MIDI Devices

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MIDI devices
As you may have noticed, the variable “x” is automatically
assigned to the “Data” value. “x” stands for the value that is
represented by this parameter and is always defined indi-
vidually by each parameter. If you later assign a control like
a fader to this parameter, this fader will control and modify
“x”. “x” is automatically assigned to the last value of the
message, but can be freely assigned to any other value.
4. Click OK to close the dialog.
In the Device window, small plus symbols are now dis-
played next to the Scale Tune nodes, indicating further
content.
Before looking into these nodes, you should add the miss-
ing “DevID” variable to the root of the device, because this
is a global value that affects the device as a whole.
5. Select the “Roland JV-1080” node, click the “Add
Variable” button and rename it to “DevID”. Normally, you
can keep the default value setting of “0”, except if your
hardware device is set to another value.
Editing Scale Tune 1
1. Let’s look into the Scale Tune 1 node by clicking its
plus symbol.
You can now browse the parameters to verify that the cor-
rect MIDI messages are transmitted. You can of course
also do this for any of the other nodes.
2. The next step is to rename the parameters according
to the “Scale Tune” table of the device’s manual by select-
ing each of the 12 parameters and entering their correct
name in the “Name” field.
Now, the parameters should be displayed as follows:
• If you open any of the other Scale Tune nodes now, you’ll
see that the names of the parameters have also changed.
This is what was meant by “alias copies” in the beginning.
Furthermore, you will notice that if you add a panel to one of
the Scale Tune nodes (see the chapter “Using MIDI De-
vices” in the Operation Manual), it will be added to all of
them, making it much easier to create panels with repeating
sections.
Adding parameters to another node
1. Now you need to add parameters to another node,
“System Common”. In the list to the left, select “System
Common”.
2. Click the Add Parameters button and select the Sysex
message “Roland JV-1080 DataSet1 7 Bit” you created
earlier.
3. Now set up the DevID as described before.
…to display the parameters
for the node.
Click here…