posted 12 January 2016 07:54            

Can you control the Sound using the Fake Keyboard (from the Tools menu) or KymaControl?

posted 14 January 2016 06:25            

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Originally posted by JackMazzotti:
Yes the screen keyboard works. The continuum only plays from the middle of the keys and only does so sporadically. I know xyz is not a message but the xyz axis is sending out midi that I cannot map to faders unlike the wacom tablet or tablet on kyma control.

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Hi Jack,

Drop me an email at support@delora.com and I will try to work through the problem with you. I also have the latest Continuum beta firmware and am of course running with KymaConnect.

One question though: why are you using MPE and not the Continuum's native Kyma mode? The protocols are very similar but the Continuum's native Kyma mode has advantages.

posted 14 January 2016 20:44            

I don't know where the kyma mode is for the Continuum. Now if you can only make kyma audio connect too

posted 15 January 2016 05:51            

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Originally posted by JackMazzotti:
and it works even worse than static velocity

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posted 15 January 2016 10:00            

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Originally posted by JackMazzotti:
Yes the screen keyboard works. The continuum only plays from the middle of the keys and only does so sporadically. I know xyz is not a message but the xyz axis is sending out midi that I cannot map to faders unlike the wacom tablet or tablet on kyma control.

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What exactly are you trying to do? Is it to use the Continuum as a multitouch XYZ surface? If so then you have to make sure that Kyma is not treating the MIDI from the Continuum as either MPE or Continuum mode MIDI.

First you must select "MIDI Configuration" from the DSP menu. Look for the setting “Continuum and MPE compatible” and set it to NO. Next open up Kyma Preferences and then click on “Performance”. Make sure that the VCS MIDI setting is “Other”. These settings should disable special MIDI handling Kyma uses.

Now set your Continuum so that it is not in MPE or Kyma mode. You can choose what MIDI CC is used for the Y and Z axis; X will always use pitchbend, relative to the MIDI note corresponding to the initial touch, for the X-axis. The defaults of CC74 for Y and CC11 for Z are good choices.

Finally you must decide on the number of touches you want to handle and set the Continuum to that polyphony. However, keep in mind how the Continuum sends touch events. It uses one MIDI channel for each touch event. So if you want 2 simultaneous touches then your Kyma sound will have to react to channel 1 and channel 2. If you are trying to map touch XYZ to VCS parameters you will have to be sure an also assign the correct MIDI channel to each mapping.

Note that this is probably not going to work as expected unless you further configure the Continuum. The first touch event is not by default assigned to channel 1. It is assigned to the next available channel after the most recently still active touch event. If you want a predictable assignment like the initial touch is always channel 1 then take a look at the Continuum user guide as there are settings that influence how channels are allocated.

This gets you basic XYZ control but if you are also looking to trigger notes then this becomes much more difficult. You Kyma sounds will need to have internal MIDI routing to direct notes from different MIDI channels to different voices. This means that the MidiVoice sound can no longer be used to replicate nor assign voices to notes. At some point you may find it more productive to build your sounds around the built-in Continuum support.

Also be aware that the Continuum's XYZ output can sometimes produce surprises when you release a touch. The final resting value of X, Y, and Z are not necessarily the value your touch represented. I suggest playing with it to see what I mean. This is another area where the built-in Continuum support helps.

By the way, I suggest you reframe this thread into a question and post that on the Kyma7 Q&A. Other users would benefit I think. If you do that I'll provide an answer from what I have written here.