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As XTC is getting into the focus of convinced PULSAR OS-Users again I must ask this question: Did anybody out there succeed in changing the BPM of any Pulsar-Synth (e. g. Lightwave or Prisma) while running in XTC-mode? I cannot. It is also impossible to click into the field and change the value by typing a different number (nothing happens) or moving my mouse (cursor changes but the value remains the same).

This should work like changing the midi channel or number of voices, right? This works very well in XTC-mode.

I really need a solution as some sounds (e. g. the "arpeggiated" sounds in Lightwave) don't match into a 125BPM song while the synth is triggering its sounds in 140BPM (unchangeable setting of Lightwave in XTC-mode).

Thanks for any tip.

Cheers,
Uwe

I experience exactly the same!

That's quite a bummer sometimes, indeed.

One way, for now, is to load a preset created w the right BPM in SFP OS.

An alternative is to put the synth in one of the DirectPlay modes (blue/green) so it receives clock from the Hardware Source, then I sync it to ie. the mc-505. It catches the BPM (or about). Then I set it back to internal and it holds it's last received BPM.

Would be nice if XTC devices recognised key commands, which -although plugins are set to receive keyboard commands in SX- are not received by the XTc devices. So we could at least manually input the BPM.

What a mess

Thanks at0mic - I'll give it a try tonight.

I found the solution for the Tempo problem. Just set it via VST Automation: Click 'W' on the device, so a VST Automation track is created for the device. Now look at the controller's properties, customise it to include BPM or Tempo, and draw it to the desired value.

Wow - sometimes the solution is so simple, that you don't see it. This works! Thanks a lot!