Bonjour a tous
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I’m encountering an issue while using HALion (stand alone or in Cubase 14) with a Roland Aerophone (as a breath controller) and the on-screen MIDI keyboard in HALion .
When I play the Aerophone, the on-screen MIDI keyboard in HALion stops responding. To make it work again in stand alone , I have to press “Start” and then “Stop” in the HALion MIDI file player. no solution with cubase .
Despite this, the issue persists. Is there a solution to prevent the on-screen MIDI keyboard from being blocked?
Thank you for your help!
Here’s my setup:
Halion 7 / Halion Sonic (latest version).
Cubase 14
MIDI controller: Roland Aerophone AE20(breath controller).
OS: Windows 11
When using a wind controller, it sends out midi cc messages, and breath in halion is usually tied to expression, which ends on 0 when you stop blowing. So there is no volume until you blow again!!! When you hit a key on a piano etc, nothing sounds until you reset the expression, or breath, depending on what cc’s the aerophone is sending out. Hope this makes sense.
Thank you for your explanation—it’s helpful to understand how HALion interprets MIDI CC messages, especially with wind controllers. I see how the default behavior of tying breath control to expression could create the issue where no sound is produced after stopping blowing, as the expression value resets to 0.
However, I’d like to point out that this specific behavior doesn’t occur with other software I use, such as Kontakt or Trilian. In those, it seems the handling of MIDI CC messages allows for sound production even after the breath CC resets, likely because expression isn’t as tightly tied to the primary volume control.
It would be great if HALion could offer more flexible options for managing MIDI CC data, perhaps allowing users to decouple certain CC messages from expression or implement a “hold last value” mode until another input is received. This would improve compatibility with devices like the Aerophone and make the workflow more seamless.
It’s quite inconvenient not to be able to test sounds one after another, either with the Aerophone, the HALion keyboard, or even both at the same time, without having to worry about what is “controlling my synth.”
Thank you again for shedding light on this. Hopefully, Steinberg might consider enhancing this aspect in future updates!