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Yesterday I tried out the Keyboard Transpose feature, something I've been looking forward to. Worked great! Alas, a bizarre bug showed up quickly. For whatever reason, I accidentally tapped Controller 2 after a Shift+Menu. This sent the NDLR into crazyville and it never came back to normal until after cycling power. Here's the setup:
1- I was in Eb Lydian (could be any key and mode), enjoying the transposition
2- NDLR output channels were 1MA, 2MA, 3MA, 4MA
3- KB Trans was 16all
4- External keyboard attached to MIDI IN B
5- External synth on MIDI OUT B
As soon as I hit Shift+Menu 2:
1- single notes sent from external keyboard now become three note "chords"
2- these chords are not necessarily in the selected key and mode, and may be plain dissonant
3- low velocity (like 0A) notes played on ext keyboard result in single notes, but repeated plays get different note values
4- slightly higher velocity numbers gets two notes played (typical playing, though, gets three notes to sound per note played)
5- in this wonky mode, stuck notes are common and plentiful - Shift + Panic does not clear them
6- the only way out of this mode is to pull the power connector and start over, doing a GLOB Load doesn't help
Requests and/or questions:
1- REQUEST: can you make it so the pressing Shift+Menu 2 doesn't make the NDLR go brain dead?
1- QUESTION: or is this one of those cases where the solution is, 'just don't do that!'?
2- REQUEST: can we get a RESET or REBOOT option in a menu to restart the NDLR with a clean slate?
2- QUESTION: or, is power cycling the best answer here?
3- REQUEST: can we get Shift+Panic to turn off all notes on all channels, as implied in the manual?
3- QUESTION: does Shift+Panic send 7B to all channels on all ports, or just the channels/ports associated with the four NDLR parts? Perhaps my ext synth can't decipher All Notes Off.
Otherwise, I'm enjoying NDLRing!
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