Trying to achieve this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfKzHpsQkxo

Thanks!

One thing that seems to be missing on the midipal sequencer that was a great feature of the 101 (and jx3p) was to step through the sequence with triggers.
It’s a great way to get quick sequences for live playing.
I wonder if it would be possible to make a mode on the sequencer to step to the next note in the sequence every time a midi note is received rather than a constant clock.
Any ideas how this could be implemented?

Thanks!

I am programming the FCB1010 (with UnO Chip) to use the Octatrack.
I have programmed the switches to send just one note command or one CC command, but the switch 7 beside stopping the sequencer (which is what I programmed it for) also solos the active track.
I see with the MidiPal Monitor App that other commands are sent from each switch beside the one I programmed them for.
I see that in the FCB manual some things are not clear (in the UnO manual either) and in some parts of the setup menu I have leds activated for switches whose function is not explained in the manuals, but I tried to change them and nothing changes about this “bug”.
Also I did not find how to reset the pedal (bought used).

Help?

Thanks!

Would it be tricky to develop a Midi clock offset. I have a major headache syncing my MFB 522 drum machine to anything as it has a negative?? delay of about 40 ms.
It’s no problem offsetting with the computer but when I do hardware sets I can’t use it. Perhaps I could use the synclatch in some way to do this (i’ll fiddle with it)...

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I think this thing can help me deliver a suitable base tension to the control pads of midipal. This tension could be divided by any “resistor-like” component. I’m right ?

I have been playing and touring regularly for a while using my trusted companion, a beat-up, old Alpha Juno-1.

Recently though, I’ve been looking at moving on up to a Mopho X4 for a slightly broader range of sounds and more hands-on control from a similarly sized synth.

However, only one thing has kept me from pulling the trigger – the lack of chord memory!

Chord memory is vital to the sound of my act, which is a kind of blend between a live band and 90’s house music. In our set, chord memory is active about half the time, so its absence on the Mopho X4 is absolutely a deal-breaker, which is a shame, because the synth fits the bill for what I need in every other aspect.

Just now I stubled upon the MIDIpal, and it seems to be the perfect solution for getting what I need out of the Mopho.

Only, I wonder, how live-friendly is it, and how is its implementation in comparison with the Alpha Juno’s chordmem?

I’ve read the MIDIpal manual, but it doesn’t really answer the questions I have:

Quoting the manual’s entire entry on chordmem:

“This app memorizes a chord and lets you play transpositions of it. To record a chord, click the encoder, and play a chord. Click the encoder again and that’s it maestro!”

1) Do I have to record the chord every time I want to enable chordmem? I frequently have to enable and disable it in my set, even within a very short time in the same song, and it would be a major inconvenience if I had to enter the chord again each time.

2) Also, seeing as the Alpha-Juno’s chord memory is integral to the synth’s architecture and voice allocation (entering a two-note chord only uses two of the synth’s voices, so if you have a long release and press a new note, the previous chord is cut off and a new one is played, killing the previous notes), I guess I would have to always enter 4-note chords (Mopho has 4 voices) to achieve the same voice-stealing effect?

3) Are there any members here who are familiar with the Alpha Juno and MIDIpal who could comment on any other differences in chordmem application between the two units, which I might be missing?

Thanks!

http://ritchie.livedrive.com/item/8fe0328f3bde49ee828d51c1a175ef6e

Neil
www.GO-P1.net

• Blasting sequence lines using FM8 and the MidiPal sequencer
• Fantastic and slowly evolving soundscapes with Absynth and the MidiPal arpeggiator (using very slow settings)
• Very cool drum performances with Battery and the MidPal drummachine app

This is so cool and fun. I think i need a second MidiPal! :-)
Will see, maybe i will be able to combine the sequencer and the drum app into one. Together with a Virus TI in multimode I could then perform whole songs using the TI arp and the MidiPal Drum&Seq app.
Thanks to the well organized and written code I think this should be possible.

Olivier has really done some great and extensive work developing all the code for the MidiPal! You immediately recognize that he has spend a lot of time on thinking about functionality and user interface for every of the apps. They have been developed from a musicians view and less from a technical one which makes them all fantastic to be used.

Also, Is there a way to select program number once the user program app is selected?

Not that I have noticed any problems so far, but in particular I might like to use Clock app as a master clock for my setup, on occasions that I want a very precise tempo – if it is particularly accurate/jitter free.

What is the default value for the Groove settings; is 0 basically zero regardless of the mode it’s in, or is something like 63 zero? I suppose that the modes which are dragging or pushing are perhaps in a given direction from zero?

A better question is, once you push or retract from a standard beat then adjust in a possibly different direction are you then ‘off’ from where you started or is MidiPal always keeping straight clock internally then adjusting the pulses that are sent out?

I’m having difficulty trying to sync two devices to the MidiPal clock; one is Maschine (1.7) and the other is an STG sequencer which takes Sync24 from a Doepfer MSY2. It’s off by a slight bit and even with a basic beat kicking a bass drum on 2 and 4, I can’t find a happy middle that hits both dead on. There is no drift as far as I can tell so it isn’t like the beat on 2 starts out close and moves or starts out dead on and moves, but the distance between counts seems to be off and not dead on so it’s almost like there is lag between the early part of a given measure and the end of a measure but it’s dead on at the beginning of the next.

Could be the Doepfer Midi to Sync24 converter, could be machine or just general midi latency.

For more information, MidiPal is plugged directly into a MOTU Timepiece AV with a short DIN cable, then clock is sent to Maschine which, if you are not aware is only an app running on a Mac Pro 8 core w/4GB of memory, then another din cable comes out of another port on Timepiece and into the Doepfer Sync24 box, then a cable connects to the STG Timebuffer which provides an ‘internal’ form of clock to all of the modules. In this case, I’m driving a trigger store which is sending analog gates to Bananaeurism’s 808 Bass drum which I built using his board and a few dozen parts.

Final question is, I see a “more accurate” clock in the doc but mine only has the single clock app. Is there an update with something that is ‘more accurate’. And is it really more accurate or just capable of better precision (tenths of a BPM)?

Thanks.

Would it be fun to have a chance parameter for the delay/strum? I think it would be a great way of adding some interest to sequenced basslines etc.

I was wondering if I run one MIDIpal (Scale and harmony processor) into another (MIDIpal Dispatcher – cyclic)
and the sequence going through was monophonic with no overlapping notes,
would the MIDIpal send the 3 notes (incoming-tuned, harmony, and random) to the same synths every time?

Or maybe the question is: what order are the notes placed in the MIDI stream?

I am sending pitch bend from a Novation SL MK II controller to a Moog Little Phatty and I’m hearing the dreaded ‘zipper’ effect when I have the bend range set to a large (12 half-step) interval. Both the Novation, and the Phatty supposedly support 14 bit midi for pitch bend and I’ve confirmed the latter with the developer of the Phatty code:

What I see from MidiPal:

I do see changing 14 bit values (wheel all the way down shows 0x0000, all the way up shows 0x3fff.

But if I bend up from the center (0x2000), I see the following as coming from the Novation:

2080
20f0
2180
21f0 etc.

So it’s jumping 128 decimal at a time and the full range (16384 div 128 = well… 128 aka 7-bit midi)

Somebody please correct my math or help me. Thanks.

What it does is generate a slow arpeggio/sequence imitating classic indian tampura (tambura, tanpura, whatever) pattern.

The settings are the following:

• run: starts/stops the sequence.
• clk: internal or external clock.
• bpm: tempo.
• div: note duration (1/4 for normal operation).
• chn: output channel.
• sa: root note (can be set from the keyboard).
• mod: pattern, among pa (Pa sa sa Sa), ma (Ma sa sa Sa), ni (Ni sa sa Sa), sa (sa sa Sa).
• cyc: pattern cycling (0 = starts at Sa ; 5 starts at Pa / Ma / Ni / -).

I have attached the firmware file…

I am thinking of purchasing a MidiPal. Is there anyone who has one who can measure the latency of messages when four transformations are applied to the stream?

Thanks!

sorry for this stupid question. Can i have a battery inside the midipal at the same time then the power chord ?
Is there adiode etc to protect ? Just to get shure that i don´t damage it whe i have both at the same time !?

Thnx in advance, greetings, Paul

Can you give me any pointers on how to proceed here? I see that I will have to change the files clock and clock_source, but I would be glad if you could give me a quick introduction into the code.

Many thanks, Ander.