Taurus 3 firmware update v1.2 - now with new features!

[Mr Arkadin]

I just had a thought. Would it be possible to have a function to change the Octave pedal to be able to octave down as well as up (programmed per preset)? This way I could hit a low B or A (gets a bit fuzzy any lower) which can be reached via a MIDI keyboard but not the pedals (I don't think). By making it a per preset feature it would be easy to have two presets the same but with Octave Up on one preset and Octave Down on the other, which would allow a huge coverage live. The default would be as it works now of course.

Oh and could the new Minitaur be used to program the T3 at all via USB?

[Amos]

fixing things now...

Great. I need MIDI Note transpose, so I'll install the new OS as soon as it is stable.

- value knob, normal adjustment = x10, press&turn = x1..

Please make this knob behaviour optionally selectable from the Master menu, as I prefer the current acceleration scheme. For coarse adjustments I use the Control wheel and for fine adjustments the Value knob.

Good suggestion; I'll do this.

What about the ability to overwrite the first bank of presets? Will this be possible in OS 1.2?

Yes!

[sunny pedaal]

thanks again for the efforts, just a small message to stimulate all the good work ....

[marty]

Noticed the other day that when the arp is engaged the transpose feature no longer works in firmware vers 1.2.

Also, as long as you're still tinkering around, curious if it's possible to add the capability for inverted filter envelopes a la Minitaur.

peace,
marty

[sunny pedaal]

oeps that's not nice that the transpose doesn't work anymore..

[ObiJuan]

Hi there!

So after I installed 1.2, recording and playback of MIDI data in Logic abruptly came to a screeching halt. MIDI messages were being sent with the proper rhythm and with velocity differences, but they were all for the same note (CO? can't remember) and when I went to play back, nada. Went back to 1.13 and everything's working again. Did I miss something perhaps? Wouldn't be the first time! For details and the solution I found (almost perfect!) to the saga of me, Logic, and the T3, check out my other posts. And thanks for being you, Moog people.

[Mr Arkadin]

If you read page 1 of this thread you'll see seveal references to the arp being broken in v1.2. Amos has yet to post the fix for it. I suppose he's been a bit busy with NAMM.

[sunny pedaal]

yes, the new products need attention too.
good one this year , has to be said.

[Amos]

hi all, I am working a lot on Minitaur right now, but I've had some time for Taurus too. Once I got back into that code, there was more to be done than I had anticipated. That's why some things broke in the 1.2 beta... although I'd have caught more of those things if I'd had more time for testing right before NAMM...

Update is, I'm working hard to get Minitaur ready for beta testing this week. That effort will continue over the next couple of weeks, but I should start to have time to get back to Taurus during this span as well. I'll try to get the Taurus update complete and bug-free this month, if possible. No more new features for now; I need to focus on testing and stability only from this point.

All the best,

Amos

[MC]

I know how you feel, Amos.

My day job is to support production systems around the world such as South Africa or Germany. My software gets installed remotely, we don't always have the option to do it onsite. Under that condition we don't HAVE the luxury of beta testing - my software has to work from the get go. I do as much offline testing as I possibly can, because they can't afford to miss shipments. A wee bit more pressure than a NAMM show...

[Voltor07]

hi all, I am working a lot on Minitaur right now, but I've had some time for Taurus too. Once I got back into that code, there was more to be done than I had anticipated. That's why some things broke in the 1.2 beta... although I'd have caught more of those things if I'd had more time for testing right before NAMM...

Update is, I'm working hard to get Minitaur ready for beta testing this week. That effort will continue over the next couple of weeks, but I should start to have time to get back to Taurus during this span as well. I'll try to get the Taurus update complete and bug-free this month, if possible. No more new features for now; I need to focus on testing and stability only from this point.

All the best,

Amos

Now I see how Dave Luce felt while developing the Polymoog...I really feel for you engineers what with deadlines and bugs and all.

[sunny pedaal]

keep the good work going, as long as there is progression, none of us will complain.
thanks !

[GT40Graham]

Hi Amos,

Thanks for the MIDI transpose feature, that has made things so much easier for me.

Regards,


Graham.

[MC]

I have a great idea for the T3.

Can the key gate time modulate the VCA release time? So when I play staccoto notes the VCA release is short, and the release gets longer as I hold the key down longer.

This would be a handy feature to those of us who play with their feet and saves having to toggle the DECAY footswitch.

[MC]

Or maybe a time threshold that toggles the decay footswitch. If a key gate is under the threshold, decay is OFF for short release. If key gate exceeds the threshold decay is ON.