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[alexis]

Hi - Page 43 of the JS2 manual suggests, I think, that there is a way to control the overall song power level. In SX3, I know how to draw automation curves for each individual MIDI track, but not for the song as a whole .

Can someone point me towards that "whole song" automation track please?

The reason I'm asking is that I'd like to force JS2 to follow the emotion of the song, set more by the chords, rhythm, and choice of instruments than by changes in song volume.

Thanks!
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Alexis
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[Ralph [RZ]]

Put the envelope in the Jamstix 2 MIDI track.
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Ralph Zeuner
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[alexis]

Excellent, thanks!

Edit:

I'm having a hard time figuring out why the drums get really soft in "Jam with MIDI", and I think it's because I don't have a good feel for where the sounds "go".

If I want to Jam with JS2, the user manual says:

1) Add Jamstix to your project.
2) Make sure you have a MIDI track with output = Jamstix. What should the input be?
3) Enable "input Echo" or "Input Monitoring" of the MIDI track I'm guessing that's the littl orange/brown speaker icon?
4) Set Jamstix to "Jam with MIDI".

I put an automation envelope in a Jamstix track, but the volume I got when I "Jammed with MIDI" didn't seem to follow it. I could have trouble shooted further by turning off my Cubase VST instruments and just listening to the MIDI coming in from my synthesizer to see if that was what was being followed, but I didn't think of that till just now.

I think part of the trouble is I'm confused about how many Jamstix MIDI tracks I should have open when I'm jamming with MIDI - there's the one Ralph refers to in this thread, and there's also the one on page 17 of the manual: "Jamstix outputs all its notes as MIDI to the host. This means ... you can record the output of Jamstix to a MIDI track in your host...".

Should there be 1 Jamstix MIDI track or two? If one - input and output to JS2? If two tracks, if someone could help me with the Input and Output on each, and which one to draw the automation curve, I'd be very grateful.

Thanks!

Can someone help me out please with the bits in red above, and also which "MIDI track" Ralph are you saying to put the envelope in (your post just above this one)?

Thanks -
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Alexis
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[Ralph [RZ]]

[alexis]

Thanks, Ralph.

The track I put the automation on (as above) - what should the input and output be (Jamstix, synth, etc.).

Also, would I just need that one JS track open, or another one also (my reading of the manual makes me wonder if I need two, as above).

Thanks -
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Alexis
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[Ralph [RZ]]

[alexis]

[alexis]

OK, I spent hours on this single problem yesterday, here's what I found out:

1) When I right clicked on the volume/power knob in JS2, I found that it's "Velocity" function had been assigned to "None". The only way I could make things work was by assigning it to "Controller 7". Assigning it to Controller 6, or Controller 8, or even 2 or 10, or even to "Power" didn't work!

I didn't see anything in the manual about making this assignment. I'm guessing that it's not how it comes out of the box, so somehow in my sleep I must have reassigned it.

Though I'm happy I at least got it working so that an automation curve will adjust the power knob, I'm worried a bit that I might have done this "wrong", in a way that might lead to instability later:

1) Why is Controller 7 the only one in my setup that will allow the Power/Velocity knob to respond to MIDI automation? Is Controller "Power" supposed to be the one?

2) In addition to Ralph's suggestion to use "Jam - no input", I found that "Jam with MIDI" was able to read my automation for volume/velocity just as well. Is there something under the hood that makes "Jam with MIDI" not as good at this?

Thanks in advance for any help!
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Alexis
JS 3.6.1x64; Cubase 7.5.40 64 bit; i5-4570 3.2GHz, 16GB RAM; W7 SP1 64-bit on Samsung SSD 840 Pro 256GB; Seagate 1TB SATA 600 Audio Drive; UR28M; Motif8; UAD-2 Solo, BCF2K; TC Helicon VoiceOne; RevoicePro3