HELP!

I have a JX305, a PC, Cubase, a can of lighter fluid... and little patience left.

Grrrrrrrrr.

It's all down to the data transmitted by the cutoff and resonance knobs on my JX305 - and how it's played back by Cubase. Basically, it goes haywire.

Say I record an eight bar arpeggiated section, tweaking the cutoff as it plays to produce a sweeping noise. I then want to play this section as a loop. The first time the section plays, everything sounds fine, but on the second time around, the section starts with the cutoff / resonance settings as they were at the end of the first loop. The data isn't being 'reset'.

I've had loads of advice from people telling me I need to reset this data manually. Fine, but as yet, no-one has been able to tell me HOW I do this (apart from Kred0 in the Computer Music forum, but I'm afraid that didn't work).

Where do I find this data to edit? What do I call up - the List Edit menu or the Key Edit menu? And where do I find the Filter / Cutoff data? If I call up key edit, I see a variety of options before me when I click the box in the bottom left corner, but none of these options covers cutoff / resonance. In fact, the only one I can edit is Unknown Controller, but that only gives me one controller to play with, not two as everyone always refers to.

If I call up list edit, the only note data I see concerns velocity. How can I get to see my filter / cutoff data?

I've also checked (one at a time and both together) the 'Reset on part end' and 'reset on track change' options in MIDI Setup. Neither of these solve my problem.

I've also checked 'Controller' in MIDI filter - both for record and thru. Still nothing.

So basically, whatever I record doesn't get played back as I intended. Whywhywhy? This is sending me insane and turning what promised to be a lot of fun into a big nightmare. If anyone could give me explicit instructions as to what to change and where, I'd be more than grateful.

And if I get really, really famous, I *promise* to remember you in my will!

Thanks in advance,
Iain

Try make two different parts where both parts only contain the movements of one slider (respart and cutpart).
If you open these parts as "list edit", every entry should be like:

time, controler name, control number and value.

The control numbers in the tow parts should be different. The reason its called "Unknown controller" is that its not all controller numbers that are defined for all instruments.
You know like the sustain pedal which is CC64.

If you still cannot make it work mail me, attach the .arr file with the two parts

Welcome to the world of MIDI code.

Although I do not use Cubase, I have faced similar problems, and the advice that I see here is good.

Let me try to explain it to you in laymans terms.

In Cubase, when you want the sequencer to initiate your 305 to a specific performance or set of voices, you have to go to the patch map and say Wired Lead track 1, Fat Bass, track 2, Analog kit track 10. By doing this, you are sending the proper PC (program change) to init your synth.

My guess is, when you want to add filter sweeps and loop your synth. You have set up your patches and you record your eight measure. The problem is you have not told it where the start point is. So if you got your first 8 measures to play properly, you probably MANUALLY set your synth at the beginning of the sequence.

No problem.

Every sequencer worth its salt will let you access the MIDI code. The question is how. If you don't want to read the manual, help will tell you how to access it.

I hope this put into perspective all the other advice that you have received.