Ribbons feature request: Internal synth engine enable/disable option

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Dear Kinotone team! Today, while exploring the bottomless abyss of possibilities offered by Ghosts+Ribbons combo, I ran into a funny situation:

I was using my Roland J6 as a source of MIDI sequence. Normally, it was only connected via MIDI to the Ghosts, which in turn fed audio into Ribbons.

I was expreimenting with the 4-track looper on the RIbbons, and decided that I want to send the MIDI clock from J6 to Ribbons as well, for the loops to stay quantized to the sequence.

However, to my surprise )))), I’ve heard a new voice in addition to the Ghosts - because I completely forgot about the Ribbons’ internal synth.

And upon reading the manual, I realized there was no way to disable it - only to send CC54 00 to turn its volume down. Without a MIDI controller connected, this is not the easiest thing to do.

I found the solution by setting Ribbons to a different midi channel than the out channel of J6, utilizing the fact that MIDI Clock is global, so my Ribbons got the clock but was not producing any synth sounds fron J6 notes.

However, it seemed to me it would be very useful if there was a “hidden” option to disable the internal sine wave synth engine alltogether, that would be accessible from the pedal itself, without the need to use a midi controller to effectively “mute” its volume.

Thanks in advance for considering adding this into the future firmware, if this is technically possible.

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That’s what we would suggest to do in this situation. I don’t think we need to implement alternate ways to do the same thing with more hidden options and button combos.

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Jaak, ok, if it works - why not) This may be a useful mention in the Ribbons manual, since other users may face a similar need to provide clock to Ribbons withour it listening to MIDI notes.

Since we started this discussion about the internal synth in Ribbons - another quick question: will it respond to note velocity?

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Thanks so much for the suggestion. I just created a note in our system to add this.

It does not at this time. We will be adding note velocity support in the next Ghosts firmware. I’ll look into adding it to Ribbons as well.

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