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October 18, 2006
Cheetah Master Series 5V mod wheel problem
The latest in my series of things I have fixed that I couldn't find anywhere else on the 'net.
I've recently been using East West's Symphonic Choirs with my old Cheetah midi controller keyboard and Cubase SL3. It sounds fantastic, but I had problems with the cross-fading functionality that is controlled using the mod-wheel. Basically whenever I was moving the wheel I was getting break-up of the samples, some might call it 'zipper'-type noise. It was enough to make the mod-wheel unuseable.
The fix: It turns out the mod-wheel on the Cheetah (CC#1) is actually outputting a value of zero between every updated value. All you need to do is in Cubase set-up a midi input transformer which filters out any event which is CC#1 and of value 0. Works a treat - crossfades are now smooth and lovely.
That input transformer is also handy for my Casio Privia piano (excellent but cheap weighted keyboard by the way) which only outputs midi velocity up to a maximum of 100 instead of 127. Set up a transform to multiply the input velocity by 1.27 and Bob's your uncle.
Posted by Jez at October 18, 2006 01:04 PM