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I would love to see a Pico setup where the breath pipe and strip controller were changing the FX send volumes up and down while playing. This would be very useful with the samplers and audio units.

For example, if I have reverb or delay as my audio FX send 1 and I want to just have one note or a chord delay for a while, I could just blow into the breath pipe until I wanted it to go back to it's programmed setting. As of right now, the breath pipe and strip controller are pretty much useless on the samplers.

One other idea with the strip controller would be to have it not revert to center when you take your finger off in the midi and audio unit modes. If you have it set to turn up or down a knob in Alchemy the knob would just stay where you leave it when you take your finger off instead of reverting back to the default .

I love my Pico and I can't wait for it to mature into it's potential.

I guess this will be possible in the near future via Belcanto. at the time being I use ableton live doing a midi message mapping to the AU in a channel with the eigenharp output passing thru.
I guess that you can use Bidule also...

Cheers.

Carlos

Are you guys using these with the midi output? If so, my only complaint is that you lose the ability to bend individual notes via midi. Or maybe I'm doing this wrong.

One idea I just had would be to forward the sound of a sampler via soundflower through something and have just the audio of the sampler be processed through your audio unit plugins externally but have them controlled via midi. Essentially you would have both your sample instrument on the pico playing simultaneously with your midi... if this is even possible.

I guess what I am trying to do is to be able to bend individual notes but still have control of the FX units via the breath pipe and strip controller. The best of both worlds really.

My idea was to have the audio of what I am playing be generated by the soundfont/sampler in the pico and to just use midi to control the FX. It seems like this could be done my simply selecting multiple channels (ie sampler 1 and midi). The catch would be that you wouldn't have any audio generated by the midi; just using midi to control the effects.

@catoro That sounds like it would be fun to mess with. Do you have a link to your video?

For some dumb reason, I hadn't really thought of using the Pico with external controllers and effects units.