Sunday, February 10, 2019

BCR-2000 and Roland D-50 / D-05

Created a BC Manager-friendly BCR-2000 script to control a Roland D-50 / Roland D-05. Everything appears to be supported here (except MIDI and name entry).

NOTE: BECAUSE THIS IS ALL CUSTOM SYSEX - THE D-50/D-05 NEEDS TO BE SET TO CHANNEL 16. This is hardcoded for now, sorry.

Basic structure is:

P-1: Patch Control
P-2: Upper Common
P-3: Upper Partial 1 - Waveform and TVA
P-4: Upper Partial 1 - TVF
P-5: Upper Partial 2 - Waveform and TVA
P-6: Upper Partial 2 - TVF
P-7: Lower Common
P-8: Lower Partial 1 - Waveform and TVA
P-9: Lower Partial 1 - TVF
P-10:Lower Partial 2 - Waveform and TVA

P-11:Lower Partial 2 - TVF

Source code is at the bottom of this post.

Functions are grouped wherever possible (especially the envelopes which are all on the bottom row). This enables simplification of labeling since there are essentially 4 different functions per knob.

A few things could be improved (when there are 4 possible values per knob it requires a fair amount of twisting, some values should be not just the "one-dot" mode, etc.

Printable google doc of the 4 legend strips is here and code is available here

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