Keyboard note as a piston

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Keyboard note as a piston

Post by Wisher » Mon May 12, 2025 10:30 am

Is it possible to have a note(s) (say the very bottom ones) to act as a piston, please?

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Re: Keyboard note as a piston

Post by Jim Henry » Tue May 13, 2025 11:48 am

That is a sensible suggestion. Making the assignment of the functions more flexible is on the to do list although I don't know when we will get to it or what it might look like.

In the meantime I would suggest that you route your keyboard input through the free MIDI-OX utility and then remap the desired keys to Program Control (PC) messages in MIDI-OX.

Let me know if you need help with doing that.
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Re: Keyboard note as a piston

Post by Wisher » Wed May 14, 2025 10:07 am

Thanks so much. I’ll look at that and get back to you if I get stuck!

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Re: Keyboard note as a piston

Post by moonskin » Sun Sep 07, 2025 5:10 am

Hi

Just configured the bottom 20 notes of my top keyboard to activate pistons 21-40. The rest of the keys are normal notes that play the second touch stops. Pistons 1-20 are handled by the computer keyboard. (The rest of the pistons on the fallboard(?) are currently non-functional. I may decide to remove them)

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