I’d like to see a gizmo that would convert an audio waveform into MIDI cc data. For example, you come up with a complicated LFO pattern (say from Volcano or Molekular). How cool would it be if you could hit an
Export/Convert button and instantly transform that into a CC track that you could then map onto another MIDI track?
EDIT: OR… can one convert MIDI notes to a CC curve? IOW: if I play a melody, or generate an arpeggiator, I would love to be able to transform -that- set of MIDI notes into CC data.
+1. Though there are plenty of plug-ins that output MIDI CC from audio it would be rgeat to have it built in — both as a plug-in and at track input/output level.
Thanks. Never heard of them before (where do all these guys come from?)
There are a surprising number of 3rd party vendors that make gizmos that kinda feel like they should be part of Cubase core… they’re just fiddly enough that when a 3rd party does it, it comes out as a kludge.
I’m thinking of that guy who does a VSTi routing/mixer plug. Another thing that should be in Cubase.
Silent Way makes using a Modular with a DAW amazing. I can’t imagine trying to do all that old DIN sync stuff again. Or trying to tempo synch multiple imports from different sequences. It’s easy peasy now.
However, as you say … it is 3rd party guys solving a problem across environments, so isn’t necessarily always “simple” to implement. I shouldn’t have said “basic control of modular”. There’s no such thing. It just makes sending CV based on MIDI events possible. It also takes CV and turns it into events in the DAW. I don’t use it that way though. So, it may not do exactly the stuff you are tying to do.
I think you could do that now with a workaround. Map that LFO to the pitch of a sinus curve in your synth. Now render-in-place and goto VariAudio. Use the extract MIDI from audio feature, set it up so that the pitch is exportet as a pitchband cc. There you have your midified LFO…
(at least in theory, I have not tested it)
The idea inspired me to test it and it works quite good. You only have to manually set the whole sequence as one event in the segment section of VariAudio, or VariAudio will tend to extract multiple segments when the pitch modulation is too large.
But it works very good, better then expected, with that technique you can extract pretty every LFO / modulation curve to MIDI CC!
