Blokas Midihub

[resonotter]

@GurtTractor

I’m quite interested in the micotuning feature and it would be nice if I could change the scale by turning a knob or pressing buttons on something

Nearly every property in every pipe on Midihub is mappable.

The way Micro Scale works is:

• MH has slots for 8 microtunings.
  these are loaded from the Editor
• this property is mappable so
• as the mapped CC value/Note velocity changes the scale is changed

it sends out PB for sep notes on channels you define (according to device’s polyphony)

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Postscript: just tested this:
changing tunings in midstream behaves well – it doesn’t send out unexpected Note_offs, for example

[resonotter]

@yokermoon

Love that this concept or device has resonated with you! Getting off the grid, pushing, pulling, acceleration etc is a current favourite in the toolkit and wondered if, even simplified considerably, Midihub could get somewhere approaching.

Thanks for taking the time to delve and test possible routes! I’m not in a position to buy the Midihub at this exact moment to bounce ideas back and forth with you but even getting somewhere in the ballpark would move this to ‘NEED’!

I did some stuff on this and posted it up then forgot to come back here and mention it!
The complete patch is described here, FYI with links to the main patch on patchstorage.

(It amuses me that by far the most popular component is the one that turns an LCXL’s LEDs on&off…)

[yokermoon]

Thanks again for exploring this query so thoroughly! I still don’t own a MIDIhub yet but it is in my future and the in-roads you’ve made here make the prospect even sweeter!

[resonotter]

Cheers. It was a nice effect to create and sent me off in some interesting directions.

I’m currently working on a patch which will auto-increase/decrease “high-res” CCs
(ones that need ones MSB and LSB so two interlinked CCs )
like this:

The two should work nicely together for semi-hands off live control of some interesting morphing capabilities

[resonotter]

Using Midihub to add ‘nuance’ from a touch device

As this might be the place where elektronauts considering a Midihub would come,
I thought I’d throw this in:

I was looking at what folk here had said about Expressive E’s Touché,
when I came across this from @redrabbit (back in the day):

@redrabbit

Hi, I’ve been using the Touché for a year now. With different hardware combinations.

I think it is quite reliable. No bug, delay, flicker or whatever.

For me the most annoying part of using the Touché is that you have to work with absolute CC values. You cannot increment/decrement a CC value. You configure your CCs from/to points and control these specific values with the Touché exclusively.

For example if you have set a the front pressure zone to modify your FILTER, you should let the Touché modify the FILTER exclusively. If you turn the FILTER knob on you synth or map it to the MOD-Wheel (or an other Midi controller), The CC value will jump when using the Touché.

it then occurred to me that sort of thing is not only possible but quite easy with the “Vilnius box”

Here’s a patch shot:

here’s the design

• the main control for the parameter (say Filter) comes in the SETTING pipe.
  (if this were coming from a controller it’d go out to the synth. If it were coming from the synth itself, it’d be likely filtered out)
  This is CC17 in this patch

• the “offset” controller (Touché, BopPad, etc) comes in the ACCENT pipe.

• The SETTING CC17 controls the “floor” of the ACCENT's output.
  So, at this point in time, the touch device would come in as 0→127, but be rescaled to 70→127

• (The CC6 extra mapping is included to show the possibility to set the ‘touch range’ independently of the main control)

• The other (bypassed) Rescale flips the offset to go from ‘main’ value→0 thus reversing the effect of the touch device

sorry, description took longer than patch to write!

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PS. @redrabbit mentions “No flicker”. My Touché is not so well behaved.
Probably the least glamorous role of my Midihubs is to get my many old and now incontinent controllers to stop chattering at other devices

[frekvencia]

Could you upload this patch somewhere? It’s a bit hard to follow what you mean by the different pipes because they do not seem to exist on my Midihub.

[resonotter]

Hi, Are you referring to the ‘Touché accent’ patch mentioned above?

[frekvencia]

Hm… Yes. But I can see the screenshot now. I couldn’t see it before, that is why I commented.