Hello!
A couple of years ago I built a four manual organ console (pic below - solid oak, Doepfer MKE x4 ++ and Fatar keybeds - please do not laugh at the ugly organ bench made from Ikea furniture shelves
- the project is by no means finished, but it's very a playable organ console). I also bought a full AGO pedal set for it.
In reality it's only a giant four manual MIDI-controller with a full 32 set of pedals to go with it. I thought that the console might be ideal to work as a controller for a GX-1-like setup using the CS80V as sound source. The sound and voices of the GX-1 is one thing (thanks to all who post patches and stuff related to the GX-1!) - but I would like to play the thing in real-time - i.e. two polyphonic manuals, one solo-synth (the third manual) and the bass-pedal stuff. I would also look at the posibility of coupling manuals by MIDI-switching. All the 32 thumb pistons on my console send MIDI-messages. Later I will also add ten toe pistons and three volume pedals.
I just bought the latest V-collection. My current DAW is Cubase 7.5 (no - I did not like the floating transparet GUI stuff of the newer versions of Cubase so I'll stick to it for now)
I've been experimenting with the multi-mode on the CS-80V, but it seems to restrict the polyphony - is there any way around this?? If I could use it on MIDI-channel 1-4 I'd be happy.
The other obvious way is to fire up four instances of the CS-80V and assign it to four different MIDI-ports. I'd rather not - as it would require three more 10 meter long MIDI-cables (the console is situated at the opposite side of my music room). I of course dedicate one of my MIDI-interfaces to it - the Edirol UM550 has enough ports to support the organ. Anyways - it will mean a lot of hazzle setting up for multiple MIDI-ports from the console - I would also have to reassign and build up the organ software from scratch (Hauptwerk).
Any other ideas out there??
Best regards!
Eivind
Oslo, Norway
