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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 3:07 am
by oOjTgOo
Like testing123 asked, is it a new sound bank or just a new set of patterns created from the pre-existing sound bank? The reason I ask is that I have the XD version. I already went through and erased all the patterns from my MX for more breathing room. Not worth my time if it's not new sounds.
Thanks.
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 12:42 pm
by Pastor-of-Muppets
you can't change the sounds in the MX, so even if the SD version had new sounds (which I don't think it does) you couldn't load them into an older model anyway
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 3:07 pm
by oOjTgOo
Yea, that's a negative on the new sounds. Punpkomg answered that question on FB last night. New walls, same old bricks. And like you said I didn't see how new sounds would be put on the emx. Still, I don't understand how playing an audio track through an analog device can reprogram it. Just now it works. So figured anything was possible.
I'm more than happy with the existing sound bank and it's tweak-ability.
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 5:19 pm
by Pastor-of-Muppets
oOjTgOo wrote:Still, I don't understand how playing an audio track through an analog device can reprogram it. Just now it works. So figured anything was possible.
I assume you're referring to the monotribe OS v2?
the 'tribe isn't purely analogue, it has a digital operating system (for responding to the buttons and running the sequencer at least), I think it's just the audio that is analogue. It will have been designed to accept a special signal on the Sync In to reprogram its OS. Anyone old enough to have loaded computer games from a cassette (or just listened to a dial-up modem) should understand how an audio track can be used to transfer digital data to a computer
I guess it would've been possible for the EMX to replace its ROM samples via a MIDI sysex dump, but it would need to have been designed in from the start, and I don't think it was.
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 5:50 pm
by oOjTgOo
I remember my dad letting me drop the phone receiver into a modem when I was a boy. Few moons ago. I didn't think about it like that.
It is a fun little gizmo. I can't stop playing with it.
I'd thought it to be totally analog. After review of the product description I think you're right. Hard to tell with all the jargon. They could make the sky green with the use of the right jargon