behavior is smarter and better; it's just easier to play and (in my opinion) altogether more intuitive now.
Analog response to several critical MIDI parameters has been improved: Pitch Bend, Filter Cutoff, Osc2 Frequency, for instance, all respond much more quickly and smoothly to MIDI CCs than in the past.
All "analog" parameters now respond to, and can send, 14-bit MIDI.
Sending 14-bit MIDI can also be disabled now (in case you don't like the hardwired 14-bit Mod Wheel and Filter Cutoff, as in OS2)
Sending CC7 from the Master Volume knob can be turned off.
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OK, those are all the changes I can think of... I might have left something out, but those are certainly the highlights.
Kind regards,
Amos
PS) djfood makes perfect sense to me. djfood, I appreciate your suggestions. There is not volume velocity control in this version, but I'm working on it, for real...