… well it’s not that they haven’t had a couple of years time to sort all that out? Just saying…. 
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Not sure I follow! Morph is as close as LXR-02 gets to having a “macro” I think? And mod wheel is just midi cc 1, but there is no way to make midi cc control morph on the LXR02 I think? If I am wrong I’ll be delighted!
I would love to have a way to control macro on LXR02 with midi cc, or to make the macro knob much more sensitive, so that I can snap from one extreme to the other quickly with one twist, without it being multiple cranks of the knob!
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i asked erica synths about this awhile back and they confirmed there was no midi CC for morph, granted this was a year or two ago
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Ahh I’ve just looked at the LXR-02 manual and there are no macros! You are correct. Sorry to get your hopes up - it appears they are just on the OG LXR. Such a shame because they make performance changes to multiple parameters easy and fun. They should implement macros in a firmware update for sure.
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Yes, there is no macros. I think it’s a great machine with a great sound, but it’s firmware it’s not very refined. And reading this thread Im not expecting more upgrades. There seems to have only one person (last thing I’ve read) with this machine.
I’d love to play more with LXR02 but it’s tedious to program and to perform. Maybe with a midi controller…
I have a faderfox EC4 and reading the manual if I’m not mistaken you can program various parameters at the same time with it.
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I just got an Ableton Move and am not happy with it. Anyone want to trade for an LXR-02?
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Nope, soz. Cold dead hands not being pried from etc.
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I was talking about this song with some friends the other day and thought “what the heck, I’ll give it a try on the LXR-02”.
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Godd work!! This machine has a perfect sound.
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idk, might not be a bad trade actually…i need to do some testing with Note to see how much those drum sounds/samples can be tweaked….LXR faders are super useful too tho… 
There is a new set of kits for both the LXR-02 and the LXR Drum Module out:
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Made another “cover song” video. The only sound I added to the LXR-02 were some electric piano chords. Not sure how popular this song was worldwide, but since we’re from the same city I can tell you that it was popular over here.
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I’ve been doing daily “Jamuary” jams, some which have involved the LXR-02. You can find them on my bandcamp. Here’s the one from yesterday.
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I’ve noticed recently that kits don’t seem to be saving with my patterns. In the CONFIG menu I’ve set KCM (Kit Change Mode) to Auto (as opposed to Off).
Has anyone else experienced this? I typically create a pattern, tweak whatever kit I’ve used, save the kit, resave the pattern and then save the Project. I’m on V 1.3.
I recommend updating to 1.6, because
- 1.4 brings auto save, so I would guess that this could affect previous behavior related to saving
- 1.6. fixed “loading and saving of invalid tmp pattern (pat 65 bug)” which is related to auto save
I’m on 1.6 and have no problem like the one you report.
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I’ll give it a try. I recall making the update and experiencing some issue. Maybe I was just too used to all of the older steps for saving.
Will performing the update have any effect on existing projects, patterns or kits? I’ve been preparing for a live show and can’t take any chances at the moment.
Back up your card before you start, then you can go back to 1.3 (files are here)
You just need to remember you still need to save the project before you load another one. Here’s how it works (it’s not in the manual, just on the page with the firmware):
Kit and pattern changes are automatically saved 2 seconds after no further changes are made and stay persistent during reboot. When user selects save kit/pattern, files are saved to tmp folder on the SD card, persistent after reboot and manual pattern change. When user saves the project, tmp folder is cleared and changes written to project. When user reloads project, all temporary changes are discarded.
I see no mention of anything that would indicate a change of existing patterns, kits or projects in the changelogs between 1.4 and 1.6.
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Shouldn’t be… the firmware that messed everyone’s kits up was 1.2 to 1.3.
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OK, so I updated the firmware (note that I went from 1.3 to 1.6. My projects appear to be intact. However I’m not sure how the autosave is supposed to work. I made some changed to a sound in a pattern, I let it play for a while (certainly more than 2 seconds), changed patterns/kits, but when I went back the changes I made had not been automatically saved.
Sorry for taking so long to respond, but since I only use kits in one project, and no patterns, I thought maybe its a good idea to tested loading and saving patterns, kits and projects with my LXR-02 on v1.6 before responding to you.
Here’s in detail how it works on my unit:
Autosave
- is always on, you don’t have to activate it, and you can’t disable it
- what autosave does is save the current state of the project to the SD card, I still had to save patterns and kits manually (which makes sense because otherwise you can’t undo any edits to a kit or pattern)
- the 2 seconds refer to the time it takes after saving a pattern or kit for that change to be saved to the SD card. So don’t save and then turn off the unit immediately after
Kit Change Mode
- when you save a pattern, the number of the currently active kit is always saved to the pattern. You still have to save changes to the kit itself manually, however.
- to see which kit is currently active: press LOAD+KIT, you will see the number and name of the current kit (to exit without loading, press VOICE or PERF)
- Kit Change Mode: Auto when you load a pattern, the kit that is associated with the pattern is loaded as well
- Kit Change Mode: off when you load a pattern, the currently active kit is not changed.
- Note: if you load another kit, and then save the pattern, the new kit is still saved with the pattern.
Saving Kits and Patterns
- patterns and kits are not autosaved, so when you made changes you want to keep, you need to manually save that kit or pattern, otherwise these changes are lost when you load another kit or pattern or turn off the LXR-02
- what always trips me up (but that may be because I don’t use patterns) is that I have to use the BAR BUTTONS and the STEP BUTTONS to load and save patterns, but the ENCODER to save and load kits
Memory Management: SD-Card and RAM
on the SD-card you’ll find
- the file PROJ.IDX (which contains a single byte: the number of the active project)
- up to 64 folders for projects (PROJ00…64): Each project contains:
- a file that contains the project’s name
- 64 patterns
- up to 64 kits
- up to 64 songs
- often a config-file
- the TMP folder, which contains
- files for those kits, songs and patterns you have changed since last saving the current project,
- TMP.SND and TMP.PAT, which hold the current pattern and current kit (and probably TMP.SNG, too if you work on a song)
In RAM the LXR-02 holds the following data:
- 64 slots for patterns plus the current pattern
- 64 slots for kits plus the current kit in as a separate slot
- 64 slots for songs plus the current song
When you turn on the LXR-02:
- it reads PROJ.IDX to see what the current project is
- it loads the patterns, kits, songs, and settings from that project into the 64 memory slots for those objects
- then it loads any changed patterns, kits and songs from the TMP folder to the slots,
- finally it loads TMP.SND and TMP.PAT (and TMP.SNG, too) into the current kit, pattern (and song)
Now the unit should be in the exact same state before you turned it off.
When you save a song, pattern or kit:
- the current song, pattern or kit is copied from the memory location that holds the current song, pattern or kit to one of the 64 slots in RAM
- after 2 seconds, those changes, plus the current kit, pattern and song are also saved to the TMP folder on the SD card
When you load a song, pattern or kit:
- the data of one of the 64 memory slots is loaded into the 65th slot for the current song, pattern or kit
- after 2 seconds, the current kit, pattern and song are saved to the TMP folder on the SD card
When you do nothing for 2 secongs:
- current kit, pattern and song are saved to the TMP folder on the SD card
When you load a project:
- the contents of the TMP folder are cleared
- the project is loaded to RAM
- no idea what the current slots hold, probably the first kit, pattern and song
When you save a project:
- the contents of the 64 patterns, kits and songs in memory, plus the settings and the pattern name are saved to the projects directory (PROJ00…63)
- the TMP folder is cleared
So now we know, and we know where to look if we forget it again 
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