Cc2switch is a free midi tool which transforms CC events
to Note On / Note Off events suitable to control articulation for many software samplers.
It is implemented as command line tool without any graphical user interface. Nevertheless it is a fully functional midi processor with no noticable delay and easy to use. It can be considered as a case study, to get feedback for a future application with a modular architecture and a graphical user interface.
The options are described in the ReadMe file.
Cc2switch can be used to transform the signal from one of the two bend plates to keyswitch notes. Thereto the
desired bend plate has to be configured to send control change rather than pitch bend midi events.
If you start Cc2switch, you will be first asked to select the midi input port connected to the
EWI. The windows version will then ask you to select the midi output port. You will need a good virtual midi cable in order to send the midi signal to another application. This is a pseudo driver which mirrors the incoming midi signals back to the computer instead of sending it to a hardware midi interface. I made very good experience with the free Midi Yoke cable. I had problems with the LoopBe cable. It has a protection mechanism which consider large CC streams to be midi feedback. If this happens, the signal will be muted.
The Mac OsX implementation is different as it creates a virtual midi input node named 'Cc2switchInterface' itself.
This node can be selected as midi input from the main application. Therefore the user is not questioned for a midi
output port.
It has to be mentioned that Cc2switch
cannot be used properly together with Garage Band, as it is not possible in Garage Band to select or filter the midi input. Thus the unprocessed midi input from the EWI will allways be mixed with the processed midi output from Cc2switch
Installation
No installation is needed! Just extract the zip file and run the executable.
System Requirements
Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista or
Mac OsX.
NOLOOPS © 2007 by
Jan Hofmann