Hi folks, new name, new game (mpn did not react to the request to reactivate the expired account - so franky46 now is frank64 ;)). OK, let's go:
New release Ctrlr V-Combo EDITOR v.1.12.13 "GiDiTion"
What's new?
BUGFIXES:
MidiMapper is now functional. Bugfixes also for V-SYNTH (pcm wave select) and UPG-Editor ('invalid file' at save) - and many others
For sure it adds new bugs - feel free to report
FEATURES:
'GiDiTion' integrates new features of the 'hidden' Juno-Gi/Di system layer of the VR: this allows loading the GM2 sounds of VRs (internal) GM2 engine into the 'keyboard layer' for playing on the VR keys (and modifying with VR keyboard controllers), adds features like 'key response setting', EFX per manual/voice assignment, panpot, scale tuning etc.
'Gi'-features cannot be saved to VR registrations but used live with EDITOR during a session. This is valid also for loading GM2 sounds - but VR-registrations can be used to interact with EDITOR MidiMapper to automate loading GM2 sounds.
It unplugged new 'hidden' soundbanks for the keyboard: Jupiter-80-like 'Synth Legend Tones' (a bit tricky to save to VR registrations - but it can be done ...), percussion sets and sound effects
It has new catalogued soundbanks for GM2 sound engine: up to now ca. 800 sounds have been 'identified' - note that there are excellent orchestral and synth patches (dunno, yet alone 20 synth strings or so)
A 'magic HOLD' function for the lower manual voices
Synchronisation to VR at EDITOR startup or manually
ZONE setting has been simplified
V-Piano has been heavily reworked: 'sympathetic-resonance-hall' was bugfixed and got a new 'timbre', 'Gi'-features were introduced (key response setting, per voice assignment of EFX and sustain pedal, damper-noise now uses 'd-beam sounds' etc etc)
Note some 'use cases' for using the editor live with VR09/730:
'prepared VR-registration' + MidiMapper:
can load a GM2 sound (e.g. GP70, one of the crazy GM2 synth patches, etc) by switching to that registration
can activate 'V-Piano' for this registration: it applies cutomisable 'tuning' (cutting off shrill velocity layer, optimising key response, adding a kind of 'damper resonance' etc) to a VR GrandV
can load a synth patch that had been modified/created with the VA synth (and saved to an Editor V-Synth preset) by switching to that registration
Hammond drawbars and presets: use Hammond console drawbar sets including toggling and programmable presets with a touch display
change scale tuning to Just, Werckmeister, Arabic ...
DOWNLOAD:
As it's actually not possible to publish new panels in ctrlr.org, the panel (V-Combo-EDITOR_v11213.zip) and the Windows-standalone (V-Combo-EDITOR-11213.exe) can be downloaded from here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_CJVGF0tACCxr1m0Y5yw7YLWEg1bvMF0?usp=sharing
Happy Ve-are-ing
