PC88 Made Easy
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17. Assigning a Slider to Arpeggiator Velocities
1.
Start with the Setup you created in tutorial #15. Press the Arpeggiator button, then
press the >> button 9 times to get to the Vel Mode parameter. Change the value to Ctrl
117.
2.
Hold the Controllers button and move Slider C. Press 117, then Enter to assign Arp
Vel for the slider. (You might want to check the Scale, Offset, and Curve parameters for
Slider to make sure they are at their defaults of 100%, 0, and Linear).
3.
Now hold some keys and move the slider up and down. The arpeggiated notes
increase and decrease in volume. The slider controls the velocities used for the notes
created by the arpeggiator. You could use this effect to fade arpeggiated notes in with an
non-arpeggiated layer.
You could create a similar end result by assigning the slider to MIDI volume for each
zone which uses the arpeggiator. However, there is a difference. If a single program
switched between different samples based on the velocity of the note, then using the
slider to control velocity instead of volume would let you switch between those different
samples in the arpeggio. (The PC88 programs donÕt do this, but you might have an
external module which does).
