Sorry - I misread what you wrote. I thought you meant you had seen someone independently edit a chorus preset with the intention of recreating the Dimension D.
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All good, I wrote it confusing. Iāll admit.
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Has anyone had luck making program changes on the D-05 using the Digitakt? For some reason itās not working for me. It works just fine when I plug in my JX-03 though. I checked all the settings on the D-05 as well as I could. I donāt know what Iām missing.
Iāve figured out that program changes do work when using the DT for changing programs with whatever bank is selected on the D-05, but if you try to use the DT for changing the bank selected on the D-05, the D-05 will totally stop accepting any program changes unless you turn it off, and back on again.
I donāt know if this is due to a bug in the D-05, or a bug causing the DT to send some sort of weird signal to mess up the D-05. Itād be nice to be able to change banks using the DT, but itās going to have to be done manually until things get sorted.
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The MIDI implementation chart for the D-05 given in its Parameter Guide document shows that the D-05 requires both halves of the MIDI standard Bank Select message.
Unfortunately, the DT (like the OT) only implements one half of the MIDI Bank Select, so it will not provide this function for many synths from Roland, Clavia, DSI, Novation, Waldorf etc.
This method of implementation appears to be a design decision rather than a bug. If you would like it changed, send a feature request to Elektron.
The very fiddly workaround is to send CC messages 0 then 32 with the appropriate values immediately before a Program Change message.
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Thanks. I was having a little difficulty deciphering some of the midi implementation; they even use hexadecimal notation lol. Iāll try out that fiddly workaround sometime; could be very useful in certain situations.
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Peter,
Would you (or anyone reading this) know if itās possible to control D-05 parameters by setting the midi control CC knobs in the Octatrack? I hit [Function] and the corresponding knob to try to get the octatrack to listen for incoming CCs, but the only one it seems to read is from the mod ribbon on the D-05. And Iāve tried to manually set the CC knobs on the octatrack to their corresponding values in the D-05 manual, but the only one that works is for portamento. Ideally, Iād like to control the filter cutoff and resonance from the Octatrack, but I canāt seem to get the unit to do that. I hope Iām conveying this clearly. Thanks.
According to the MIDI Inplementation details listed by Roland in the āParameter Guideā document for the D-05, the only MIDI CC messages that the D-05 responds to are:
Bank Select
Mod Wheel (CC 1)
Portamento time (CC 5)
Data Entry
Volume (CC 7)
Sustain (CC 64)
Portamento (CC 65) and
RPN for pitch bend range and fine tuning
Sound parameter values can be transmitted to the D-05 by SysEx messages, but the OT cannot send Roland SysEx messages.
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thanks for the answer, man. much appreciated.
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Anyone using a software editor with their D05?
Hoping to find something simple that works on Mac. So far I have been looking at bread and butter sounds and CTRLR
Ctrlr is what Iāve used so far. I would love a PG-1000 but prices are more than I paid for the synth.
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Hey, that looks pretty cool. I think I would prefer sliders but I appreciate the form factor.
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Are these out yet? I tried looking for them yesterday but couldnāt find much info
Does CTRLR work on Mac?
Yes. There are a couple of D-50 / D-05 panels that I found for it (though they look the same, donāt know if thereās a difference or not).
I prefer the look of CTRLR as opposed to the Bread & Butter one. I think Iām going to try it. Are you finding it quick and easy to save patches ? and can you save them directly to the D05 or do you have to save them using the D05 itself?
I emailed them yesterday, will let you know if I hear anything back
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Iāve not gone deep with it yet but itās worked fine for me so far.
You canāt make the D-05 save it using Ctrlr, I donāt think - you can save a patch locally as a Ctrlr patch, so you can recall it, and then send it as a āsnapshotā to the D-05. Once you have the patch as you like it on the D-05 you need to save it on the machine if you want it recallable on there. I think.
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The plan is to edit and save patches, then untether it for stand alone use with other hardware. I really need something thatās quick and simple!