I'm back to this same issue. For some weird reason the damn combis are muted. I have no friggin' clue why it does this. If it weren't for this one issue, this editor would be flawless. It's a huge hiccup though.
So, I wrote my last previous response about this earlier today and a little later. I got a notification (what I get for NOT turning them off) from Yahoo Opcodeusers from you about this too. So……
Prompted to think about it even more - which sucks for me since i don't even own a Korg
anything, it finally dawned on me that what Korg calls "Combis", Yamaha and the rest of the world calls "Performances" - where you have more than one patch active at one time. Those I understand. Then it dawned on me that:
How can you edit a Combi? It's well, a
combination of more than one patch. In order to edit any one of the contributing patches, you have to be able to
hear what you're editing…that is the changes you're making. For many edits, you're better off hearing only the patch you're editing so the rest would need to be muted. In hat case, you either have to start with them all
off then turn on the one you want to tweak OR start with them all
on then turn off the other ones.
This concept gets complicated in a software MIDI editor because the edit commands have to be sent to the right places and that can get complicated with multiple patches operating. There are of course, other parameters unique to multiple-patch setups like relative balances, pan, key ranges etc, that need their own edit window but those are also separate and separately-addressable parameters.
So, now we're here:Maybe it
is a bug.
Maybe it's just a matter of which way to arrange it: all
on or all
off to start.
Maybe it's a limitation of the architecture of the editor that can't be overcome.
Maybe it's a limitation of the architecture of the editor that could have been overcome with more time and/or cleverness.
OR
Maybe it's a limitation of the architecture of the editor caused by expanding a simpler editor from a simpler Korg model that worked just fine except for the awkward way it handles the Combis that didn't exist on the original model it was written for and the guy thought "Shit, I'll have to fix this in a later update"
that never happened. His idea of "a huge hiccup" may have been a lot bigger than yours.
That's what I would bet on. You're just trying to wish an update that never was into existence.