Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2002 9:43 pm
Will Pulsar ever support this feature?
I just got a Doepfer Pocket Dial and am itchin' to use this special feature on as many apps as possible (works excellent with Ableton Live!).
[In case you don't know, relative MIDI values are MIDI events that are only +/- instead of being specific values. This is useful because it won't cause software to jump from one value to another. For example, let's say that your MIDI-knob is at its lowest setting, but the setting on a soft-synth knob is at val 63/127. when you turn the physical knob a few values, it sends out values from say 1-6. What happens is that the sofware parameter then jumps from 63 directly to 1 and then slowly up to 6. This will cause a glitch in the sound depending on the parameter. THIS IS CALLED ABSOLUTE MIDI DATA. With relative MIDI data, in the same scenerio, the value would be 63, and an increase of 6 would simply move the parameter up to 69 without a sudden jump. The knobs are endless encoders (alpha dials) instead of fixed-range potentiometers like on most synths.] I hope that put somebody in the know.
Wouldn't it be cool if pulsar could handle this?
I just got a Doepfer Pocket Dial and am itchin' to use this special feature on as many apps as possible (works excellent with Ableton Live!).
[In case you don't know, relative MIDI values are MIDI events that are only +/- instead of being specific values. This is useful because it won't cause software to jump from one value to another. For example, let's say that your MIDI-knob is at its lowest setting, but the setting on a soft-synth knob is at val 63/127. when you turn the physical knob a few values, it sends out values from say 1-6. What happens is that the sofware parameter then jumps from 63 directly to 1 and then slowly up to 6. This will cause a glitch in the sound depending on the parameter. THIS IS CALLED ABSOLUTE MIDI DATA. With relative MIDI data, in the same scenerio, the value would be 63, and an increase of 6 would simply move the parameter up to 69 without a sudden jump. The knobs are endless encoders (alpha dials) instead of fixed-range potentiometers like on most synths.] I hope that put somebody in the know.
Wouldn't it be cool if pulsar could handle this?
