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128 position CCs really hurt you when you want to tune something requiring exact value like filter to specific frequency. Some expanded to the hack of using 2 C
by ilyt 4y ago
128 position CCs really hurt you when you want to tune something requiring exact value like filter to specific frequency. Some expanded to the hack of using 2 CC values to control one parameter but that's hit and miss.
Per-note modulation is only slowly getting there and severely sub-optimal (MPE is using a channel per note, cutting down number of devices you can drive from single MIDI port significantly).
Now I would say "hobbled" is overstatement, but it definitely have annoying parts that we have to deal with for decades now.
On top of that there are the usability issues, uni-directionality and simple protocol made it easy to make peripherals in the 80's but nowadays it's liability, because simple thing like "ask the device what CC it accepts and what they are named" is impossible in standard
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y ago> Some expanded to the hack of using 2 CC values to control one parameter but that's hit and miss. It's not a hack, it's part of the original MIDI specification.
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- Gordonjcp 4y agoHere's the thing. You never need to tune a filter to an exact frequency. If you do, you need to design an instrument with an incredibly precise and stable filter, and analogue synthesizers don't have that.
- ilyt 4y agoNo, you just need to widdle the knob till it is in range you want. If knob have too little detents you can't widdle it close enough to what you want. Granted, 14 bit CC is near enough but support in implementations is kinda spotty, and, well, it does eat twice as much CC. Shove it into a synth that have a bunch of oscillators, filters, LFOs and effects [1] and you'd probably be forced to downgrade few of those parameters back to 7 bit * [1] https://midi.user.camp/d/waldorf/blofeld/ https://midi.user.camp/d/waldorf/blofeld/
- Gordonjcp 4y agoThe Juno 106 has something like a semitone and a third, and no-one complains about its cutoff control being "steppy". Indeed, everyone holds it up as a paragon of smooth and progressive response. There's actually a very clever reason for this, and if you study the circuit diagram and the voice card firmware you'll see just how clever it is.