source file: m1436.txt Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 10:37:52 -0700 Subject: FB-01 From: Carl Lumma >I have to ask, why are you about to buy an FB-01? >Or is someone giving you one? Such a dog unit! All this talk about FB01's... I don't really know anything about them, but I've been told that they're a little more than "dog unit"s. Retuning is apparently much more effective with pitch bends than with Sysex messages. Here's what Jules Siegel once told me... >>4 FB01s ... The FBs have a quirk which allows you to have multiple >>voices with different pitchbends on a single channel ... All it is, is >>that once the note-off comes, the fb01 ignores further bend msgs for >>that note. So a new note can be started after a different bend is >>sent. You need to use a patch with a long decay, and not be in >>monophonic mode. The multiple notes can come so fast that they don't >>even sound like the arpeggios that they actually are. Note that >>sending a different patch immediately chops off all sounding notes on >>the channel. You can send a series of midi volume events if you need to >>stop the notes more gracefully, and the voice decay would make them >>sound for too long. Carl