Instrumental User Manual
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1. 11 Using GarageBand GarageBand is a very simple sequencer package It does not support much in the way of advanced control surfaces You can still use Instrumental to play on it you just won t be able to use any feedback features like the Mixer Page and you can only control a limited number of instrument parameters The upside to being a simple package is that there is nothing to configure 1 Install Instrumental and connect it to your computer via Wi Fi Follow the Quick Start Guide on the earlier page 2 Run GarageBand 3 Create a new Project in Garage Band Choose a template with Software Instruments like Grand Piano or Keyboard Collection 4 Select the GarageBand control map in Instrumental Use the Instrumental power button to select Global Options and then select GarageBand as the Midi Con trol Map This will restrict the set of available controls to just those known to work with GarageBand 5 Play Use the power button in the top left corner of Instrumental to choose the Wicky Hayden keyboard and play Limitations with Garage Band GarageBand does not support many MIDI messages and doesn t send any for feedback This will prevent the track amp patch buttons from working and you won t see controls like Volume and Pan change on Instru mental when they get changed in GarageBand There are plugins for GarageBand that extend its MIDI capabilities The free download GarageRemote al l2. a MIDI SYSEX message from a capable DAW User Label shows the label you have provided yourself and saved into this preset Instrumental will display a User Label in preference to a Remote Label and will use the Control Map Name only if it has nothing better and the Global Option Default Labels is turned on Pressing on each of Control Remote Label and User Label will show a list of logical controls you can map to named accordingly Each list only shows items that have the right type of label available For example when using Reason Record choosing by Remote Label will list only those controls currently mapped by Reason Record for the current instrument If you choose by User Label only controls that have a user supplied label in this preset will be listed Quantum Clockwork Instrumental User Manual 14 The normal list is also restricted to controls suitable for the control type you are configuring For example a Button control won t offer Pitch Bend as a choice in its normal list The Asterisk button provides the full list of controls so if you really want to hook up the 14 bit Pitch Bend control to a momentary push button you can Panel Types and Control Types The controls in Instrumental are arranged in blocks called Panels Depending on the Surface you can change each panel between a number of different types from a 2x4 block of controls to a big XYG pad Like the panel each control on a
3. by the Automatic Surface and Preset Chooser Displayed briefly on the status panel when it changes eee 19 Track Name Displayed on the toolbar over the Next Previous Track buttons In Reason Record this has been mapped to Device Name as Reason Record s Track Name only works for the Master Keyboard 20 Patch Name Displayed on the toolbar over the Next Previous Patch buttons Used by the Automatic Surface and Preset Chooser Used by the Automatic Surface and Preset Chooser 32 47 Channel 1 16 Name Used by the Mixers 48 63 Pad 1 16 Name Displayed on the Drum Pads on the Drum 4x4 surface Quantum Clockwork Instrumental User Manual Credits and Thanks Instrumental was designed programmed pixelated and configured by Simon Bullen Quantum Clockwork in Melbourne Australia The Quantum Bome Conductor Protocol was developed in collaboration with Florian Bomers of Bome Soft ware M nchen Germany MT Player was developed by Bome Software of M nchen Germany Jody Kruger provided additional graphics and much needed visual polish Props to Fredrik Lundkvist of Propellerheads Sweden for his assistance with the Lua Remote Codec A big thanks to Nick Kellis Liam Rout and Trevor Powell for their beta testing efforts And finally to my family thanks for your patience and support I couldn t have done it without you Quantum Clockwork Instrumental User Manual
4. it isn t the Master Keyboard Right click the rightmost Master Track and choose Lock Instrumental to this Device You can also lock to a specific track in the Master section but this won t allow you to move through the tracks from Instrumental or see more than one track at a time If you want to see and adjust the levels of many tracks at once I recommend using the Mixer surface either in 8 or 16 channel mode To get at every setting for a particular channel like the EQ compressor gate FX Return Levels use the presets RM Channel or GSM Channel for the Generic R and Generic S respectively The Master Channel has a different set of controls to get at those use the presets RM Master and GSM Master These presets make use of 4 different remote mapping schemes in the Remote Map controlled by the Re mote Map Variation surface setting Knowing this will be useful when customizing these presets to suit your needs e Variation 1 maps all controls for 1 channel e Variation 2 maps all controls for the Master Channel Quantum Clockwork Instrumental User Manual 10 e Variation 8 maps 7 channels from the Mixer uses channel 8 as the Master Channel and uses the other 8 channels for FX returns e Variation 16 maps 15 channels from the Mixer and uses Channel 16 as the Master channel Effects Units MClass Amps Phaser Digital Delay etc Most of Reason s effect units will work very well with the Generic S pre
5. keyboard as the Master Keyboard and locking Instrumental to differ ent devices like the Mixer by right clicking on them and selecting Lock Instrumental to this de vice Quantum Clockwork Instrumental User Manual 5 Play If you re new to Reason Record this should get you going quickly a Configure Instrumental as the Master Keyboard b From the File Menu create a new project from one of the built in templates e g Empty FX c From the Create Menu create a Kong Drum Designer d Instrumental will automatically switch to the Drum surface Play away e From the Create Menu create a Subtractor f Instrumental will switch to a keyboard Play away g Try the change track patch buttons you should be able to move between the two instruments you ve cre ated and play on either of them all from Instrumental h Turn on Loop in the Reason Record transport and record a short loop i With the loop playing right click on the mixer device and choose Lock Instrumental to this device j Instrumental will automatically switch to a mixer surface Mix away Automatic Surface amp Preset Selection Instrumental tracks the current Instrument Name Track Name and Patch Name and uses these to auto matically select the right surface and preset as you move focus throughout your project or lock Instrumental to different devices If you don t like the choice it has made change to your prefer
6. the top left corner to choose a surface and off you go Quantum Clockwork Instrumental User Manual Using Apple s Network MIDI Session In addition to Quantum Bome Conductor Instrumental also supports the standard Apple Network MIDI standard Mac users can use this instead of downloading the MT Player Conductor server though we recommend us ing Conductor for best results 1 Run Audio MIDI Setup This is a standard utility that is part of OSX You can find it by typing Audio MIDI Setup into Spotlight 2 Open the MIDI Window This is available from the Window menu 3 Double click the Network icon to open the Network Window 4 Create a Session Give it a unique Network Name this is what will be displayed in the Instrumental Menu Also give it a good Local Name this will be used to name the MIDI ports Make sure that the session is Enabled and that the Who May Connect to Me is set to Anyone 5 Connect to the session Press the TX RX button in Instrumental to bring up the list of available network sessions the session you created should be listed Select it wait a few seconds and the TX RX lights should stop flashing red You re now connected In the future you won t need to run Audio MIDI Setup to be able to connect but you will need to run some MIDI software before the network session will become available Instrumental remembers which session you used last and will aut
7. to the definitions below It would be worthwhile looking at the examples available at http quantumclockwork net instrumental downloads All control definitions have the form ControlType Control Label Setting Value AnotherSetting Another Value You can comment out lines by starting them with The settings available are slightly different for each control type An example of each is listed below Quantum Clockwork Instrumental User Manual 18 7 Bit CC 7_Bit_CC Mod Wheel The 7 bit Control Code is the most commonly used type of MIDI Message Most controls in a control map will be of this a type Don t use this type for On Off type controls though Meee 8 MaxValue 127 Use the 1 Bit CC for that DefaultDisplayType The MinValue and MaxValue default to 0 and 127 respec tively which is the maximum possible in a 7 bit value You don t need to specify these if you re happy with the defaults The choices available for DefaultDisplayType correspond to those you can see in the Range choice in the Instrumental control settings dialog the choice you set here is what is used when the Range choice is set to Default 1 Bit CC 1_Bit_CC Soft Pedal The 1 Bit CC responds to the same type of MIDI Message as the 7 Bit CC except it lets Instrumental know that this control Sua lt is an On Off type control OnValue 127 OffValue 0 DefaultButtonType
8. Momentary Buttons and switches prefer to connect to On Off controls and rotaries and faders prefer to connect to variable con trols so Instrumental uses the type information from the con trol map to filter the list of controls available for selection When you use the Asterisk button to get an unfil tered choice this type information is disregarded The On amp Off Values of 127 amp 0 are the defaults Any value up to but not including halfway between Off amp On will be treated as Off For example with the Off 0 and On 127 0 through 63 are treated as Off and 64 through 127 are treated as On The DefaultButtonType specifies the type of button to use by default when using an Instrumental Button with this control This can be overridden in the Action setting for this button in the preset The choices are e Momentary sends an On when you press and an Off when you release e Toggle sends the opposite state when you press and does nothing when you release e Trigger sends an On when you press and does nothing when you release e None does nothing when you press or release Quantum Clockwork Instrumental User Manual 19 7 Bit Program Change and 7 Bit Channel Pressure 7_Bit_ProgramChange Program Change These controls are similar to the 7 Bit CC controls except they Channel 0 use different MIDI messages that provide one each of these Hadesi per MIDI channel giving a possibl
9. ON DESCRIPTION MIDI Control Map The currently active list of MIDI controls available for mapping See the MIDI Control Map section for more information Automatic Surface Change When On Instrumental will change surfaces automatically ac cording to the Remote Manufacturer Remote Model Instrument Name Track Name and Patch Name that are provided by MIDI SYSEX messages When you choose surfaces manually Instrumental uses this in formation to improve its automatic choices Automatic Preset Change When On Instrumental will change presets automatically ac cording to the same fields that drive the Automatic Surface Change When you choose presets manually Instrumental uses this in formation to improve its automatic choices Default Labels When On Instrumental will use the Control Map name of a con trol if it does not have a Remote Label or a User Label This is useful when using a setup that sends Remote Labels as it allows you to easily see which controls are currently mapped When Off controls that do not have either a Remote Label or a User Label will have a blank label QB Conductor Network Port This is the UDP port number used for discovering services on the QB Conductor Network The default is 37000 You should only need to change this if another service on your network is already using this port Both Instrumental and the Server must be configured to use the same port number Quantum Clockwork Instru
10. Record allows Instrumental to use labels and text readouts provided by Reason Record This allows Instrumental to display accurate labels for all controls even if you use Edit Remote Override Mapping to remap controls on the fly When remapping controls from Instrumental the Remote Label list will only show currently mapped con trols using the labels provided by Reason Record The Remote Map included with the Remote Lua Codec for Reason Record maps nearly every control for nearly every available device it should be very easy to customize presets that focus on your preferred controls for each device The standard control map should satisfy most people but you can always modify the Remote Map to in clude additional controls or to allocate them in a different way Please contact us if you have improvements to the standard Remote Map to contribute Recording Scale Mode Changes To record Scale Mode chord changes use Edit Remote Override to map the Scale Mode in Instrumental to the Rotary of an empty Combinator You can then record your chord changes to the Combinator track and have them play back to Instrumental regardless of which track you ve actually got selected The Record Master Section The Master Section in Record is a complex piece of virtual equipment It has hundreds of controls and which ones you care about depend on what you re doing You can only connect Instrumental to the Master Section when
11. ably not be able to support this Quantum Clockwork Instrumental User Manual Text Registers TextRegister Track Name Not part of standard MIDI Instrumental s text registers ip 19 WantRemoteLabelText false can be set via special MIDI SYSEX messages It is recommended to stick to the standard set of text regis ters defined in the Factory Standard Control Map Even if you re not expecting any MIDI SYSEX messages it is a good idea to include the standard text regis ters in your control map anyway they can then be used with custom labels in presets See the chapter on MIDI System Exclusive Messages for more information about how to send these mes sages to Instrumental SYSEX Buttons SYSEX_Button Play MIDI SYSEX messages allow for arbitrary data to be sent TransmitOnMessage F0 7D 03 F7 via MIDI This is used for many things from transferring TransmitOffMessage FO 77 77 F7 DefaultButtonType Momentary sample and patch data to messages for transport controls The SYSEX Button provides the ability to send two differ ent SYSEX messages one for turning on and another for turning off Both messages are optional Note that the SYSEX message must be specified in hexadecimal notation must begin with F0 end with F7 and contain no payload bytes that are higher than 7F Quantum Clockwork Instrumental User Manual Factory Standard MIDI Control Map This table lists all
12. d to pro vide access to all your synthesizer controls while you play notes on your regular USB piano keyboard The modular panel system lets you create new dynamically labelled layouts in seconds Master section DT octorex lt 1 mute soog Quantum Clockwork i lt gt sp MIXEI a Mixer channels 1 7 EIEE DRUM TAD TIERCE BASS BASS SMUSS nme laa Ba OTC u e Ritch Modi Berd wheel a Parameter 1 SodWiscsls Paremeter cacyanes camege Tupe ESeUueS VUIMet er W J m Instrumental User Manual Quick Start Connect your iPad to your Wi Fi network 1 Download and install Instrumental to your iPad 2 Run Instrumental If you have multiple devices run it up on all of them The TX and RX lights should be blinking red This means the server cannot be found Don t panic if you re doing the instructions in order you haven t installed or run the server yet 3 Download and install the server on your Mac or Windows PC For best results Instrumental uses a server running the Quantum Bome Conductor Network to provide the virtual MIDI ports on your computer MT Player is a free download for both Mac and Window It is available from the Quantum Clockwork website http quantumclockwork net instrumental downloads Mac users can also use Apple s Network MIDI Session instead of using the Quantum Bome Conductor Network but we have found that Conductor gives better late
13. e 16 of each type MaxValue 127 DefaultDisplayType 0 127 Program Change was often used to control patches in hard 7_Bit_ChannelPressure Aftertouch ware synths Channel Pressure is also known as Aftertouch Channel 0 MinValue 0 MaxValue 127 DefaultDisplayType 0 127 14 Bit Pitch Bend 14_Bit_PitchBend Pitch Bend As the only commonly supported 14 Bit MIDI Message it is a i Channel shame to only use these controls just for pitch bend MinValue 0 MaxValue 16383 DefaultDisplayType 100 100 0 The standard control map puts Pitch Bend on MIDI Channel 0 and then defines 15 more on the remaining channels called 14 Bit Control 1 15 which you can use for anything you like 14 Bit CC 14_Bit_CC Example By combining two 7 bit CC values together it is possible to Channel 0 have many more 14 bit controls than just the 16 pitch bend LSB_CC 16 MSB_CC 48 controls MinValue 0 MaxValue 16383 MSB_CC sets the MIDI Controller number for the Most DefaultDisplayType 0 100 0 Significant Byte the coarse half LSB_CC sets the MIDI Controller number for the Least Sig nificant Byte the fine half The LSB and MSB must both be on the same MIDI Channel Instrumental will always transmit the LSB followed by the MSB it will will accept them in whatever order they come The standard control map does not use any of this control type most packages will prob
14. estart Instrumental and the server 7 Reboot your computer your iPad and your Wi Fi Router 8 Sacrifice a goat 9 If iTunes Remote works perfectly you can successfully ping your iPad and you re absolutely sure the server is running and not being fire walled email support quantumclockwork net and we ll try to sort you out Please provide as much detail about your problem as you can Quantum Clockwork Instrumental User Manual Reducing Wi Fi Latency When using Instrumental to play music having a low latency Wi Fi connection is essential The network protocols Instrumental uses are designed to provide reliable low latency communications but it all comes down to the performance of the Wi Fi If your setup is properly configured and your Wi Fi connection doesn t have to contend with too much inter ference you should have no perceptible delay between pressing a note on Instrumental and hearing the sound from the DAW software running on your computer If you are experiencing delays first make sure that the latency is not being introduced on the output side play some notes directly on the computer for example Sound card drivers with high latency are very common on Windows machines There is a low latency sound driver for Windows called ASIO4AIl that has worked well for me If you are experiencing excessive Wi Fi latency here are some things you can try e Use the QB Conductor Protocol instead of Apple s Network MIDI C
15. he router has to periodically switch modes to check for older devices Disable Automatic Channel Mode Some Routers have a mode that automatically looks for channels with less interference and will automatically change While this sounds like a good idea you will get a spike in latency when it does change its mind about which channel it wants to use Experiment with different channels Quantum Clockwork Instrumental User Manual e Eliminate sources of interference Malfunctioning equipment can generate a lot of RF noise I recently had an LCD Monitor that was causing digital TV interference but only figured this out when the monitor fi nally died as that was when the annoying interference was gone e Try moving the Router to different places closer to where the iPad is is better a clear line of sight will help going through walls and appliances can only make things harder for the radio link Quantum Clockwork Instrumental User Manual Using Propellerhead Reason and Record Instrumental was designed to work as seamlessly with Reason and Record as possible Many of Instrumental s advanced features require the sequencer package to send MIDI data back to Instru mental This allows Instrumental to display level meters track and patch names provide virtual motorized faders and much more The Instrumental codec for Reason and Record allows Instrumental to display the correct labels for almost all controls automatica
16. lly Labels update instantly when you remap them even using Edit Remote Over ride Control readouts can use the text from Reason Record this can give you readouts of 3 2 dB and 12 3 Hz instead of 3 and 63 depending on which Reason Record device you re using If you don t own Reason or Record you should download the demos from Propellerhead to see what all the fuss is about 1 Install Instrumental the server and connect to it Follow the Quick Start Guide on the previous page 2 Download and install the Instrumental Remote Codec http uantumclockwork net instrumental downloads Note that the Codec and Remote Maps are designed to work with Instrumental s Factory Standard control map 3 Run Reason or Record 4 Configure your new Instrumental device for use a Open the Preferences Dialog b Select the Keyboards and Control Surfaces page c Press Auto Detect Surfaces d Reason Record will scan all the MIDI ports for known device types e Once the scan has completed all the currently connected Instrumental devices should appear in the Attached Surfaces list f If you are using multiple devices it is recommended to rename each device so you can tell them apart easily In the edit dialog you can tell which device is which from the MIDI port name g For your first play I recommend setting Instrumental as the Master Keyboard Later you may wish to use your regular
17. low extensions to the MIDI protocol Sys tem Exclusive Messages start with FO have N bytes of data that all have the top bit clear and are terminated by F7 All Instrumental SYSEX messages are prefixed with FO 37 51 43 Note All 2 digit numbers on this page are in hexadecimal notation SYSEX MESSAGE NOTES Identity Request FO 37 51 43 01 xx yy F7 Asks Instrumental to send an Identity Re sponse This can be used to Auto Detect the Instrumental Also sent by Instrumental to find the identity of the driver it is talking to Identity Response F0 37 51 43 02 mm vv xx yy Sent in response to an Identity Request xx F7 and yy should be copied from the Identity Request mm and vv identify the Model and Version Instrumental s Model code is 43 Instrument Has Reset FO 37 51 43 03 F7 Sent by Instrumental on startup and recon nection Set Control Code Label FO 37 51 43 6B ch cc text F7 Sets the Remote Label for the CC cc on MIDI channel ch Quantum Clockwork Instrumental User Manual SYSEX MESSAGE Set Program Change La FO 37 51 43 6C ch text F7 Sets the Remote Label for the Program bel Change control on channel ch Set Channel Pressure La FO 37 51 43 6D ch text F7 Sets the Remote Label for the Channel Pres bel sure control for channel ch Set Pitch Wheel Label FO 37 51 43 6E ch text F7 Sets the Remote Label for the Pitch Wheel control for channel ch Set Text Regis
18. mental User Manual 17 MIDI Control Maps The design of Instrumental tries to hide MIDI away as much as possible Configuring MIDI messages is painful and tedious and a long way from making music When you configure a control in an Instrumental preset you are connecting it using a logical name to a vir tual midi control that is listed in the current MIDI control map This gives you a set of named controls to use and the only time you need to worry about MIDI messages is if you need to make a new MIDI Control Map DAW users should never need to worry about making a new MIDI Control Map the Factory Standard Control Map is the recommended control set for use with DAW software drivers and mapping files should conform to this control map It s when you want to control a particular piece of MIDI hardware that creating your own MIDI Control Map is worthwhile the control map lists each parameter of the MIDI hardware including the MIDI message de tails and the parameter s name When you use this control map in Instrumental the controls you can choose from will correspond to what you ve defined in the map all labelled correctly with your preferred display ranges To install a new MIDI Control Map use the File Sharing area in iTunes to drag the InstrumentalMap xt file into the Instrumental Documents area To create a new MIDI Control Map use any text editor to create a text file and fill out the controls according
19. mstrumental wi Fi midi control surface user manual V1 0 0 Quantum Clockwork Continental Laboratories Virtual Instrument Division What is this Quick Start Using Apple s Network MIDI Session Network Troubleshooting Reducing Wi Fi Latency Using Propellerhead Reason and Record Using GarageBand Using Random MIDI Software Configuring Presets Scale Modes Global Options MIDI Control Maps Factory Standard MIDI Control Map MIDI System Exclusive Messages Standard Text Registers Credits and Thanks Quantum Clockwork 12 13 14 16 17 18 22 24 26 27 Instrumental User Manual What is this Instrumental Is This Instrumental is a Wi FI MIDI Control surface for iPad It is not a synthesizer or a sequencer it does not make any sound on its own Instrumental is similar to a USB Piano Keyboard that you would plug into your computer except it s run ning on your iPad and communicating with your computer via Wi Fi providing a virtual MIDI port that you can use with any MIDI software Instrumental provides a variety of different control surfaces each designed for a different purpose and all are highly configurable Drumming composing jamming mixing tweaking and just plain mucking around You can do all this and more Drum 4x4 Pop kit 16 drum pads and space for up to 32 additional controls Each pad can be customized individually from the velocity response cu
20. ncy See later in this manual for how to config ure the Apple Network MIDI Session 4 Start the Server Run MT Player you don t need to do anything else to it just yet You can explore the settings in MT Player later for now the defaults will be just fine 5 Choose your MIDI destination Touch the TX RX lights in Instrumental this displays the list of available network sessions you can con nect to Your computer s name or the name you configured in the Apple Network Session should be listed here You may need to wait a few seconds before the server can be seen on the network Select it on your iPad and then go back to your computer MT Player will be prompting you for permission to connect Tick the Remember checkbox and allow the connection After a few seconds the TX and RX lights on Instrumental should stop flashing red If the lights keep flashing red or your computer isn t available on the list there is a problem with the net work connection between your iOS device and your computer Please see the Network Troubleshooting sec tion 6 Run your favorite MIDI sequencer program on your computer Depending on the sequencer program or DAW you may need to configure the new MIDI inputs and control mappings See the following pages for package specific guides at worst you should be able to configure In strumental as a generic MIDI Keyboard with controls 7 Play Use the power button in
21. nges from the Scale Mode control into your track then when you re working on the song the keyboard will always be showing you the current key SETTING DESCRIPTION Mode Index The current scale number When editing a button this is also the scale number of the button This is also the value used by the MIDI control ey Root note of the scale One of Chromatic Scale Major Scale Minor Scale Blues Scale etc The keyboard output will be transposed by this number of octaves Transpose Semitones The keyboard output will be transposed up or down by this num ber of semitones Note that this is done on output Velocity Scale All notes that are part of the selected scale in the current key on key will be played with this velocity scale applied Off Key Correction When On any off key note will be shifted to the closest on key note instead The Off Key velocity scale will still be applied Off Key Velocity Scale All notes that aren t part of the selected scale amp key will be played with this velocity scale applied You can use this to make your off key notes quieter silent or even louder than your on key ones Off Key Brightness Controls the visual brightness of the off key keys on the keyboard Quantum Clockwork Instrumental User Manual 16 Global Options The settings available on the Global Options page apply to the whole program they are not stored in pre sets like all the other settings OPTI
22. omatically keep trying to reconnect to that session Quantum Clockwork Instrumental User Manual Network Troubleshooting If the RX amp TX LEDs on Instrumental won t stop flashing red after a few seconds then the Wi Fi link be tween Instrumental and the server is not working Things to try 1 Make sure your Wireless Access Point is switched on and that your iOS device is connected to it with a valid IP address 2 Make sure the server is running is not prompting you for permission and is not being blocked by a firewall on your computer 3 Use iTunes Remote to verify that you can communicate between your device and your computer iTunes Remote communicates with iTunes on your computer in a similar manner to Instrumental If iTunes Remote works then your network should be compatible with Instrumental 4 Ping your device from your computer Ping is a standard utility for testing network connections To test the link from your computer to your iPad a Get the IP address of your device from the Settings pages of your iPad It should be a 4 part number like 192 168 0 37 b Open a Terminal Window on your Mac or a DOS Command Prompt on your PC c Type ping followed by a space and the IP address and hit return e g ping 192 168 0 37 d If ping reports timeouts then there is no network link between your device and your computer You will need to fix your network before Instrumental can function properly 6 R
23. onductor s protocol gives the Wi Fi connection the best opportunity for low latency performance in a noisy environment Use a dedicated Wireless Router Having other people watch streaming video using the same radio chan nel can only make things worse Use a wired network connection for your computer If both your computer and your iPad are using Wi Fi to connect to a Wi Fi router then your input must travel over Wi Fi twice once from the iPad to the router and then again from the router to the computer This will double your latency the time taken to send a message over the wired connection is minuscule compared to what it takes to send it over radio Try an ad hoc wi fi network that doesn t use a wi fi router at all In this mode your iPad is transmitting directly to the wi fi card in your computer Personally I find these ad hoc connections a little too fiddly wiring your computer to the wi fi router should be virtually as fast despite involving more equipment Upgrade to a 802 11N Wireless Router 802 11N provides a lot more bandwidth than the earlier wireless standards and as a side effect delivers much lower latency It also operates at higher frequency ranges which may have less interference at your location Disable 80211 b g compatibility mode in the router 802 11N routers often support the older 802 11 stan dards a b g supporting the old standards prevents the 802 11N from running as fast as it should as t
24. ore in formation see the Standard Control Map and the driver for Reason Record If you develop an Instrumental driver for your favorite package please contact us at Quantum Clockwork so we can make it available on the website Most MIDI devices are much simpler though and have a fixed set of MIDI messages that they use This is much easier to deal with armed with the documentation for your MIDI device you need to make a text file that lists all its controls their MIDI messages display ranges etc You then load this Control Map into In strumental via iTunes select it through the Global Options page and you re away See the MIDI Control Maps chapter towards the end of this manual for more information about Control Maps the format of the text file etc The easiest thing of all is to simply use the Standard Control Map and apply User Labels to controls as you figure out decide what they do This works well with packages that support learning simply label a control how you want tell the MIDI package to learn from input manipulate the control are you re done Quantum Clockwork Instrumental User Manual 13 Configuring Presets Presets Each Surface in Instrumental is highly configurable You can change the type of every control along with what the control has been mapped to its label its colouring and more All these settings are stored in a Preset Instrumental provides a number of
25. ows GarageBand s transport controls to be driven from MIDI This allows you to press Play Stop Record etc in Instrumental and have GarageBand respond appropriately The Factory GarageBand MIDI Control Map uses the default MIDI messages used by GarageRemote If anybody has a definitive list of the MIDI messages GarageBand accepts please send them in and I will improve the Factory GarageBand control map We at Quantum Clockwork recommend using Propellerhead s Reason Record instead Quantum Clockwork Instrumental User Manual Using Random MIDI Software Instrumental s Standard Control Map should work out of the box with any MIDI software To get the best experience the controls in Instrumental should be labelled with On Off type controls hooked up to switches and buttons variable controls connected to rotaries and faders the Stop Play buttons should work and all the rest How you go about this depends on the nature of the MIDI device you are connecting to and how much ef fort you want to spend For complex MIDI devices where the available controls change radically depending on where you are DAWSs like Propellerhead s Reason amp Record for example a driver may be required to get the best experi ence the driver allows the computer to send the labels for the current controls via MIDI SYSEX messages How this is implemented or even if it is possible depends completely on the DAW package For m
26. panel can be changed between a number of different types different sur faces and panel types offer different choices There are Rotaries Switches Buttons Meters Labels Faders and XYG Pads Sharing Presets You can share presets with other users using the File Sharing section of iTunes Connect your iPad to iTunes and select the iPad from the Devices List Go to the Apps tab for the iPad and scroll right down to the bottom to the File Sharing section Select Instrumental from the list of Apps and the Documents list will display your Presets and Maps You can now Drag and Drop preset files to and from the Documents list or use the Add Save To buttons in the iTunes GUI Quantum Clockwork Instrumental User Manual 15 Scale Modes Both the Wicki Hayden and Piano surfaces support Scale Modes Each preset has a bank of 17 Scale Modes that can be configured to modify the keyboard in different ways from transposing the output to correcting the notes into a pre configured key signature You can select the current scale mode by e mapping Scale Buttons into your control surface e pressing the Treble Clef icon in the Settings Mode titlebar and changing Mode Index e mapping a rotary control to Scale Mode e sending MIDI messages to the Scale Mode control in the current MIDI Control Map If you set up the chords of your song into a few scale modes you can record the chord cha
27. read only factory presets for each surface along with some defaults to get you started Touch the Status Panel at the top of the screen to quickly change between presets for the current surface Settings Mode Basics Touch the Gear icon to enter Settings Mode press it again to return to the normal Play Mode When in Settings Mode touch a control to bring up its settings The dialog that appears depends on what type of control you have selected If a dialog is obscuring a control you want to select use the X button to close the dialog The Settings Mode Toolbar provides buttons to Rename Copy Delete and Lock the current preset Use the Lock on presets that you do not want to accidentally change or delete The Double Diamond on the Settings Mode Toolbar brings up the Surface Settings where you can choose different control layouts and other options that effect the entire surface Some surfaces also have a Treble Clef on the Settings Mode Toolbar this lets you access the current Scale Mode even when you have no Scale Mode Buttons mapped in your control panels Mapping Controls The Settings Dialog for most control types has three lines for mapping which underlying control in the con trol map this control is connected to You re right that s a lot of controls in one sentence Control shows the name of the control in the MIDI Control Map Remote Label shows the name that has been provided remotely via
28. red surface preset and Instrumental will use your new choices to hopefully make a better automatic selection next time You can completely disable the automatic changing of surfaces and presets on the Global Options page Master Keyboard and Lock to Device If you re only using one input device it should be set as the Master Keyboard If you re using multiple input devices say a USB Piano Keyboard and Instrumental together you need to decide which one if any will be the Master Keyboard In Reason amp Record the Master Keyboard is the one that is connected to whichever track you ve selected in the Sequencer and is the one that changes tracks when you use the Next Track and Previous Track buttons You connect the other non master Keyboards manually to Sequencer Tracks Rack Devices or Master Sec tion tracks by right clicking on the them and selecting Lock lt KeyboardName gt to this Device How you set this up is down to personal taste what equipment you have and how you re trying to use it Quantum Clockwork Instrumental User Manual For example you can use your USB Piano as the Master Keyboard like normal and use lock Instrumental to the Master Mixer to use it a dedicated Mixer Note that when Instrumental is locked to a device the Next Track and Previous Track buttons still apply to the Master Keyboard Automatic Control Labels amp Readouts The Instrumental driver for Reason
29. rve to the colour The drum pad selector panel allows for access to the MIDI controls of each individual drum Wicki Hayden ZO DIE Sasssvosal V TEESE The fantastic isomorphic hexagonal layout This makes so much more sense than the traditional Piano keyboard I recommend the Wikipedia article on Wicki Hayden In strumental supports all the colouring schemes described there Sisan mod Use the Instrumental Scale Modes to see how different scales ESME and chords look in this layout it s a great way wrap your mind around the Wicki Hayden layout Quantum Clockwork Instrumental User Manual Mixer Almost as flexible as Generic R and Generic S the Mixer page was designed specifically for Mixing The layout ac commodates for up to 16 channels you can sacrifice mixer panels for more per channel controls The standard mappings for Reason Record use the Next Previous patch buttons to scroll through the available mixer channels Piano A full 130 key piano keyboard at a variety of sizes including almost full size Features the same control panels used in Generic R provid ing plenty of combinations of rotaries switches buttons faders and XY pads The powerful Scale Mode system can show you the notes in the current key or can even change the key for you Generic R and Generic S Two styles of generic surface full of control panels Useful for controlling effects and equalizers can also be use
30. set GS 1 Instrumental will default to using this preset for these units until you teach it otherwise MClass Equalizer amp PEQ 2 The MClass Equalizer and the PEQ 2 both work well with the Generic S preset GQ 8 Instrumental will de fault to using this preset for these units until you teach it otherwise Limitations with Reason amp Record There are a few things that are currently not possible with the system used to make drivers for Reason and Record Rest assured that Propellerhead are aware of all these issues and might fix them in future versions if enough people complain Hint Hint Patch name bug Some instruments do not always send the current patch name properly Changing tracks or patches via Instrumental fixes this Some control labels are inaccessible Some of the Propellerhead devices have controls that can have user labels The 4 rotaries and buttons on the Combinator for one example the drum pads on Kong for another Unfortunately these will always come through with their generic name e g Button 3 instead of the patch specific text on the control This is a limitation of Reason Record not Instrumental You can work around this problem by assigning user labels to these controls in an Instrumental preset for each of your favorite patches Instrumental s automatic preset chooser will learn how to select the correct preset automatically as you change patches Quantum Clockwork Instrumental User Manual
31. ter Label FO 37 51 43 6F reg text F7 Sets the Remote Label for text register reg Set Control Code Text FO 37 51 43 7B ch cc text Sets the text readout for the CC cc on MIDI Value F7 channel ch Set Program Change Text FO 37 51 43 7C ch text F7 Sets the text readout for the Program Change Value control on channel ch Set Channel Pressure Text F0 37 51 43 7D ch text F7 Sets the text readout for the Channel Pressure Value control for channel ch Set Pitch Wheel Text FO 37 51 43 7E ch text F7 Sets the text readout for the Pitch Wheel con Value trol for channel ch Set Text Register Value FO 37 51 43 7F reg text F7 Sets the text readout for text register reg Quantum Clockwork Instrumental User Manual Standard Text Registers In addition to the labels and text values for each control Instrumental maintains a bank of text registers for things that don t have a corresponding MIDI control These are defined in the MIDI Control Map like regular MIDI controls This table lists the Text Registers defined by the Factory Standard control map It is up to the DAW software to send the appropriate MIDI SYSEX messages to load these registers REGISTER NAME NOTES NUMBER Text Register 1 10 Use for whatever you like Remote Manufacturer Used by the Automatic Surface and Preset Chooser Displayed briefly on the status panel when it changes 17 Remote Model Used
32. the MIDI assignments used by Instrumental s factory standard control map Note Channel 16 controls listed below are on MIDI channel 0 Channel 1 is on 1 2 is on 2 etc CHANNEL CONTROL CONTROL NAME NOTES CODE a T oee O S a e ce ne e a ie otis E ee Te eee PO a a Ca j o e oe E S e ee a S 17 26 Channel X Control 1 10 a a e a e a E E a Quantum Clockwork Instrumental User Manual N N CHANNEL CONTROL CONTROL NAME NOTES CODE o oe f meme OOO ow E a a E a a E a e D a a ee come a a a a a 96 101 Used by the MIDI standard for RPN and NRPN E a S a a E a E E a a Ooo p e eea E a S Ooo p e peee oo p e pee a N a e Ooo p e eer a e 114 Refresh Patch Name Only used when connected to a Propellerhead program needed to work around a known bug in Reason Record 115 Scale Mode Controls the currently active Scale Mode in In strumental See the Scale Mode section for more information Quantum Clockwork Instrumental User Manual CHANNEL CONTROL CONTROL NAME 1 2 4 8 16 CODE 116 Select Map X Sent to configure which remote map scheme is being used by the remote sequencer Mostly needed to support mixer layouts that display different numbers of channels es es es MIDI System Exclusive Messages Instrumental defines a number of System Exclusive Messages to support text feedback and auto detection The MIDI standard provides the System Exclusive Message to al
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