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Which settings have priority?

mr3sn

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First of all a very prosperous and musical new year to all of you!!

A question about the storage of settings and which are leading.
Both in the odf and in the settings file amplitude, gain and tuning can be configured and stored. In the settings file through the organ settings per rank and in the odf with AmplitudeLevel, Gain and PitchTuning.

When in both files adjustments are made, which one has priority?
Or will the settings file be adjusted by the odf settings?

I made a disposition from different sample sources and did the pitch and volume adjustment through the organ settings menu. Then I copied the values from these settings to the odf to make a basicaly balanced odf. How is GO dealing with this settings on two different locations?

Best regards,
Dries
 

e9925248

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The settings in the ODF are the default values. You should put the correct values in there. They will eg. be used after "reset to defaults", if you switch to a new preset, load it on a different GO instance, ...

The CMB settings take preference over the ODF settings - but the CMB is a "undocument", unstable file format, which is tied to GO internals.So newer GO might ignore some values from an older GO and fallback to the defaults.

If you want to reset the CMB volume, ... to the default, you can mark multiple items in the organ dialog and use the reset to defaults button.
 

mr3sn

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Thanks for the explanation.

Would it also be possible to program the channel/data from my physical drawstops in the ODF?
Every time when I make minor changes in the ODF, the program gives a warning about a mismatch with the configuration file and I have to define all my 64 drawstops again with listen to event etc...

Br, Dries
 

e9925248

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No. The ODF describes a portable organ and therefore does not include any installation dependent configuration.

PS: If the change is really minor, you can continue with importing the non-matching settings (and might also need to reset some pipe settings in the organ dialog to the defaults).
 

mr3sn

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Ok, understand and agree that these setting specific to console shouldn't be included in the ODF. Is there a way to do changes in the ODF, also major like replacing some ranks and even save with a new name (with new version number in the name) and keep the channel/data information? Configuring 64 stops again and again is a little bit boring...��
 

e9925248

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The CMB files contains the organ name too - so if you change it there too, the current GO would allow you to try importing the modified CMB. Depending on the ODF change, the result can be anything form usable to a totally misconfigured organ.
 
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