On this page you will find some very old MIDI-oriented VST plugins I made with SynthMaker back around 2008-2010. I provide no support for these and as far as I know you can't even download SynthMaker anymore, but I occasionally get emails about them so here they are.
CC Cycler is a simple plugin that sends a MIDI control change (CC) message every time it receives a note on message. The CC values (shown as a number from 0-127) cycle from left to right. If the switch under a CC value is set to “off” then that value will be skipped.
Floor Control is a plugin designed to allow you to configure a MIDI foot controller on a per-project basis. It accomplishes this by using a single configuration on the controller and remapping it.
Since it’s mostly intended to be used with guitar and an FCB1010 (what I use it for) it has one mono in and 5 mono outs. It’s probably got a load of other applications though.
Setup: The plugin expects that you’re sending MIDI notes 36-45 (C0-A0) from the foot switches 1-10. In this way the ‘switches’ on the interface correspond with the physical switches on the FCB1010. (of course, you can also send these notes from any other source)
That means you would want to set up a bank on your FCB1010 that only has these notes assigned to the footswitches.
The plugin does not attempt to remap the expression pedals, so you can set these up however you wish (I have them set to the same 2 CCs for each foot switch)
Use: Each of the switches can be assigned a CC and/or any one of the 5 outputs. The little horizontal toggles turn the CC/output functionality on/off for each switch.
The CC can either be held as long as you hold the switch, or toggled with each press of the switch.
The Outputs can operate in parallel or switch mode. The main ‘switch’ operates independantly of the parallel on/off switches. These outputs can also be held or toggled. IE - a ‘hold switch’ output will switch the main output channel as long as it is held, a ‘toggle parallel’ will turn the output on/off every time it is pressed.
WARNING - if you change the output mode of a switch while it is turned on (the little horizontal toggle) you may get some unexpected behaviour. I plan on fixing this at some point, but for the time being, make sure the output toggle is turned off before modifying the output functionality of a switch. If you really can’t wait, download the SynthMaker demo and the schematic from my website, and fix it yourself ;) (send me the new schematic and I’ll update my versions as well)
Turn the switchs on and off to enable and disable different MIDI messages.
Note Cycler is a simple plugin that cycles through a list of notes. It sends the next note every time it receives a note on message. The notes cycle from top to bottom, first the left column and then the right.
The notes are set by clicking and dragging on them, and you can also set the velocity of the notes or choose to use the velocity of the note that triggered it. If the switch next to a note is set to “Off” then it will be skipped.
If you have questions or problems you can message me at the KvR Audio forums at http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/ my username is glurgle.
Acts like the octave transpose buttons commonly found on MIDI keyboards, but controllable via an arbritrary CC number. Assign one CC to ‘step up’ and another to ‘step down’.
SuperTran is a simple transposition plugin. It works with data on two midi channels. The control channel should be fed MONOPHONIC melodies or basslines, and the source channel can be fed anything (although a common use would be patterns based around on a single root note). The notes on the source channel will be transposed so they are the same distance from the root note as the last note received on the control channel. For example, feeding a repeating pattern based on C3 on the source channel, and an E3 on the control channel, the source channel will be transposed 4 semitones to be based around E3. It’s actually fairly simple in practice.
Please note that supertran will NOT restrict your notes to any scale, so you will end up with a lot of out-of-key notes if you don’t use a plugin such as NDC’s MIDIForce2Key after it.