RE: [Linuxsampler-devel] RE: Hi - Very quiet list - my first post

[Mark K. <mk...@co...>]

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> David Olofson
> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 7:50 AM
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> On Tuesday 21 January 2003 15.51, Mark Knecht wrote:
> [...]
> >    The other one we need is 'key switching', where a range of keys
> > on the keyboard are reserved as switches, not notes. When one of
> > these keys is pressed, the complete sample set for all MIDI
> > velocities changes. I think this one is easier to implement though.
> > (Famous last words...) You'll find this in some of the .gig
> > libraries, but possibly not on Worra's site.
>
> That's a very interesting idea... (Especially if you have 88 keys. ;-)
>
> I have NRPN programmable CC->mixer control mapping (so you can hook
> the mod wheel up to the auto-wah base cutoff or something), but I
> never thought about mapping *keys*... Or poly pressure. :-)
>

Key switching is used very nicely in most GSt horn libraries today, as well
as in the Scarbee Bass libraries. Here's an idea of what you get:

(Key Switch Map from memory - definitely not correct)

Key-map 	Sample
C-3		Standard notes, long sustain
D-3		Standard note, staccato
E-3		Slide up to note
F-3		Slide down to note
G-3		Trills

It's very powerful and allows a library developer to map lots of useful
stuff into the library without taking up normal note space, and also not
confusing beginning users.

It's a bit cranky when you consider notation capabilities in programs like
Rosegarden. None of them know that these notes are key switches. I've taken
recently to moving key switch notes to a separate track that transmits on
the same channel.

Cheers,
Mark