Hey all-- I think there’s probably a way to do this, but I’m not there yet… I have my organ pedals routed to synth to be able to play bass hands-free. But I have a couple of songs where I want just driving straight eighth notes (but moving with the chord, of course). My feet won’t keep up with triggering them all individually, hence the question: Is there a way to hold the pedal down, but instead of just triggering once, have it trigger repeatedly along with the clock? I’ve tried with delays, but obviously the amount of time I’m holding on any given chord changes, so I can’t just set a fixed number of delays and walk away.
The best I’ve been able to come up with so far is having media player loops for each bass note, with the note on starting the loop and the note off ending it. I suppose if I put that all as one linked rack, I’d only need to make one for each note on the pedals. Might not be that ridiculous?
That is a reasonable way to do it. An internal sequencer to a VSTi keyboard OR an external VST sequencer would work, too. Typically, by the time I learn or remember how to use the sequencers, I’d have been better of using the internal Media Player. I play many midi files by triggering the Media Player with a binding to a note. A linked rack would be easy to route to other VSTi’s for different sounds and layers.
Thanks-- Now that I’m playing with it, I think this is the way to go. I can see other small variations (popping octaves for funk, standard bossa, etc.) where it would be easy to create based off the template.
@easteelreath – How do you have your media player configured? I’m getting some really weird behavior where the last eighth note either a) doesn’t fire, or b) fires way off time and sometimes with a different velocity, which is weird.
Watching the MIDI monitor, the ghost-ish and of 4 comes through with no time entry, which I’m taking to mean that it’s happening simultaneously to the previous note, and that’s freaking the synth out.
Edit to add: I have the media player sync’d as Realtime (Musical): Using the C4 Metronome as clock.
I tried to loop the C.mid file and cannot. Seems like the end of the loop is not correct. My previous examples were not loops, so I’m curious what/if Brad sees something. It does look fishy…
Thanks for checking – my first suspicion was that the midi file was corrupted somehow but it looks fine in reaper. I’ll have to take another look when I get home this afternoon and see if there’s any weird metadata that would be causing an issue. Also curious if Brad is able to reproduce it on his end.
I’ve made a bunch of midi files for each note, and I can trigger them with the pedals. Cool. But the issue of metronome and slave mode is vexing me— I get that if I want to have it triggered manually, then I can’t have it in slave mode. But to let it be in master, I can’t control tempo with the metronome.
Is there really no way to trigger midi files manually (e.g., by pedals) AND have Cantabile control the tempo? Seems like a real pain to have to go in and make a whole new file if I just want to nudge the tempo a bit in either direction.
