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Change pitch bend wheel controller # in real time?

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 7:59 am
by PDN777
Hi,

So my piano (Yamaha DGX-230) only has a pitch bend wheel. It sends pitch bend data obviously.

My Garritan sounds use the Mod Wheel (controller #1) to change the volume of many sounds on the fly.

The DGX does not appear to give a way to change the CC # which the pitch bend wheel sends.

So I'm wondering if DP 9 has a feature which, on the fly, "catches" the incoming pitch bend data and in real time can transpose it to another CC # -- like #1 for volume.

Any thoughts? Thanks!

--Prahas

Re: Change pitch bend wheel controller # in real time?

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 8:38 am
by PDN777
Hi. So I found the custom console. See attached.

The pitch bend wheel (with these settings) is now effecting the volume (yay) but it is still sending pitch bend data. (boo)

I want it to only send volume data.....

Ideas?

(Click url to see console settings)

https://musingsofadisciple.wordpress.co ... 2/01/temp/

Re: Change pitch bend wheel controller # in real time?

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 9:22 am
by bayswater
Maybe one of the MIDI utilities, like MIDIPipe could be used to do the conversion before the MIDI messages get to DP.

Re: Change pitch bend wheel controller # in real time?

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 9:54 am
by cuttime
MIDI effect insert>Reassign continuous data. You can then save presets for different controllers.

Re: Change pitch bend wheel controller # in real time?

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 10:51 am
by PDN777
Thanks both of you.

My sense is DP is capable of it -- I don't think I need to go to a 3rd party util.

I can't find "MIDI effect insert"

"Reassign continuous data" is under "Region" menu -- as far as I can tell, it only works after the fact -- after you've recorded a track with controller data, you can re-assign it here.

I want to reassign in real time -- as I'm recording. And I want to make sure the original data -- pitch bend -- doesn't get thru.... only the reassignment (volume [7] or mod wheel [1]) does get thru...

Re: Change pitch bend wheel controller # in real time?

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 12:25 pm
by cuttime
PDN777 wrote:
I can't find "MIDI effect insert"
Choose a MIDI track channel strip in the mixer, click on an insert, and you'll see the MIDI effects there to choose from.

Re: Change pitch bend wheel controller # in real time?

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 2:15 pm
by PDN777
You are a genius! Works like a charm. Thanks.