This is turning into an extreme coverage of MIDI Program Change. If it's boring you then go to Facebook and find out what people are eating.
That a Program Change sent to the Boss DR-880 drum machine will switch the active drum kit makes perfect sense if you are slaving the DR-880 from some type of driving device such as a controller keyboard, etc. That permit the controller to set the drum kit to be used and then play the drum notes on the keys such that the DR-880 sounds them. You would do this because the DR-880 almost certainly has much cooler drum sounds than are built into a synth, etc.
However, changing the drum kit is absolutely bleedin' useless if you are driving the DR-880 from a looper, specifically the Boss RC-50. (The Boss RC-300 is pretty much the same as the RC-50 but it's newer and probably has more memory. Get yourself a used RC-50 and save yourself a pile of money.)
I have now reached the point of grovelling before strangers to find information on this subject. I found one guy on a pedal-steel guitar forum but couldn't reach him there so I poked around and found him on Fandalism where I sent him a message to ask if he knew of the problem. He's got two DR-880s so he must be pretty good with them.
There's another option for help as there's a DVD for $29.95 that provides a fairly extensive tutorial. I look at buying this as a sign of weakness. It should be possible to find the answer on the open net but so far I'm turning up zeroes.
Even if nothing else, it all looks cool in the dark. There are red, green, blue, and yellow lights all over the floor so it looks like a flyover for some demented spaceport in here. I have not played with any lasers yet as I want sound before I want lights. Besides, there is no fog juice and that stuff is about $25 a gallon. That's fine and will be handled in a couple of weeks. There will be lasers ... BUT ... first I will solve this Program Change problem.
Update: None of the above is a Murder-Death-Kill for a the Boss DR-880 in combination with a looper. At worst I will turn off transmitting Program Change and then will instead select the appropriate DR-880 drum patch manually. This is a hassle for live but so it goes. The reason for the ongoing combat is these are intelligent devices and it should be possible to configure them the way I want.
(Murder-Death-Kill comes from the movie "Demolition Man" which was most likely the ridiculous movie Sandra Bullock ever considered. It's kind of funny to watch, tho.)
That a Program Change sent to the Boss DR-880 drum machine will switch the active drum kit makes perfect sense if you are slaving the DR-880 from some type of driving device such as a controller keyboard, etc. That permit the controller to set the drum kit to be used and then play the drum notes on the keys such that the DR-880 sounds them. You would do this because the DR-880 almost certainly has much cooler drum sounds than are built into a synth, etc.
However, changing the drum kit is absolutely bleedin' useless if you are driving the DR-880 from a looper, specifically the Boss RC-50. (The Boss RC-300 is pretty much the same as the RC-50 but it's newer and probably has more memory. Get yourself a used RC-50 and save yourself a pile of money.)
I have now reached the point of grovelling before strangers to find information on this subject. I found one guy on a pedal-steel guitar forum but couldn't reach him there so I poked around and found him on Fandalism where I sent him a message to ask if he knew of the problem. He's got two DR-880s so he must be pretty good with them.
There's another option for help as there's a DVD for $29.95 that provides a fairly extensive tutorial. I look at buying this as a sign of weakness. It should be possible to find the answer on the open net but so far I'm turning up zeroes.
Even if nothing else, it all looks cool in the dark. There are red, green, blue, and yellow lights all over the floor so it looks like a flyover for some demented spaceport in here. I have not played with any lasers yet as I want sound before I want lights. Besides, there is no fog juice and that stuff is about $25 a gallon. That's fine and will be handled in a couple of weeks. There will be lasers ... BUT ... first I will solve this Program Change problem.
Update: None of the above is a Murder-Death-Kill for a the Boss DR-880 in combination with a looper. At worst I will turn off transmitting Program Change and then will instead select the appropriate DR-880 drum patch manually. This is a hassle for live but so it goes. The reason for the ongoing combat is these are intelligent devices and it should be possible to configure them the way I want.
(Murder-Death-Kill comes from the movie "Demolition Man" which was most likely the ridiculous movie Sandra Bullock ever considered. It's kind of funny to watch, tho.)
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