Fairlight-CMI

Bear with me here, this is where my absence form playing keys is
going to  show.  I want to compose a piece using several voices. play it into
page R and at some point mix it down onto tape with more voices and
ornamentation.  

To do this, I need to create a System File with the required voices & settings.
Right? I've  got a system file containing KitLive11 and Piano Rock11 with
Choirmale13.

So far, I've managed to get a pattern in Page R. Now I want to
improvise to see what I can come up with while this rhythm is playing.  When I
play the piano part, the sequencer is also triggering the drum sounds. I ONLY 
want the kick drum and a Mid Tom from the sequencer while I play the piano 
part over the rhythm live.

My question is...HOW do I map the 2 drum voices to, say, the lowest 2
keys on the CMI leaving the remainder of the keyboard available for the piano
voice? 

Do I go into SC and map the keyboard there? I tried and I still get
both sounding together OR do I do this all with MIDI channel mapping?

Aside from this, after I get a piano groove going, I may want to add
ChoirFem to the project for ornamentation. ChoirMale I'd like to use as a bass
line in certain sections.  I'm just unsure how to go about all of this. My
experiments have led to frustration. 

Or, dare ask, am I asking too much of the CMI?  I don't think so
after hearing some of the things I've heard done with it. Or am I going
about this all wrong to start with?

Any advice greatly appreciated!

Thanks!!

Jerry

on 3/13/03 11:17 pm, Jerry at coasterdude02149@yahoo.com wrote:

Bear with me here, this is where my absence form playing keys is
going to  show.  I want to compose a piece using several voices. play it
into
page R and at some point mix it down onto tape with more voices and
ornamentation.  

To do this, I need to create a System File with the required voices &
settings.
Right? I've  got a system file containing KitLive11 and Piano Rock11 with
Choirmale13.

So far, I've managed to get a pattern in Page R. Now I want to
improvise to see what I can come up with while this rhythm is playing.  When
I
play the piano part, the sequencer is also triggering the drum sounds. I
ONLY 
want the kick drum and a Mid Tom from the sequencer while I play the piano
part over the rhythm live.

My question is...HOW do I map the 2 drum voices to, say, the lowest 2
keys on the CMI leaving the remainder of the keyboard available for the
piano
voice? 

Do I go into SC and map the keyboard there? I tried and I still get
both sounding together OR do I do this all with MIDI channel mapping?

Aside from this, after I get a piano groove going, I may want to add
ChoirFem to the project for ornamentation. ChoirMale I'd like to use as a
bass
line in certain sections.  I'm just unsure how to go about all of this. My
experiments have led to frustration.

Or, dare ask, am I asking too much of the CMI?  I don't think so
after hearing some of the things I've heard done with it. Or am I going
about this all wrong to start with?

Any advice greatly appreciated!

Thanks!!

Jerry



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Hi Jerry,
No your not asking to much of your cmi, it can be done on page 3, try this
out;
go to page 3, then select your first sound, set the range/split point at the
bottom of the screen on the small keyboard confirgurations, do the same for
all 3 voices and there you go, but remember all three sounds still take up 3
channels on page R. Or if your doing it over midi assign the same midi
channel number to all 3 voices.
Hope this helps
Gerald

Hi Gerald,

Thank you very much for the info! I plan to sit down this evening and try that 
out. Was too busy over the weekend to fire it up at all but it sounds easy 
enough. 

I have a series III so I'm thinking that Page 3 is the Real Time Effects page? 
Sounds it anyway from what you dexcribed for me to do.

Again, thank you for the post!

Jerry