| Title: | * * Computer Music, MIDI, and Related Topics * * |
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| Created: | Thu Feb 20 1986 |
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This may not be too interesting to the "heavily-into-it" among you, but I thought I would post some interesting info I gleaned from a performance I saw yesterday, and from a discussion with the performer. A fellow named Ed Stauff was the guest "organist" at our church in Nashua yesterday. I knew him, and that he was a musician, but I did not know he was a midi-er. In any case he had a Yamaha electic piano (didn't catch the model), a D110, a Wang PC and, most interesting of all, a home-made pedal board. He had built the electronics for the pboard himself...it apparently has two switches for each pedal...one for top and one for bottom. He multiplexes the switches in some fashion and reads them in the PC. By timing the "top off to bottom on" time, he gets a velocity value from the pedals. The pboard also has a sustain pedal, and several studs. The PC also reads the studs and using them to generate patch change messages. The s/w (which he wrote) can be configured to either generate a patch change on down only, or one for down and one for up. That way he can hold a stud down for the correct duration of a temporary change. He had the electric piano output also funneling through the PC program and back out to the D110. The program did some neat stuff. It not only can send different note ranges to different MIDI channels; it also can send different velocity ranges. He had the cuttoff point set relatively high so that if he REALLY banged on the keys he got a completely different sound. A clever way to get lots of different voices, I thought. He did a really nice job. Now I really want a D110 or an MT32! Burns
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| 2610.1 | Buy it in a box... | TLE::ALIVE::ASHFORTH | The Lord is my light | Mon Apr 08 1991 13:48 | 18 |
Re .0: At least some of the tweaks you describe parallel pretty closely some of the abilities of the Digital Music MX-8 patchbay. It can map channels, define keyboard splits, switch channels based on velocity, and can "compand" MIDI velocities (i.e., expand or contract the range). It can also transpose notes and define delayed repeats (settable time and number of repeats). Yes, I just got one, and yes, I love it! It does sound like Mr. Ed built in a bit more tweakability, but it sure is nice to have this kind of functionality external to both the synth/SGU and the computer/sequencer. Oh- the MX-8 doesn't come with pedals, though.... Cheers, Bob | |||||
| 2610.2 | He threatened to do something like that.... | MSTRD::MURRAY | Tue Apr 09 1991 23:16 | 12 | |
RE: .0
>> In any case he had a Yamaha electic piano (didn't catch the model),
it's a pf85.
I met Ed last summer and he said he was thinking of doing something
like that. Thanks for putting this note in. I'm glad to hear he pulled
it off.
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