sus4 wrote:I'm referring to ARIA which I use through my DAW.
Guys I'm sorry, I really appreciate all your responses but you really have to explain everything to step by step either doing it through my keyboard controller which has a Pitch Bend wheel and a Modulation wheel or through my DAW. I don't understand how to get to these controllers.
Thanks.
sus4
I'll be happy to give you some examples of how 'my DAW' does it. I currently use CuBase 8, or Sibelius here.
For Sibelius, I just drop the proper score symbol on the page and Sibelius usually takes care of the rest for me. If not, I sometimes have to edit an expression map that links the CC15 message to the score symbol I want.
For CuBase, which I mostly treat as a linear style tracking DAW, I have MANY options at my disposal.
1. The Piano Scroll Editor.
Most DAWs of this sort have an editor of this nature, where you can set up controller lanes.
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In this example, you can see that the top portion of the editor is just a piano scroll. How long notes are in time is represented by how long the lines are horizontally. Bar colors signify note velocity. What note is playing corresponds to the keyboard shown vertically towards the left pane of the window.
Under that you see several controller lanes like Sustain cc64 (which can control legato in JABB3), Expression cc11 (which can change the dynamics/volume), and Portamento Time cc20 (used for glissing, sliding, or slurring effects between notes). I can easy add more CC lanes, or change these about to also display note velocity, after-touch, pitch bend, and the list goes on.
I'm also driving some ARIA Player filters with controllers, cc26, and cc27.
I simply add the controller lanes I need and 'draw in' the values I want with my mouse.
In the example above, I'm using the cc64 (sustain pedal) controller to swap between hard tonguing and 'legato' or 'soft tonguing'. I also do a 'lip-slure style shake' in the phrase that includes the sustain pedal and a setting of the portamento time.
If I wanted to use the cc15 options for doits, falls, and kisses, I'd simply add a lane for for CC15 and draw in the values I want as I've done with the others above.
2. CuBase offers quite a few alternative methods for working with these controller messages. I could also opt for track based controller lanes in the main sequencer.
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In the example above, I've set up controller lanes for cc15 (Falls, Doits, and Kisses) and cc29 (The 'Release Volume' of these cc15 based effects). Typically, I'd rather not put these sorts of controllers on this type of lane in CuBase for my own personal work-flow reasons, but the example serves to show that it's quite possible, and sometimes very handy to do so.
3. CuBase also supports expression maps through its Score Editor. In this case I tag a score marking with the appropriate CC message using something called an expression map. These expression maps can also work in some of the other editors through drag and drop lists.
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These are only 3 of MANY ways to deal with CC messages in my particular DAW. So...
To be more specific in terms of 'step by step' instructions, it will be helpful to know what DAW you are using by name and version. Chances are it will have similar editors and functions as those I've shown here in CuBase, forum members will just have a hard time being more specific without more information about your system and DAW of choice.
Hope this is helpful,
Credo
by sus4 » Fri Mar 20, 2015 5:24 am 
