1 Mar
2005
1 Mar
'05
11:40 a.m.
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:21:51AM -0500, Joe Hartley wrote:
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 09:57:33 -0500
Spencer Russell <Spencer.Russell(a)oberlin.edu> wrote:
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I was referring to what Frank said
earlier about controllers that send MIDI 4 when turned to the
left and MIDI 12 (or whatever numbers they use) when turned to
the right. So lets say that I had a parameter that goes from 20
to 20,000. If my controller goes from 0 to 127, I have 128 steps
of resolution, but if my controller sends relative information,
then I have arbitrary resolution. I realize that this is
completely useless for lots of standard DAW controller stuff, so
I think that 0-127 should definently still be available, but the
relative info can still be very usefull. I don't really
understand where a wrapping controller would be advantageous,
though.
I think I would prefer the dial to send relative
information as
to what direction it's turning, so that you can have more than
127 different values controlled by one knob.
Uhhh, wha??? Do you mean turning the knob left sends out, say,
CC (control change) data on channel 1, and turning it right sends it
out on channel 2?
Keep in mind that there's no MIDI granularity of greater than 128.
You can't have a parameter that's < 0 or > 127. That's a fundamental
part of the MIDI spec.
I use a midi controller to send messages to PD patches, where the
range of parameters is much larger than 0-127.
hope this clears things up, so that I don't appear to be saying
silly things. :)
-spencer