oliver_mayes wrote:This post made me curious about the MIDI ON/OFF tabs on the EM Skinner. I have never used external modules with the Skinner, but have with some of my other other organs. In these cases I have sacrificed a stop to activate the MIDI module.
However, When I load the Skinner and turn on one of the MIDI ON tabs the sound module plays a note. When I touch (turn on) any stop it plays a note (different notes). The manual keys DO NOT play any notes. It is as if everything is working backwards. I don't know where to start to turn things around. Help please, I would like to have this function that I did not know was there.
Ollie Mayes
Edit - I have the dry Skinner
Hello Ollie,
Thanks for the diagnostic file and email:
oliver_mayes wrote:EM Skinner - Dry sends a MIDI note message to external sound module when activated. Keys do not send note messages. I have the module receive messages on Channel 9. On one of my organs, I use a stop to activate the module. I can pull this designated stop on the great and the great will play on the module. Same for a stop on Swell, Pedal etc.
I have not ever had the module turned on when playing the Skinner, so have never noticed this before.
I can see the problem:
Currently you have MIDI output configured for various stop/piston switches with '
<All enabled ports>' and '
Auto MIDI output (match to primary input settings)' selected.
Have you done that intentionally for some reason? For example, do you use MIDI output from Hauptwerk to drive solenoid-actuated/illuminated MIDI draw-knobs/tabs?
If it wasn't intentional, then presumably at some point in the past you auto-detected your stops with the 'send matching MIDI output' option ticked. In that case:
- Go the '
Organ settings | Stop/coupler/tremulant switches and pistons/buttons' screen.
- Highlight *all* entries in the left-hand pane (e.g. Ctrl+A on Windows).
- Highlight the '
Primary output' tab in the right-hand pane.
- In the right-hand pane, change the 'Output' setting to '
<No output ...>.
- OK the screen.
The virtual stops/switches will then no longer send MIDI output.
Also, you haven't actually configured MIDI output from the Skinner's 'MIDI OUT' virtual keyboards, i.e. the ones that its MIDI tabs control. To do that:
- Go the '
Organ settings | Keyboards' screen.
- Choose the '
... Great MIDI Out' entry in the left-hand browse list.
- Highlight the '
Primary output' tab in the right-hand pane.
- Set 'Output' to '
MIDI note-on/off' and choose the desired MIDI OUT port and channel (i.e. the ones that your external sound expander are set up to use).
- Repeat for other '
... MIDI Out' keyboard entries in the left-hand browse list as desired.
- OK the screen.
It should then work.
Best regards, Martin.
Hauptwerk software designer/developer, Milan Digital Audio.