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wow. this looks amazing!

hi, 3) use PC messages, not CCs. 4) right - you have 1 stereo pair. (you can stuff up to 8 sids by 4 cores), but i am not sure how many cores can be loaded in sammichSID because I am not familar with sammich board. 5) pls use the "mios studio" software. and yes first upload the newer bootloader MIOS and then the application. Everything can be uploaded via midi, but take care about the core IDs and the correct bootloader MIOS file. MBSID V2.044 changelog: Please update to MIOS V1.9h before uploading the application, otherwise the improvements won't be effective. have fun with the synth!

Nice! Enjoy, it's a great synth! Answers to your Qs: 1. Yes, there's the default patch set, 127 Arps (on the forum), and I think a few others on the forum. You'll have to poke around for those but they exist. The default patch set is a good place to start. CTRLR works though I tended to have issues with it while using my DAW so I mostly just went through the painstaking process of editing patches on the Sammich as I didn't often need to use the advanced features (like wavetables). This is where the MB6582 (the sammichSID's much bigger brother) or a custom MBSID with a full control surface becomes useful since you don't have to step out of your DAW as much. If you have trouble with CTRLR, the standalone SID patch editor is another thing to try (it's on ucapps.de). 2. I believe sammichSID only has 5 banks (4 normal patches, 1 for ensembles). Been a while since I opened mine up but I'm pretty sure this is the case. 3. Yes, should work like normal program changes do on other synths. That's been the case for me anyway. Note when you switch patches you may hear some audio pops. 4. No, sammichSID runs the 2 SIDs in a stereo pair. MBSID itself can support up to 8 SIDs (4 pairs), though most folks going that route would use the MB6582 boards (that's what I did) since it saves a ton of space over using the individual boards, although you definitely can do it that way as well. 5. I dunno off hand you'll have to go look (ucapps.de is the place to go for firmware) Hope that helps! I will say some of these Qs you should find answers to in the docs, so giving them a good read will be really useful, especially for your first question (patch editing) as there's LOTS you can do with these synths but, to your point, given the sammichSID's more barebones control surface, it takes a bit more understanding of what things do when working on it.