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  • Updated MIDI Control (markdown)

    @mauro-moreno mauro-moreno committed Aug 30, 2026
  • Document the banks, the browser and the MIDI control Two pages the manual did not have, for two things it did not have when it was written. Banks and patches: why a bank is a hundred and twenty-eight slots and not as many as it holds, the browser and the four shapes a Synth1 bank arrives in, why writing a patch cannot load on click, and where a sound is kept in each of the three builds -- which differs because who owns the persisting differs. MIDI control: what the specification decides and what is left to you, the Sound Controllers and why honouring them means a keyboard works on being plugged in, and the three quite different routes these messages take into a browser, a CLAP and a VST3. That last one is worth writing down: VST3 has no event for a controller or a program change at all, and a program list is what a host looks for before it will route one. Getting started now has the CLAP, including that all three files have to travel together -- a .clap copied on its own plays and shows the host's generic controls, which reads as a broken plugin rather than a missing folder.

    @mauro-moreno mauro-moreno committed Aug 20, 2026