MIDI - Mod wheel ?

[Spandau-Staaken]

Hi,

Been at this game for years but when it comes to MIDI, I've really only been involved in the basics.

So hoping someone can help on this ;

I am using a Evolution MK249 MIDI keyboard with REASON 4 ....

They Keyboard is working great, as is the Pitch Bend wheel, and most of the controls (ie.. transpose, octive, etc).

However, the Modulation wheel is not causing any action in REASON ..... No effect to the audio, and also, no visible movement of the Mod wheel, on the reason Synths.

Can anyone advise how I 'set up' this Modulation Wheel, to work with the synths in reason ?

I am using just the standard USB MIDI drivers in Win XP - no special Evolution drivers ..... could that be the issue?

Thanks in advance.

[Matt_Moose]

if everything else works from the synth, kinda suggests the mod wheel is broken...

[Zukan]

A midi filter could be on.

Record the mod wheel event and check in the sequencer's event editor to see if any cc values have been transmitted.

Pitch and mod wheels are usually default assigned so you shouldn't be having any problems using them, but to be on the safe side, run the midi event test.

[Martin Walker]

And just in case you are a REAL beginner, the modwheel generates MIDI controller #1 data.

Martin

[Ed_J90]

You can open one of your soft synths and see if the mod wheel is assigned in that sound?!?

You can then assign it to do whatever you want in most synths....

the other thing is it could be broken too follow zukans lead....

[ef37a]

A filter sounds most likely.

That is the way I disabled my pitch bend wheel in Cubase.

Dave.

[Spandau-Staaken]

Thanks for the pointers, folks.

There's no movement of the Mod Wheel in any synths that use it in Reason, so it may be broken, or it may be a filter.

I'll have a deeper dig tonight and see if I can bring it to life!

This could be the excuse to invest in a nice new MIDI keyboard - the MK249 is ancient!

[Mixedup]

I rarely use Reason, but presumably it has a MIDI in meter that tells you if the computer is receiving a signal when you do anything on your keyboard? If not, the freeware MIDI OX utility will do that for you. Move the Mod Wheel. If that shows activity, the issue's in your Reason setup (MIDI filters/mappers etc). If not the issues's with the keyboard - filters or faults.

[Martin Walker]

I was just about to suggest the same thing MixedUp - MIDIOX is a lifeline in situations like this, since you just open the relvant MIDI input, start wiggling keys, knobs, buttons, faders, and wheels, and see what MIDI data is coming out.

It's freeware, and downloadable from www.midiox.com

Martin

[Spandau-Staaken]

Thank you very much folks.

By using the above approach, I found that no MIDI signal was coming out of the keyboard (with no filter issues).

So a hardware fault, and a new MIDI controller required!