MIDI Target Manufacturer(s): Roland
Summary: Unleash the full potential of your Roland TR-8S with this expertly crafted MIDI Designer layout. Enjoy a traditional mixer view that provides instant access to key track and kit parameters, with the current kit name and number always in sight. Effortlessly manage your effects with a functional flow view and quick-setting buttons, including a DRY option to disable all effects. This layout serves as both a heads-up display for live performance and offers direct touch-screen access with your ten fingers. Transform your TR-8S experience with this powerful and intuitive layout.
This is the same layout at the TR-6s, with the additional five tracks for the TR-8s.
See https://mididesigner.com/qa/10061 for more information.
For ease of maintenance, the layout is built with the TR-6s model ID, then SB is used to remap to the TR-8S model ID. This makes it easier to add functionality once to both layout versions. If you borrow controls to use in other layouts, you may want to change the model ID on the controls from 6D to 45 instead of relying on the SB translation, especially if you have other TR controls.
Dan and I have been bouncing ideas around as we build these TR layouts. One question is can you do an auto-load after kit changes? Yes, but how do you know the user has finished scrolling through kits? You don't want the settings scanner to start while the kit is still scrolling, potentially loading 1/2 of one kit settings, 1/2 of another. You can set a timer, but you might not want to always wait for the timer, or again you might start scrolling again. So we just do a subtle prompt. If the layout detects a kit change, but LOAD has not been activated, the LOAD button changes color as a prompt. initially had an arrow appear next to the button, but the color change is more subtle.
If you knew that only a single kit change would come in, such as under DAW control, you could automate the LOAD.
