Monthly Archives: April 2009

A few moments ago I added “johnseguin.com” as a forwarding site to seguinsound.com.  Hopefully, this will help folks easily find this site whether they remember the “seguinsound” name or not!

Give it a try!

I’ve had some major cosmetic updates to my studio, so I thought I’d redo most of the pictures for my site.  The one that I didn’t include, but is just fun anyways, is a newly installed track light as seen here in this blogpost.  It produced a more focussed and intense light on the areas that need it while casting very nice shadows on things that don’t!

As many folks know, in the MIDI protocol, there is actually a particular control number for volume which is CC#11.  However, in MIDI-speak this is called expression so as not to confuse anyone with the volume of a fader in a sequence.  However, in order to add life to your arrangements, it is often very practical to embed this expression information within the recording in real-time and then use the volume faders of your sequence to “balance” things later on in mix-down.

For a lot of folks, this is a mind-numbing process of drawing various shapes in some sort of editor.  For the luckier among us, our controller keyboard may have a port to plug in a continuous pedal of some kind.  Or, our keyboard may have some moveable faders that are hard-coded to transmit certain MIDI signals.  The question is: are any of these CC#11?  And if not, how can you “re-purpose” one to do this?

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