E-Mu Planet Phatt, Orbit, Orbit v2, Carnaval, Vintage Keys, and Vintage Keys Plus
Single Patch Editor
This editor will work with the E-Mu Planet Phatt, both versions of the Orbit (9090 and V2/9095), Carnaval, Vintage Keys with or without the extension kit, and Vintage Keys Plus. You will need to set a switch to indicate which one you are using (if you have a Vintage Keys with the extension kit, select Vintage Keys Plus). If you load a sysex file or receive sysex from a machine, Edisyn will try to guess which machine it came from but may get it wrong.
Communicating with Edisyn
Set the MIDI ID to the same you'll be setting in Edisyn (typically 0). Select a MIDI Channel to use on your synthesizer (perhaps channel 1) and set Edisyn's MIDI channel to that value. Set the MIDI Mode to Omni or to Poly.
Uploading Pseudo-MPE
These machines don't support MPE. But we can fake it by pointing every single channel to the same patch and with the same settings: this can be taken advantage of by instruments such as the Linnstrument. You need to make sure that your MIDI Mode is set to "Multi" to play them.
Gotchas
- Unfortunately, changing individual parameters does not affect the current sound, only future notes played.
- There is no way to send an entire patch to current memory in E-Mu synthesizers. Instead Edisyn must either dedicate a RAM patch to be a “scratch patch”, or it must send each parameter individually (which is slow but doesn't waste a patch). I have elected to the second for the time being.
- If Edisyn is selecting the wrong patch, you might check to see if you have modified your synth's Program Map. If so, you'll need to reset it to its defaults.
- You cannot request the current patch on any of these machines.
Thanks
Thanks to Ray Bellis (ray@bellis.me.uk) and Austin Taylor (austin1@ataylor.ca) for extracting instrument dumps to make proper mappings possible for these machines.
By
| Sean Luke
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Date
| July 2022
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