Hello,
Chris Brimley kindly sent me a RDKC.XML file which is the text file that you stick into your FR18 to reprogram the buttons to new pitches. I carefully deduced what the numbers meant in this text file in terms of absolute pitches based on his onw FR18 layout then edited them to upload a Handry G/D/A layout. I must have been on the right track generally because it did play arpeggios on the main pushes and pulls but it all seemed to come out G#/C#/F# or similar with some not quite right intervals on the usual fright hand fingerings. It is quite possible that the file that Chris sent me was not actually the text version of his FR18 layout as he found the file lurking in the recesses of his computer.
So, does anyone out there have the RDKC file for the factory settings of an FR18? If so, I should be able to deduce what pitches relate to the factory-set pitches and then amend them to the Handry pitches. My own FR18 was sent out from the factory with a G/C/F right hand side (these scales moving from the hand into the bellows). I assume they all were?
Better still, has anyone got a Handry G/D/A text file already coded!
cheers Doug Watt