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Desktop Editor Software Manual
Note Extend
To mask gaps between notes when playing is not smooth ( e.g., if you are accentuating
note gaps to avoid glitches) note extend can be used. When set, a note-off will be
extended for the prescribed number of milliseconds, or until the next note-on is issued. In
this way, very fluid melodies can be produced, even if you are playing in a staccato
fashion.
If the next note is played while the old note is being sustained, the new note-on is issued
before the old note-off is issued. This ensures that a receiving synth can smoothly
transition between notes in “mono-legato” mode without retriggering the new note.
A value can be set from 0 ms (note extend disabled), to 996 ms. The value used must be
a multiple of 4 ms, and will be rounded down to the nearest multiple of 4 ms if required.
Sustain Enable
As mentioned in “Setup—settings” on page 16, the Sustain pedal control allows you to
hold
MIDI notes after you have stopped playing your instrument. To make this feature even
more useful, you can configure zones to respond, or to not respond, to the sustain pedal.
In this way, some zones will sustain when you press the Sustain pedal, and some zones
will remain unaffected.
If the “
SUS” option is on, the zone will respond to the Sustain pedal. If it is off, the Sustain
pedal will not affect that zone.
MIDI Channel
The final option controls on which MIDI channel the MIDI messages should be sent. There
are many uses for this.
If you set each active zone to transmit on the same
MIDI channel but set different
transpose values on each active zone, you can play chords and harmonies on your
MIDI
instrument. If your MIDI instrument has an arpeggiator you can enable this and get it to
play patterns quickly and easily.
If you set each active zone to transmit on a different
MIDI channel (this is the default
setting), you can control several independent
MIDI instruments, using different zone
settings for each.
NOTE: If different pitch-bend ranges are used on different zones, these zones should be
configured to use different
MIDI channels otherwise the pitch-bend will not (and cannot)
be correct on all of these zones.
Top Tip: Different zones can have different note extend values to optimise
the response for different synth patches, or to give more distinction
between zones to enhance the ensemble effect when multiple zones
are active simultaneously.