My guess would be as feline1 - the VSTi interface lets software interrogate the VSTi for a list of controllable things, and their parameters, and ranges. I should make the effort to read the spec, but with "learn" modes appearing in software and hardware, I'm getting lazy.

Novation's Nocturn control surface http://www.novationmusic.com/products/m...l/nocturn/, especially the software side, looks very interesting - for use with a computer though. And the product is inexpensive too. Were it not for the two dozen contols on my Fatar VMK-88+ sitting idle I would probably get one. But I'm getting lazy.

Well, not exactly. The more I create, the more I take the view music is not about sound or timbre in themselves, but about notes and the way they are expressed, of which timbre variations are one part. Hmmm.

I was programming up a little Doepfer knob box to use with Pianteq tonight.

It struck me that it would be handy if the Pianteq user guide had one of those standard format "MIDI Implementation Charts" in it, listing exactly what Pianoteq can respond to -

i was on the MIDI Manufacturers Association site,
and I noticed they've actually changed the format of the standard chart
it's on http://www.midi.org/techspecs/
as http://www.midi.org/techspecs/midichart2.pdf

I was gonna fill one out for my own reference (it soooo much handier to compare how devices will commicate when you have dozens of them in your studio!)
but it would be good to have an official one in the Pianoteq user guide for the next release.

In that case, you're limited to what you can right-click on the interface and get the 'learn' , which is pretty much everything but the various 'options', lid, output, diapason, temperament, velocity and eq.

I've mapped mine to an x-station and have found it very useful. I mapped 'unison width' to my (unsprung) mod wheel, 'cutoff' and  'q factor' to the xy pad, the spectrum profile to the sliders and the rest to various knobs. Very handy in performance.

What sequencer\wrapper are you using?

I'm at work right now so can't really search in-depth but will investigate further...

http://pzl.creartgraphics.nl/images/PTQ_interface.jpg

http://pzl.creartgraphics.nl/images/PTQ_2.jpg

I'm intrigued to know if, for instance, I can change the EQ curve with a series of sliders, as if it was a graphic EQ.

It think Doug means the P(iano)T(e)Q interface....

In Logic a plugin can be edited by using curves on which you set control points for certain values. If a parameter is available within the plugin there is access to it thru Logic's curve editing.... no need for sysex there.

In Pianoteq it seems that all values that can be chaged using sliders, can also be assigned to controller values....

I want to assign lots of variables to my Behringer BCR2000 so I will be able to do tweaking of sounds a lot easier.
What do you want to use to edit the controllers with?

cheers
Hans

How does Logic know about all this?
What's a ptq interface?
Are these things I can tweak using SysEx?

I don't think you can control anything that's not in the standard Pianoteq interface (such as harmonics above the 8th) though. And I also know that some of these parameters are not available to MIDI using just the ptq interface (anything under 'options' for example).

However I am wondering if this list is exhaustive?

It's just that you also seem to be able to right-click on the 8 overtone level controls in the "spectrum profile" panel, and set cc's for each other those?
Also for the 'dynamics' controller?

For those of us who'd like to really go to town on using external MIDI control,
it would be good to see a 'Standard MIDI Implementation' format chart of everything Pianoteq can respond to.
Also it might be handy to have a config page where all the MIDI controller assignments can be seen and adjusted all together, rather than having to always right-click on each one?