Razmo Kefrens

Problem is that I'm not really skilled with assembling stuff TK... I've been away from coding and stuff for too long :) ... Many other synths have a feature to disable reception of Continous Controllers... maybe this would be an idear if you make any new changes to the software? I'm just amazed that SONAR has been working this way all these years... now that I look at the MIDI implementation of all my other gear that use either CC00 or CC32 for bank change, none of them has anything assigned to the other controller (MSB/LSB) so this is why it "works" with these machines... I have ONE machine that use controller 32 for something else, the Waldorf Pulse, but as it has only 100 patches, there is no need for a bank change which is why it works (SONAR gets this right though, only sending the patch change then). I wonder if Cubase or Logic does it the same way... My Email in box!?... I've changed email since last we spoke TK... try razmo666@gmail.com :twitch:

I localized the problem now... it's SONAR that screw up. In SONAR you can choose 4 types of bank change schemes: Standard (using both controllers 0 and 32) Controller 0 (using controller 0 only) Controller 32 (using controller 32 only) Patch 100-127 (using patch changes to bank switch) no matter WHAT method you choose, SONAR always spit out the standard way, using both controller 0 and 32... I do not know if this is an unknown bug or if they intentionally dropped the 3 other methods, but it means that I cannot make bank changes on the SammichSID unless I multiply the bank number by 128 which is easy enough, but as it also send out a controller 32, one of the CC parameters in the SammichSID will change every time I do a bank change. This is really bad...

Well... I feared that it worked with others... are the SammichSID handling patch+bank change as two separate events, or will it wait after recieving a bank change for a Patch Change right after the Bank controller 0 has been sent? ... I have a feeling it's something about how SONAR is sending out the change... I have other gear connected to SONAR that also use controller 0 for bank changing, and they change banks as they should. I guess I'll have to take a closer look at what is going on in SONAR's MIDI sending... You say numbers 0-7 ? The SammichSID only have 4 banks and 1 ensemble bank... I've been using numbers 0-3 for banks A-D with controller 0

Hi... Can anyone confirm, that the Sammich SID is correctly responding to Bank change messages (using CC#00)? I'm on SONAR and I REALLY have tried EVERYTHING to make SONAR switch banks on the SammichSID using the "Controller 0" method... everything is set up correctly, but the only thing that happens is that it switch patches within the currently selected bank on the SammichSID... No bank change is happening at all. I'm just wondering if this might be a bug, or it's SONAR that screws up... SONAR has behaved weirdly before not wanting to switch banks on other machines I've got as well, but these usualy could be fixed by making a new .ins file, but not this time. Regards, Razmo.

I'm not sure how many actually know it, cause it's rather "elusive", but there IS a difference in the sound between the 8580 and the 6582A SID chips. The difference is actually rather prominent, but it only shows when using the Band Pass filter... the 6582A is in my view better than the 8580R5 because it's more... erm... "throatal" (in lack of better words to describe it). Anyways, the difference is still so small that most would probably not even care, and some might even like the 8580R5's sound better... who knows!? :ike: