M-Audio Venom

Arpeggio and Arpeggio Pattern Editor

Communicating with Edisyn
Set Edisyn's MIDI channel to the same as your Venom.

About Arpeggios
Arpeggios contain two parts: a Header and a Pattern. The header contains the patch name, the default pattern mode, enable, latch, octave range, and so on. The stuff that appears in the General category at top. This stuff can and will be overridden by your Single and Multimode patches which use this arpeggio.

The Pattern contains up to 256 pattern steps (0...255) defining notes and other events which specify the arpeggio itself.

Arpeggios can be uploaded to current memory, or they can be stored permanently, where your Single and Multimode patches can refer to them.

Pattern Steps
Each pattern step can play a note (or turn it off), change a control (CC) parameter, or change the pitch bend. You can also declare a pattern step to be an end marker.

Each pattern step occurs at a certain time (marked "When"). The time values can be 1.. .768, which correspond to the beginning of the first measure to just before the end of the second measure. You'll note that some time values are marked "-N-" for certain values of N. These represent the time values corresponding to sixteenth notes, and serve as a convenience for you. For example, -1- is the first sixteenth note in the first measure, -2- is the second sixteenth note, and so on. There are at most two measures, so there are at most 32 sixteenth note s. Because it's inconvenient to dial these in, you can choose them more easily from the Optio ns button. The Options button contains other actions that may prove useful to you as well:

About the Menu

The menu contains several items that you will find useful:

Gotchas

Note to Vyzex Users
Edisyn is a general-purpose patch editor tool and so its approach is designed to accommodate a wide range of synthesizers. Vyzex is designed for a single synthesizer, and so it is highly customized for that purpose in ways Edisyn cannot be. You may have noticed that Edisyn's Venom editor launches immediately, while Vyzex spends a long time loading every single patch from your Venom. This is because Vyzex stays in sync with your Venom, while Edisyn does not. As a result the Vyzex can do several things Edisyn cannot. First, Vyzex acts as a librarian, but Edisyn is just a plain-jane patch editor. Second, for related reasons, Vyzex tells you exactly which multi-patches depend on the single patch you're overwriting, and can display all the patches at once. Third, because it knows about all your patches together, Vyzex can dive down into single patches or arpeggio headers to allow you to change portions them from a multi-patch. This is a confusing and very bad idea, so it's good Edisyn can't do that. Edisyn can load the single patches or arpeggios associated with a multi-patch so you can edit them separately.

So why use Edisyn instead of Vyzex? Partly because Vyzex will very soon be obsoleted and impossible to run. And besides fixing some bad Vyzex errors, Edisyn can do one major thing Vyzex (and M-Audio's installed software) cannot: directly edit arpeggios.

Thanks to Jan Bote (jan.bote@gmx.de) for his assistance and knowledge.

By    Sean Luke
Date    November 25, 2020