midi contoller assignment/setup help needed

petrol vendor · Post by **petrol vendor** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 8:47 am

HI, I bought myself a simple midi controller and i can´t get my setup to work the way i want it to...
What i got:
pulsar2, cubase, midisport4x4, doepfer pocetdial (16 endless dials, 4 banks, midi in/out), simple masterkeybord, each on seperate ins of the midisport.
What i want:
1.play, controll pulsar synths connected to different midi chanels.
2.Record keybord and controller data in one part or in two parts.
3. get no parameter jumps when swiching between differnt synths, mixers etc.
4. If possible controll cubese sx as well.
Have I expected to much? How do you handle/use controllers? thanks alot

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 11:54 am

I've made my own implementation with SFP mixers on ch15 by default, and Cubase using only ch14. This leaves room for 14 channels of other MIDI devices, which is plenty for me.

petrol vendor · Post by **petrol vendor** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 1:19 pm

where do you connect your remote device? pulsar midi in or sequencer (cubase sx?) channel via midi interface? In that case, i guess the channel has to be set ready to record all the time? Sorry for asking stupid, but i have no idea how the whole thing works

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 2:19 pm

I'm not sure if your MIDI box has other connections that MIDI IO, but that's all I have.

Adressing of devices per channel instead of per connection greatly simplified the routing, but it was a lot of work to write the SX implementation (.xml file).

Here's the MIDI routing in my Startup project. The mixer represents the whole project, I can connect any SFP device to that wire. To record SFP MIDI to SX, I hook up the SeqDest1 to the SFP device's output.

The benefits of this setup for me:
- one hardware IO pair drives both SFP and SX
- both SX and SFP devices feed back to my remote controller so it's being updated with actual values, so no glitches when I touch the faders on my controller (Pc1600x is not motorised, but sends starting from last received value)
- both SX and my hardware devices can control SFP,
- SX can record MIDI from both hardware and SFP
- ...

I hope this gives you an idea to make your personal MIDI setup... Good luck

petrol vendor · Post by **petrol vendor** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 4:07 pm

Thanks alot. what would the world be without people who share some ideas. 14 channel are enough, your right, more has been done with less. how do you connect your masterkeybord? is there no unwanted midi feedback? mine only sends on chanel 1, so i guess ishould connect it to cubase first and rout it to sfp from there. than i connect my controllerbox to the pulsar midi in like you did. This all looks quite complicated, but it should be able to work. Can you get the devices in sfp to connect automatically to the midimerge module? I´m very much for convenience.