Well, NI makes its own hardware controller for the B4 (the B4D). Personally, I've yet to use one but they claim that every parameter is accessed through this controller.

Right, I saw that one. Not too keen on buy xtra gimmicks though :)

My question is, if I want to manually (in Sonar) activate, for certain parts of a song, drive & rotor, which controller do I use (i.e. if I wanted to change volume I would use controller # 7, and so on).

Cheers,

M.

I'm not familiar with Sonar but when I use my hardware synths ie: Kurzweil K2500RS, Roland JV1080 (w/ the hiphop & vintage synth cards), Emu or Korg Triton rack, I don't have to worry about certain controller options (in Cubase SX) unless I have to edit them. Example: I activate the braking & other options/simulations for the Leslie w/ the mod wheel on my Roland A-70. At the same time, this data is of course being recorded in SX. I'm not sure what you're after in particular other than what I just elaborated on. Maybe someone else could pickup from here.

Right - I'll elaborate a bit more -

I have already recorded a midi file to Sonar (on my Kurzweil SP76) which is being output to the B4.

After rehearing the song I decided that I should add rotor & drive to certain bits, but not all the way through the song (otherwise I would simply leave the darn thing on :) ) -

I could use the ribbon controller for this (on the Kurzweil) which is usually set to modulation (and maybe the NI B4 understands modulation as the controller for the rotor, I haven't tried that one out). I wouldn't have to replay the whole thing, just record using "sound on sound" and use the ribbon controller when I had to.

The thing is: there is (or should be) a controller number assigned to turning the drive on and off (as there is for the rotor).

If I don't know what it is, using the ribbon controllers on the SP76 could trigger anything from modulation to the sustain pedal.

I think the doubt arises because the word controller can either mean the physical device (i.e. keyboard, etc.) OR the parameter itself (as in "volume is controller # 7").

Cheers...

Marcus

So in other words...it sounds like you want to "punch-in" this controller data (without affecting the original recording) within certain points in your song, right?

That is precisely what I plan to do.

I would imagine that the controller for modulation works for the rotor (as would any "continuous" controller in which you could assign values from 1 to 128 (or 0 to 127) )

However, I tend to think that the drive is activated by a controller which accepts two values (0 or 1), much akin to the hold or sustain pedal. Unless of course, you could further control the drive levels , etc, dynamically.

I could, of course, on my kurzweil, assign EVERY single possible controller # to the second control pedal and see which one (if any) does the trick.

Just hoping someone had deciphered that one before.

:)

Cheers,

M.

There is a list of the controller assignements in the manual. I had to look for it myself when I set up my K2500 to use the "drawbars"in B4 from the controller sliders on the K2500. I assigned the switchs on the 2500 to operate the percussion and vibrato on/off controls as well. I set the expression pedal to control the speed changes of the Leslie as well. I suppose u could assign one of your control wheels to control the drive parameter if you know enough about programing your keyboard.