Hortator 0.24.0

Parameter locks

• Parameter locks, Elektron style: any step can have its own value for a knob.
• ENV: STEPS / TRACKS: ENV (unused before) switches the white keys between the selected track's steps (STEPS)
  and the tracks (TRACKS), on its release. In STEPS its LED is lit and a padlock shows in the top bar (left of the
  battery) on every page. The mode is not saved: TRACKS at power-on.
• STEPS mode: the keys tap and hold steps as on SEQ, on HOME, TRACKS (armed too), SOUND, LAYER, FX, LFO and COMP,
  and play no drum (REC ALL records no hits then). ENV held + OCT+ / OCT- changes the bank; OCT+ held + a step sets
  its accent; OCT+ alone and OCT- keep their page's job. ENV turns KEYS and SCL STEPS off. In TRACKS the keys work
  exactly as before.
• Locking a step: in STEPS, hold a step and turn any knob that MOTION can record (on HOME, TRACKS' LEVEL and PAN,
  SOUND, LAYER, FX, SLICER, RESON, FILTER, LFO and LFO DEST): that step gets its own value for that knob. The top line
  says LOCK STEP 5 (LOCK 5 on HOME), the knob boxes show the step's values with a locked one inverted, and the
  knob's own value stays as it was. A turn right after the press works; the release then doesn't toggle the step.
  Knobs that MOTION can't record do nothing while a step is held.
• Clearing locks: step held + an OCT- tap clears that step's locks on the knobs of the page shown
  (STEP 5 LOCKS CLEARED); OCT- held 0.6 s clears all its locks (STEP 5 ALL CLEARED). OCT- with no step held keeps
  its job. LOCKS FULL at 1024 events. SEQ STEP still sets PROB / RATCH / ACC on a held step; a song's
  rows are not edited.
• Playback: a lock sets its knob for its own step only, and the knob goes back on the next step. An LFO on that
  knob modulates around the locked value. A step that is off keeps its locks without playing them. Locks play whatever
  MOTION's PLAY says; MOTION CLEAR leaves them; CLEAR TRACK, TOOLS CLR* and INIT* remove them. A SONG row plays its
  own project's locks and none carry into the next row. STOP, a model change, a MIDI LEARN CC and a preset SAVE use
  the knob's own value, never a lock's.
• On screen: in STEPS the footer's step strip underlines each locked step of the bank shown (in a song, the
  row's); SEQ > MOTION shows the selected track's MOTION (recorded events) and LOCKS counts on KNOB 2 / 3.

Projects and samples

• 1024 events: MOTION and the locks share 1024 events per project (MOTION had 128). A save cut by a power loss
  keeps the last complete project.
• Compatibility: older projects load with their motion as before. 0.23.x sees a project saved by 0.24.0 as an
  empty slot (LOAD FAILED at power-on): going back is safe but not supported. If a project's locks can't be read,
  it loads without them and the FM-1 says LOCKS LOST.
• USR3 now holds up to 48 KiB (USR1 and USR2 stay at 80 KiB): the locks are stored in the last 32 KiB of its
  space. A longer USR3 sample is shortened once at power-on (USR3 SHORTENED TO 48K: zones past 48 KiB are dropped,
  one that crosses it is cut); a power cut during that one rewrite empties USR3 and nothing else. If the rewrite
  fails, the FM-1 says USR3 CLAMP FAILED and SAVE and RENAME keep the project in memory only, saying so, so an
  older Hortator never plays the locks as USR3's sound.

Install: https://deadactive.github.io/hortator/webapp/installer/ (Chrome or Edge, over USB). The package holds JieLi SDK files under Apache-2.0: see LICENSING.md and LICENSES.zip below.

Two versions: hortator-0.24.0.fwsc, and hortator-0.24.0-bluetooth.fwsc, the same Hortator with Bluetooth MIDI (experimental; off at every power-on). The web installer offers both.