I’m currently planning my way to using Hypno as the video device for my all hardware music live performances.
Right now, it’s hooked up via MIDI to the Elektron Digitakt, and it looks very promising to either recall presets in sequence, modulate parameters without button combination, or even sequence any parameter. I love that !
I’m struggling to find a nice workflow to save presets and then organize them as I want on my midi map on my computer (with a USB dongle of course), and I think the manual should have a chart for the presets name system.
Here’s what I’ve gathered :
“patch” 0 - 1 - 2 “.json” are the three presets that are saved by default on the Hypno and are only recallable with the button combination (see page 9 of the manual)
From “patch3.json” on, you can recall them with a Eb0 message on midi channel 16
As the Midi Quick Guide video says, midi F# G# and A# keys are used to trigger the three buttons of the Hypno, meaning that in the naming system, you have to mind skipping numbers corresponding to those keys ! For instance, “patch6.json” won’t work
I’m only just figuring it out, so I hope I’m not saying something wrong there, please correct me if that’s the case.
I’ll work on creating a chart and share it here if it could help people that have the same goal, but in the meantime I hope that this will be added to the manual It’s really elevating the use of the device. I know most of the fun is in the experimentation and happy accidents, but it can be extremely useful if you want to keep a setup you love and if you want to control how a performance will look like. Especially if you’re doing everything yourself like me.
Hi there thanks for the feedback, yes youre spot on with the naming scheme after 3 the number is mapped to the midi note numbers which is why there is skipping, it didn’t occur to me this may be confusing from an organization end at the time.
I can certainly add this to the wiki manual’s midi section thats a great idea. (edit: is there now)
Yes you can overwrite them by long pressing the corresponding midi note
That’s why I did the table I shared here : I printed it, and I mark with a pencil the slots that are taken. That way I can’t accidentally overwrite a nice one
And when I feel like it, I back up the new presets on my computer, taking a picture with my phone to have an idea which one does what.
Thanks for the reply! Yes , it helps somewhat. That is what I expected to happen, except when I try to overwrite with a long press it just jumps to the preset already saved, as you expect from a short press.
Saves normally to empty slots but won’t overwrite full slots with a long press… Waiting for all three indicators to change color.
Sorry for the late reply. Seems like a bug from your unit in my opinion, mine works as expected there. You should get in touch with the support team @SleepyRon
It would be wonderful to have a preset management system on desktop so that presets could be more specifically organized/catagorized. I’m a new user but I’m already building up a lot of presets that I need to switch the file names of if I want to be able to load them from just the unit with no midi kb. I’m sure creating such a thing would be a whole lot of work, but I think it would be utilized a lot! I would also love to see preset directory surfing similar to file/directory switching done via the knobs on the addtl shape pages- though I’m sure there’s some reason I’m not aware of that explains why it’s been done the way it has.
It’s really elevating the use of the device. I know most of the fun is in the experimentation and happy accidents, but it can be extremely useful if you want to keep a setup you love and if you want to control how a performance will look like. Especially if you’re doing everything yourself like me.
