New TherAemin - MIDI Functions - What do YOU want?

Hi Fred,

[b]Congratulations on your marriage![/b]

- and best wishes to your wife for a quick recovery...

[i](...what is it about those 'Freds'?...)[/i]

Thank you Fairplay!
We have 5 children (2 teenagers by previos marriage, and 5,4 and 3 year olds) and have been together for nearly 7 years, so marriage was more of a public announcement than anthing else - and an excuse to have a big party with bouncy castles and more teens + children than adults! .. because of the size of our family, we rarely get to big social events - so it was great! I even managed to get away with playing a Theremin instead of making a speach! And kids really love Theremins!

FredM,
Very interesting set of questions.
1)I have thought about this in reference to the ThereMax and the PAiA MIDI board. I can control pitch in the Theremax MIDI board, but, I have to find a suitable patch on my Roland keyboard that allows 'PITCHBEND'. My Roland XP-10 has a pitch bend range adjustment of 24 semi-tones. Also, because the PAiA MIDI board does not send MIDI 'NOTE ON' info, I, must physically weight a key,(of an appropriate starting musical pitch),down to intiate a 'NOTE ON' MIDI message. The 'VOLUME' MIDI messages seem to generally apply to most voice patches.
I have never owned a MIDI generating Theremin that was manufactured by MOOG. I don't think MIDI could be implemented better on a Theremin, than the extensive treatment given to it by MOOG.
2)I would like at least a 'pitch null' baseline 'note on' MIDI message being sent to the slave instrument to achieve a lowest pitch reference for theremin control/play. Also, the ability to have pitch bend as well as semi-tone stepping would be sweet. Did I make some sense? I am not totally up to speed on MIDI funtionality ---sorry!

Good Luck, Fred!

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