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Patch design: new envelope routing options

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The Prophet 600 has 2 envelope generators with 3 possible destinations: filter cut-off, amplitude and oscillator A pitch (as part of the poly-mod controls). So far the envelopes had fixed destinations. The amplitude envelope controlled the - well - amplitude. And the filter envelope controlled the filter cut-off (via envelope amount in the filter sub-panel) and the oscillator A pitch (via the envelope amount in the poly-mod section when oscillator A poly-mod destination is switched on).  The 2022 firmware comes with a new option to change the envelope routing. The options on offer are similar to the JX8P (yes, it's not all bad - there are good things inside the JX8P). The filter envelope continues to control the filter cut-off in all cases, but apart from the Standard routing (see above) you can now choose (using the menu parameter "555" - pressing 5 three times): Poly-Amp : The amplitude envelope continues to control the amplitude but it also controls the oscillator A p

New firmware provides simpler parameter menu organization

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The GliGli upgraded firmware uses a patch parameter menu based on the number pad for changing things like vibrato, additional LFO options, envelope shapes etc. Most users find menu diving a nuisance. Since there are more than 10 parameters in the firmware upgrade and only 10 number buttons (0...9) the firmware even needed two "pages" of parameters. A double press of each number accesses an additional parameter. What's more, the location of parameters on the number pad was not completely systematic, e.g. pressing "2" would access the Vibrato Speed, but pressing "2" twice was accessing the LFO Range. A cheat sheet from Synthgraphics (list of parameters and their location) does help, as does the fact that the parameter name is scrolled through the display. Overall, not ideal but still not something one can't live with. The new 2022 firmware version to be published soon has even more parameters so that two pages are not enough. Therefore a different co