Note velocity to CC conversion
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 12:21 am
Hello,
I'm designing a synced light show for my band's live performance (triggered by midi file with our backing tracks). I'm using QLC+ routed via loopMIDI to Cubase to record MIDI data.
First I set the type to Note velocity as I thought its gonna be best one to edit in Cubase. Well, the routing worked allright, but when using too much continuous parameters (e.g. heads moving in a pattern, or continuous change of the dimmer on many lights) the Cubase started to get really laggy. I noticed, that as the note velocity cannot continuously change (as CC or Prog Change) it actually write down many many notes each with different value - they even overlapped thus creating a crazy big load of data. That's what was lagging the Cubase. So I change the QLC+ output the CC type and actually tried to overload it - as these are just points - which cannot overlap, it worked much better.
But - my issue is - I already have one song done and written down in Note velocity - I would like to somehow convert it to Control Change... I've already tried with Cubase (via the internal Logical Editor, or even some third party vst) - it converts the notes to CC numbers well even a lot of parameters are right, but there are a lot of "mistakes" making it absolutely mess - I believe the overlapping notes are just mess on itself, so the conversion cannot be done propely - BUT triggering the note velocity midi track from Cubase to my light converter it works as its supposed.... so my thoughts are - if I could just send the note velocity data bacl to QLC+ (exactly as it wrote down to Cubase before) - can I then "convert" the Note velocity to another track in Cubase ? When I tried to route it (cubase Note velocity track data -> midi in QLC+ - midi out QLC+ -> cubase control change track) it did't trigger anything. Can anyone have any idea how to solve this problem? (btw yeah I checked the proper setting of midi channels, and proper setting on qlc+ midi in (set to note velocity) and out (set to cc) as well as the routing in Cubase).
I would be really glad for any ideas, as I would like to avoid programming the whole song again.
Thanks
I'm designing a synced light show for my band's live performance (triggered by midi file with our backing tracks). I'm using QLC+ routed via loopMIDI to Cubase to record MIDI data.
First I set the type to Note velocity as I thought its gonna be best one to edit in Cubase. Well, the routing worked allright, but when using too much continuous parameters (e.g. heads moving in a pattern, or continuous change of the dimmer on many lights) the Cubase started to get really laggy. I noticed, that as the note velocity cannot continuously change (as CC or Prog Change) it actually write down many many notes each with different value - they even overlapped thus creating a crazy big load of data. That's what was lagging the Cubase. So I change the QLC+ output the CC type and actually tried to overload it - as these are just points - which cannot overlap, it worked much better.
But - my issue is - I already have one song done and written down in Note velocity - I would like to somehow convert it to Control Change... I've already tried with Cubase (via the internal Logical Editor, or even some third party vst) - it converts the notes to CC numbers well even a lot of parameters are right, but there are a lot of "mistakes" making it absolutely mess - I believe the overlapping notes are just mess on itself, so the conversion cannot be done propely - BUT triggering the note velocity midi track from Cubase to my light converter it works as its supposed.... so my thoughts are - if I could just send the note velocity data bacl to QLC+ (exactly as it wrote down to Cubase before) - can I then "convert" the Note velocity to another track in Cubase ? When I tried to route it (cubase Note velocity track data -> midi in QLC+ - midi out QLC+ -> cubase control change track) it did't trigger anything. Can anyone have any idea how to solve this problem? (btw yeah I checked the proper setting of midi channels, and proper setting on qlc+ midi in (set to note velocity) and out (set to cc) as well as the routing in Cubase).
I would be really glad for any ideas, as I would like to avoid programming the whole song again.
Thanks
Indeed if I won't find any solution to this I will have to redo the work. I mentiond the DAW I use for the better understanding of my issue, but the question I'm asking is absolutely related to QLC+ - so if I simplify the question and take away used DAW (it could be actually any, or even some PC midi player directly routed to QLC+ midi input) the question will be: