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>That's what I was hoping the Opcode Studio 5 was going to be, and I >was very disappointed when I got my beta unit and it couldn't do >that. Nevertheless I've found that the patching and remapping >functions of the Studio 5 can be useful, and it allows remapping on >the fly simply by switching between programs. Still, the Studio 5 has some pretty amazing mappings. The one really annoying thing is that the velocity switching doesn't handle note-ons with velocity 0 properly (ie, note-offs if you use running status, which about every MIDI machine since the year dot does use) so we were unable to use it for our hypercomplex velocity-controlled switching unless we set the actual programs in the synth to have a final cutoff regardless of getting a note off. There's also the very bad feature that the unit occasionally dumps its memory and you have to reload it from a computer. This is common enough(*) that you'd pretty well have to bring a computer to the gig and at that point you might as well go the Max route anyway! It's funny, I haven't turned my Studio 5 on in a couple of years... I don't use any computer MIDI at all right now, I used to do it every day! (I'm doing all my music "live" these days...) (* -- and admitted by Opcode!) /t http://whatGoes.com ............................. extreme NY calendar. http://TomRitchford.com/endOverEnd ... I'm writing a novel in November. http://fortNY.com ............................... Forteans of New York.