Doepfer MAQ16/3 Sequencer - Manual (Page 16)

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Because of space problems in the display only the controller number could be shown ( so no
'C' as used for the fixed conbtrollers (9) )
To select the number free between 0 - 127 you now have to press additional the 'Presets'-
button, which is indicated by lighting the LED of this switch.
Now you can change the controller number with the data entry dial. So the dial is used in
this situation not to select the type of the event, but also the number of the free controller
event. To fall back to the 'old' edit mode, where you can select the event type, you have to
press a different menu button except 'EVENT'. And then select once more the Event menu.
Though it's possible to switch between the rows in the new edit mode by pressing the
EVENT-button, you could only view the assigned event types, but not change them, because
the entry dial is locked for all 'normal' edit operation.
Remark:
For an update of an older MAQ version ( 3.4 and under) to a version 3.5 or higher.
Relating to receive an 'old' sysex dump (Appendix C) there's now change, because also in
the older version the complete memory was dumped. So also the memory which is now used
by the free controller numbers, which was only undefined up to now.
Therefore you now have of course to define these values, if you want to use them in a
preset.
Relating to a dump of a single preset the 3 new bytes are simply put at the end of the string.
So to receive an 'old' dump will work without problems, but will cause the display of an midi-
error. (Which is o.k. because realting to the new format, there are really 3 missing bytes.)
But you must not pay attention to this, but also simply define the free controllers, if you now
use them.
We would like to emphasize one more time at this point that not every arrangement possible
is also sensible. One could of course assign step-duration or velocity to all three rows, but
this would certainly make no sense ! Nonetheless, we deliberately decided not to outright
exclude certain configurations, in order to avoid limiting the potential of the MAQ from the
start. Since this allows for the possibility of nonsensical configurations, we urge all users to
make sure that the configurations programmed do make sense. Otherwise there is a
potential for uncontrolled reactions and side effects.
For example, if a velocity-row is combined with an monophonic aftertouch-row, then the
velocity-value entered via the dials will overwrite the aftertouch-values!
If on occasion the MAQ behaves in unexpected or undesired fashion, the user should
review the configuration entered to make sure it actually makes sense.