From ccmacdon@rogers.com Mon Feb 03 05:13:21 2014
Subject:Re: numa organ

Daniel,

I think we agree.. as a standalone organ the Numa really does look, sound, feel great.. (one of the best single manual clones I've ever played) but it's quirky in the midi area..

In the organ+controller mode I was unable to use my sustain pedal to control an external synth without having the damper pedal switch leslie speeds on the Numa and a number of other weird problems. Unfortunately I think that studiologic is WAY past the point of doing any more OS updates on the NUMA.. it is what it is!

One other thing to keep in mind is that some people are not midi-savy and have problems understanding midi-implementation documents, including the documentation you referenced. For some it's like a foreign language!!  

Regards,
Craig MacDonald


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From: Daniel Forró
To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, February 3, 2014 7:48:25 AM
Subject: Re: [CWSG] numa organ


 
Craig, please understand well. Fortunately I don't have Numa organ (happy owner of Korg CX3), I just respond to our colleague "leo" who complained about it. It's enough to read manual for finding what's wrong, which he probably didn't do. 

Nothing wrong - for this instrument it's normal behavior, based on lack of some features. I'm sure you did good decision. I'm sorry but SUCH poor MIDI implementation nowadays is not acceptable. I don't understand such thinking, like total lack of marketing strategy. How they think to be successful in the comparison with all that competitors on the market? They have only two possibilities - to do OS update as soon as possible or disappear from the market... Or, maybe, just to find organ players who don't need MIDI functionality. Maybe there are some...

But anyway - even such person will probably want to use external keyboard for the second manual, and pedal board... in which case it's also necessary to buy MIDI merger! Studiologic forgot to implement the second MIDI input and merging function.

Daniel Forro
  

On 3 Feb, 2014, at 9:13 PM, Craig MacDonald wrote: