User Manual

ARTURIA – BRASS 2 – USER’S MANUAL
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• The aftertouch is a function that certain MIDI keyboards offer. It is the measure of
pressure value on the keys over a period of time. In effect, you can decide to
push strongly on the keys, then release, and then push with a different amount of
force, etc. The keyboards that save the variations permit a control very close to
BRASS 2.
Other controls are proposed for the MIDI keyboards, for example by the means of a
pitch-bend wheel or modulation wheel.
• The pitch-bend wheel which (all things being normal) should come back to the
center, is by default assigned to the pitch of the note played.
• The modulation wheel, that doesn’t come back to the center, can be used for
controlling all kinds of parameters.
In the section MIDI PRESET of BRASS 2 you can decide to allot the diverse controls
offered by the keyboard to the playing parameters of the software. The ideal is having a
maximum of controllers assigned to a few free modulations in real time.
MIDI-Settings Panel
6.1.1.1 The MIDI adjustment configuration panel
Before making your adjustments, begin by selecting the type of controller you wish to
use (if you haven’t already done this in the First Run dialog that opened when you first
executed Brass 2). Three choices are possible:
Keyboard Standard MIDI keyboard
Keyboard + BC MIDI keyboard with a breath controller module