I've got a couple of suggestions for The Collective to consider. It would be great if the page sets buttons behaved in the same way as the page buttons, I'd like to be able to engage 'page follow' for the page sets and I'd like to be able to specify the number of repeats a page set manifested before moving on. This way much longer song structures could be made and it would be effectively a song mode that requires no button presses.

Another suggestion, not sure how feasible it would be has occurred to me as a result of using my TR8s drum machine. It has the 'page set follow' behaviour I described above but what I didn't realise until recently is that the program changes it sends out as it switches patches seem to be sent slightly early and this has proven to be invaluable for switching page sets on the Octo and switching sequences on the MPC. The Octo and the MPC send theirs right on beat 1 and so anything being controlled by either of these is always at least 1 bar late changing.

I was about to sell the TR8s but its invaluable for now because of this functionality.

Nick.

I'm sending the memory contents of the Octo to Sysex Librarian which displays the number of messages each dump contains. Is it the case that the number of illuminated pages on the Octo display +1= the number of messages displayed by Sysex Librarian? The +1 is the 'internal machine state'.

Thanks.

Thanks.

I set up a track so that it transmits to the out what it receives at the in, the track selector is flashing red but the record light is not illuminated, this allows me to rechannel midi. It seems to do this for CC and notes but program changes are not transmitted in any way. Is this right?

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I created a CC105 transmission track, pasted it into to 2 other tracks, joined the two tracks into a chain then reversed the second one to give a 0-128-0 type oscillation with the tracks set to 1/16 speed. I set the resolution to the highest value and each step was +8 compared to the previous one. The first track in the chain gives a smooth +1 ascent but the second track in the chain gives -8 increments on the down sweep even with the fine resolution selected.

It's been almost exactly a year since I pushed my last git update for the solo-rec branch and I noticed yesterday that github was rejecting my RSA key. I dug in a bit and found that there would be no way to update openssh on the old Ubuntu VM image or even my old Mac (without upgrading and messing up all of my music software). I had to generate a new key on one of my new computers, git diff > patch.diff, copy/paste to my Mac and email that to my new computer to git apply patch.diff and finally commit and push.

I'm planning to wrap up the v6 coding pretty soon. From there I'll have to consider whether I try to give the Octopus Community Fork a third life. If so, I'll want to do that soon before my Mac dies; amazing it's lived this long - secret is I never power off.

I think it may be possible to create a Docker build image running Linux 8 with the gcc-compat libs to run as a compile container. I would need to copy the ecos compiler and libs off of the VMWare image and include them in the Docker image. To compile we'd just need to execute `docker run -v $PWD:$PWD <image>`. Trying this out will probably take me a day. Let me know what you think. Any different ideas?

Cheers,

Eric

Thanks.