I've been hammering mine a fair bit over the last couple of months, (alongside playing a lot of piano once again, which is a slight curve ball given I'd brought the Linnstrument to move away from that). I think the newer ones have a raised bit on each C to improve positional feel. Thanks Roger for designing and Geerts for doing the code. I now have 4 channels of the Linnstrument going into 4 Dixie II+, 4 x Polaris, 1 x Quad VCA. Not using gated aftertouch did not fix it so I reverted back to firmware 1.6 and it's now working no problems. This would cause the FH-1 to hang after playing a few notes on the Linnstrument. I installed this to use the gated after touch as thought that would be the solution, but no. Second - the latest firmware (1.7) of the FH-1 does not work for this. And took a lot of hunting both here and on YouTube to find out you need to do this. Then saved the FH-1 settings as a preset and changed it to auto load. To do this I remapped the faders to the smoothing CCs, split screen and then increased to smoothing till it went away. Otherwise there is nasty crackling sounds. And I say this as some one who knows how to code.įew things - to make the Pressure work as a gate you need to apply smoothing to the output. The Fh-1 is the most confusing module I have ever encountered. Am not actually using all 4 channels either so might reconfigure this as like the idea of having one FH-1x for Fader's. I have them set up as 8 channels of CV/ Gate/ Pressure/ Mod. You do need a power cable for the Linnstrument for this to work.Ĭonnecting to Eurorack was confusing. The nanoPlug works great and is small So Linnstrument/ iPhone/ nanoPlug is now my portable noodle tools. And the dongle with two lightning ports only supports headphones and power at the same time, not headphones and midi. The camera dongle works but then you can't listen on headphones because there is no f***ing jack. The UI and menu structure is very intuitive.Ĭonnecting to an iPhone 7 required buying a Korg nanoPlug so that I could get MIDI in AND listen to what I was doing at the same time. The Linnstrument is just much more logical to me. I came to this world as a self taught guitarist with little to no piano skills and have always felt frustrated with controllers. So my Linnstrument arrived a week ago and have been playing around with getting it connected to both VSTs, iPhone and Eurorack.įirst impression is that this is an amazing controller. I hope this was understandable at all, a bit tired in here. So as long as you have a converter that can translate at least SOME CC messages, you will easily be able to map Linnstrument to work with it. So you'd be missing one "dimension" in either case, but that something would apparently be either Y-axis or Z-axis on the Polyend as it has a fixed velocity mapping for one channel, and your choice of control on the QMI as it looks like you can configure it a bit more.įWIW you can easily configure the Y- and Z-axis movements on Linnstrument to output any CCs (and Z-axis aka pressure can output aftertouch or poly aftertouch as well). To get the full range out of something like Linnstrument or Seaboard you'd really need per channel pitch CV, gate and _3_ control outputs: key velocity on one, the other two can be either aftertouch + CC or two CCs (Y slide, Z pressure). pitch CV, gate, and 2 control outputs that support some combination of key velocity, aftertouch and CCs depending on the unit. It seems both the QMI and Polyend (and FH1 I think as well?) have 4 outputs per channel, ie. Nopes, aftertouch is its own MIDI message type, like note-on or pitch bend. ![]() And you can have two splits with separate settings / channels (not sure how useful it would be on a 128, but really convenient on the bigger model). The special MPE mode is basically only standard MIDI with note per channel, but you can switch it to normal polyphonic MIDI. Yeah, it works as a bog standard MIDI controller, either via hardware MIDI ports or USB. Takes practise to get to the same level as with keyboards for me, but that isn't surprising - and some things are faster or more intuitive to play from day one (some less). I've noodled with bass and keyboard instruments for quite a long time now (no formal education or lessons so far) and felt it was natural to start playing with the Linnstrument. Hard to say about how quick it is to pick up in general. I believe it can be used as a standard midi controller as well, right? Say I just want to hook it up polyphonically to 4 cv-gate pairs? Would I pick up the linnstrument more quickly? Geremyf wrote:Truth is I don't play keys anymore than noodling.
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