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TEMAS
Joined: Mar 20, 2007 Posts: 69 Location: London
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Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:47 am Post subject:
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Hi. I'm already aware that this problem has been well documented, but was wondering if anyone actually had a solution for it.
I'm building lots of patches these days that use lots of control modules - sequencers and 8-mux, for example. I find that after I have about 50 modules in a patch that the lights on any new modules added will not work. The modules still do what they are supposed to but its very annoying not to be able to see what they are doing.
I'm using a basic G2 Engine and am considering getting a memory upgrade while they are still available. Do you think this might make a difference? Also, does the memory upgrade give me more cycles per patch, or memory per patch, or is it same amount per patch but the ability to run 4 big patches?
Cheers. _________________ Trevor Masterson |
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varice
Joined: Dec 29, 2004 Posts: 961 Location: Northeastern shore of Toledo Bend
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Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 2:48 pm Post subject:
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I don’t think that the G2 Expansion Board works as a fix for the Editor lights problem as I have seen this problem with my G2X.
Regarding the subject of larger mono patches with the expansion; have you had any trouble with mono patches built on expanded G2s working in your Engine? If you are not sure, try loading this patch (also into all four active slots):
http://electro-music.com/forum/topic-9258.html
It was built on my G2X and uses almost 100% of both the VA and FX areas. _________________ varice |
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jksuperstar
Joined: Aug 20, 2004 Posts: 2503 Location: Denver
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Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:06 pm Post subject:
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Also, the Expansion for the G2 includes BOTH DSP + Memory, in the same format that the "basic" configuration has. So your G2 has 4x DSP, and 4X memory. The expansion adds 4 more of each.
You are correct that you will still only have 4 patches simultaneously. But now you will get either more voices per patch, or you can have 4 huge patches that max out DSP and/or memory for both VA and FX areas. |
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Akum420
Joined: Jul 22, 2009 Posts: 50 Location: Québec
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varice
Joined: Dec 29, 2004 Posts: 961 Location: Northeastern shore of Toledo Bend
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Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 9:14 pm Post subject:
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Here is a great explanation about what to expect with the expansion board snipped from this topic:
http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?highlight=expansion+200&t=16568
Blue Hell wrote: | A patch has two sections, voice and FX. Each section can not be larger than 100%, where 100% corresponds to maximum usage of one DSP chip (or it's memory). So a mono patch can never go over 200%, no matter if expansion is present or not.
When havin one 200% patch loaded (only one slot being active and the other being disabled) the patch would have a maximum voice count of 3 on an unexpanded G2 where that number would be 7 for the expanded case. So here the polyphony is expanded.
However when the internal busses and/or the internal MIDI messaging is used it is possible to make patches that cooperate. Suppose you have a couple od cooperating 200% patches. On an unexpanded G2 you could use two such patches and on an expanded G2 you could use four.
A set of cooperating patches could be consedered to be a sort of a super patch. For the unexpanded system a super patch could be 400% and for an expanded system it could be 800%.
So it depends a bit on how you look at it, but I think Clavia markets the thing as a polyphony expander. |
iPassenger wrote: | So if I get the expansion I can potentially make 4 mono, (1 in each slot) 200% patches (100% in poly area and 100% in mono) where as unexpanded I am limited to just 2 mono, 200% patches... |
_________________ varice |
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TEMAS
Joined: Mar 20, 2007 Posts: 69 Location: London
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Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 3:59 pm Post subject:
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Thanks everyone. I now totally understand what I'll be getting if I expand the memory. I had always wondered why I was only able to max out (200%) two slots out of the four, now I understand that the upgrade will give me four x 200% slots.
Shame about the lights bug. I've been building patches where I use control sequencers to 'store' 16 values of loads of parameters so that a patch can switch rapidly to something completely different. I guess I'll have to 'use the force' more when editing. _________________ Trevor Masterson |
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davep
Joined: Jul 05, 2004 Posts: 467 Location: Oakland, CA
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Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:43 am Post subject:
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You may already know this, but you can use the eight variations to achieve something similar (except of course you'll only get eight different variations per patch instead of the 16 you can get using the control sequencers). The nice thing about the variations is that you can use them to change ANY parameter, even things that don't have mod inputs and therefore can't be controlled from the sequencers (like the controls in the Chorus module, or the waveform select switches on some of the oscillators).
On the keyboard version, the LEDs above the eight variation switches let you see which variation is currently selected. Although you are using an Engine, depending on what controller you are using you may get a similar type of visual feedback from the control surface. _________________ Dave Peck |
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TEMAS
Joined: Mar 20, 2007 Posts: 69 Location: London
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Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 1:04 pm Post subject:
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I am using the 8 variations, but they are used for verse / chorus / verse / bridge / solo type duties. But with the control sequencers I can use the keyboard to switch positions of the seqeuncer, so E3 = position 1, F3 = position 2 etc. This is useful for me also because I'm not very good at playing keyboard so with one finger I can play a complex chord with tons of modulation and then play something completely different with the next key, like using automation or a sequencer except I have the benefit of choosing WHEN I change chord on the fly, which a sequencer can never do.
While on the subject though, how do I actually automate switching between variations? I can't see a module for it and I can't I can't seem to assign a MIDI controller. _________________ Trevor Masterson |
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davep
Joined: Jul 05, 2004 Posts: 467 Location: Oakland, CA
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Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 1:15 pm Post subject:
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Ah, got it.
Regarding the midi control of variations, the variation buttons send and respond to midi cc#70. _________________ Dave Peck |
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