Lexicon PCM 80, PCM 81

Instruments
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Once you find a program to load, use the Electra One “Get Patch” button to load the Patch into the Electra.

The get patch button is the upper right soft black button to the right of the touch screen.

I try to use the standard Electra things when possible.

I know the instructions are a bit sparse. Basic sequence - press Sync, wait for the PCM to sync and display the patch select control, scroll through the factory and user patches and when there’s one you want to edit, press the Get Patch button. If everything is working, in the blue bar in the upper left, you should see the patch name. Once you’re done editing, go to save and try saving.

Note that I’m on travel, so I have the E1 with me, but not the PCM 80

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Get patch button - brilliant! This just keeps getting more and more fun…

oldgearguy - you asked for bugs/issues reports: in the “Save to: R x.x” section, It’ll only let me save to R 0.0 thru 0.9; anything above that (R 1.0 thru 4.9) results in the PCM81 displaying “Operation Failed”. Not a huge problem for my workflow, but you did ask…

Thanks as always!

.cdp

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Thanks for that report. I may have a couple moments to look at that. Might be simple

Glad the explanation made sense to you and that it worked. I do need to put basic usage guides together since a lot of my presets have a similar approach to displaying and editing and syncing gear.

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Download the update (0.99A) and give it a try - kind of doing it blind, hopefully didn’t make things worse, might have fixed it.

(this is for saving edits to user registers higher than 0.9)

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Worked like a charm - thanks! I can now save to all R slots 0.0 - 4.9…

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Appreciate the confirmation. I was flying blind since I’m here and the PCM 82 is there.

Glad it worked like I theorized. Lol

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Sorry - ignore me… I couldn’t find the preset and then spotted the links in the thread footer!

I’m going to try this one asap as ‘unlocking’ my PCM81 would be awesome.

Thanks for the efforts in creating this!

Si

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It’s still a work in progress and there’s a lot I’d like to tweak, but I’m quite burned out with this particular preset. Hopefully what is there is enough to help make the PCM editing process easier.

Since I still have a pair of 81’s and an 80, I am going to get back on it eventually.

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Having just taken a look at your Lua code I’m not surprised! Ouch…

I’ll give it a whirl this weekend.

Si

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One of the early big challenges was parsing both the 882 byte packed format and the 1421 new format in such a way that the result could be used easily. The patching matrix part is still rough and I’m sure there’s some other parameters that need work.

That and a lot of non-existent documentation about the sysex layouts for each algorithm beyond the original 10.

(To be fair, Italo did provide additional documentation after I had most of it reverse engineered, so it did help to correct a few things and fill in some gaps)

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