August 25, 2023
I'm pleased to announce FLASH firmware v7, brought to us by our new firmware developer, Henry Lowengard. This update includes an important bug fix and two new features which have been requested by synth owners.
NEW FEATURE No. 1: Those of you who own MIDI controllers that do not support patch change messages (there are more of these than one might imagine) will be happy to know we've added a new CC 119, so you can now change patches using a CC!
NEW FEATURE No. 2: For even more convenience regarding patch changing, you can now select any of the synth's 128 patches as the startup default patch (auto-selected) so you don't have to manually select that patch when you plug in the synth. This is especially nice for use-cases where you just want to plug it in and have a specific sound, when using for example a MIDI keyboard having no knobs as all.
Now for the bug: until now there was an issue which would appear from time to time when using algorithm 3 (mono), where the output would simply stop when a patch change was made. This turned out to have to do with voice allocation, and has been fixed in the v7 update. Yay! Thanks to Henry for figuring out what caused this and rewriting the code to get rid of the problem!
UTE has been updated to support the new features in FLASH firmware v7, and also to address reported issues in the software, and to add a few new features. To start with, definitions now display correctly in the Constants window. A new Step Size display option has been added to Tuning List, to show the distance between one tone in the list and the next. New options have been added to the Search and Replace function. Lastly, a new Preference option has been added to treat all period values as 1/1 for mapped .scl files. Sound a little dry? Trust me, it's all very useful stuff!
Please download the updates from the FLASH product page and the UTE software page.
Best Regards,
Aaron
P.S. Did you know "Patch Change" is actually called "Program Change" in the MIDI spec? Everyone calles them patches and so do we, especially since "program" means something entirely different when our synth is *programmed* via a UART programmer!
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