Hello All
At long last I have sacrificed some practice time to undertake the carpentry to mount a swell pedal on top of my pedal board. All's well but I need some advice on getting the most out of it.
The swell pedal that I'm using works by mechanically rotating a 10KB potentiometer. I have wired the swell pedal into one of my MK361 keyboards, in place of the keyboard's internal volume wheel. This is working fine in terms of generating the appropriate midi messages and Hauptwerk is processing them fine as adjustments to the swell pedal position.
However it's range of mechanical movement is only sufficient to rotate the potentiometer by approx. 80% of it's range. This limits my ability to fully close the swell pedal in Hauptwerk. I have set parameter AmpMinimumLevel to 1% to maximise the effect of the swell pedal, but this alone doens't provide sufficient contract between my fully open and fully closed.
Q. Do other people have this problem or is this a perculiarity of my swell pedal, thus I should to replace it?
Q. Is there any software available that could "stretch" the midi message to cover the full range? I don't believe that MidiOx does this function.
Q. Are there other midi processors available other than my MK361 that could convert the current range of potentiometer resistance into the full range of midi message?
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Martin
At long last I have sacrificed some practice time to undertake the carpentry to mount a swell pedal on top of my pedal board. All's well but I need some advice on getting the most out of it.
The swell pedal that I'm using works by mechanically rotating a 10KB potentiometer. I have wired the swell pedal into one of my MK361 keyboards, in place of the keyboard's internal volume wheel. This is working fine in terms of generating the appropriate midi messages and Hauptwerk is processing them fine as adjustments to the swell pedal position.
However it's range of mechanical movement is only sufficient to rotate the potentiometer by approx. 80% of it's range. This limits my ability to fully close the swell pedal in Hauptwerk. I have set parameter AmpMinimumLevel to 1% to maximise the effect of the swell pedal, but this alone doens't provide sufficient contract between my fully open and fully closed.
Q. Do other people have this problem or is this a perculiarity of my swell pedal, thus I should to replace it?
Q. Is there any software available that could "stretch" the midi message to cover the full range? I don't believe that MidiOx does this function.
Q. Are there other midi processors available other than my MK361 that could convert the current range of potentiometer resistance into the full range of midi message?
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Martin