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written by: geert

Hi WM,

Here's a Workbench screenshot of a ranger that's hooked into the Pico factory setup of EigenD 2:
http://www.eigenzone.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/reverse_roll_ranger.png

These are the steps to achieve this:
* select the 'delete tool'
* delete the wire between 'keyboard pico 1 roll output' and 'main keygroup roll input'
* select the 'create tool'
* click on the canvas
* from the 'Create an agent' dialog, select 'Ranger' and press OK
* expand the newly created ranger to reveal its 'input' and 'output' ports
* select the 'wiring tool'
* click and drag to connect 'keyboard pico 1 roll output' to 'ranger 1 input'
* click and drag to connect ''ranger 1 output' to 'main keygroup roll input'
* select the 'edit tool'
* click on the 'ranger 1' agent
* change the minimum to 1.0
* change the maximum to -1.0

This reverses the behavior of the key's roll, while preserving polyphony.

Take care,

Geert

written by: WM

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:49:10 +0100 BST

Hello there,

I've been trying out some of the simple Belcanto scripts that came with the Pico, and tried writing my own Keyboard Layout as well. It worked fine, however there is one issue: When using key mappings that have the lowest keys on the bottom(furthest away from the breath piece) of the Pico, wich I find more comfortable to use, the Pitch Bend direction is still the other way, i.e. to bend a note 'down' you have to pitch bend(roll) the key up(towards the breath piece). This is of course very unnatural, so I would like to change it.

I was unable to find a simple agent wich values I could change to flip the Pitch Bend to work the other way around.

Could somebody point me in the right direction?


written by: john

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:58:57 +0100 BST

This is not a configurable parameter.

We may well introduce some small signal manipulation Agents in a future 2.1 or 2.2 to enable the inversion of signals and other useful data transformations, but if we do it will not be until later this year as we're pretty maxed out getting 2.0 into Stable right now..

John


written by: john

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:19:30 +0100 BST

@WM

With a bit more thought, we think this may be possible in fact, using the Ranger agent to invert the sense of the pitchbend signal. Geert is going to give it a go for you and report back his results here. It would require some replumbing, which is much more easily acomplished (along with other arbitary keyboard remappings) using Workbench, do you have 2.0/Pro or are you using 1.4?

John


written by: geert

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:35:44 +0100 BST

Hi WM,

Here's a Workbench screenshot of a ranger that's hooked into the Pico factory setup of EigenD 2:
http://www.eigenzone.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/reverse_roll_ranger.png

These are the steps to achieve this:
* select the 'delete tool'
* delete the wire between 'keyboard pico 1 roll output' and 'main keygroup roll input'
* select the 'create tool'
* click on the canvas
* from the 'Create an agent' dialog, select 'Ranger' and press OK
* expand the newly created ranger to reveal its 'input' and 'output' ports
* select the 'wiring tool'
* click and drag to connect 'keyboard pico 1 roll output' to 'ranger 1 input'
* click and drag to connect ''ranger 1 output' to 'main keygroup roll input'
* select the 'edit tool'
* click on the 'ranger 1' agent
* change the minimum to 1.0
* change the maximum to -1.0

This reverses the behavior of the key's roll, while preserving polyphony.

Take care,

Geert



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