Just a generalized commiserate about controllers...

[Michael Canavan]

So I bought a used Nektar Impact LX25+, it advertises DP control surface support.
I was suspect, because their flagship controller does not support DP, and I should have been of course. So far the Mixing controls work, but any of the Instrument controls do not. It's supposed to map common instruments to it's 8 knobs, thinngs like DP's Bassline should be a given, but of course my luck, DP11 brought in consolidated instrument tracks and seemingly broke instrument support. The manual is from 2016. Going away on vacation and wanted something flight size to bring, but this is going back on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist. Another reminder to check version numbers.

[stubbsonic]

Yea, I was bummed to find out my Nektar GXP61 has 7-bit pitch bend (MIDI 1.0 spec requires 14-bit). I'm generally saddened when tech moves backwards-- which seems to happen more and more.

OTOH, in some respects we live in pretty fascinating times in terms of some tech advancements. Which is all the more reason why the corner cutting is such a letdown.

Weird aside: Seems like there are no hardware MIDI sequencers that allow realtime tempo control or will follow a tempo track/map. Though some will allow you to manually turn some knob to control the tempo parameter. Seems weird in this day and age. I remember those good-old-days when tempo was one of the qualities of music of which one might desire to have realtime control.

I think a MIDI controller is one of the more difficult things to shop for now because few (if any?) companies are including proper MIDI implementation specs in their docs. Booo!!!