Set Midi Keyboard to MONO to play Volca Keys

[moog-lover]

Is there a way to set Set Midi Keyboard to MONO? I've read http://www.indiana.edu/~emusic/etext/MI ... IDI7.shtml, but I'm a bit confused. Maybe any software to force MIDI keyboard to use 1 voice?

I want to be able to use my midi keyboard as monophonic to play Korg Volca Keys (set in POLY mode).
Because UNISON mode sounds very wide to me sometimes. I would like to use just one oscillator.

[madtheory]

Can't be done. The controller keyboard doesn't determine that, the Korg does. But there's no mix control for the oscillators so you always hear both. Are there any mods to add a mix control?

[moog-lover]

For example, it is possible to use a software arppegiator, which would send notes individually (producing the arpeggio actually). But I though there could be some software solution to achieve a monophonic intention.

[meatballfulton]

MIDI has no concept of mono vs. poly, just notes on and off.

With all MIDI messages it's up to the receiving unit to decide what to do (or not to do!).

[moog-lover]

You are right guys. So, I just wonder if there is any midi vst utility to process midi input and send mono midi output...

[meatballfulton]

Just don't play legato????

Again, there is no such thing as "mono MIDI".

What you are asking for is a filter that would somehow sense a new note being played and generate a note off for the previous note. Then it would have to block the real note off seen when you release the first key. I've never heard of anything that could do that.

[tomorrowstops]

Just to reiterate - MIDI has nothing to do with mono or stereo. All the keyboard is doing is giving you a way to interface with what already exists on the synth. In this case, a polyphonic synth thats capable of unison. No mono on that one, and no way to alter that externally!

[Stab Frenzy]

Just play one note at a time.

[moog-lover]

In POLY mode is difficult to play one note at a time. You have to be extremely accurate

[Walter Ego]

Is there a way to set Set Midi Keyboard to MONO? I've read http://www.indiana.edu/~emusic/etext/MI ... IDI7.shtml, but I'm a bit confused. Maybe any software to force MIDI keyboard to use 1 voice?

I want to be able to use my midi keyboard as monophonic to play Korg Volca Keys (set in POLY mode).
Because UNISON mode sounds very wide to me sometimes. I would like to use just one oscillator.

Couldn't you just turn the unison detune to zero? Still sounds too wide? Seems a little weird.

Or maybe you should just have the Bass model instead? It's monophonic (with benefits).

[madtheory]

Are you mixing up stereo width, and polyphonic playing? So you need to play more legato? Most sequencers have an option to make all the notes legato, and with no gap or a gap length of your choosing. So record playing as you usually do, and then edit your performance that way. Or go practice some scales, and/ or the Hanon exercises.

Or is your problem that the sound is too "big" and you want to reduce it to two oscillators? You can easily add sockets to have a separate out for each one, they're labelled on the circuit board:
https://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/viewt ... ?p=1374202

[db0451]

Synth designers should make legato (by note overlap) optional, not compulsory. Some of them do not. That’s not MIDI’s fault.

Having said that, MIDI does have its own concept of poly and mono modes. But those are not equivalent to the question being asked here.

[pflosi]

Well, this is why people have both mono and poly synths...