Ah I see, so you essentially want a permanent thunder mode. Yeah I could get behind that
As a workaround, you can freeze pedal assignments and set the Thunder Pedal to depressed by clicking on it in the UI. This will keep the Thunder active as you change between instruments.
Slight correction: not permanent, but tied to the preset. See how the Celeste pedal currently works: there is a parameter to _reverse_ it, basically making it always on (unless pressed). So yeah, in that sense "permanent". Bug again, tied to the preset. If I switch to another preset, it should have pedal assignments and states according to that preset instead. I hope I'm explaining this clearly enough. Thanks for taking interest in the topic everyone, and I hope I'm not the only one with this use case.
To elaborate on the use case, this would allow for example creating "djent piano" presets (and others more stylized/effect ones), where many parameters are adjusted for the specific case of Thunder pedal being ON. I have been listening to Tigran Hamasyan a lot lately...
]]>As a workaround, you can freeze pedal assignments and set the Thunder Pedal to depressed by clicking on it in the UI. This will keep the Thunder active as you change between instruments.
]]>Go to Options -> Midi -> swap the range parameters for the control set to the thunder pedal
Sorry maybe I misunderstood something, but I think this the same thing that was suggested above. As stated in my reply, this did not set the Thunder mode enabled by default, at least I didn't manage to make it do that.
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I tested the range inversion in the MIDI mappings, but this did not set the Thunder mode enabled by default.
The goal here is to have it enabled by default, immediately when you load the preset, without having to touch any pedals. Basically this would allow creating presets where the Thunder mode is expected to be _always on_, just like for the Felt presets the Celeste pedal is always on ("Reverse the celeste pedal" box is checked).
If you want to use the standalone app, in absence of this functionality, what you can do is write a startup script ( here I list the sequence for Mac OS, similar logic would work on windows
1) setup IAC virtual driver (on Mac) or loopmidi (on Windows) and make sure Pianoteq listen to the virtual device
2) create a bash script to be launched in command line ( it can be associated to an icon on the desktop that contains the following instructions :
open -a /Applications/Pianoteq\ 9/Pianoteq\ 9.app
while ! pgrep -xq "Pianoteq"; do
sleep 0.2
done
sendmidi dev "DRIVER" cc CCnumber 127
where DRIVER is the name of the virtual driver seen by the system ( IAC , midi loop or other )
The loop is to make sure pianoteq is fully launched as the open command is asynchronous.
the 127 value being sent to the CC number will press the thunder pedal down at startup
I tested the range inversion in the MIDI mappings, but this did not set the Thunder mode enabled by default.
The goal here is to have it enabled by default, immediately when you load the preset, without having to touch any pedals. Basically this would allow creating presets where the Thunder mode is expected to be _always on_, just like for the Felt presets the Celeste pedal is always on ("Reverse the celeste pedal" box is checked).
]]>Bumping this request.
As far as I know , you can invert any pedal by inverting the range in the midi option so instead of 0 , 1 enter 1, 0
Note : enabling the on by default is not equivalent to inverting the pedal .
Enabling the on by default semantically, means that the pedal is fully depressed at startup ( which can achieved scripting in a DAW) but the pedal keeps its normal behaviour .
Inverting the value , is a trick that sets the pedal on by default , but the behaviour of the pedal is different as inverted
Hope it helps
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