Hi, I’m going to gig performer and I’m attempting to set up a rack space to perform like how an Roland RD 2000 would. The RD 2000 has eight layers and a split function that automatically brings in the Bass and splits the keyboard’s 4 internal layers.The spilt is mainly the function I’m looking for. I’m also looking to set up my main layers in the global rackspace. That way I can have specific sounds from other rack spaces, but I always know I have my bread and butter sounds available to me. Does anyone know of any building blocks that can get my process started?
Hi @SSPmusic and welcome to the GP community forum! 
Hardwares synths or workstations offer functionalities that are often constrained by their user interfaces and what manufacturers assume to be sufficient for users. With GP, you can use as many splits as you like. The idea with GP is to add one MIDI in block plugin per split. For each split, you simply restrict the range required for your split by defining the min note and max note. In other words, just as you can add as many MIDI in blocks as you like, you can have as many splits as you like.
In the same way you can put plugin and MIDI in blocks in the Global Rackspace. But personally, I prefer to instrument plugins only in Local Rackspaces.
Oh Ok, then I can perhaps create a widget “spilt” button that can bypass all those midi In Spilt blocks at once.
The “splits” are typically done by Midi in blocks (although in the current version of GP, there are other tools that be used, like the transposer and midi rechannelizer).
So, basically you set different key ranges (and transpose as needed) in each midi in block.
You can have multiple midi in blocks.
You can connect these midi in blocks to as many instances of the RD 2000 plugin as you want.
So, it is easy to set up 5 keyranges (including one you can use for bass).
The better for this is to use a widget to block the note on messages of a particular MIDI in block. This will disable the corresponding split without stopping the currently playing notes. In a GP Variation the state of the each of the widget used to activate/deactivate a split will be stored and recalled seamlessly.
With GP, be sure that you will be able to do what a hardware synth allows and even more, but try to mimic a hardware synth with GP is probably not the best solution before your discover the GP paradigme which is quite different.
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Thanks for this.
Ok More specially I’m wanting a way to be able to press a widget button and my keyboard instruments (Piano, Ep, Pad etc) will split to C2 up and My bass Instrument engages and plays from C2 Down.I would want predefine the split As I don’t need to create one live.
So, I think you sort of have to put what David and I said together.
I would create two midi in blocks for each audio plug in where you want different splits.
In one of the sets, the split would set up as you want in the “disabled” scenario and the other would be set up with splits in the “Splits active” scenario.
I would set up widgets to block “note ons” in all of the midi-in blocks.
You would create two variations. In each one you would block the note-ons in the midi in blocks for the split(s) you do not want (using the widgets).
Then when you change variations, this would change the splits that are active (and the ones where note-ons are bypassed).
Personally, I love set list mode. So, I would connect each of these variations to two different song parts, but that depends if you use set list mode.
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Thank you all for your this. I got some great perspective.
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By the way, the simpler way is just to create two different rackspace instead of setting up widgets and bypassing them.
But, if the plugins are ram heavy, you will use more ram
But if the plugins are physically modeled, I might just create two different rackspaces (and duplicate the plugins).
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Thanks guys. I’m one step closer to setting up my ultimate keyboard rig. I just need some help optimizing my variations as I have one rock space set up to play my bread and butter sounds and have created variations for various patches. Piano by itself, piano pad, pad, etc. The challenge I’m having is I’m the type of player that likes to tweak and blend while playing, but when returning to a variation, it remembers the setting of what I did. Is there a way for each variation to Return to its default setting? right now, with all the tweaking, my variations are a mess. My context is for this is when playing my RD 2000. I have a bunch of patches that have volume/fx/splits/ settings, so no matter what I do when I recall the patch it goes back to its default settings. I watched a video about being able to do it for a parameter at a time, but is there a way to set a an entire variations widgets at the same time to go back to default at the same time? Any thoughts? I hope this makes sense.
Use SetList Mode.
I’m not sure I follow. The way I play live is I have eight layers that I have instant access to that I can blend things in and turn things on and off not necessarily songs. I’m trying to wrap my head around the set list solving the problem can you elaborate please.
OK in SetList Mode you can build a song and song parts.
Each Song Part references a Rackspace Variation.
Now when you choose a song part and change the widget, next time you go to the same song part or switch to another Song part which uses the same rackspace vartiation, the widget are set to the value defined in the variation - BUT: The widget property “Ignore Variations” must not checked.
So this way the entire variation returns to its default state in set list mode correct? And in panels section the other way to do it by defining a widget at a time for each variation, correct? I’m just trying to understand all my options.
Personally, I would always use Setlist Mode and have a “song” for each song you play.
If you want to use the default variation, you would just connect to that variation (without saving any “snapshots” to the song part).
If you wanted to change the settings of the variation, you could just modify it while you are in a song part and click on the “capture variation” (aka, snapshot) button and save these modified variation settings into the song part.
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This did the trick thanks.
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