Outputing midi from synths

mattasbob · Post by **mattasbob** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 12:20 am

Maybe I am imagining things, but I assume that if I send the midi out of my synth (say inferno for example) to a hardware midi out, I should be able to record knob and button movements. It doesn't seem to happen for me,can someone explain how I can do this. I want to automate some parameters on my synths. My set-up is I have 2 pulsars on a seperate machine and then my main tracking machine. I am recording the midi in the tracking machine (essentially using pulsar as an outboard unit) I have no problems sending midi thru my sequencer to the pulsar card and hearing back but I can't seem to get any action on the midi out from the pulsar card.

Any help would be appreciated!

Matt

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 3:12 am

I think that you first have to assign MIDI CCs to the controls (faders etc.) that you wish to record. (By default, there's no assignment).

Right-click the control then send the MIDI CC which you want to assign to your synth/device - the CC number will appear in the dialog's 'new' box. Click "MIDI+" to finish the assignment.

HTH,

Royston

mattasbob · Post by **mattasbob** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 10:01 am

Thanks, that makes sense, I assumed it was all set up (like a vsti) obviously that is not the case.

powerpulsarian · Post by **powerpulsarian** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 10:58 am

It would be nice if Creamware included a default set of controllers for each device as a starting point to edit (it would save some work in setting it up from scratch).

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Wed May 05, 2004 7:42 am

Triiicky in some cases.

48 channel mixer, CC required for each channel: volume, pan, aux1 send, aux2 send, ... , mute, solo, ..., then there's the aux page, then the master section, group channels, on and on...

Poor ol' MIDI can only offer 127 different control messages per MIDI Channel.

What could be handy would be to be able to assign a MIDI Channel as well as CC# for a particular device control.

e.g. for a mixer, set the 'global MIDI' to OMNI and then assign CC#7 to each fader, each on a different MIDI channel. That's still only 16 though. MIDI port + channel perhaps?

I'm waffling, aren't I...

Royston