AudioMulch Tutorial 5: Parameter Control with MIDI
This is a basic tutorial designed for new users of AudioMulch. It demonstrates how to use sliders and knobs on a MIDI keyboard or other MIDI device to control the parameters of AudioMulch's built-in contraptions.
Note: First time users may want to begin with the first tutorial in this series.
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Note:
- There is no completed patch for this tutorial, as the settings will differ based on your choice of MIDI device. You can use the patch from the Using The Metasurface tutorial as a starting point. Click here to download the patch.
This tutorial, step by step:
Map a MIDI controller to a contraption parameter:
- Connect a MIDI device to your computer and switch it on.
- Start up AudioMulch.
- Open the patch that was built in the Using The Metasurface tutorial (Click here to download the patch).
- Press the Enable MIDI button on the toolbar to enable MIDI input.
- On the RissetFilters property editor window, right-click the slider next to the Rate parameter and select Quick-Map MIDI Control.
- On your MIDI device, manipulate a wheel, knob or slider. The Quick-Map MIDI Control window will close.
- Move the same wheel, knob or slider again and the rate parameter slider on the RissetFilters contraption should move accordingly.
Change the value range of the mapping:
- Right-click on the Rate parameter slider again and select Parameter Control.
- On the righthand pane of the Parameter Control window, click on the Mapping tab.
- Change the Upper Limit setting to the value you want the rate parameter to be when your wheel, knob or slider is at its maximum position.
- Change the Lower Limit setting to the value you want the rate parameter to be when your wheel, knob or slider is at its minimum position.
- Move your wheel, knob or slider and the rate parameter slider should move between the values you specified.
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