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Audio and MIDI Settings

Depending on your machine you should choose, for a given sampling frequency, the smallest

buffer size that allows you to keep real-time for a reasonable number of voices of polyphony.

8.2

MIDI Configuration

8.2.1

Selecting a MIDI Device

The list of available MIDI inputs appears at the bottom of the

Audio Setup

dialog. Click on the

Audio MIDI Setup

button located in the lower right corner of the

Settings

view and then click on

the checkbox corresponding to any of the inputs you wish to use.

8.2.2

MIDI Channel Volume and Expression Controller

The MIDI channel volume and expression controller (MIDI CC number 7 and 11 respectively)
messages received by

Chromaphone 3

can be used to control gain parameters, and therefore the

output volume, just before the multi-effects processor of each layer and after the global multi-
effects processor. These controllers are enabled in the

MIDI

section of the

Settings

view which is

opened by clicking on the

Settings

tab located in the right of the utility section at the top of the

interface.

The expression controller is set by default to control the gain parameter located before the

multi-effects processor of each layer. This could be used, for example, to control the output volume
of the synthesizer, but without loosing the tail signal from a reverb. In order to enable this controller,
click on the

Pre-Effects Output Gain

option.

The channel volume controller is set by default to control the gain parameter located after the

global multi-effects processor. In order to enable this controller, click on the

Post-Effects Output

Gain

option.

Both the Pre and Post-effects gains can be assigned to other controllers. In order to change

the assignment, use the drop-down menu corresponding to these gains to choose another MIDI
continuous controller. Alternatively one can click on one of the

Learn

buttons which will link the

corresponding gain parameter to the controller sending the next MIDI CC message received by

Chromaphone 3

.

8.2.3

Creating MIDI Control Assignments

Every control on the

Chromaphone 3

interface can be manipulated by an external MIDI controller

through MIDI control change assignments or MIDI links.

In order to create a MIDI control assignment:

On the

Chromaphone 3

interface, right-click/Control-click on a control (knob, button) and

select the

Learn MIDI Assignment

command.

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