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Introduction
Moving via the Keyboard and Mouse
Movement Triggers
Programmable Goto Keys
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Introduction

Moving from patch to patch is what The KeyMaster is all about. Patches configure your MIDI setup and modify the MIDI data. Moving between patches changes your system's configuration.

The current patch is the one whose name is displayed in the Document Window. It is the patch that is modifying MIDI data.

You can move from song to song and from chain to chain, as well. When you move to a song, the first patch in the song becomes the current patch. When you move to a chain, the first song in the chain becomes the current song (and its patch becomes the current patch).

You can move forward to the next patch or backward to the previous patch. You can also jump forward to the last patch in a song or backward to the first patch in a song. Moving forward beyond the last patch in a song moves to the first patch of the next song in the current chain, and moving backward from the first patch in a song moves to the last patch of the previous song in the current chain.

Opening a patch edit window does not make that patch the current patch.

Moving via the Keyboard and Mouse

To move from chain to chain, song to song, or patch to patch, you can To jump directly to a particular chain, song, or patch, you can When you type a name into a Goto window or one of the Document Window text boxes, remember that (a) you can type any unique name prefix, and (b) case doesn't matter.

Move Triggers

MOVE TRIGGERS ARE NOT YET IMPLEMENTED.

Another way to move around is with the Movement Triggers. They specify two different ways to move via MIDI. The first kind are MIDI controllers that you specify. For example, you can tell The KeyMaster to move to the next patch when it receives controller 23 from your DX-7, and to move to the next song when it receives controller 24 from MIDI channel 3 sent by your Wavestation.

Some MIDI controllers are continuous (i.e., send out all values from 0 to 127), and some are discrete (send out only 0 and 127). Move Triggers always activate when they receive a value of 127.

The second kind of movement trigger is via a program change. When you specify an instrument and a MIDI channel, any program change message it sends is used to move to the next or previous patch. If the program change number is larger than the previous program change number, The KeyMaster moves to the next patch. If the program number is smaller, it moves to the previous patch. The first program change you send always moves forward (since The KeyMaster doesn't know what the previous program change number was).

Alternately, you can specify that *any* program change moves to the next patch. There is then no way to move to the previous patch via a program change.

MAY MODIFY HOW THIS WORKS. WRITE LOTS MORE HERE.

Use the Move Trigger Window to specify the MIDI controllers you use to move, and the program change instrument and MIDI channel.

Programmable Goto Keys

PROGRAMMABLE GOTO KEYS ARE NOT YET IMPLEMENTED.

Jump to a song and patch with a single key stroke. You can assign a patch to any of the function keys. Pressing that key makes the assigned patch the current patch.

Will have a drag-and-drop editor window. User can drag patches onto keys.


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