Roland MKS-30 with Johannes Hausensteiner mod - getting CC to work

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"Brage" asked the following question in another category:

Hello Rainer! I know this question is not fully related to midi designer, but it's related to your specific question: I have an mks-30 with the johannes hausensteiner midi upgrade. I want to enable midi control change reception (from analog.no: '6.3. MIDI control change enable/disable flag'), but I cannot find any documentation apart from analog .no's facsimile of the intro to the midi upgrade manual. Can you please help me? I've tried every thinkable front panel button combination, yet I haven't found a page from which I can enable the mks-30 to receive/accept parameter changes via midi cc's (#'s 17-24, 33-40, 49-56 and 65-72). It would be truly fantastic if you could help.
Best regards, Brage.

I couldn't get it to work either at the beginning, and have to have a look at the machine itself to see how I did manage in the end; I'll get back to you!

The layout for MIDI Designer I'm creating for the Roland JX-3P (Organix), JX-3P (KiwiTechnics), MKS-30 (JH), JX-8P and MKS-70 is looking great btw, I'm nearly done designing it and am busy adding the SysEx params for the 8P and MKS-70. The cool thing is that every synth has its own page in only one layout, so it's very easy to switch between them, and they all have the same consistent controls, as far as possible. I'll probably be posting it somwhere next week.

Here's a preview of the JX-3P (KiwiTechnics) programmer:

 

Rainer

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hey I was wondering if you have made this available yet? this looks great! I own a KIWI PE, but am always interested in what people are developing. Please shoot me an e-mail at petersroad - at - gmail dot - COM

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Hey Peter,
Yes, it's available, it also includes the Alpha Junos:
http://mididesigner.com/qa/171/roland-jx-3p-jx-8p-mks-30-mks-50

Love to see how it has evolved since this screenshot - it's the most complex synth of all those covered in my layout :-)

Enjoy!
Rainer

PS: scroll down for the latest version

Answer 1

I looked it up, it's really quite simple: you press and hold the "MIDI CHANNEL" button, when pressing the "2" button it toggles between MIDI CC reception and no CC reception. On my MKS the small 0's indicating the status are UP if I'm correct. You'll see what I mean when you press those two buttons.

Good luck!

Rainer

Answer 2

I looked it up, it's really quite simple: you press and hold the "MIDI CHANNEL" button, when pressing the "2" button it toggles between MIDI CC reception and no CC reception. On my MKS the small 0's indicating the status are UP if I'm correct. You'll see what I mean when you press those two buttons.

Good luck!

Rainer