Tabla,
And decent DAW allows for midi-automation, usually visualized in some window or other by ‘lanes’ in which you can not only see what type (and amount) of midi-automation is present, but where you can also create new midi-automation by ‘drawing it in’.
(These automation lanes often appear below the track they apply to, or in some DAW’s, as semi-transparent overlays. So if you’re working on a Pianoteq track, there should be a button, or a shortcut, or some menu command somewhere that makes those midi-automation lanes appear.)
I don’t know which DAW you’re working with, but check your manual and I’m sure you’ll find all you need to know about the particular implementation of midi-automation in your DAW.
Once you’ve done that, it’s simply a matter of assigning a midi-controller to Pianoteq’s ‘Condition’ parameter. By far the easiest way to do this, is to right-click on the parameter, then click on the ‘midi’-button which will bring up another button that says “Assign midi event”. If you then click that, Pianoteq will wait for you to move some hardware midi-controller (some fader, knob, dial or whatever) and as soon as you do that, the controller which you moved/turned/touched will be ‘connected’ to that parameter. Takes three seconds to do.
But since you don’t seem to have a keyboard at the moment (which is a bit strange for a Pianoteq-user, if I may say so), you’ll have to proceed another way:
(1) go to ‘Options, and click it
(2) select the first tab (‘Midi’)
(3) in the lower half of that tab you’ll see ‘Current Midi Mapping’ and next to that, a drop-down menu where you can select either ‘Minimalistic’ (which shows only a basic set of parameters) or ‘Fully featured’ (which shows them all).
(4) Either of those two options will show you column of controllers (left colum) and a column of parameters (right column). I would suggest you choose the ‘Fully featured’ option, if only because that allows you to avoid messing with the default midi-automation of the main parameters.
(5) Scroll to a parameter (right column) which you know you won’t be using in your session. (In your case, any will do, I suppose, since you will only be working with one controller modulating one parameter.) Anyway, click whichever parameter field you chose, and then click ‘Set parameter’, after which you navigate to ‘Instrument Condition’ which offers two sub-options ‘Condition’ and ‘Condition Seed’. Select ‘Condition'.
Now you’ve got your target parameter assigned, and the next step is to define a controller which will automate that parameter. (By the way, don’t confuse ‘controller’ with hardware controller. ‘Controller’ — or midi-controller — in this context, simply means a specific midi variable which can be set to ‘control’ a parameter.)
(6) Move to the left column, click ‘Controller ##’ (it won’t say ‘##’ but you’ll see some number instead), and then, from the drop-down menu, select and click ‘Control change’ which brings up a long list of available midi-controllers. Choose one, but I would strongly advice to pick one of the higher numbers, because most of the lower numbers are often hard-wired to perform specific functions (either in your DAW or in Pianoteq). Anyway, let’s say you picked Controller 109. A fine choice.
What you have accomplished at this stage is that midi-controller 109 will automate Pianoteq’s ‘Condition’ parameter. And now it’s only a matter of you drawing in midi-controller 109 data in your DAW. Again: check your DAW’s manual: find out which is the tool to draw midi-controller data with, find out how to open those ‘automation lanes’ and then simply draw a line or a curve or whatever. The higher the curve goes, the higher the value of Pianoteq’s ‘Condition’-parameter will be.
And if, after all this, you then play back your Pianoteq-track you should — if you did all the previous steps correctly, that is — hear the ‘Condition’-parameter change depending on the curve or line which you drew.
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EDIT: I just re-read your post and noticed that you're working with Logic. Me too.
Here's one of several ways of how to do it in Logic:
(1) Record, or step-input, or pencil in a piano track. (I mention the latter two because I don't see how else you would enter midi info in Logic, without a keyboard.)
(2) Double-click the resulting region, which should bring up the piano-roll editor (or whatever it is called these days)
(3) Enable Hyper-draw (under the 'View'-menu). However, when enabling Hyper-draw make sure to do it for controller 109. You do that by clicking 'Other ...' in the HyperDraw submenu and then selecting 'Controller 109' from the available list.
(4) This will bring up an empty area below the piano-roll area in which you can draw (and/or edit) lines and curves to your heart's content. You can easily verify if you're drawing in the correct controller data because the number of the controller — in this case '109' — will be shown in the top-left corner of the drawing area.
Done!
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Last edited by Piet De Ridder (18-09-2015 08:19)
