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We have all fallen in love with Digidesign’s Digi 002 because of the ever popular Pro Tools LE software, the vast array of I/O found on the Digi 002, and who could live without the control once you’ve had it? So, how do you top it? How about adding thousands of dollars worth of plug-ins? The Digi 002 Factory Bundle has it all – you have to read about it to believe it.Emagic Releases Beta Version of SoundDiver for Mac OSX!
For anyone who remembers using SoundDiver to keep tabs on all of our synths' libraries (there's plenty of us still using it), you'll be happy to hear that Emagic has released a Public Beta version for Mac OSX! It's just a trial version, but it will run for 26 weeks. SoundDiver is also a powerful tool designed to assist in editing the sounds in over 300 different synths, samplers and the like (probably more with the OSX version). Check it out!
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| Status Byte |
MIDI messages can be broken into two constituent parts: data bytes and status bytes. The status byte is the portion of a MIDI message that defines the type of information being sent. They contain a MIDI channel, to specifically direct the information, and a code that tells the device listening on that channel what type of data is about to follow. This prepares the device to receive any one of the following eight fundamental types of MIDI data messages: Note Off, Note On, Polyphonic Aftertouch, Control Change (a.k.a. continuous controller), Program Change, Channel Aftertouch, or System. The final type, system, refers broadly to system common, system real time, or system exclusive commands - these are not addressed to individual MIDI channels and the data bits normally used to specify MIDI channel are instead used to further specify the system message. Status bytes are usually followed by one or more data bytes that provide the actual information to be implemented.
Referenced words from today's WFTD: MIDI, Byte, MIDI Channel, Note, Polyphonic, Aftertouch, Continuous Controller, Program Change, System Common, System, Real Time, and System Exclusive. |
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| Syncing an LFO within a K2500/K2600/K2661 Program to an External MIDI Clock. |
Forgive us while we focus on our Kurzweil K2500/K2600 users for today's Tech Tip. We'll get back to more universal issues tomorrow. Thanks to Jean Bellefeuille of Kurzweil for his input!
An important element in much contemporary music is the ability to modulate sound parameters in tempo with the song. Here's how to sync an LFO within a K2500/K2600 program to an external MIDI clock. Remember you have to set the Clock parameter in the Kurzweil's Song Mode MISC page to EXT to allow the LFO to follow external sync.
If you have a K2500 with version 4 or later of the operating system or a K2600, you have a new control source called Tempo. This control source can use the K2500's own internal clock or an external clock (depending on the setting of the Clock parameter on the Song Mode MISC page).
To sync LFOs to a sequencer clock, choose your program and press "Edit." Push the LFO soft button and then highlight the "RateCt" (rate control) field. Set the rate control to "Tempo." Then you can select the note value you want to follow by adjusting the LFO's Max Rate and Min Rate values, following this guide:
Eighth notes: Set the LFO Max Rate to 8.00Hz and the Min Rate to 8.0/64 (which equals .125Hz). The closest value available on the Kurz is .12Hz.
Quarter notes: Set the LFO Max Rate to 4.00Hz; set the Min Rate to 4.0/64 (or .0625Hz). The closest value available is .06Hz.
Sixteenth notes: Set the LFO Max Rate to 16.00Hz and the Min Rate to 16.0/64 or .25Hz.
To explain this concept: you divide the Max Rate by 2, a total of six times (or 64), because the tempo control source covers six doublings of tempo, from 3.75BPM to 240BPM. The Max Rate corresponds to the LFO rate when the tempo equals 240BPM.
Once that is done you can continue to edit the program and assign the LFO to any given Source field, depending on the effect you want. For example you may insert an LFO on the F4 AMP page of a program's layer to create a tremolo. |
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