anotherscott wrote:
Ah, you've touched on an aspect of the Nord that I haven't played with at all. So, when Nord offers these options, if you pick "per program," what does the board do when you haven't specified anything for a particular program? It must have some default value for each parameter, right? So for the organ to be implemented that way, and not lose the current functionality of being able to alter these characteristics on a global basis, wouldn't you have to double the number of menu options for these organ settings? I mean, for each parameter, you'd need the program-specific parameter to get what you're after, but you'd also want to be able to adjust what the defaults are, for all the organ sounds where you haven't adjusted each paramneter individually, right? So you would need the current global settings menu for the mentioned parameters to establish the preferred default (type, click, trigger, rotary model, bass/horn, rotary speed, horn speed, and the 2 accel parameters were the ones mentioned), AND you would need all of them again within a specific program. No?
Right now, that's actually not the way it works for the other options that currently let you choose between "per Program" and "Global", in that there are no doubled menu options but only one. Basically you first set whether that parameter will be per Program or Global, then you adjust that parameter.
Let's choose channel routing as an example: if you select "Global", then it's pretty much self-explanatory: all Programs will have their channels routed the way you set them from within any Program you find yourself into in that time. So page 1 of the menu will say "Global", page 2* will be "Ch1-2" etc.
Now if you set instead "per Program", page 2 will of course be different for every Program, as you set them. All the Programs you didn't specifically set will have the default value (in this example ch 1-2) until you set them differently.
What I am not sure of is what happens if you, after having set a bunch of Programs each with their own values, you then revert the main setting to "Global". I mean, sure enough all the values will go back to their default for all Programs but what I am not sure of is whether each of those Programs will still retain somewhere inside of them what the altered settings were, so that if you then switch back to "per Program" you'll find them again as you had previously set them. I would think that yes, very likely this is the case. Otherwise, to accidentally switch from "per Program" to "Global", even briefly while browsing the menu, would have a devastating effect on your Programs.
I myself use "per Program" routing, as some of my Programs are routed to ch 3, but I then never tried to revert back to "Global"...
Anyway, be it any way it is in this respect, it would take just the adding of a single page in the menu for the B3 settings to become like the channel routing or Extern. I hope it's not too unrealistic to hope that this will be someday part of a firmware update.
* These numbers are just used as an example. I don't remember now which page is exactly of the menu.
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