Edit: Duuu….I missed the huge ZONES button! I see it now.
Long Post Surmised since it’s already in Live
I’ve been getting more into Live lately and truly appreciate how FAST it can transition through different configurations and plugin sets between songs/parts etc. It’s great how easy it can be to drive it all via remote control.
There is a good deal of power and convenience right on the face of a Live Instrument Layer. It’s great to have a spot for transposition/octaves, patch changes, default pitch bend, short sysex dumps, channel and CC filters, 1:1 event transformers, velocity curve, and more!
One thing I can’t seem to find is a way to set up zones for these layers based on MIDI note ranges.
It’d be a big time saving help if there were a pair of knobs or editable fields to put in the lowest and highest MIDI notes (a range) that the layer will pass through. Velocity based filters would be interesting as well.
With Cubase we get some options to accomplish this in the track inspector. I.E. Global/Track/Insert MIDI Transformers.
Unless I’m missing something, currently to set up keyboard splits and velocity layers we have to go into instruments and set up keyboard and velocity (or CC range based) zones there. Some instruments are better/easier at this kind of customization than others. and some even rely purely on the host to do such a thing at all (a few of the pure and simple acoustic piano plugins for example).
So, if there is already a way to have a layer filter a range of incoming MIDI notes based on pitch and possibly velocity as well, please teach me where it is. Otherwise, please consider this a Feature Request.
It’d be awesome to be able to use Live Layers to quickly throw together keyboard splits and crossfaded velocity layers with any mix/match of end-point instruments (VSTi or MIDI Port) at rehearsals and sound checks.
When hit with demands, or the inspiration to do this in the middle of a live rehearsal or stage sound-check there’s rarely enough time to dig deep into our instruments to build keyboard zones and velocity layers. If note and velocity range filters were somewhere in the MIDI Controls panel of a layer it’d only be half a dozen or so quick clicks to map out a keyboard and make some very rich and interesting multi-instrument layers.
