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USING MICRO EXPRESS CONSOLE

message to be sent immediately following the

previous message in the list. This allows a group of

messages to be sent at once with a single up or

down movement of the pedal.

Figure 6-22: The pedal event sequence. Clicking the icon of an event

(inset) toggles its up/down status.

☛ Tip: you don’t have to always start the event

sequence with a “down” event. You can place an

“up” event as the ﬁrst in the sequence, if you like.

For example, in the pedal event list shown above,

the following would occur when the pedal is used:

MAKING CLICK-TO-MIDI SETTINGS

The click settings are similar to the pedal settings

except that only a single MIDI message can be

triggered. Also, there is no notion of “up” or “down”

since a click-to-MIDI message is triggered by an

audio source as opposed to a pedal input. For

example, you could send the signal from a

microphone into the “PEDAL” jack of the Micro

Express and mic a live snare drum. Using the click-

to-MIDI function of the Micro Express, the snare

drum signal can be converted into a MIDI note

message used to trigger another percussion sound

in a drum machine or sampler. This feature can be

used for many other purposes, too. Here are a few

ideas:

■ Recording the click’s tempo map into a

sequencer

■ Slaving a sequencer to an audio click track

■ Triggering drum samples

To make a click-to-MIDI setting:

1 Route the Pedal icon in the MIDI Routing

window to the desired output(s) (as demonstrated

in Figure 6-21 on page 47.

2 Access the Pedal window by double-clicking on

the Pedal icon and set Input type to “Click”.

Figure 6-23: The click settings, including the decay and threshold

settings.

3 Set an appropriate decay and threshold in the

Input settings section.

Decay is meant to prevent doubled attacks. The

decay is the amount of time the Micro Express will

wait before it begins scanning for another click. Set

the decay as high (long) as possible to prevent false

Pedal Action Result

Pedal down Program #57 gets called up on channel 1.

The volume gets set to 50 and then a note,

C3, begins to sustain.

Pedal up Note C 3 is silenced and program #3 is called

up, the volume is turned up and an E3 plays.

etc. etc.

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