piz midi plugins (windows/linux/mac)

[DarkStar]

OK,
I get it now (never used NRPN myself!)

me neither, but the guy who requested it hasn't complained (?)

by the way, would it be difficult to arrange the buttons into a piano keyboard shape on midiForceToKey?

Well they have to be rectangular but I'll give it a go in the next few days.

[insertpizhere]

rectangular is cool. thanks.

here's an updated zip with the fixed midiVelocityScaler:
http://thepiz.org/xt/pizmidi20080610.zip

[DarkStar]

- the "activated" keys are highlighted in yellow or blue
- talking to asseca about one display problem.

[insertpizhere]

looks great.

[dmh36]

These plug-ins could be the answer to my prayers: I'm controlling multiple instruments from my Midi controller keyboard (M-Audio Axiom 61) in Ableton LIVE 6.0.7. I'd like to be able to use the sliders to control one of the instruments (Live's auto filter) but don't want these sliders to affect other instruments (like Spectrasonic's Atmosphere). Because atmosphere is hard wired to be controlled by certain midi cc, I need something to "block" the MIDI cc signals to atmosphere while sending those signals to the auto filter.

The only problem is that I've tried to insert the plug in, but I can't get it to work. Where and how should I insert the PIZ plug ins? Which should I use?

Thanks for the help!

[dmh36]

These plug-ins could be the answer to my prayers: I'm controlling multiple instruments from my Midi controller keyboard (M-Audio Axiom 61) in Ableton LIVE 6.0.7. I'd like to be able to use the sliders to control one of the instruments (Live's auto filter) but don't want these sliders to affect other instruments (like Spectrasonic's Atmosphere). Because atmosphere is hard wired to be controlled by certain midi cc, I need something to "block" the MIDI cc signals to atmosphere while sending those signals to the auto filter.

The only problem is that I've tried to insert the plug in, but I can't get it to work. Where and how should I insert the PIZ plug ins? Which should I use?

Thanks for the help!

[insertpizhere]

to use midi VSTs in Live, you have to insert them as instruments, and then choose them as the midi inputs on other tracks. hopefully that makes sense...

anyway, for this purpose, i would use midiNotchFilter. it has a preset to pass only notes, which might do what you want. you could also add to this to make it pass notes, pitch bend, and mod wheel, or whatever...

so insert midiNotchFilter as an instrument on a midi track, then change the midi input of Atmosphere track to be from midiNotchFilter.

[hcv242]

any news on " - Midi quantize/swing/shuffle " ?

my ideia of a very simple swing woud be..asuming a bar has 16 steps, something that would just delay steps 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, and 16. very simple yet does wonders to any rhythm

the ideia is simple... but guess that making a plug out of it isnt as easy.

thanks for your plugs again...ive already deleted all my other midi plugs now....you are killing the competition.

[insertpizhere]

it shouln't be too hard to make a "swing" plugin like that. one difficulty will be figuring out what to do with note-off messages. i'll give it a shot.

[VariKusBrainZ]

any news on " - Midi quantize/swing/shuffle " ?

my ideia of a very simple swing woud be..asuming a bar has 16 steps, something that would just delay steps 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, and 16. very simple yet does wonders to any rhythm

the ideia is simple... but guess that making a plug out of it isnt as easy.

thanks for your plugs again...ive already deleted all my other midi plugs now....you are killing the competition.

have you tried Tobybears Humanisator ?

[hcv242]

thanks for the tip... but random humanization has always sounded to me like some drunk guy playing an instrument.

[StudioDave]

Just a quick note to say thanks to piz for these great plugins, I use them frequently in Linux with the very cool JOST host environment. Lately I've been using the audio2midi plug to convert an audio stream into controller values that are then sent to AVSynthesis, where they control video and audio transformations (OpenGL and Csound). Csound can play the same audio stream that's being converted to CCs, so the integration is nice & tight. Wacky stuff, possible thanks to the piz plugs.

[insertpizhere]

i have some kind of midi swing plugin started:

http://thepiz.org/xt/midiSwing.zip


it may need some tweaking... let me know of any weird effects or stuck notes.

features:
- 8th or 16th note "swing"
- it delays the noteoff by the same amount as the noteon, unless this would overlap a following note
- there is an experimental parameter ("Shape") which determines how much "swing" will apply to notes that are close to, but not exactly at, the target area. 0 means wide, 100 means narrow:


future possibilities:
- more note values
- beat-dependent effects could be applied to velocity as well
- a parameter for some randomness (drunkenness) in the delay time and/or velocity
- an option to affect other midi events, not just notes

[hcv242]

youre amazing ...it works...ive tried it in psycle + energyxt vsti ....it crashed twice....once when ive set the shape to 0...another one when i was saving the project (guess this one could be a coincidence)... and sometimes the audio goes mute...like if it blocked all the notes...after a while the notes start to play again. the two times it crashed notes were being played... i couldnt reproduce any of the crashes...lousy bug report i know... sorry....will test more tomorrow...the only thing i can reproduce is when everything goes silent....just fill all the 16 steps of a bar (any settings in midiswing) and let it play for a while....it takes less than one minute here.

thanks a lot.

[Optomadic]

Awesome! Can't wait to try this out. Thanks Piz.