I’m trying to play my bass clarinet as the SWAM Cello and it’s accidently working for a few minutes. Tracking may be mostly okay and that is exciting.
As you know, MIDI Bass 3 is half empty, in terms of mods and the buttons that purport to download mods go nowhere.
If AfterTouch is a mod, I could sure use it. If it is not a mod, perhaps I have to wait for final release? I’ve been tricking the SWAM Cello enough to tour it somewhat, but a TEC breath controller is not a permanent solution when someone already has a mouthpiece in their mouth.
To my knowledge, MG/MB3 doesn’t have aftertouch. How would you activate it, by pressing harder on the fretboard?
Have you thought about an expression pedal for your SWAM instrument if a breath controller isn’t suitable?
LoFiLeif has a MG2 YouTube on AfterTouch - and how it is implemented in MIDI Guitar. It was an “Articulation” choice in MG2 and there was also a AfterTouch to CC module that would convert it to mappable CC of your choice. I don’t know where AfterTouch is in MIDI Guitar 3 because I’ve got the MIDI Bass 3 product beta, which is still a stripped down application. However, I feel confident that AfterTouch will remain available, as it is quite valuable.
I’m weeks away from hooking up any pedals. Anyway, you don’t want to use a pedal just to go from NO SOUND to GOT SOUND. That’s like those Russian flashlights that you have to keep winding just to see.
Thanks
Have you tried to use either “strike”, “pressure” or “brightness” to control the SWAM VST?
You can route it to the relevant CC number (draw a cable).
Oh. Okay, Srike and Pressure work, if I connect them to CC7 and Expression likewise! Thanks, I think I can work those until I can test AfterTouch which I understand to be a nuanced treatment of the volume envelope.
Strike, Pressure, and Brightness do appear in the list of available CCs, at the top, although AfterTouch doesn’t. Brightness also works, but it seems too hyperactive for use with Volume - CC7. I’ll use Strike or Pressure and try to put a better curve on Expression.
However, I’m still confused about the need for the SWAM VSTs to detect an active expression source, (to begin sounding and drop the yellow warning dialog) versus the actual role of MIDI Expression - CC11 which has always been optional. Audio Modeling makes it look like your first task is to waste Expression on achieving Volume. I feel I should get volume for free because of the incoming Note On/Velocity messages. Then, I could use Expression for anything else I like. The LoFiLief March 2022 AfterTouch YouTube presents a curve graphic that depicts a separation between the Note On transient of an event, which you can control with articulation choices, and the follow-on tail of the event which you can control, or not, with your Expression CC11 choice. I’d like to be doing that.
