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Roland fooled me again

1 Jul 2025, 16:34

I know, I know, fool me once, shame on me, fool me again - Roland.

I just got a P6, and it was ticking all the boxes... then I found the unbelievable limitation that means I now hate it and regret buying it.

What's the limitation? There's way to select the "current" sample pad via MIDI.

Program change messages on the "auto" channel are completely ignored.

I can change pattern using program change messages but that doesn't change the active sample.

It has to be deliberate. There's no way something this basic was "overlooked".

Re: Roland fooled me again

4 Aug 2026, 10:42

Yeah they don't always make the instruments the way you might like. I would basically have to load the entire Drum kit into the Daw as a plugin, then assign the midi to each of the drum types in order to get drum per track recording. It doesn't have the choices in an Audio driver which I would have hoped for. i think it does work thru USB as audio but that's not working for me because it actually has more latency than just the audio cables so I can play thru the daw alright but not thru the daw and whatever else is needed to bring it from that USB which would require a different setup to get easily into the daw.

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