MIDIpal user manual
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1. 5 6 00000 ooo UO 0 00 0 O oO S8 o O 9 0 O 10 oo 12 OO O O O OO 13 OO O OO OO O OO 14 15 ooo ooo ooo ooo 16 ooo oo OO OO OO 17 18 oooo oo oooo oo 19 ooooo oo oo ooo 20 o O 212 0 22 div 16 Duration of an arpeggio step the duration of a or blank in the previous chart The default is 16 a 16th note per step dur 16 Duration of the notes played by the arpeggiator The default is 32 a 32th note lat Latch mode When set to on releasing the keyboard will not stop the arpeggiator To stop the arpeggiator set this latch setting to off Please note that the sustain pedal of your controller can be used similarity to hold notes Tempo synchronized delay strummer delay This app adds echoes to incoming note on and note off messages The echo duration is specified as a fraction of the duration of a bar thus this effect can be musically synchronized to a tempo clock be it internal or external elk int Select an internal or external clock source When using an external clock Source start clock and stopMIDI messages must be sent bpm 120 Tempo of the internal clock in beats per minutes grv swg Type of shuffle jitter to apply to the clock amt 80 Amount of shuffle jitter to apply to the clock2. Out To MIDI Yoke Out To MIDI Yoke Out To MIDI Yoke Out To MIDI Yoke MIDI In Misc Settings Interface EDIROL FA 66 1483 Plug 1 Reload files Delay ticks Midi Out Sample settings Interface EDIROL FA 66 1483 Plug 1 1505 Handshak Send SPS 1UW SDS Device Numb SysEx data format The MiIDIpal can receive and transmit settings in system exclusive format The messages all share the same format Oxf0 SysEx 0x00 0x21 0x02 Mutable Instruments Manufaturer id 0x00 0x03 Product ID for MIDIpal Command Argument Payload Checksum 0xf7 End of SysEx Command indicates what the receiver should do with the data in the payload block and argumentis a byte that might contain an additional piece of information about what to do with the data Payload is a sequence of bytes in nibblized form For example the sequence 0x80 0x56 0x13 is transmitted as 0x08 0x00 0x05 0x06 0x01 0x03 Checksum is equal to the nibblized sum modulo 256 of the payload bytes In the example above the checksum is equal to 0x80 0x56 0x13 0xe9 andis transmitted as Ox0e 0x09 Settings data block transfer To transmit a block of data to the MIDIpal command must be equal to 0x01 and argument is the size up to 32 of the data block to transmit The first 2 bytes of the payload are the address of the block to write the argument following bytes are the data Upon reception the MIDIpal writes the
3. not 1 Amount of random modulation applied to the note number in semitones For example if this parameter is set to 12 the emitted note is within 12 semitones 1 octave of the original note vel 70 Amount of random modulation applied to the velocity value Q Q 1 Amount of random modulation applied to the first and second CC Set both to 0 if you don t want to send a random CC with each note el C2 7 CC Numbers for the first and second random CC sources Chord memory chordmem This app memorizes a chord and lets you play transpositions of it To record a chord click the encoder and play a chord Click the encoder again and that s it maestro In recording mode you can also select the affected channel Arpeggiator arpeggio ls Select an internal or external clock source When using an external clock Source start clock and stopMIDI messages must be sent bpm 120 Tempo of the internal clock in beats per minutes grv swg Type of shuffle jitter to apply to the clock amt 80 Amount of shuffle jitter to apply to the clock chn 1 Channel to arpeggiate Chords sent on this channels are filtered out and played as arpeggios Glos wija Arpeggio direction The available directions are up down up amp down or random oct 1 Arpeggio range in octaves Arpeggio rhythmic pattern 1 00 O O OO O O 2 00000 OOOO 3 o oo 4 0
4. M12 M16 Remove program changes on all channels except channel 1 Event type Data A note CC i off min 07 max note on poly aftertouch M control change program change Jafertouch Jpitch bend realtime Set to Preserve zero Binary wrapping Swap source Event type Data A note CC M note off mino 12 note on C1poly aftertouch C1eontrol change program change CAJafertouch Opitch bend Jrealtime No modification EI Preserve zero ing 1 Swap source Filter 1 Send a random modwheel value at each new note Filter 1 Pass and CCize 1 To retrieve the rules contained in a syx file go to this page Channel O1 M2 M11 Mia 815 Channel M1 2 Me Mi Mi Mis Mis 15 Shift by EI 0 Ma 12 M16 4 Ma 512 M16 Event type Data A note CC r note off min c max 1 note on 1 1 aftertouch C3eontrol change program change 1 Jafertouch pitch bend f Jrealtime Event type Data A note CC nu C note off min max 1 M note on aftertouch Cleontrol change C program change C Jafertouch pitch bend C realtime Set to EI Preserve zero JBinary wrapping Swap source Updating the MIDIpal firmware To find out which firmware version the MIDIpal is running hold the encoder and jump to the app selection menu then scroll to the end of the list On the first release
5. chn 1 Channel on which the echo effect is applied del 1 4 Delay duration expressed as a fraction of a bar For example when this is set to 1 4 the duration between echoes is equal to the duration of a quarter note 8 Number of echoes to play Note that when a complex sequence is played with many overlapping echoes the internal scheduler buffer can overflow In this case a l symbol briefly appears on theLCD display Keep mind that each echo is going to use a polyphony voice so it is not a good idea to play MIDI echoes on a device with a limited polyphony vel Velocity dampening When this value is low the echoes have a small and rapidly decreasing velocity When this value is high the maximum being 16 all the echoes are played with the same velocity as the original note trs 0 Number of semitones by which each echo must be transposed 1 32 Pseudo doppler effect Increases when set to a positive value or decreases when set to a negative value the delay between the notes as they echo Scale and harmony processor scale This app can transpose incoming note messages and quantize them to the nearest note in one of the 25 preset scales It can also harmonizes the incoming note at a fixed interval and or through algorithmic modification of the played melody chn i Channel on which the scale transposition harmony modifications have to be applied roo C Root note of the
6. of 100 is used for each step Muting the CC track In this case the sequencer only sends note information The muting unmuting of those track can be used for creative effects for example you can temporarily mute the velocity track of a synth sequence to make it sound louder and more mechanical The sequencer has many settings pages described in this section re bhal off Start or stop the sequencer when it is synchronized to the internal clock When the sequencer is synchronized to an external MIDI clock a proper start stop MIDI message must be sent for the sequence to start You can also start the sequencer by playing a MIDI note and stop it by replaying the same note culis Select an internal or external clock source When using an external clock source start clock and stopMIDI messages must be sent bpm 120 Tempo of the internal clock in beats per minutes grv swg Type of shuffle jitter to apply to the clock amt 80 Amount of shuffle jitter to apply to the clock div 16 Duration of a step in a fraction of a bar The most common setting TB303 like is one sixteenth note 16 per step 1 MIDI channel on which the sequenced events will be sent cc 7 CC number of the messages sequenced on the CC track not on Whether the sequencer sends note messages dur on Whether the note duration track is active When this track is disabled all notes played by the sequencer have a durati
7. rs1 ramp with overshoot rs2 square with overshoot s amp h random sample amp hold A large fraction of those waveforms has been approved by the International Organization for Dubstep Standardization rtN 1 8 Period of the Nth LFO For example if this is set to 1 4 the LFO will complete a whole cycle every quarter note beat SyN fre Sync mode of the Nth LFO The synchronization modes are fre free running The LFO oscillates independently of any note message and its phase is never reset not note synchronization The LFO phase is reset to 0 every time a note on message is received chd chord synchronization The LFO phase is reset to 0 every time a new chord is received In other words as long as a note is held playing new notes will not reset the LFO phase You need to release all keys and press a new key to reset the LFO phase Miscellaneous apps Tanpura pattern generator tanpura This app generates the repetitive note patterns traditionally played on the tanpura to accompany north indian classical music The settings are the following relia Ewe Starts stops playback clik int Select an internal or external clock source When using an external clock source start clock and stopMIDI messages must be sent bpm 120 Tempo of the internal clock in beats per minutes grv swg Type of shuffle jitter to apply to the clock amt 80 Amount of shuffle jitter to apply to the clock res 1 4 Relatio
8. start Eiis siye Select an internal or external clock source When using an external clock Source start clock and stopMIDI messages must be sent bpm 120 Tempo of the internal clock in beats per minutes grv swg Type of shuffle jitter to apply to the clock amt 80 Amount of shuffle jitter to apply to the clock res 96 Resolution of the LFO clock Selecting a high resolution allows for faster modulations and less stepping but some devices might not like the very dense MIDI streams this generates Selecting a low resolution might create stepping effects chn 1 MIDI channel on which the CC messages will be sent ccN 7 CC number sent by the Nth LFO amN 63 Modulation amount of the Nth LFO A negative amount inverses the polarity of the LFO waveform 63 Center value of the Nth LFO For example if the modulation amount is 40 and the center value 70 the LFO will oscillate between 70 40 30 and 70 40 110 wfN tri Waveform of the Nth LFO The following waveforms are available tri triangle Sqr square rmp ascending ramp Use a negative modulation amount to get a descending ramp sin sine wave si2 first and second sine harmonics si3 first and third sine harmonics sib first and fifth sine harmonics 991 gurgle 992 double gurgle bt bat folded triangle 1 bt2 bar folded triangle 2 Sp1 spike Sp2 bipolar spike Ip1 smoothed ramp Ip2 smoothed square
9. target scale scl chr Target scale All notes outside of this scale are quantized to their nearest neighbor in the scale For example if a C major scale is selected and if you play a chromatic scale C C D D E what will be heard will be C C D D E F F G G A A B The available scales are chr chromatic scale no quantization ion ionian mode major scale dor dorian mode russian minor scale phr phrygian mode lyd lydian mode mix mixolydian mode aeo aeolian mode minor scale loc locrian mode bmj major blues scale bmn major blues scale pmj pentatonic major scale pmn pentatonic minor scale bhr raga Bhairav shr raga Shri rup raga Rupavati tod raga Todi rag raga Rageshri kaa raga Kaafi meg raga Meg mlk raga Malkauns dpk raga Deepak flk Folkish scale jap Japanese scale gam Gamelan scale whl Whole tones trs 0 Transposition to apply to the incoming notes voi 0 When set to a non zero value a parallel harmony N semitones apart from the incoming melody is played For example when set to 24 the incoming notes are doubled 2 octaves below Note that the generated notes are also subject to scale quantization hrm off Generates an additional mostly random harmonic line on top of the incoming melody Several algorithms are available to generate the harmony mir mirrors the intervals played on the incoming melody If you play an a
10. MIDIpal user manual The MIDIpal is a powerful MIDI processor like a multi effect operating on MIDI data It features 19 different MIDI apps ranging from MIDI debugging or routing utilities monitoring messages remapping a channel to another one to complex compositional or inspirational tools like arpeggiators or pattern generators Overview MIDI IN activity LED MIDI OUT activity LED Display Encoder Battery ext DC Power supply power selector connector MIDI OUT MIDI IN Display contrast trimmer Basic setup This can be a controller Keyboard or your DAW A synth or any other MIDI capable instrument Connect a MIDI message source such as a keyboard control surface or computer interface to theMIDI in port of the MIDIpal Connect a MIDI message receiver such as a synth module expander or computer interface to theMIDI out port of the MIDIpal The MiIDIpal can be powered by either a 9V battery or a 5V 9V unregulated DC supply with a minimum current rating of 150mA Make sure that the connector has a center pin or tip positive outer collar or sleeve negative pin polarity Most universal power supplies allows the polarity to be selected the polarity being often represented by a diagram like this o or by the indication tip User interface Incoming and outgoing MIDI signals are visualized by the red and green LEDs near the MIDI sockets The 8 characters LCD display is used to di
11. ain the MIDIpal encoder it ll wait for the end of the loop and then send a stop message to the MIDI slave num 4 den 1 4 Numerator and denominator of the time signature of the loop S180 c Beat counter This shows the MIDIpal counting beats whether the slave is playing or stopped a dot is shown when the slave is stopped a gt sign is shown when the slave is running whether the MIDIpal is ready to send a start stop message to the slave When you press the encoder the beat count is shown in brackets to indicate that the MIDIpal is waiting for the beginning of the next bar to send the Start message or the end of the bar to send theStop message For example 1015 82 001 c Indicates that the slave is currently stopped and that the MIDIpal is waiting for the beginning of the next bar to send a Start message 01 10 gt Indicates that the slave is currently running and that the MIDIpal is waiting for the end of the bar to send a Stop message Controller and master apps Clock source clock This app acts as a clock source regularly sending MIDI clock 0x 8 messages Every incomingMIDI data at the exception of MIDI clock messages are forwarded to the MIDI out The settings are the following Starts or stops the clock bpm 120 Tempo of the internal clock in beats per minutes grv swg Type of shuffle jitter to apply to the clock swg swing shf shuffle psh push effect a
12. an transpose the sequence by playing a different note The sequence stops if you move back to the original note used to start the sequence If the MIDIpal is configured to receive an external MIDI clock send a MIDI start message The other settings available are clk int Select an internal or external clock source When using an external clock Source start clock and stopMIDI messages must be sent bpm 120 Tempo of the internal clock in beats per minutes grv swg Type of shuffle jitter to apply to the clock amt 80 Amount of shuffle jitter to apply to the clock div 16 Duration of a step a fraction of a bar The most common setting is one sixteenth note 16 per step 1 MIDI channel on which the sequenced events will be sent and from which events will be recorded LFO 1 This app generates slowly evolving controllers for up to 4 individual CC Note that there are a few fundamental differences between what this app does and what an LFO on a synth traditionally does 1 The stream of CC is generated at a slow speed typically 50 samples per second 2 Instead of controlling the LFO frequency in Hz you control here the duration of a cycle expressed as a musical duration relative to a tempo Grit Start or stop the LFOs when it is synchronized to the internal clock When the LFO is synchronized to an external MIDI clock a proper start stop MIDI message must be sent for the LFOs to
13. block of data in its internal eeprom where all settings are stored App selection To change the current app the MIDIpal is running set command to 0x02 and argument to an app number The payload must be left empty Upon reception the MIDIpal reboots into the select app Settings data block request To request the transmission of a block of data from the MIDIpal command is equal to 0x11 andargument is the size of the requested data block The payload consists of 2 bytes indicating the address of the requested block Upon reception the MIDIpal sends the designated data If argument is null the entire content of the eeprom is dumped If argument is greater than 32 the data is sent in 32 bytes chunk with a 150ms pause between chunks
14. es will be dispatched to channels 4 5 and 6 Channel merger chnmergr This app merges data from several channels into a single one inp 5 First input channel num 3 Number of channels to merge For example if inp 5 and num 3 channels 5 6 and 7 will be merged out 2 Output channel Clock divider divider This app forwards every incoming MIDI message but it only pick every Nth clock message This has the effect of slowing down the MIDI clock by a ratio of N div il Ratio by which the MIDI clock is divided Sync latch syncltch This feature inspired by the Mungo Sync allows a slave device to be synchronized and started stopped in sync with a master device playing a loop Consider the following situation you have a drum machine playing a steady 2 bar loop in 4 4 and generating a clock signal for a slave MIDI sequencer You need to reload a pattern on the sequencer You stop the sequencer load the pattern and then you need to hit the play button on the sequencer at the exact right moment so that it starts spot on the first beat of the 2 bar drum loop Tricky isn t it This is where the MIDlIpal can be used Insert it between the drum machine and the sequencer Configure the duration time signature of the loop Here 8 quarter notes The MIDIpal will keep counting beats When you press the MIDIpal encoder it ll wait for the beginning of the loop and then send a start message to the MIDI slave When you press ag
15. ess D and E a 5 steps long pattern containing 2 evenly spaced notes will be played You can safely ignore these instructions and just play keys and clap your hands The following settings are available mod ptn Switch between the preset patterns and the euclidean patterns modes Gili Select an internal or external clock source When using an external clock Source start clock and stopMIDI messages must be sent bpm 120 Tempo of the internal clock in beats per minutes Type of shuffle jitter to apply to the clock grv swg amt 80 Amount of shuffle jitter to apply to the clock Clan 10 Channel on which the notes are sent This is also the channel to which pattern triggers must be sent 1 E e 19 ze N pt3 1 pt4 C 1 MIDI Note to send when a note is triggered on parts 1 2 3 4 Notes are sent with a velocity of 100 and have a duration of one sixteenth note Randomizer randomiz This app randomizes the note and velocity values of the incoming MIDI data It can even send a random CC every time a new note is triggered CHN 8 Channel on which the randomization effect is applied amt 99 How often randomization is applied When this value is set to 127 maximum value every note is randomized When this value is set to 63 medium value there is a 50 50 probability that a note will be randomized When this value is set to 0 no randomization is applied
16. he encoder pressed for 2s to display the app list Scroll to the end of the list to reach the reset item reset Click the encoder Kaboom All your settings are lost to the factory defaults Apps Please note that some of these applications might not be available on your unit Please refer to this page and to the firmware update section to find out how you can replace the standard MIDIpal firmware with alternate versions containing extra applications Debugging apps MIDI monitor monitor This app monitors the incoming MIDI traffic The MIDI data itself is passed through the MIDI output so you can insert it through a MIDI link in your home studio to look at what s going on Clava GL Press the encoder to select the MIDI channel to monitor By default all channels are monitored The monitor displays the following text for note on off messages 1 A 4 3f The first character is the MIDI channel A star is displayed as the second character whenever an active sensing message is received A dot is displayed whenever a MIDI clock message is received The next 3 characters are the MIDI note number is displayed The last 2 digits are the velocity value in hexadecimal or for a note off message The following text indicate a note pressure aftertouch message a for aftertouch 7 being the highest nibble of the aftertouch value 1 A 4 a7 The following text indicates a channel pressure aftertouch
17. here 0 O rest Every note played from the MIDI in is added to the sequence To insert a rest blank step click the encoder To insert a tie extends the duration of the previously input note into this Step turn the encoder to select tie and click To insert an accent move the modulation wheel up before playing a note this note will be accented To insert a slide between two notes wiggle the pitch bend lever the actual position does not matter between the two notes To leave the recording mode turn the encoder to select exit and click There are different ways of starting the play back of the recorded sequence Turn the encoder until the display shows the run option and click Play a note from the MIDI keyboard connected to the MIDIpal you can transpose the sequence by playing a different note The sequence stops if you move back to the original note used to start the sequence If the MIDIpal is configured to receive an external MIDI clock send a MIDI start message The other settings available are clk int Select an internal or external clock source When using an external clock source start clock and stopMIDI messages must be sent bpm 120 Tempo of the internal clock in beats per minutes grv swg Type of shuffle jitter to apply to the clock amt 80 Amount of shuffle jitter to apply to the clock div 16 Duration of a step in a fraction of a bar The most common setting is one si
18. message 7e The following text indicates a CC 30 message 1 30 70 The following text indicates a pitch bend message of value 0x3070 on channel 4 4 b 3070 Here is a list of text messages displayed for less common MIDI messages notoff all notes off controller omnoff omni mode off controller omnion omni mode on controller monoon mono mode on controller polyon poly mode on controller Sysx beginning of SysEx reception Sysx SysEx reception in progress Sysx end of SysEx reception start clock start cont clock continue stop clock stop reset system reset BPM meter bpm cntr This app estimates and displays a BPM value from the MIDI clock Every incoming MIDI data is forwarded to the MIDI out Rotate the encoder to switch between the following views I 12060 BPM estimated over the past half second ij 32050 Average BPM estimated since the clock was started tm 25190 7 Total number of clock ticks received Click the encoder to reset the BPM estimate and the clock tick counter MIDI Plumbing apps Channel filter chnfiltr This app deletes from the MIDI stream all messages associated with one or many MIDI channels chx off Enables or disable the MIDI channel X Splitter splitter This app routes MIDI note messages note on note off and aftertouch from a specific channel to a different MIDI channel depending on their note value For example if y
19. nship between the tempo grid BPM and the notes The default is 1 4 1 8 and 1 16 can be used for double and quadruple time chn il MIDI channel on which the note messages will be sent gt sa Root note sa of the pattern B o Q 6j 9 Interval highlighted in the pattern Pa fifth ma fourth ni 7th sa only octave cyc 5 This setting indicates from which note the pattern starts For example considering the pattern sa pa Sa Sa sa 0 will start the pattern at sa 1 2 3 4 will start the pattern by a silence 5 will start the pattern at pa 6 and 7 will start the pattern at Sa Ear training game ear game This app is an ear training game A few notes are played on the MIDI output on channel 1 You need to play them back on the keyboard connected on the MIDI input If you play them correctly the game continues with a new sequence of notes If you play them incorrectly you have up to 9 guesses to identify the notes The following text indicates how many wrong guesses you have made Eoy dl The following text indicates your global accuracy score and your level which depends on how many times you have played 90 0 The following settings are available lvl Difficulty level from 1 to 5 As the difficulty increases more esoteric intervals are used and the notes played span several octaves num 4 Number of notes to identify from 2 to 4 rst no Change this setting t
20. nticipating the beats lag lag effect delaying the beats hum humanization mnk monkeyzation o9 amt Amount of shuffle jitter to apply to the clock tap 120 While on this screen you can click on the encoder to tap a tempo High resolution clock source clock This variant of the clock app acts as a clock source with a finer resolution of 0 1 BPM Both variants perform equally well in terms of jitter accuracy this version just has a finer range of adjustment The settings are the following off Starts or stops the clock 120 0 Tempo of the internal clock in beats per minutes CC and NRPN knob cc knob This app turns the MIDIpal into a MIDI controller sending CC or NRPN messages All incoming messages are sent to the output that is to say the generated CC NRPN messages are merged into the MIDI stream The settings are the following 93 O val CC or NRPN value to send chn 7 Channel on which the CC message has to be sent typ cc Type of message to send CC or NRPN num 7 Number of the CC NRPN message to send For example set this to 7 to send a volume message 80 Value range This restricts the range of the val setting on the first page Controller contrllr This app is only useful if you dare opening your MIDIpal On the circuit board you will find 8 pads labelled Analog 1 8 to which you can connect any circui
21. o is checked no matter which transformation is specified a value of 0 is never modified This is particularly useful when dealing with synths sending Note On with a velocity of 0 instead of Note Off You don t want those to be affected by your velocity randomizer don t you When Binary wrapping is checked weird things may happen For example what if you use Add 12 to transpose a note one octave above and then you play the last key on your keyboard Normally nothing will happen the note won t be transposed at all With Binary wrapping checked it ll wrap around and a very low note will be played When Swap source is checked the second byte of the MIDI message velocity note is put in place of the first Here are some examples Map all notes below C4 Midi note 60 to channel 2 Filter 1 Channel Event type Data A note CC Match wa M2 Ms 4 M note off mino max ms Me 7 M note on Mo M10 Mi 12 poly aftertouch M13 M14 M15 M16 control change toggle program change Jafertouch pitch bend realtime toggle Transform 1 Reassign to 1 2 No modification C Preserve zero Binary wrapping f Swap source Map CC 07 volume to CC 08 pan Filter 1 Transform 8l Randomize note velocities Filter 1 Channel M1 M2 Ms M5 Me M7 Mio Mi Mia 8014 Mis Shift by E o Channel i 2 s We M7 Mio M1 Mis Mie Mis Shift by 1 0 Ma Ma M12 Mis 4
22. o yes to clear the accuracy score in memory General purpose event processor user prg This app applies one of 4 user defined event filtering remapping pipelines each of them consisting of up to 4 filtering remapping rules It s like piping stuff on a unix shell with note messages and transpositions instead of grep and awk There is only one setting the active program prg 1 To edit a program Select the program number you want to edit on the MIDIpal Go to this webpage Configure the filtering rules Click on Download to retrieve a syx file Play the syx file into the MIDIpal to install the program at the active location And now a few explanations about the filtering rules Creating custom filtering rules Each program contains up to 4 filters Use the checkboxes to activate deactivate a filter The first line of the table specifies which events the filter operates on The Channel column specifies the affected channel s The Event type column specifies the affected MIDI event type s The Data A and Data B columns specify value range for the two bytes of information contained inMIDI messages You can use this for example to restrict an effect or processing to a certain range of notes value A or velocity value B The second line of the table specifies some transformations to apply on the matching event Transform the original event is modified and sent to the MIDI out Pass and t
23. of the firmware v1 1 the last entry is the system reset command On more recent versions starting from v1 2 the firmware revision number is displayed at the end of the list This section describes how to update the operating system and apps of the MIDIpal firmware The operations described here are not required for sending to the MIDIpal data such as memory backups or custom programs the MIDIpal can receive such data while being powered on normally Keep the encoder pressed while you power on the MIDlIpal You ll see the MIDI in and MIDI out LEDs rapidly blink in sequence and the MIDI in LED will stay on The MIDIpal is ready to receive the update data which can be sent as a SysEx with a 250ms or more delay between packets or MIDIfile The MIDI in LED blinks on every received packet an update containing up to 256 packets The update takes about 1 minute and can be restarted in case of accident during the transmission Upon reception of the last packet the MIDIpal immediately boots with the new firmware If you want to use a dedicated SysEx transfer tool rather than a sequencer we recommendElektron s C6 tool available for both Windows and OS X with the following timing settings MIDI Preferences In From MIDI Yoke In From MIDI Yoke In From MIDI Yoke In From MIDI Yoke In From MIDI Yoke In From MIDI Y oke In From MIDI Yoke We FastLane Port 4 Out To MIDI Yoke Out To MIDI Yoke
24. on of 1 step vel on Whether the velocity track is active When this track is disabled a note is played on every step with a velocity of 100 Oe Whether the CC track is active stp 8 Number of steps a sequence is made of OIN Note for step 1 01D 96 Duration of the note played at step 1 here 1 MIDI clock tick Olv 14 Velocity for step 1 The actual MIDI velocity value sent is 8 times the displayed value For example 15 corresponds to the velocity value 120 e es Value of the CC sent at step 1 Some nice things about the sequencer While a sequence is playing you can transpose it by playing a note on the keyboard The transposition is relative to C3 if the sequence was started from the menu or from an external MIDIclock or relative to the pressed key when the sequence was started from the keyboard While the MIDIpal is in editing mode on a note step in other words when the screen is displaying something like pressing a key on the keyboard does not transpose or start the sequence Instead it records the played note at the current step SH 101 style Sequencer sequencr This variant of the sequencer app provides a very simple way of recording sequences from a keyboard and playing them back with transposition To record a sequence turn the encoder until the display shows rec off Click the encoder to enable recording The display shows the number of the current step
25. ou have a keyboard emitting on channel 1 you can use the lower half of the keyboard to send notes to a bass synth listening on channel 1 and the upper half of the keyboard to send notes to a multitimbral expander listening on channel 3 inp 5 Input channel spl B3 Split point low 7 Notes below the split point coming from the input channel will be routed to this channel upp 7l Notes above the split point coming from the input channel will be routed to this channel Dispatcher dispatch This app routes MIDI note messages from a single channel to several channels This allows you to play chords on a rack of monophonic synths for example inp 5 Input channel mod cyc Dispatching method cyclic cyc Each new note is cyclically played on the next channel polyphonic pol The mapping of notes to channel uses a true voice stealing algorithm The MIDlpal tries to reuse the same channel for occurrences of the same note or the least recently used channel random rnd Each new note is routed to a random channel stacking stk Each note is sent to all channels at the same time Perfect for thickening a lead by sending it to several synths or to several parts of the same multitimbral device velocity vel The louder higher velocity the note the higher the MIDI channel it is sent to out 4 First output channel num 3 Number of output channels For example if out 4 and num 3 the not
26. ransform both the original event and its modified version are sent to the MIDI out You can use it to automatically clone a note to another channel CCize a control change CC message is formed with the data of the incoming event and sent to theMIDI out The original message is lost This can be used to translate pitch bend or note messages into CC Pass and CCize a control change CC message is formed with the data of the incoming event and sent to the MIDI out The original message is also sent This can be used for example to send a new CC maybe a random one every time a note is pressed Filter out the original event is removed from the MIDI stream The next option list shows what to do with the MIDI channel of the incoming event By default Shift by 0 does nothing You can specify another value to shift the channel number by the specified amount if Shift by 4 is used Channel 1 becomes channel 5 channel 2 becomes channel 6 etc Reassign to overwrite the MIDI channel of the original message to the specified value Finally operations can be applied to the MIDI message data Add Subtract Invert Set to are self explanatory Map to range changes the dynamic range of a parameter you can use this to alter the velocity response of a keyboard or drum sensor Set to random replaces the value by a number picked within the specified interval Add random adds a random value drawn from the specified interval When Preserve zer
27. scending scale a descending scale will be added alt alternates between following what you play and the mirror mode trk tracks the interval you play plus or minus a few semitones For example if you play a fifth a major third and an octave the harmonized line might play a fourth a minor third then an octave random plays a random note within 1 fifth of the note you played Obviously all those random modifications are likely to generate annoying junk unless you select a scale In which case it will still sound random but of the Free Jazz flavor of random Step sequencer sequencr This app is a step sequencer which can generate note messages CCs or a combination of both on up to 32 steps The following settings are available for each step Note represented on the screen by a note icon Note duration represented on the screen by a pulse icon Note velocity represented on the screen by a triangle icon Set the velocity to O to mark a step as being a rest CC value represented by a knob icon Since navigating between the 32 steps x 4 settings 128 pages can be tedious you can simplify the sequencer operation by Muting the notes track In this case the sequencer only sends CC and works more like a programmable MIDI LFO Muting the note duration track In this case a default note duration of 1 step will be used for all the generated notes Muting the velocity track In this case a default velocity
28. splay the name and value of the currently edited parameter Editing is done with the clickable rotary encoder Launching apps 1s aln 16 Arpeggio Each feature of the MIDIpal can be seen as an independent app Only one app can be running at a time that is to say you cannot run an arpeggiator a drum sequencer and a MIDI monitor on the same unit To select the app to use keep the encoder pressed The name of the current app is shown on the screen sequencr Turn the encoder to select an app Click on the encoder to launch this app Note that the last three entries in the list are not regular apps notenuke sends a NoteOff message for all possible MIDI notes on all MIDI channels sysxdump outputs a SysEx backup of all the MIDIpal settings reset resets the unit to its factory settings Navigation within an app Though there are a few exceptions most of the apps are operated the following way Turn the encoder to scroll through the lists of parameters bpm 123 If you want to change a parameter click on the encoder Brackets appear around the parameter value bpm 123 Turn the encoder to increase or decrease the value Click again once you are done bpm 123 The brackets disappear and your modification is kept in memory even if the MIDIpal is powered down no need for a save button Reverting to factory settings In order to revert the MIDIpal to its factory settings keep t
29. t including a simple potentiometer voltage divider outputting a voltage in the 0 3 3V range These are connected to the analog to digital converter of the MIDIpal brain Voltage changes on these inputs will be translated into CC messages a voltage of OV yields a CC value of 0 a voltage of 3 3V yields a CC value of 127 Note that by default these pads are floating so they will receive random values And beware values above 3 3V are likely to destroy your MiDIpal The following settings are available chn 8 Channel on which the CC messages will be sent 7 CC associated with the Nth input Inspiration composition apps Drum pattern generator drums This app generates 4 part rhythmic patterns on a selected channel preferably 10 You can use a 49 keys keyboard or larger to start stop and mutate the patterns The first octave on a 61 keys keyboard C2 to B2 controls the first part The second octave C3 to B3 controls the second part And so on Two types of rhythmic patterns are available Preset patterns Each key within an octave will trigger and loop a different 1 bar pattern C mutes the part Euclidean patterns Pressing a key in an octave indicates how many notes should be played within the span of a bar C is 0 C is 1 Dis 2 D is 4 then 5 6 8 10 12 14 16 Pressing two keys indicate how many notes should be played within the span of a sequence the duration of a sequence For example if you pr
30. xteenth note 16 per step 1 MIDI channel on which the sequenced events will be sent and from which events will be recorded JX 3P style Sequencer polyseq This sequencer app inspired by JX 3P sequencer allows layer by layer recording of polyphonic sequences Think of it as a polyphonic version of the SH 101 style sequencer To clear the sequence and record a first layer turn the encoder until the display shows rec off Click the encoder to enable recording The display shows the number of the current step here 0 O rest Every note played from the MIDI in is added to the sequence To insert a rest blank step click the encoder To insert a tie extends the duration of the previously input note into this Step turn the encoder to select tie and click To leave the recording mode turn the encoder to select exit and click To record a new layer above the existing sequence overdub mode turn the encoder until the display shows dub off Click the encoder to enable overdubbing From there you can record notes ties rests just like in the record mode Note that once you reach the end of the sequence the step counter goes back to 0 and you can record a new layer above the previous one There are different ways of starting the play back of the recorded sequence Turn the encoder until the display shows the run option and click Play a note from the MIDI keyboard connected to the MIDIpal you c
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