May 13, 2008

The new TPX6s has a matrix-style interface for controlling global synthesizer parameters, and a joystick option for controlling global pitch bend. This is a demonstration of those features, although I forgot to demonstrate one of the parameter sets, and the wide variety of settings options is not really shown here in this one example modification of an organ patch.

On the display from a yellow TPX6s, the four blocks of numbers on the bottom two lines correspond to the four groups of global parameters (a.k.a. Live Control), and all the values are expressed in hexadecimal. The hex notation is used because it is compact, and it is the language of MIDI. This notation may be a little confusing at first to the uninitiated, but getting used to it doesn't take long. Hexadecimal is also useful to know for its own sake.