Hi Mango,
> Does the AN1x manual go in-depth about the Ctrl Matrix and give examples
> of it's various uses? If not... would anyone who is experienced in this
> share some (preferably a lot ;-) of example-situations of it's various
> possibilities?
The Control Matrix is perhaps one of the most powerful features of the AN1x.
Unfortunately it appears to be overlooked by most people when creating
voices. This is a shame, as it can add so many dynamic possibilities to a
voice.
The basic purpose of the Matrix is to map incoming (CC) continuous
controllers (1 - 95) and other standard MIDI controllers (e.g. After touch,
Pitch Bend) and keyboard specific controllers (e.g. Knobs, ribbon etc) to
AN1x parameters.
In this way you can configure a whole bunch of 'controllers' to control a
bunch of AN1x 'parameters' in real-time! What's more its very flexible....so
for instance you can have a single controller affect multiple AN1x
parameters simultaneously....or a number of different controllers affect a
single AN1x parameter. Or different controllers affecting different scenes
etc...
There are two basic scenarios where the power of the function can be
realised:
a) When playing the synth live - you can have a set of foot controllers etc
(or the on keyboard controllers; knobs, wheels, ribbon etc) configured to
perform real-time voice modifications. This can give you significantly more
expression, timbre and dynamic control over the voice.
b) When playing the synth from a sequencer - you can setup a bunch of
standard controllers (which are easily edited by your sequencers built in
functions e.g. controller curves etc) to edit the voice during playback in a
reproducible manner. Using this method is significantly easier (both for
entry and modification) than attempting to embed lots of sysex data edits in
the body of a song! In fact if you carefully create a matrix for each voice,
you can effectively dispense with having to run AN1xEdit and your sequencer
together......just use normal patch select and controller messages instead!
If you are using AN1xEdit (as you should be :-) you will find all Control
Matrix parameters laid out in the Matrix view. Each scene has its own 16
controller mappings, together with specific controls for setting pitch bend
up/down ranges. In addition their are a pair of Voice Common mappings that
are global to the whole voice (but are displayed in the scene matrix for
ease of access)
The Source value determines which input controller is used (if you look at
the popup list, the selections should be self explanatory).
The Parameter value determines which AN parameter is affected by the input
controller. Again the popup list of possible selections should be pretty
much self explanatory. However it is worth noting that not all controllers
can be mapped to all AN parameters. Where a parameter cannot be mapped it
will be shown in red within the list (you can select such parameters...but
they will have no affect in use).
So for example you could have the keyboard after touch response increase the
resonance of the voice filter: i.e. SOURCE=AFTERTOUCH, PARAMETER=RESONANCE
The Depth parameter determines the actual scaling of input source controller
range to the range of the selected parameter. Obviously, most standard CC's
operate in range 0 - 127. However, different AN parameters have different
operating ranges e.g. LFO1 Delay has a range of 0 - 127 whereas LFO1 Speed
has a range 0 - 255. So in the first case you do not need to scale the CC's
values, but in the second case you may wish to scale the input to achieve
the full output parameter range. Hence the Depth control allows you to set
the scaling...either positive or negative by some value....or to leave as is
(DIRect).
The possibilities available within the matrix are endless...so no amount of
examples will really do it justice or explain all the possible nuances you
can achieve. Therefore your best option is just to experiment. As always a
good place to start is with some existing voices that have been configured
to use the Matrix (take a look at the Best Of Yamaha set). Check out the
Matrix mappings in each voice, and experiment with manipulating the
controllers that are assigned as sources! You should soon get the idea!!
Also make sure you check out the real-time parameter editing features of the
FreeEG and Step Sequencer!!
Regards
Gary
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gary@...http://www.yme.co.uk/yme > -----Original Message-----
> From: mango [mailto:j.kolling@...]
> Sent: 20 July 2000 23:53
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> Subject: [AN1x-list] Control Matrix