MIDI sequencer

[dub]

Hi guys,
I'm quite a newbie in MIDI stuff, I have a question:
I use an emu sound module (mo phatt), with this module is possible to play 16 channels in real time assigned a different key on a master keyboard, do I need a sequencer or a master key will do the job?
I mean could I play, for example 3 or 4 programs on the same master keyboard?

thanks to all
cheers
Marco.

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[AlChuck]

The Mo' Phatt is a pretty new device so I strongly suspect the answer is "yes."

The way to do this with a sequencer would be to assign different tracks each to different MIDI Channel, and select a different patch for each channel. On the Mo' Phatt you would set it up in the proper MIDI Mode to respond to individual channels (I forget the terminology, but there's a mode -- OMNI mode? -- where it will respond to MIDI messages on any channels with the same patch, and this is definitely not the mode you want).

Playing separate parts from a keyboard simultaneously is a bit different and depends on the keyboard's features. Most controller keyboards allow you to "split" the keyboard into separate ranges of notes and the keys in the differnt ranges behave as if they were separate keyboards. You would assign each zone to a different MIDI channel. But of course you only have a certain subset of keys to work with for each patch.

For example, you might split the keyboard at C3. All the notes lower than this point might be mapped to a phat bass patch, and all above to a sweet piano patch, say. Then if you play notes below C3 they'll trigger the phatt bass patch, and C3 and above will trigger the sweet piano patch. Of course if you had 66 notes at your disposal you now have less than that per patch.

Hope this helps a bit...

 

[Ethan Winer]

Marco,

> could I play, for example 3 or 4 programs on the same master keyboard? <

Only if your keyboard lets you define Splits, so notes below, say, C2 are sent out through Channel 1, notes from C2 through C4 through Channel 2, and so forth. Then you have to play in the proper zones, which can be difficult because each zone now has only a limited range of notes.

--Ethan

 

[dub]

Hi,
thanks to all for your help, hey Al thank you, I have a Roland PC 180-A master keyboard (49keys), so they're quite a few, but what I would like to know is: is it possible to assign at every key a sequence of 3 or 4 chords, while I play back 2 different drums programs at the same time? I don't need to have a range of keys to play chords, but I need to have a key for a texture, 2 keys for drums, another key for a bass line as well, is this possible or do I really need a sequencer?
Sorry for all these questions but I'm a newbie in MIDI world, maybe I should read a book about it, it could help me, but I prefer advices in forums, directly from people who work with these devices.

Ok, thanks again
cheers
Marco.

http://web.tiscali.it/mindseye

 

[TexRoadkill]

Dub, in short the answer is no. You would need some type of pattern sequencer to pull that off. Unless the mophat has internal patterns that can be activated by midi note messages.