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Fig. 1: Where to set MIDI control
assignments in the Preferences box.
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Inside BATTERY, the Virtual Drum Instrument (continued)
Real-Time
Control
What fun is
an instrument if you can't play it? Drummers don't a mouse, they use
their hands. And with real-time control, so can 24524m1216y you.
You can
trigger the drum sounds via keyboards, and of course, also
from MIDI drum triggers such as
the electronic drum sets made by numerous manufacturers. Some "groove
boxes" have large, rubber pads that are good for generating MIDI notes to trigger
the Battery sounds.
An even
more interesting possibility is to add real-time modulation
via MIDI. Page 8 in
this seminar covers modulation and lists the various parameters that can be
modulated, such as pitch, waveshaping, sample start,
etc. Any of these parameters can also be modulated via MIDI. A maximum of 8 controllers are
available for Battery, which can be set to any MIDI
controller number from 0 to 122
Typical
sources for MIDI controllers include keyboards with modulation wheels MIDI faders boxes like the
Peavey PC1600 or similar models from Kenton and Doepfer.
Some digital mixers, such as the Panasonic DA7, have MIDI layers
that can be programmed to provide MIDI
control.
The general
procedure is simple:
- Click on options in the master
module
to bring up the Preferences box Fig. 1
- Referring to Fig. 1, in the lower
left corner, each controller (A-H) has a pop-up menu where you
can specify a controller number (in this screen shot, Battery Controller E is
being assigned to MIDI controller 61).
- After making your
assignments, choose the cell you want to control, and go to its Modulation module.
- Choose the parameter you want
to control, the controller number that should be used to control the
parameter, and the amount of control - done!
- Repeat the same basic
procedure to assign other parameters to MIDI
control.
Audio
example 1 plays a drum part without any real-time control. In Audio
example 2, a pitch wheel varies the closed hi-hat pitch, while the mod wheel
controls the open hi-hat decay time. The second loop sounds much more
interesting and "human" because of these variations.
