Pitch bender app

[Shaolin]

Hey all.

 

I've got a LK-S450 and was trying to investigate if there was any way to "add a pitch controller". I'm a newbie so please bear with me. From the midi chart in the manual I see that it can receive pitch bend, but I've also seen a couple of good conversations on this forum that talk about the GM engine and how the midi in is separate from the internal sound engine, so I'm not sure if that means that there's no way to actually affect the sound that is played.

 

I found this interesting app called smart pitch bend, and using a USB cable in the USB to host connector it identifies the keyboard but unfortunately it doesn't seem to impact the sound. True that there's a midi channel selector and I'm not sure which one should be selected (I've tried them all at this point anyhow I think).

 

Any input much appreciated! I was thinking that worse case maybe I cannot affect the sound that comes out of the keyboard but I can use the app and the keyboard as a midi controller with something like garage band.

 

Thoughts?

[Brad Saucier]

1 hour ago, Shaolin said:

I've also seen a couple of good conversations on this forum that talk about the GM engine and how the midi in is separate from the internal sound engine, so I'm not sure if that means that there's no way to actually affect the sound that is played.

 

This.  This is what you are experiencing.   I'm not aware of any software solutions for this.  

[Shaolin]

29 minutes ago, Brad Saucier said:

 

This.  This is what you are experiencing.   I'm not aware of any software solutions for this.  

Thanks Brad! I was afraid of it, thanks for confirming. I have to say that, fiddling around with the Midi Stage web app that was created by a member of the forum, I am able to introduce not pitch bend but other midi controls like modulation and octave pitch, sounding via the Casio speakers. Not sure if this may be because this great app is re-routing midi. I'm out of my depth here, but happy to see that moving a slider on the web app actually altered the sound of the keyboard. Maybe someone can explain better than me 

[hant7]

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