Device aliases in panels

[pianopaul]

OOPS, you can assign Midi Control aliases !

Did you read in the manual the chapter about Rig Manager?

[schamass]

How to connect a widget to a MIDI device? (gigperformer.com)

Item #2… that should be exactly it! Or are you talking of something else?

[mangolassi]

Yes, this is what I’m talking about. This part of the interface only allows for physical devices, not aliases.

[schamass]

@mangolassi

This part of the interface only allows for physical devices, not aliases.

Well then, how comes that i have in many of my rackkspaces widgets which are bound to my RigManager aliases, like “Aftertouch”, “Vol-pedal”, “X-B1” (stands for “button 1 on X-Touch mini”)?

The screenshot you can see in my link to the docs under item #2 shows a list of RigManager aliases - you can just select them from the list that opens up when you click on that little triangle on the right hand side of the dialog field…

[mangolassi]

MIDI control aliases, yes. But that’s not much use in this case since I would have to reassign every single Button on the MIDI keyboard if I change it. The issue to solve however is that I use different keyboards in different locations and GP will always treat them as different devices although to me as a user it’s always the same gig situation and I want to use my GP gig without having to change much. It’s a trivial issue theoretically since the devices will always send the identical midi messages, there’s no change necessary on the control level, it’s really just the device IDs.

[mangolassi]

Oh, I think I’m getting my mistake now. If I do the device alias part correctly first, the control alias will all correspond to that, right?

[dhj]

Yes. .

[npudar]

Just to chime in and post this video:

How To Use Rig Manager In Gig Performer

In this video is Gig Performer 3, but the global picture is the same.

[dhj]

@mangolassi

The issue to solve however is that I use different keyboards in different locations and GP will always treat them as different devices although to me as a user it’s always the same gig situation and I want to use my GP gig without having to change much

This is precisely why we created the Rig Manager

[David-san]

@David-san

@mangolassi

How can I define aftertouch as a control alias?

• play a note on your controller (play a note and keep the note played)
• activate the MIDI learning
• press a bit deeper to generate aftertouch

It should work.

@mangolassi this works perfectly, I just tested and could MIDI learn aftertouch to an AFTERTOUCH control alias name!

[David-san]

@dhj

I’ve put the ability to learn aftertouch in rig manager on our list for a future update –

It already works.

[dhj]

How? If RM responds to the first message, it will see the NoteOn rather than the Aftertouch message.

Or are you pressing a note down first and THEN clicking learn?

[David-san]

As I tried to explain above, yes, that’s the way I did it.

[mangolassi]

That’s indeed how it works fairly well even though you wouldn’t expect it.

[David-san]

It’s been a long time now that the GP-beast has escaped from its devs…