Entering Notes to MemPads From External Midi?

KordBot
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Is this something we have? I’m attempting to to sends chords from Cthulu to KB. Note are properly triggering but I don’t see how to save them in.

Or alternatively how can I see the triggered notes that or out of the current octaves view?

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PS

  1. How can I add/remove notes from an existing pad?

  2. Can we swap pads locations? I use alot of 4 chord progressions and like to use a ‘4 square’ method of bank building to have 3 progressions per bank.

Thanks

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From what I can gather from the manual and my own investigations:

You can only store a whole chord to a pad (using Alt+MemPadx) when that chord has been generated by a) pressing a chord key + one of the keyboard keys in KEY + MOD mode b) pressing a chord key in DIATONIC mode or c) having pressed one of the other MemPad keys. In other words, you can only directly store a chord that has been generated from a chord recipe in some way. If you play a chord on the keys in POLY - KEYB mode and then press Alt+MemPadx, it will store whatever the last chord recipe chord was, not what you just played. Going into chord edit mode (Shift + MemPadx) allows you to enter notes individually from the Kordbot’s keyboard but ignores anything coming in via MIDI it seems.

To add/remove notes from an existing pad, go into chord edit mode, use the encoder to navigate to the appropriate note square and then click the encoder to toggle it on/off.

You can’t swap pads, but if you press a pad to play it and then press Alt + another MemPad, it will store the chord just played in the second pad, overwriting whatever is there. So you would need an empty pad to shuffle them around - I think best to get them in the right place when you create them if possible.