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Dexed FM synthesizer similar to 8x DX7 (TX816/TX802) running on a bare metal Raspberry Pi (without a Linux kernel or operating system)
https://github.com/probonopd/MiniDexed/wiki
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Midi - Programm change doesn't Change patchname at display #718

Open Gitarrenzupfer opened 2 months ago

Gitarrenzupfer commented 2 months ago

Hello, i just got started to fiddle with this awesome project. I took a raspberry 3 and everything worked quite good, but if I send a program change message in Performance-Mode, the sound is changing, but not the patchname/number on the display.

Any ideas/ hints?

greetings Gitarrenzupfer

diyelectromusic commented 2 months ago

If I understand you correctly, that is a consequence of how performances are chosen in the menu. The "[L]" which indicates which performance is loaded, will change but it doesn't automatically step-through the display to the new chosen performance.

There is a whole pile of considerations about what the display ought to show when MIDI messages are received that we need to work through at some point.

So this isn't an issue as such, it is as currently designed. As I say, assuming I'm understanding you correctly.

Kevin

Gitarrenzupfer commented 2 months ago

Hello Kevin,

Thanks for your quick reply. I understand, it is not an error or a bug, but "by design". I would be very pleased if it were changed in a software update and thus had the same behavior as all the other synths that I own or know.

To be honest, I don't see any point or advantage in the current behavior of the display when receiving MIDI program changes.

Regards

diyelectromusic commented 2 months ago

To be honest, I don't see any point or advantage in the current behavior of the display when receiving MIDI program changes.

"There is a whole pile of considerations about what the display ought to show when MIDI messages are received that we need to work through at some point."

I didn't say I agreed with the behaviour either - it's on the todo list ;)

(refs: https://github.com/probonopd/MiniDexed/issues/647 https://github.com/probonopd/MiniDexed/issues/549 https://github.com/probonopd/MiniDexed/pull/604 https://github.com/probonopd/MiniDexed/discussions/659 and probably quite a few more - as I say, it's on the todo list...)

Kevin