On Sat, 2014-08-16 at 03:00 -0400, Tim E. Real wrote: > One can use the pitch wheel for something other than pitch. > It is per-channel. You can have up to 16 14-bit pitch wheels > (or knobs/sliders/etc), per interface, each routed to whatever you > want. > > You would just have to reserve some channels, or even a whole > interface.
It's wise to use several interfaces, even when using 16 channels only for averaged instrument playing MIDI events. However, I want to chime in to mention an issue, you perhaps miss. When sending pitch bend MIDI data, you likely will hear it in the audio signal. For my RME PCIe card I can hear mouse movements and MIDI pitch bend usage in the audio signal, if I send other MIDI events, e.g. much modulation wheel data it's audible too, but pitch bend by it's nature sends much data and most of it likely is unused data. At sane levels my sound card doesn't produce audible hiss caused by it's analog components, but there always is much audible digital noise, even when the computer is idle. I guess it was less loud when I used another PCIe slot, but there always is loud audible digital noise what ever slot I use. I experience/d the same with my TerraTec PCI cards on this machine and with my old mobo. IOW since Len wants to design a mixer control for usage with averaged computers and sound cards, it might be worth to keep in mind that everything that makes the computer work much, likely will be audible as noise in the audio signal. 128 steps for a fader are too less steps, but perhaps 256 or 512 already are enough. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev