Laying Out Controllers on a Keystation III

Now the middle row if the group B controllers is where I usually put pitch and LFO related controllers.



GROUP B Second Row

All controllers set to Global Channel 0

B18 CC129 Coarse Tune

B19 CC130 Fine Tune

B20 CC128 MSB 0 LSB 0 Pitch Bend Sensitivity 0-24 semitones. Default value 2 Min val. 0. Max val. 24.

B21 CC141 MSB 0 LSB 2 Master Coarse Tuning +/- 24 Semitones Min. val 24. Max val. 84

B22 Master Fine MSB 0 LSB 1

B23 CC16 System Controller 1

B24 CC17 System Controller 2

B25 CC131 Channel Aftertouch



The three rotaries B23 - B24 cover the two system controllers and aftertouch. These are used as modulation sources along with the pitch and mod wheels, and polyphonic aftertouch. The modulation matrix however, can only be activated and edited by sysex, which is beyond the keystation. A future project for the BCR2000 me thinks. But I'll park them here till I get around to them.

Third Row

All controllers set to global channel 0
B10 CC5 Portomento Speed
B11 CC84 Portomento Control

B12 CC1 Modulation

B13 CC7 Volume

B14 CC11 Expression

B15 CC10 Pan

B16 CC91 Reverb Send

B17 CC93 Chorus Send



I like generally to place portomento, panning and effects controllers on the bottom row of group B.
The modulation, pitch and expression controllers are here only, because they are the most useful controllers out of whats left. I will need to do some more experimentation, to see if there is a more useful function for these. Prehaps a set of the vibrato controllers with the values limited to +2/-2 in value to try and introduce some "analogue wobble" to synth type waves. Although, the PMA's sine wave only LFO's may limit this.