Oh my god can someone help me

meeshathecat · Joined: Feb 22, 2006 Posts: 4 Location: london

hello please to god can someone help me I am a pianist who though that it would be a great idea to join a band so I did as a synth player and I can not work out how to put the sounds that I want together so that when we play live (22 days and counting) I can switch easily from one to another I have a novation x - station 49 can anyone help ?

Kookoo · Joined: Nov 20, 2005 Posts: 42 Location: Austin, TX, USA

I have an X-Station... what exactly do you want to do with it?
Also, this should probably be moved to a different forum Smile

DrJustice · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:41 pm Post subject:

You could save the sounds you need to a series of consecutive memory locations. Ref. manual page 37 "Saving a Synth Patch" for how to save sounds to specific memory locations. Then when you play live, just use the program up/down buttons to step through the sounds.

Back with an edit: just saw you posting now Kookoo - yes, perhaps it should be in the main How-tos forum. Also, it's probably best you help meeshathecat since I haven't got the synth, only the manual...

DJ
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Blue Hell · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:53 pm Post subject:

Ok moved it.

And welcome

meeshathecat, hope you'll have some spare time to browse around a bit here & contribite, but probably not Smile

Kookoo · Joined: Nov 20, 2005 Posts: 42 Location: Austin, TX, USA

I've found MIDI-OX to be invaluable for managing patches. http://www.midiox.com/moxdown.htm

1. Run MIDI-OX and set it up to listen for a SYSEX dump.
2. On the X-Station's global menu, go to "Dump: Current Sound" and press "write".
3. MIDI-OX should recognize the dump and display it.
4. Right-click on the data display and select "save as".

Then, when you want to restore that patch, you just put the X-Station in synth mode (press play) and tell MIDI-OX to send the dump. The X-Station should say "dump receieved" or something like that, and your patch is restored. You can also do this with the entire bank (patches 100-199 and 200-299) The Novation website has the factory default patches for download along with a whole new second bank of patches. Then, like DrJustice says, you just use the program up/down buttons or the program select knob to pick a program.

If the X-Station is connected to a sequencer, you can also automate the patch selection by sending MIDI bank/program commands.

Does that help?

meeshathecat · Joined: Feb 22, 2006 Posts: 4 Location: london

I don't understand what any of that means. Im new to all of this- I'm a classical pianist I thought that would be enough but its not and I'm tearing my hair out. To be honest I've bitten off way more than I can chew. I don't want to f@ck around with it too much and do something I can't change because I'm gigging with it in three weeks (oer not if I can't get this sorted) all I want to do is organise it so that the sounds I need are next to each other when I play live. I don't know waht a dump is and I ve read the manual about 12 times - to be honest it might as well be in greek, I really appreciate your help but I'm a muppet and I need an explanation for someone who has absolutely no clue about what there doing. I hope that you don't hate me. Sad

meeshathecat · Joined: Feb 22, 2006 Posts: 4 Location: london

And also - I have looked around the sight and its really well laid out as far as contibuting is concerned would you really want me to ha ha ha? Sorry I'm just on the verge of tears now its been almost a week now and all i can do is turn it on. Mad

seraph · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:26 am Post subject:

Kookoo · Joined: Nov 20, 2005 Posts: 42 Location: Austin, TX, USA

Kassen · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:45 am Post subject: Re: Don't hate me

Kookoo · Joined: Nov 20, 2005 Posts: 42 Location: Austin, TX, USA

meeshathecat · Joined: Feb 22, 2006 Posts: 4 Location: london

so i have to say a big thanks - i had my gig it went fantastically and were meeting the girl from the record company next week - I managed to shift all the sounds around - and on friday I downlaoded midi ox and have started playing around with that -thanks mate your a star- so all is well have actually worked out how to work clarabell (my x - station) and as such am now running my (miked up) sax, vocals, RD700sx and my new vocoder (mini Korg - its SO cute) to cubase (which i have also been tearing my hair out over, but no surprises there i suppose) through her so thanks a lot for chilling me out and talking me through the basics. As soon as Ive finished my demo for my new side project (me and three other synth players) Ill upload it and you can tell me what you think (or not dependong how shite it is ) Again thaks a million and hopefully I'll speak to you soon

Big Love

Meesha

Blue Hell

Kookoo · Joined: Nov 20, 2005 Posts: 42 Location: Austin, TX, USA

elektro80

Kassen

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 7:01 am Post subject:

girls and apples

sure you wanna check central processing unit first?
no?

Shocked

uh..

Kassen · Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:09 am Post subject:

You mean to keep the "little endian" Apples and be "big endian" ones separated? Do you care about those bits?

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:33 am Post subject:

Kassen · Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:01 am Post subject:

Yeah, I think he wrote on the subject extensively.

Crumb's not very p.c. either, but is he therefore a bad apple, one wonders?