Received a reply via email today, this message got forwarded by Ted at Ketron USA to Italy and back through him to get to me:

We will have to be able to send some SYSEX commands as well. This may impact the brand and model of keyboard controller, I think. Will have to investigate further, of course.

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1) Page 42 of the manual states that CONTROL 1EH (CC30) should control the Rotor for the tonewheel organ.

…..You are in right!!!

2) Myself and at least three others who own SD2 units have not been able to get the Rotor to work at all.

…..In order to select ROTOR ( or Leslie ) you have to use firstly this EXCLUSIVE strings

TYPE EFFECTS CHANNEL ASSIGN

F0H 26H 7BH 0BH 00H Chan Type F7H

Chan: 00H - 1FH Type: 0 = no effects 3 = Chorus

1 = Leslie 4 = Delay

3) 2 = Distorsor



……on CHAN you have to select which track you would use than on TYPE select 1 (Leslie )

Don’t forget ….Leslie or Rotor work instead of Chorus ( or Distortion or Delay as showed on page 44 )



3) We can get the tonewheel organ drawbars to work just fine, also some of the other effects, using conversions of hexadecimal to the proper CC numbers, as one would expect.



At the bottom of Owner manual there’s an example of it :

DRAWBARS SELECTION

Controller 0 Value 67 Bank MSB Program Change 0

Drawbar Controller: 20 = 16’ Value: 0-127 24 = 2 2/3 Value: 0-127 28 = percussion 4’ Value: 0-127

21 = 8’ Value: 0-127 25 = 2’ Value: 0-127 29 = percussion 2’ 2/3 Value: 0-127

22 = 5 1/3’ Value: 0-127 26 = 1’ 3/5 Value: 0-127

23 = 4’ Value: 0-127 27 = 1’ Value: 0-127

I.E ( in order to send a drawbars data 16’- 8’- 4’)

Controller 0 value 67 Controller 20 value 127 (16’) Controller 23 value 127 (4’)

Program change 0 Controller 21 value 127 (8’)


...no needs an hexadecimal value ..but simple Controllers





Is there perhaps a misprint in the manual or is there something we are missing that we need to do?



We need the Rotor function.



In detail ..to obtain Rotor you have to switch before between Chorus ( or else ) and than will have Rotor….




Just received this info, haven't had time to try it out, wanted to post it as quickly as possible so you'd know also.

Will be trying to send the Sysex with software sequencers, Powertracks first, just to proof the thing. Unfortunately, I don't think any of the keyboard controllers I've got onhand here can send any SYSEX, mumble-mumble, where's the manual...

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