"Synth off, but still on" Setting

[IndianerJonas]

Hey guys,

I have just bought a NS3. Its an amazing thing (even though I am right now pretty salty about the preset incompatibilty).

I am missing one, for me very important, feature.
On my NS2 I was able to play an arpeggio on a synth, then assign it to no region by pushing shift and the on/off button. So it was unplayable, but still tweakable.
Then I could play over that with a piano and the other synth and still tweak that synth.

Now it doesn't seem to do work anymore and I cannot think about a workaround.
Any ideas?

Thank you, J

[Mr_-G-]

Hi. What do you mean "tweakable"? If the NS2 synth section is switched off then it is not active (all LEDs off).
Also in my NS2, "shift+on/off button" (the section on/off) is no different than then on/off button alone. Or am I missing something?

[IndianerJonas]

Can you try this, please:

Let the synth play an arpeggio with the hold function. Then press shift and the on/off of the synth.
That changes the region the synth is assigned t (if there is a split). On mine I have a step in there where its not assigned but still playing (all leds off for the regions - all other leds in the synth section on).

I made a video demonstrating it, but its in german.
So just skip to 0:50 and you'll see what I mean.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gy1yats2ol0bo ... 6.MOV?dl=0

[IndianerJonas]

Mh, I found one workaround now. It is not as elegant and holds some danger to mess it up when zoning out though.
Woraround: I made a split for the very last half octave and when the arp is set, I ban it on that one.

[Mr_-G-]

Oh, I see, not switch off the synth, but reassign the split. Interesting, I was not aware it was possible.

[IndianerJonas]

Yes! I think it is actually quite a powerful feature, because you can have a drone/an arp there that you can still tweak, while playing something different without having a split to think about. Or let midi play only that synth region but still you could tweak and play something different on top.

I mean, it works with sacrificing one split region somehow.

[AlexNagel]

Can you try this, please:

Let the synth play an arpeggio with the hold function. Then press shift and the on/off of the synth.
That changes the region the synth is assigned t (if there is a split). On mine I have a step in there where its not assigned but still playing (all leds off for the regions - all other leds in the synth section on).

I made a video demonstrating it, but its in german.
So just skip to 0:50 and you'll see what I mean.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gy1yats2ol0bo ... 6.MOV?dl=0

Just tried to do this on the NS3 - it's not possible I think the NS3 lost the ability doing what you did here because it no longer features dedicated INSTRUMENT MIDI channels, this must connected somehow.

Viele Grüße, Alex

[IndianerJonas]

Yeah, I found that out too and asked Clavia now if they could change it.
I hope its not connected. And holy moly, I just found out that its not possible anymore to assign midi channels to instruments. That was such a cool feature too.