Sun Dec 08, 2019 9:22 am
My goal is to start from any appropriate base registration and add to it incrementally or back up one step at a time, without turning off the original stops and couplers. I would preset a few common sequences of crescendos that are always added in the same order starting from variable base registrations.
For example, fonds (whatever pitches), then add anches by division. Different sequences to include 16' reeds or not, and to include upperwork or not. Similarly, add diapasons in ascending pitches and then chorus reeds for English music, with a few variations in order. In French organs, the ventils and couplers can do the job, but not for other organs.
So I'd like to be able to use two pistons to increment and decrement single steps through a crescendo sequence. Or have a master stepper option that adds to the starting, non-stepper registration instead of replacing it.
My left hand is impaired enough that thumb pistons are difficult to press, so I have to do this with foot controls.
This would work exactly like the master crescendo, but controlled from two momentary pistons (+ and -) for moving between stages. It could actually be done with the master crescendo if it didn't require a continuous controller for the slider, or if I could get the right or left arrow followed by Edit to trigger from a single momentary piston.
The reason the crescendo pedal won't work for me is that hitting the right stage is too imprecise. I've tried grouping the stages by setting 5 or 6 contiguous stages to the same combination and still don't have the precision necessary to reliably add to the registration when I want to. The continuous controller (a crescendo pedal) is too hard to move gradually.
The master stepper works fine except that there are too many sequences to set up to accommodate different starting registrations.
I use 8 reversibles from toe studs to emulate this behavior now, but I find it difficult to remember which one to turn off to go backwards one step. Also, I keep stumbling on the fact that master reversibles I haven't pressed yet will arm themselves to turn off instead of on when their registration happens to be turned on by another piston, so I sometimes accidentally turn off the things I want to add. (Can't look sideways at the monitor while playing, so the reversible lighting itself up doesn't help.)
Can anybody think of another way to do this with existing HW 4.2 capabilities?
Thank you.
For example, fonds (whatever pitches), then add anches by division. Different sequences to include 16' reeds or not, and to include upperwork or not. Similarly, add diapasons in ascending pitches and then chorus reeds for English music, with a few variations in order. In French organs, the ventils and couplers can do the job, but not for other organs.
So I'd like to be able to use two pistons to increment and decrement single steps through a crescendo sequence. Or have a master stepper option that adds to the starting, non-stepper registration instead of replacing it.
My left hand is impaired enough that thumb pistons are difficult to press, so I have to do this with foot controls.
This would work exactly like the master crescendo, but controlled from two momentary pistons (+ and -) for moving between stages. It could actually be done with the master crescendo if it didn't require a continuous controller for the slider, or if I could get the right or left arrow followed by Edit to trigger from a single momentary piston.
The reason the crescendo pedal won't work for me is that hitting the right stage is too imprecise. I've tried grouping the stages by setting 5 or 6 contiguous stages to the same combination and still don't have the precision necessary to reliably add to the registration when I want to. The continuous controller (a crescendo pedal) is too hard to move gradually.
The master stepper works fine except that there are too many sequences to set up to accommodate different starting registrations.
I use 8 reversibles from toe studs to emulate this behavior now, but I find it difficult to remember which one to turn off to go backwards one step. Also, I keep stumbling on the fact that master reversibles I haven't pressed yet will arm themselves to turn off instead of on when their registration happens to be turned on by another piston, so I sometimes accidentally turn off the things I want to add. (Can't look sideways at the monitor while playing, so the reversible lighting itself up doesn't help.)
Can anybody think of another way to do this with existing HW 4.2 capabilities?
Thank you.
