The Eat at Joe's Kawai K5000 Message Board Digest
Ideas for a Patch Editor


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Patch Editor Wishlist
Tuesday, 24-Mar-98 06:44:03 

     12.68.131.136 writes:

     What would you like to see in a patch editor for the K5K???

     Anyone who has had ample time to program the K5000 will attest to there being
     no lack of interesting parameters and relationships between those
     parameters. Thanks to the fellows at EMagic for the SoundDiver, I would be
     lost without it!

     There are certain parameters that still are particularly difficult to program
     however, for example; harmonic envelopes. You have to go harmonic by harmonic
     and it is tedious. I like that level of control, but not all of the time. There
     are times when I wish I could have the ability to set up a few envelopes and scale
     them across a range that I input. My list goes on and on... 

     And you? 
     What would you like to see in a dedicated patch editor? When you program the K5K
     what do you find yourself saying you wish you had the ability to easily
     tweak?

     I am really curious as to what others feel would make the wealth of parameters
     and controls in Kawai's Additive Synthesis more approachable. (they have
     given us quite a bit to contemplate, haven't they?)

     Peter Favant


     favant@worldnet.att.net 

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Re: Patch Editor Wishlist
Tuesday, 24-Mar-98 12:07:48 

     192.28.2.19 writes:

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     There are times when I wish I could have the ability to set up a few envelopes
     and scale them across a range that I input.
     UNQUOTE

     Have you used the "triangle" and "rectangle" edit groups? These can speed things
     up a little. The width of the block you're grabbing is set by the "wid"
     parameter, which is between "harmonic number" and "harmonic level".

     QUOTE
     What would you like to see in a dedicated patch editor?
     UNQUOTE

     A-#1 First Priority: A program that DOESN'T LOCK UP when the screensaver goes on
     or the program is minimized or some other application is opened.
     I've had to develop all sorts of rituals to avoid losing any program changes.
     I'm in Win95.

     QUOTE
     When you program the K5K what do you find yourself saying you wish you had
     the ability to easily tweak?
     UNQUOTE

     How about telling you how much memory is occupied or free in each bank?

     How about a window for displaying the condition of all 16 realtime controllers
     at once?

     How about displaying real units for each parameter? (This depends on Kawai, too.)

     All considered, tho, it's already a godsend, except for the locking up problem.

     leiter@skypoint.com 

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Re: Patch Editor Wishlist
Thursday, 26-Mar-98 08:12:07 

     130.67.2.247 writes:

     QUOTE
     There are times when I wish I could have the ability to set up a few envelopes
     and scale them across a range that I input. 
     UNQUOTE

     That is one possibility. I would also like to adjust all harmonics that are above
     or below a certain value. Consider the situation that you have defined a handful
     of harmonics and have just reduced their amplitudes with ALL. If you want them
     back up again, you will increase the amplitudes of all 64 harmonics if you use
     ALL.

     This could be handled by means of a "pivot adjustment". You enter the pivot value
     in some field and then choose ABOVE or BELOW (on the list with
     BRIGHT thru EACH) in order to adjust all amplitudes above or below that value.

     And, needless to say, it would be VERY convenient if we could enter times instead
     of or in addition to rates.

     Given a few improvements of this sort, I would have no need for SoundDiver.

     Other possibilities include physical models. These did not have to be implemented
     as real-time functions. They could be bundled with MORF in a group of
     "calculator functions" that produced wave sets for further tweaking by hand.

     Anyone heard rumors about the next version of the OS?

     Tore

     tl001@online.no 


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