It looks like it worked. Thanks man, I owe you one!
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I’m curious of anyone’s successes around the compressor here. I’ve been using external compression as I never really found success with the onboard compression for overall glue (conversely, I think Erica has some of the best onboard compression on any drum machines with Perkons and Hexdrums). Currently, however, I’m looking to reduce outboard reliance for the sake of minimal live performance load in/out. I would love to find a sweet spot setting that I mix into when working sound design and sequencing, and then just handle trim on my mixer to volume match against my other drum machines.
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Hey folks / LXR-02 fans,
I’ve been playing around with the MIDI messages that my LXR-02 can receive, and decided to make a little web app that lets you connect to your LXR-02 (using web midi over usb) and control pretty much every parameter (+ load/save/edit patches):
Hope it can be useful! The source code is also available in case it can help anyone with their projects.
Cheers,
Greg
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Wow, amazing, thanks so much!
Just did some testing. Some of the tweaking is faster on the editor for sure. It’s especially helpful for going through kits and testing stuff out.
One thing I don’t really understand is how you chose the keys to trigger the voices. They seem to be all over my azerty keyboard, same for qwerty. I must be missing something, enlighten me!
Thanks for the kind words! Glad it’s working for you - don’t hesitate if you find any issues (I double checked menus but there are a lot of params…!)
Keys were (very badly) chosen as in S = Snare, C = Clap… but that doesn’t really work ha
What would be better? Q W E R T Y? Or doom/quake etc. like navigation - W A S D Z X C?
Cheers
Aha, I knew there was some logic to it 
SDFGHJ are in a row on both qwerty and azerty. The bottom row only has 5 identical keys…
123456 might work as well, but might be less convenient on a laptop without num pad?
Anyway, having a ton of fun with the LXR02 tonight. It’s great going through all those kits again, this thing really sounds amazing. I have a drumding on preorder, I’m looking forward to pairing this digital beast with the analog character of the drumding. And of course sample the LXR into the drumding and sequencing it there.
Thanks again for your great work!
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S D F G H J K deployed! Thank you, great suggestion
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that looks lovely, thank you so much, will try it out later today
Wow thanks! I was just setting my Oxi E16 to help with dialing in kits, but this looks great too.
THIS IS SICK…put it on Gumroad for donations bro. Running my LXR into Xenodrive then Razorator…wooooobboi
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I love that people are still focusing on this crazy drum machine! Looking forward to trying this out.
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Got it working but once I tweak a kit do I save the kit direct on the machine? I like the Lxr02 sounds but it’s such a quirky little thing and gets me so frustrated at times.
Your best bet is to save the kit on the machine itself, yes. You can also use the “save .snd” button in the thing I built and download the .snd file (and place it on the SD card in the project of your choice), but it’s more experimental, since I had to reverse engineer the .snd file format.
If you save the kit you have in front of you on the device, the chances of it saving correctly are higher for sure.
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Random question, has anyone replaced the data knob with something else? My original now just falls off so I am tempted to try to find a nice coloured one for a bit of a change. I can’t figure out the correct size though. Yeah I pretty stupid with things like that.
I haven’t done much knob replacement, so I don’t know if there are many different size options. But the data knob seems to be standard for a pot. If it helps, knobs off a couple fx pedals fit, as well as one from another brand synth.
Regarding your current one, did the set screw get stripped or something? I think different batches may have shipped with different knobs, but mine has a screw that tightens it down.
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thanks for the response, yes it does have the small screw . I will try to find a small enough screwdriver to see if I can tighten it.
@KMBN Let’s take that to the LXR-02 thread to be on topic.
Ok, that took me a while. You mean you have to control all voices on the master channel, but you want it to respond to CCs in each individual channel.
I think the original intention was to play the whole thing on one channel.
You could use a Blokas MIDI hub for remapping, it’s AI friendly, so you would not have to do that remapping by hand. You’lll need a lot of pipes if you want to remap everyhting, (way more than 127), so are well advised to find out how many pipes the MIDIhub can take without messing with timing.
My assumption is that you want to drive the LXR from a Elektron sequencer, so maybe you can just set up the most relevant pipes and leave out the rest? Or set up a few presets with different combinations of pipes.
That is the path that is open to you right now.
However, let me explain what’s out there:
The feature you wish for already exists for the original LXR: Brendan Clarke has implemented per channel MIDI-CC in his Catalyst firmware, which was branched from the original LXR firmware version 037.
I’m sure we can talk about that here, because Julian Schmidt has open-sourced his firmware intentionally, so that people could evolve the capabilities of their LXR. That’s why several variants have existed for a long time.
Incidentally, as @mreilly pointed out a few years ago, the firmware of the LXR-02 builds on an earlier iteration of Brendan Clarke’s version, but removes and also adds a couple of features.
And since I’m sure we are not going to censor the past here, I guess I can point out that earlier in the thread here we can find a post that shows that Brendan has ported LXR firmware 037 to the LXR-02.
So two branches — both descendants from 037, both open source, and both created by Brendan Clarke, who appears to diligently maintain knowledge files used for AI-assisted coding — need to be combined again. And Erica Synths needs to accept that new firmware, of course, for anyone to actually consider flashing it to their LXR02.
Until that happens, a path that is open to you right now is getting the original LXR.
BTW: what I missed the most in my LXR-02 was a way to load an existing sound into a single voice of the current pattern.
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it is my favorite small desktop drum machine as well it nails industrial and hard techno better than anything in this size format.
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It looks a bit complicated,but it’s a completely new instrument.
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