Locate button resets program change on external units (EXT2)

[outsider9]

There's a nuisance related to program changes and the Locate button. When I press the Locate button to go to the song start point, this sends some reset messages and every external unit gets a program reset (and probably some other parameter resets as I've found elsewhere searching this forum).

I tried the MIDI filter page and unticked 'program change' for that specific channel (10 in this example) but it still gets resetted. (Of course this would not be a desirable solution anyways if I do want program changes to occur in the song!)

As I can't find a way to avoid this undesirable behaviour, I insert a program change event on the sequencer, as soon as it can be done, which is measure 1, beat 01.000. The event does not get sent quickly enough though, so for example my ER-1 Electribe will start the first measure on pattern A01 in pattern mode (or song 01 in song mode) before the 'recorded' program change gets executed and jumps to A06 (pattern mode) in this case. A measure late.

[Bald Eagle]

Here is a link to a thread about a similar problem with the M3. The M50 is the same engine so it should be relevant. Unfortunately this is how it works so the thread wont be of any help other than to see a discussion about the issue.

http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=54682

[outsider9]

Exactly. My conclusion (FWIW) is that this is a bug and not a feature.
To avoid this issue, I just touch the song time and use the data entry slider or wheel.