Hi !
I use Gig performer with my electronic wind instrument (Sylphyo). I would like to use a sustain pedal to hold my notes while I’m breathing to avoid the sound to cut for a long outro part.
With my favourite plugin Respiro (which is especially designed for e-wind instrument) it’s quite easy: I map the sustain pedal on the note release time at about 4 seconds, and, naturally, when I stop blowing, the sound continues to “live” in a start of a fade out.
I try to have the same behaviour with a mini-Moog plugin (Mini-V from Arturia). My breath is mapped on the main volume. With a CC64, it sounds not natural: the organic and continuous breath CC value seems to freeze. It’s sounds nearly like a bug. So I would like to act on the release time like on the Respiro plugin.
To understand, you need to know how my instrument works:
When I start to blow, CC2 (breath) and Note ON are sent. When I stop, CC2 goes to 0 and at this moment, note OFF is sent.
I would like to have a MIDI scriptlet that I can insert before the mini moog plugin who could, when I press a pedal, remember the actual CC2 value, and freeze it in order to keep some volume on the mini moog. The note off message which would follow (because I stop blowing and start breathing) would trigger the long release (also modified by the same pedal).
Actually, when I try something, I can’t hear the long release of the mini Moog because if I stop a note, it makes the mini-Moog volume returning to 0 (along the CC2 value). If I manually increase the volume juste after, I can indeed, hear the long release.
Sorry for the long explanation. These e-wind instruments have their own logics…
I made a video to further illustrate my issue:
Is anybody having a solution for me??
Thanks in advance for any help, or any clue !
So you only want to keep the CC#2 value constant when you press the pedal, but let the notes off go to the plugin, and once you release the pedal the CC#2 value also goes directly to zero. Right?
Exact ! You must know that after freezing the CC2 value, the new CC2 message will automatically comes from my wind controller: once I’ve taken a breath, I’ll blow again and thousand of CC2 values will fly.
I already tried to insert a MIDI hub with blocked CC2 messages. The sustain pedal was mapped (and reverse) on the bypass but as far as I know, this solution didn’t work.
I’ll try again and keep you informed. (because yes, it seems consistent and it’s one of the first thing I tried.)
Ok, I realized that the CC2 blocking doesn’t work in my case.
In the midi monitor, it’s blocked but the mapping still works and the volume knob still move.
See this video:
You assigned the CC#2 message to the General Level parameter of the Mini-Moog plugin, this will stay like this whatever you filter out in the wiring view. If you wouldn’t have enabled the “thru” option in the MIDI/Widget properties, this assignment would even use exclusively the CC#2 Midi message. As diplayed by the MIDI monitor, the CC#2 is perfectly filtered out, but the host automation remains and you GeneralLevel parameter is therefore still controlled by the CC#2 message. I also don’t understand why you MIDI synced your CC#2 controller: do you want to get a fresh breath on your face when you act on the corresponding widget?
I now understand that you use the CC#2 message to control the volume of your plugin. So rather than doing this, I think I could rather use a GP gain control plugin in order to be independent of the instrument plugin you use. Woud this work for you, or do you assign the CC#2 parameter to any other plugin parameter depending on the plugin you use?
Ok, now I have deeply tested and your solution @David-san is convincing.
To prevent to have a low reaction from the synth, I also mapped the sustain pedal to the decay On/Off and like that it works perfectly ! Thanks again !
All the best
Hi there,
I’m here to give a little detail for this method you advised me:
It works fine but I could not understand why the synth seems so sluggish and then I got it: the native gain control has a bit of latency. The breath controller, when I use tonguing technique send in no time, a lot of messages from CC0 to CC127 and the gain can’t follow properly although the fader seems to follow (graphically).
So, I tested with a utility plugin from melda production and the difference is quite big with the volume knob !
Then problem solved but it could be useful to report that to the developers.
Bye bye !