Hi everyone. I’m enjoying playing around with pianoteq and setBfree, it is a great device for practicing with different sounds. Thank you so much for this great project.
I need some advice setting up a proper keyboard split organ scenario together with an external drawbar controller I’ve built. The keyboard is always sending at channel 1 and I’ve added a MIDI keysplit chain to channel 1, then split it to channel 2 for the upper manual and channel 3 for the lower manual. I then also have to change the MIDI routing of that chain to go to channel 2 but after that it is working as expected.
However, I’ve also built a drawbar controller with some 45mm faders and can’t figure out how to incorporate that into my setup. I’ve got full control over what it is doing, i.e. what MIDI channel it is using and how to switch between drawbars for upper vs lower manual: I can either shift the CC number by an offset, or I can change the channel. Either of these can be done with a little toggle switch on the controller board.
In order to use the keyboard split I have to select channel 1 with the MIDI keyboard split chain in the mixer. This will send incoming MIDI to that chain, then onwards to 2 and 3 depending on the note. However, the MIDI CC from by drawbar controller don’t seem to make it to the upper or lower setBfree manuals. I guess since I can send channel 2 and 3 from my controller, ideally I should be in multi-timbre MIDI mode? The problem then is that the MIDI keyboard split chain won’t work anymore. Am I missing something?
Currently I have Stage mode (omni) enabled as this seems to work correctly with the keyboard split. I do understand that the perfect solution would be to have an external keyboard that can do splitting to two different channels but I currently don’t have the option and all the tools and MIDI chains appear to be included so that this should work. Thanks in advance for your help!
To add a bit to that: I had a closer look at the keyboard and it can split but it will split the lower part (at a fixed point) to channel 3 and the higher part to 4. setBfree on Zynthian on the other hand expects the upper manual on the lower of the two channels.
Maybe my best bet is to finally build that MIDI merger device I was planning on making so that I can alter the MIDI stream with my own code (sending some notes to a different channel than others, and sending some CCs to a different channel). But it is very handy being able to do all of this from the Zynthian screen and controls.