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Originally Posted by schwa
2. Linking articulation and dynamics to MIDI messages. For example, a staccato marking triggering a key switch, or a crescendo marking triggering CC volume messages.
We could potentially add a new interface to support mappings like this:
FFF B0 07 7F
Staccato 90 00 7F
Meaning, FFF articulation is linked to CC volume 127. Staccato articulation is linked to the note C0 with volume 127. (This is written in raw MIDI but that does not mean the user interface will be.)
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That would be beautiful. A few points however need to be taken into consideration. While that would be very nice for dynamics, most VSTi used different patches for different articulations. There are three main ways to switch between them depending on the instrument: MIDI channels, keyswitches, and velocity range.
Having a way to link the articulations to this would give us a extremely powerful tool. And then we would simply need an "articulation lane" in the piano roll editor and we would have a tool as powerful as the Expression Maps in Cubase. Being able to assign articulations in a visual and consistent way without having to remember all the keyswitches and channels is a huge workflow improvement.
One other thing to take into consideration: some of this indications are applied to all the notes that follow them until a new indication override it, while some others apply only to the not they are attached to.