Reply to NoteOn->CcHigh, NoteOff->CcLow Midi Filter for Behringer FCB-1010? on Mon, 12 Feb 2024 23:02:16 GMT

jpaskaruk — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 23:02:16 GMT

Hey folks, new PD user. I have just set out to creating the filter described in the subject line, and I'm curious before I go too far whether this has already been created.

My use case is, I am a longtime guitar/vox who has more recently learned keys, and I would like to integrate my sustain pedal (CC64) into one of the switches on my FCB-1010 rather than have another device on the floor/dangling wire.

Long story short on the FCB-1010 is, the only option for Sustain Pedal type functionality, where it notifies the midi out that I have raised my foot, is by sending a NoteOn/NoteOff on a specific channel. It's actually an incredibly frustrating device and I plan to get the Uno upgrade put in as soon as I have spare cash, but in the meantime, this seems like a job for puredata. I own a Zynthian, which runs PureData and provides my Piano sounds, so in theory this would just monitor channel 16 for one specific note, and send out 127 or 0 to CC64 to its output (I believe that PD's output will be available on the chain I place it in, but I haven't sorted that out yet...) on that specific note only.

I'm wondering, this being such a simple filter, if maybe I shouldn't have a go at writing an LV2 filter instead, but in the meantime, has anyone already implemented this filter? Is there a Midi Filter Collection page somewhere round here that I could browse?

I feel a bit out of place when I look at many of the tutorials, cause while I am a gadgethead and I do appreciate synths, I don't tend to use any generative stuff like arpeggiators and whatnot, though I'm trying to wrap my head around the loopers and sequencers Zynthian implements, now that I'm invested in a platform. But I guess I'm not an "electronic" musician, is my point I guess. Using midi came hard and with a lot of pain. :>

Reply to NoteOn->CcHigh, NoteOff->CcLow Midi Filter for Behringer FCB-1010? on Tue, 13 Feb 2024 12:31:08 GMT

whale-av — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 12:31:08 GMT

@jpaskaruk Do you mean to say that you "can" run Pd on the Zynthian?
There exists a set of LV2 midi filters for the Zynthian........ http://x42-plugins.com/x42/x42-midifilter which might work "off the shelf".
Specifically Note2CC.
The link to that was found here...... https://zynthian.org/engines/_engine-list/engine-x42-midifilters

It would be very simple to make the filter in Pd, but to insert it in the midi chain to the synth you would need a midi router on the machine running Zynthian.
So what you need to do, exactly, depends on the operating system of the computer running Zynthian.

If it were a windows machine then MidiOX could help you patch Pd into the synth chain..... but MidiOx has its own midi translation module, so you would not need Pd at all.

The same will probably hold for a Raspberry flavoured Linux.
David.