Saturday, October 26, 2013

Today's P600fw alpha (october 26)

I took a bit of time to merge changes I made in overcycler back in P600fw, and also added a few missing features.

Here are all the changes I made:

  • Overall speedup: refresh rate at full load is now twice faster.
  • Various fixes, especially in the assigner.
  • MIDI in pitch bend & modulation wheel messages support.
  • MIDI out is now sending note on/off, pitch bend and modulation wheel messages.
  • Footswitch support, can be used to latch new chords in unison mode, and to hold the current arpeggio while arpeggiating.
  • External clock support for the arpeggiator, clock source can be changed using "From tape" + 8 (either MIDI clock, or pulse clock sent into "Cassette in". You can then choose the actual arp clock ratio using the "Arpeggiator speed" parameter, from 1/3 to 1/384).


Also, here's a description of the new user interface commands:

  • In manual mode, or by pressing "To tape" in preset mode, you get access to 20 extended parameters (2 per keypad number), the "Speed" potentiometer edits the last chosen one.

Keypad # Parameter name Choices
First press
0 Arpeggiator speed -
1 LFO shape pulse-triangle,random-sine,noise-saw
2 Vibrato speed -
3 Vibrato amount -
4 Modulation delay -
5 Amplifier envelope shape fast-exp,fast-lin,slow-exp,slow-lin
6 Bender target off,vco,vcf,vca
7 Glide -
8 Unison detune -
9 Amplifier velocity amount -
Second press

0 Arpeggiator speed -
1 LFO osc a/b target ab,a,b
2 LFO speed range low,high
3 Modulation wheel range min,low,high,full
4 Modulation wheel target lfo,vibrato
5 Filter envelope shape fast-exp,fast-lin,slow-exp,slow-lin
6 Bender range 3rd,5th,Octave
7 Assigner priority mode last,low,high
8 Osc pitch mode free,semitone,octave
9 Filter velocity amount -

  • Anytime, by maintaining "From tape" and pressing a keypad number, you get access to misc functions.

Keypad # Function name Choices
1 MIDI receive channel omni,1-16
2 MIDI send channel 1-16
3 Calibrate bender -
4 Select voice 1-6
5 Kill selected voice on,off
6 Dump presets -
7 Set basic saw patch -
8 Set clock source internal,MIDI,tape

Download links at: http://sfx.gligli.free.fr/zik/p600/dev/2013-10-26_2/

A new stable release should be out soon, so please report any problem you could find. Using github issues (http://github.com/gligli/p600fw/issues) for this would be cool.

EDIT: Built a new version that seems to fix "ghost" tones people had in post-beta1 versions.

4 comments:

  1. Hello, my name is Francesco and I got into your blog while I was looking for some information about midi implementation of the Prophet 600 that I own.
    I saw you made a great job designing a new firmware for this synth. I'm not an electronics expert at all and I'm wondering if is there a procedure to load the firmware straight inside the resident cpu?

    Thank you!

    Francesco

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  2. Hi, I also feel, it wakes up my interest for my old P600 very much .. as if it will come closer to the P5 .. or even better. But one question I still have is: Will the chord-memory function still work?
    I will be happy about an answer and will renovate my old one, if that fact will be secured ..
    Carsten Ehlert from www.naturesound-ol.de

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    1. Yes, there is chord memory, it works the same as with the Z80

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