Preenfm3 bank & midi list

[Davidttl]

Hi,

I assembled the Preenfm3 two years ago, and it was my first experience with hardware FM. As I prepared myself tables with CC values, NRPN (documentation for the preen is its Achilles' heel) and a general template it began to open up for me.

Sound bank - you won't find ‘classic’ FM sounds here. No bells and whistles (pun intended). I tried to step out of DX7/pads/pianos comfort zone a bit. There are some decent (IMHO) Kick presets .Some bass, leads, drones. A few presets made for a joke, because why not. I don't play keyboards, I use sequencers. This is made mostly (except for the drones) for fast 1/16 & 4/4 kick & offbeat hh paterns. Added some overview info, sometimes it's worth playing with env, lfo, IM, find a good octave...

In attachments - MidiCC list, NRPN tables (my audio workstation is without internet and I won't keep searching github or doing math equations to find what LSB value I need), value template, .bnk bank.
Have fun, maybe some preset will suit someone.

 

[Toltekradiation]

hello and many thanks for your patches,
there is many interesting ones.
loving the Amiga patches !

[ericd]

Also, thanks for the updated Midi CC list; very helpful!

[Davidttl]

Hi,
thanks for the kind words, I appreciate it.
 
The midiCC/NRPM list or studying the algorithms (only algos 11-28 overlap with DX7) helped me a lot, so I wanted to share this.
I further consider myself a newbie when it comes to FM. I appreciate Preenfm3 more and more. It's really a unique concept that has been developed all these years. I'm very glad that I had the opportunity to acquire it and something makes me think that I'm going to assemble myself a pfm2 as a spare.

Back to the topic -
I think I got too excited and included this sound bank too quickly.
When selecting some presets (the lfo ones), there are some artifacts. As if the envelopes or modulations are not restarting. I need to take a closer look at this. Is it a change from mono to poly or maybe any of the sources in the matrix. Anyway this behavior precludes changing presets while playing and I'm used to (if you can) the approach Elektron/Renoise offer. And improve gain staging between presets...

[Davidttl]

Hi, another boring post. Unnecessary noise on such a quiet and peaceful forum.

I took a close look at the two files - midiCC and NRPN. This time I checked each parameter in turn using Renoise.
Of course there were surprises, several times I managed to hang pfm3 in specific settings. A couple of CCs look like they don't work, they do something there but not the way it probably should be (MFX - CC40-45).  CC97 is better not to use outside NRPN. I checked which knobs send midiCC when moved.
With NRPN I cleaned up the file a bit, added ranges and general values.
With NRPN Lfo Freq you have to be careful. In the range of 0.00-99.9 it works, but one careless move - a change to the clock hangs pfm3 (CC6 >77).
I add the corrected files as an attachment.

Dave