Again, it's a matter of how it's programmed. Some VI's use NRPN's and thus have much smoother stairsteps than MIDI. But stair stepping can be a problem on some instruments, especially a straight-tone like an electronic sound -- a sine wave or square wave, especially. Generally, for an instrument like VSL, the stair-stepping of MIDI expression is not audible, because there are so many factors at work on the sound. When using continuous data on a VI, I often put the data in a separate folder. For NRPN data, I have to give each data type its own track if I'm going to be doing any editing. But it's doable.Michael Canavan wrote:Devices like Mackie Control get around the MIDI limitation by using NRPNs (non registered parameter numbers), so Mackie Controls faders can send to tracks the 500 steps they can read.
DPs MIDI automation is going to be limited to 128 steps. There are obvious places where a smoother transition is noticeable, volume, and filter sweeps are good examples. Volume is covered by an Aux track in the examples above, but filter sweeps will have to be done in MIDI, and you're back to 128 steps.
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