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by throw_m239339 244 days ago
If someone could help me reverse engineer the Zoom ARQ96 firmware in order to fix the stupid LFO mod amount implementation (LFO is basically unusable), add velocity note control to the step sequencer, and why not, add basic USB MIDI Input recording support, and ideally, a chord mode, it would be great...

https://zoomcorp.com/en/us/digital-instruments/digital-instr...

For the LFO mod amounts I imagine the values are hardcoded somewhere, so it shouldn't be that hard. Adding a new UI for velocity levels or a chord mode would be more complex though. Even better if there was a Zoom engineer around here who could guide me a bit...
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tweetle_beetle 243 days ago
Did you read the section about what made the DX7 hardware a good target for this project?

https://ajxs.me/blog/Introduction_to_Reverse-Engineering_Vin...

The ARQ96 is an incredibly niche product all things considered, but especially compared to the DX7. It's also ~10 years old rather than ~40 years old. It's a completely different beast.

Zoom released few firmware updates, but v1.x to v2.x was a very significant change. Are you using the latest version?

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