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[Goldcrest]

One problem with using the internal sequencer is that the internal sequencer track solo/mute button only works for the first track for a particular MIDI channel.

For example, if I copy a combi UE000 Velocity Orchestra to the sequencer, using buttons enter+rec/write, the 14 timbres are used to create 14 tracks in the sequencer. 13 tracks are assigned to MIDI channel 1 and the drum track is assigned to MIDI channel 10.

If I then record a song, and play it back, the track mute/solo buttons work as follows (Ignoring the drum track)

In track 1 - if the track is muted - all 13 tracks are muted.

In track 1 - if the track is soloed - all 13 tracks play.

In other tracks - if a track is muted - nothing happens.

In other tracks - if a track is soloed - all sound stops.

In combination mode, mute and solo work as expected - if you press the mute/solo button for a track - that track is muted/soloed.

Hence when developing a combi for a particular song style - I loop a song from an external sequencer to a combination - while experimenting with muting and soloing various tracks(timbres) within the combi - using the M3 editor.

To solo a track in sequencer mode would involve lowering the volume in the 12 other tracks. To unsolo would involve remembering and restoring the original volumes in the 12 tracks.

Another advantage of using a combi is that once I am happy with it, I can copy it to the sequencer. I don't think you can do the reverse - i.e. copy a song to a combi.

I would rather just use the internal sequencer, but as far as I can see, I would need solo/mute in sequencer mode to work as it does in combi mode, and ideally to have an operation that copies the track parameters of a song into the timbres of a combi.

I understand that the track mute/solo operation in the sequencer is based upon MIDI channel - but I cannot really understand why it should not work as the combi mute/solo buttons do. (After all, you can raise and lower the volumes of individual tracks). Also I do not really see any advantages to the way in which solo/mute work in sequencer mode. (Although, admittedly, I am a bit green - please tell me if I am missing a trick).

[ktippets]

Here is how I handle muting parts when copying a COMBI over to a SEQ:

I copy the original midi note data (which is usually on track 1 when bringing a COMBI over to a SEQ) onto all the tracks I want to control and assign each one a seperate midi channel.

This doesn't answer your question as to why SEQ mode treats mute this way, but this is the way that I have found to give each track independent control over muting the parts...

[ktippets]

As I've thought about this...it seems that the mute function in SEQ mode only acts to stop midi information from playing on that track. So if that track is only being 'played through' by information from another track (on the same midi channel) than the mute does nothing.

[Goldcrest]

[ktippets]

One additional tool you have in SEQ mode is the ability to use Karma for turning parts off and on. This actually does work independent of midi channel and may accomplish what you are trying to do. (I have used this only when I am not using Karma for anything else - to trigger GE's etc...)

On your M3 check out SEQ p3: track parameters under other. Here you can specify whether a track gets turned off or on using the Karma off/on. Let me know if this works for you. I am always interested in how other people use these functions in the context of specific projects.

[Goldcrest]

[ktippets]