EMX1 Knobs "Null" or "Soft Takeover" set

cheesebuckle · Post by **cheesebuckle** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 9:58 pm

Damnit this is making too much sense. Once I set the knobs on the SP808 to NULL I never changed them. The extra flick of the wrist to get it to the current position became second nature and never hindered. If there was SOME way to get the EMX to behave like this it would be great for showing up anywhere and improving. Right now it's like eating a bunch of ribs, getting handed the wetnap, only to open it and it be dry.....What the hell!?

LamptonWorm · Post by **LamptonWorm** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 10:53 pm

It doesn't help keep everything with just the tribe, but here's a bit more info which sounds like the BCR+EMX is a good combo for live http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/ ... 38613b55fe

Cheers,
LW.

cheesebuckle · Post by **cheesebuckle** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 6:47 am

I guess it's the old "if they made one all inclusive box why would we buy anything else?" argument.

Why cant the text layout in Photoshop behave as it does in InDesign? Maybe someday?, afterall Photoshop now does basic 3D. No reason it can't do basic page layout. Here is where I'm coming from.
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Voluntar ... ion/540308
Production included:
SP-808 with an EX upgrade jacked from a guitar center EX floor model when the EX came out. [Yeah, going way back. did anyone else do that? HAhHA]
QY70, DR-202, Korg N364, Axiom25, Ableton, and a few things involving a Mic and some tape.

Just want to say this has been one of the most real boards I've been on. The suggestions were legit and the knowledge was dropped without being pretentious. Thank all who've worked out this noise.

Point still remains, if we CAN mod the EMX Knobs...what does it take?

Cause Im about to go office space on this shiiiiii ^_^

xmlguy · Post by **xmlguy** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 7:59 am

Glad you found us helpful! Besides posting here, we really use this stuff. I just spent the last two hours jamming on my EMX, on a single 16 beat pattern, without being at all repetitive.

Here's some tips. Reverse the ARP in the global settings. The touch strip is better for setting the notes, so that you can randomly access notes in the range, while moving the fader at top from legato between the mid point staccato. Press the keypad and one of the note numbers, which sets the low note of the arp. Then set the scale to mPenta for a minor pentatonic. Add a some portamento/glide to a synth patch, so that legato notes will glide when the fader is at top and not glide when the fader is moved to staccato. This gives a great natural bass line with slides, and is good for pads and leads too.

Use shift transpose to set the key in a common chord progression by hitting note 4, 9, 11 (to do a 1-4-5 progression). The arp will follow the transpose for jamming in the transposed key.

I usually set FX2 to a beat synced delay, FX3 to reverb, then use FX1 for whatever effect I want to apply only to the synth program that I'm using with the arp or keyboard. Drums are sent dry, since you can pick a kit that already has reverb in the sample, or go with a dry kit. I send most synth programs to FX2 except the current one used with the arp and keyboard. The full FX1+FX2+FX3 are chained together.

Pastor-of-Muppets · Post by **Pastor-of-Muppets** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 10:44 am

(btw, on my Korg R3, which supports the behaviour you want, the terms used are "catch mode" and "jump mode" - the Electribes only work in jump mode)

cheesebuckle wrote:Point still remains, if we CAN mod the EMX Knobs...what does it take?

I've never tried anything like that, so I'm probably wrong, take this with a large pinch of salt, but I don't see how to do it just with hardware, you'd need software and either

get hold of the EMX firmware source code, modify it to ignore knob changes until they pass the stored value, recompile it, flash the firmware

or

build something (maybe arduino-based) running your own software and wire it in between every knob and the EMX's microchips, so it intercepts the knob movements and only passes the data through to the EMX when it passes the stored value

Aciphecs · Post by **Aciphecs** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 2:32 pm

I have been trying to figure a work-around for this. Do you have any parts that aren't being used? You could use this part as a sacrificial "knob-turner" part.

You would have to know the original value of the parameter you wanted to change, but you could switch to the unused part, turn the knob till you reach that value, then change to the part that you really wanted to mess with and have at it!

Never tried this but I think it might work.