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Ok so im having real trouble.

When im playing my emx1 live i cant select a part without triggering it. The manual says to hold down the shift button but that does not work.

Its really becoming a problem cos i cant see where the knobs are set at until i move them and then you get a massive load of noise right in the middle of your tune!!!

Help

Holding shift will make it so you don't trigger, say a drum hit, but unfortunately(?) it will still unmute that part. You'll simply have to work on your technique--and maybe cluster part assignments together based on use--in order to overcome this. It's basically an additional step you have to take. My preferred method is to hover a finger over the mute button and just hold this down and do a double-tap of the part button. Needs focus, but it's a workable solution.

Ok cool ill be practicing the old double tap.

Thanks for the help

I've been saving some of my parts at zero volume and keeping one track unused. Switch to the unused track to turn the knob down, switch over to what you want to play and turn up. Back to the unused track to adjust position, repeat.
-CCQ-

CleverConQueso wrote:I've been saving some of my parts at zero volume and keeping one track unused. Switch to the unused track to turn the knob down, switch over to what you want to play and turn up. Back to the unused track to adjust position, repeat.
-CCQ-

this is also a useful technique if you can spare a synth part and are heavy on knob tweaking.. you can select the dummy synth part to turn knobs closer to where you remember the original/current value is so there isn't a big jump when you select another synth part to start tweaking that parameter.

I use a MIDI Solutions Event Processor Plus with a nanoKontrol2 connected through my iPad (using the MIDI Bridge app) and a usb hub and have all the synth parts mapped to the faders and the drum parts to the rotaries so that I never have to touch the levesl on the parts on the EMX.

I am going to get an iConnect MIDI to get rid of the iPad requirement. It will still require the MIDI Solutions Event Processor Plus to map the CCs on the nanoKontrol2 to the NRPNs of the EMX to control volume, though.

neotechtonics wrote:

CleverConQueso wrote:I've been saving some of my parts at zero volume and keeping one track unused. Switch to the unused track to turn the knob down, switch over to what you want to play and turn up. Back to the unused track to adjust position, repeat.
-CCQ-

this is also a useful technique if you can spare a synth part and are heavy on knob tweaking.. you can select the dummy synth part to turn knobs closer to where you remember the original/current value is so there isn't a big jump when you select another synth part to start tweaking that parameter.

Bears repeating. I'd recommend doing this with one part's filter/res, then using the Accent Part as an intermediary to make sure the cutoff knob is in the right place before switching to that part. You've gotta learn to think like the machine.

thehighesttree wrote:

neotechtonics wrote:

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Bears repeating. I'd recommend doing this with one part's filter/res, then using the Accent Part as an intermediary to make sure the cutoff knob is in the right place before switching to that part. You've gotta learn to think like the machine.

WAAAAAAA! that's brilliant! i never thought of selecting accent to prime/reset my knobs for tweaking. (the global parameters)
also the more obvious: select a drum part to prime/reset parameters in the synth-section.

you guys should take this knowledge and drop some science on the electribe forums, as is in the dedicated web forums.