I don’t own this device yet, considering buying it, only if it will output, low note priority.
I play a Jamstik pro midi guitar, I need to send low note priority information to a mono Bass synth. Essentially, I wanna play a chord on my guitar with the lowest note being sent to a bass synthesizer.
It looks like this question has been asked several times, and the makers of this device say they are looking into it, it’s been a few years. Has this feature been implemented yet?
Hey @Johnk, this feature has been available for a couple of years now via the Dispatcher pipe.
Dispatcher used to be just “Round Robin” so:
- 1st Note in → 1st selected Channel
- 2nd Note in → 2nd selected Channel
- and so on until the selected Channels were used up
This was useful for a number of things but was time-ordered not note-ordered
Now there are also Chord Modes:
super powerful but not written about much:
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You would use Chord Ascending so your bass note would come out on the lowest channel selected.
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A Channel Remap further down the line would then separate (and “re-channel”) the bass note to send it out the correct port. This would also you to independently set the Note Length if that’s useful.
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The “guitar notes” would travel down a parallel pipeline.
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You can have more than one Chord Dispatcher if you want to let your imagination run…
PS. check out the blurb on Chord Grace Period and think about whether this fits your playing style (it can’t select the bass note until it “knows” that the whole chord has been played!)
Sounds great if you could email me an easy step-by-stepway to get low note priority since this is the only reason I would be purchasing this item that would be extremely helpful.
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Thanks so much!!!
If you could just explain a simple step-by-step way to get low note priority
That would be extremely helpful, and I will be purchasing this item ASAP.
I’ve been looking for something like this for such a long time, it’s hard to be limited to one synthesizer for my Bass sounds, I’m currently using a Moog Minotaur bass synthesizer for my low end duties, it has low note priority built-in as a feature, it sounds great, but it is limited.
Thanks so much john K
Hey, @Johnk,
Yeah I guessed that, which is why I added the PS about Chord Grace Period
Think also about whether you’d want Bass on all the time or “switcheable”, i.e:
- a Midihub preset that does only that selected by Program Change
- a pipeline within a preset that is toggled by some footswitch message
You haven’t said where the guitar notes are going, btw.
(this version has a octave-down Transpose just for fun)
Step through the pipes yourself on the Editor (no MH needed)
JohnK bassline.mhp
Better still, if you really want to think through the variations (do you want a bass “mirror” when picking single notes, for example?) the best way to be sure would be to play Jamstik into a DAW then upload the resulting .mid file.
I (or maybe someone @Blokas) can then show you what Midihub would do with it…
PS. I note Jamstik is MPE. I’m pretty Dispatcher re-channels PolyAT but I don’t think it does PB. Does Minotaur handle PB?
Hey, I’m back!
So the rest of the notes are going to a head rush Guitar processor, along with the lowest note as well. The Bass note would be an octave below coming from the Moog.
I have situations where I want to use a synth for textural sounds pads and such. I use the Roland SH4D.
As a sidenote, I also play a Mosi Nova guitar synth controller into my Apple air book pro
Running Falcon 3, which is nice because you can set up several synths in one patch.
I would be using low note priority in this situation as well.
I was wondering if you could make a video showing how to do this, the process just seems very convoluted, and I really mean no offense. I would love this thing to work.
Best to you, my friend
John K from Las Vegas
I would love this thing to work.
It does.
Exactly how well it could work in your circumstance would involve development on your side:
This, for example:
is from a midi guitar .mid file another user created & uploaded for an entirely different purpose (and one not particularly pertinent to this task❖)
TLDR
the MIDI guitar notes were sent to MH from a hardware sequencer/sound module, the bass notes created were then played back into the sound module on a different channel.
The guitar levels were dropped to accentuate the derived bass.
(The bass notes were played out at the incoming velocity, btw, but MH can modify this)
After listening once, I added an extra stage to drop highest bass notes a 2nd octave.
❖ notice the chords are more plucked than struck (if that’s the correct terminology)
I could’ve dug out possibly more relevant MIDI clips but didn’t; obviously, I have no idea of what style(s) of play you would like to accompany.
I’m very confident that if the original creator were playing midi guitar into this preset while listening & adjusting, within a few minutes he’d be creating sounds he was satisfied with.
Using Midihub is very much a creative feedback process
PS. I’m not affiliated with Blokas, just a user who’s taken the time to realise the potential of this small work of genius
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