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V-‐Machine Operating Manual
10.3.4
Panic command
The dual keypad press PANIC mode has three
functions:
1. Pressing the two in-‐line keypads adjacent to the
PANIC command label activates the MIDI PANIC
command.
The MIDI PANIC command sends an “all notes off”
MIDI command to the V-‐Machine engine. This may be necessary to eliminate troublesome
“stuck MIDI notes” as can sometimes occur with various combinations of MIDI controllers and
VSTi plugins.
The MIDI PANIC command can also be accessed via a MIDI controller as described in
section
1.1.1.1 .
2. An emergency hardware PANIC at start up. If during the boot stage of power-‐up your V-‐
Machine hangs due to a failed or bad plugin not loading correctly into Presest 1 of the first
Bank, you can use the PANIC mode to bypass disable loading of the bad plugin and continue.
This way you can then delete the offending Bank/Preset, or plugin.
3. Escaping the hardware GUI screen of a plugin that takes advantage of the V-‐Machine’s LCD
panel to display their own custom graphics. An example of this is the famous True Pianos
acoustic piano plugin. This plugin utilizes the V-‐Machine’s LCD hardware to display a unique
custom GUI to the user. Selecting the PANIC button allows the user to escape the plugins GUI
and return to the standard V-‐Machine operational GUI.
11
V-‐Machine specific plugin parameters
V-‐Machine specific plugin parameters are parameters that have been added to each plugins
normal parameter list to assist using plugins live on the V-‐Machine.
11.1
Patch Parameter
Some plugins have the ability to store multiple patch sounds within the plugin themselves. We
refer to this type of plugins as a Multi-‐Patch plugin. The Patch Parameter facilitates access to
these internal plugin Patch sounds.
When the Patch Parameter is selected for a Preset incorporating a Multi-‐Patch plugin, the Value
area will display the plugins Patch name. Changing the Value of the Patch Parameter will scroll
through the Multi-‐Patch plugins Patches.
11.2
Mixer configuration specific additional parameters
As outlined in section Figure 5: Mixer architecture – Audio and MIDI routing each Preset is a
representation of a complete Mixer Configuration.
All Mixer configuration settings can be controlled on the V-‐Machine by the additional mixer
parameters: Channel Gain, Channel Pan, Send level, etc.
The V-‐Machine intelligently displays only those Mixer configuration parameters relevant to the
current Preset. For example, if the current Preset only uses one (1) channel of the Mixer, then
only the channel one (1) parameters are displayed. This relieves the display of unnecessary
clutter.
Figure 18: Panic command keypad combo