Have you ever been playing your keyboards and at some point you heard
a bunch of notes you didn’t play, or you released a bunch of notes, but
some would hang and never stop? The panic function tries to turn off
those stuck notes for you. It sends a lot of MIDI data, trying to use some
of the smarter MIDI commands like all notes off, and reset controllers,
but if those don’t work then it tries to turn off every note on every
channel very quickly.
Hardware Initialization
There are situations that can scramble the memory in a Knobby. For
instance, if you are downloading data to the Knobby and the power was
suddenly removed, the Knobby could trash its memory. (Just like a
computer) Fortunately, we provided a way to “reinitialize” the data.
1.Unplug the Knobby
2. Press buttons: GROUPA, GROUPB, GROUPD
3. While you are pressing the three buttons, plug in the Knobby.
4. You should see the MIDI LED flashing.
5. Once it's flashing, unplug the Knobby.
Now try and use it as you did before. The ID should be 0. You should
program the knobs with "new" data. If that doesn’t fix your problem,
email
Library
The library is the list you see on the left side of the application. There are
full editing capabilities on this library, so be aware you can delete library
objects as easily as you can create them. If you double click on an
instrument (or single click on the + symbol next to an instrument), you
will see all the definitions available. To the left of each name is a graphic
letter, denoting whether it’s a controller (C), NRPN (N), RPN (R), or
sysex (S) message.
KnobbyEd can read two types of files, a KNL binary file, and an INI text
file. The INI file is what you would use to create several knob definitions
for an instrument at one time. You can create this type of file in any text
editor and once you are done, KnobbyEd will read it and convert the data
you created into an instrument definition within the application. You can
also import and export a binary file that has the KNL extension. The
KNL file is the only way to save an instrument with KnobbyEd.
It is useful to exchange or save all your instrument definitions in one file.
You can also save an individual definition by selecting that particular
instrument before performing the “Library-Export Instrument” function.
When you start creating your own library, you should save your work at
regular intervals. If you accidentally press the delete key while a library
definition is selected, KnobbyEd will ask you if you are sure you want to
delete it. If you still manage to delete an instrument and it’s one Encore
has provided, you can reload it from the disk if you want it back. If you
installed the application to the default area, these files are in the
subdirectory:
C:\Program Files\KnobbyEd\Instruments
We recommend using the text file approach when creating instrument
definitions. If you use the application and you make a mistake in the
sysex header or byte location, you have to fix the mistake manually in
every definition. If you use the INI file method, it’s a simple process to
make the fix once in the INI file, and re-import it into KnobbyEd.