MIDI Devices

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MIDI devices
3. Repeat the two steps above to create the subnode
“System Common”, which is also a separate table in the
MIDI Definition section in the JV-1080 manual and is ref-
erenced by the “System” table.
Creating several subnodes at once
The “System” table contains 17 references to another ta-
ble called “Scale Tune”. So we need to add 17 more sub-
nodes, but this time, we will proceed differently: we’ll
create 17 similar subnodes at once.
1. Click the “Add Subnodes” button again.
In the dialog that appears, enter Scale Tune as name, check the Create
Multiple checkbox, enter “Part” as Variable name and set the Variable
range to 1–17. When you click OK, 17 new subnodes are created:
The added subnodes all have a variable called “Part”, set to different
“Values”.
2. Rename the subnode Scale Tune 17 to “Scale Tune
Patch Mode” (according to the System table) by selecting
the node and entering the new name in the Name field.
All of these “Scale Tune” nodes behave like alias copies in many aspects
(this is described later).
Ö A drawback of the approach described here is that
you can never activate the Snapshot option for Channels,
see “Working with snapshots” on page 21.
Adding parameters
1. Now you’ll create parameters for the “Scale Tune”
nodes. Click the “Add Parameters” button.
The “Add Parameters” dialog appears.
2. According to the MIDI definition, the “Scale Tune” table
contains 12 parameters. All of them are named “Scale Tune
for XX”, where XX stands for the different notes in an oc-
tave. The parameter range of these parameters is from 0 to
127 and all are set to the default value 64. Fill in the Name,
Min, Max and Default fields accordingly. Next, activate the
“Create Multiple” checkbox and set the Variable Range to
“0–11”, which is the address range of the 12 parameters.