Good to see tips and tricks regarding the Arranger still coming in!
I´ve noticed every now and then that people are asking about midi foot controller recommendation for the OT, mainly regarding the pickup control.
I´ve mentioned Source Audio Soleman at that time since it can transmit Note Number. However, it is way more potent than that. Up until now I haven´t really looked into it. But I´ve just tested it and can now confirm that this pedal is also able to control the OT by the Arranger rows as well. Via the Soleman macro settings, the SPP can be defined via “data value 1” and “data value 2”.
In the macro editor window you have the choice of:
- CC#
- PC#
- Note ON
- Note OFF
- Pitch Bend
- SysEx
- Start
- Stop
- Continue
- Song Position
- Song Select
And as long as you don´t exceed 50 bytes, any combinations of above should be possible.
The Soleman is structured differently than any normal midi foot controller:
Scenes = 127 (could be thought as program changes, which is its setting at default).
(Set)List = 64 (where each, according to the manual, can consist of up to 90 Scenes in any order).
Macro = 127 (user custom messages of up to 50 data bytes each).
I use to think of the (Set)List as being the “top level” (i e song structure with different parts/scenes). However, the clever thing is that the Scenes doesn´t actually need to be Program Changes in its ‘transmission’, the options are:
Program Change
Note On
Macro
If Macro is choosen, what happens is that instead of transmitting a regular PC# or NN# the Scene selects internally any (127) Macro of your choice. That Macro can still transmit PC# (2 bytes) or choose an OT Arranger Row (which in itself could load the pattern of choice).