page 0, is not ‘off’ , rather its the ‘global page’ , used for settings that refer to ALL banks of presets.
currently, this is only SELECT… but I could add others here.
btw: I may change this to 16 banks (aka pages), so 16 x 16… as Ive seen a few instances where 16 (or 8) makes more sense.
indeed, VOST can be used for this… it was one of the things I use it for.
as I said, if you want to simply map 16 values to the electra one controls, then use the electra one snapshots to change these values, then this is simpler to do with ATTN.
this was the reason I created ATTN… to allow users to map CC->CV quickly!
however, many don’t have controllers like the electra one, that can store CC values - so this is why they might prefer to use VOST.
for you, the main advantage of using VOST are :
a) the voltage are stored in the preset… so you don’t have to use the E1 snapshots.
(and I personally like this, as its all together in the preset)
b) you can modulate select
you cannot modulate E1 snapshots!
c) you can morph between voltage banks
again, no morphing between snapshots on E1, and even if it was added it would be lower resolution
d) higher resolution
32 bit resolution on SSP, though UI is 0.01. midi (learn) then maps 7 bit (0…127) to this.
my midi learn is currently 7-bit only
ATTN (and VOST) support (hi-res) slewing, so avoids ‘jumps’ , but still the steps are kind of limited by MIDI resolution.
so personally, what I like to do is store the voltages in VOST (for different values) , and then just map SELECT to a control on the E1.
but of course, the point of modular is its flexible, so different use-cases (and different users) will use things in different ways.