KeyStage 1.x Tutorial 5: Custom Translators — Transcript

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1. 0:04welcome to the fifth story of Key Stage
2. 0:07so in this soldier I'm gonna talk about
3. 0:08custom translators of Key Stage so
4. 0:11custom translators basically changes the
5. 0:13incoming midi signals in their note
6. 0:15signals or control change signals either
7. 0:18filter them or manipulate them into
8. 0:20other signals and you can assign special
9. 0:23functions like changing sections or
10. 0:25changing the pages of your PDF on these
11. 0:28signals so on key stage there are three
12. 0:31places where you can add custom
13. 0:32translators the first one is on parts so
14. 0:35you go to translators and custom
15. 0:37translators and there is this add
16. 0:38translator so this adds a new custom
17. 0:41translator to this part and that
18. 0:42translator only applies to that part and
19. 0:46another place where you can add custom
20. 0:48translators is on tracks with this plus
21. 0:51sign here and these translators
22. 0:53basically apply to all the parts
23. 0:55connected to this track and the third
24. 0:58place where you can add translators is
25. 1:01globally on the song itself well again
26. 1:04with this plus sign and these
27. 1:05translators basically apply to the whole
28. 1:08song all the parts on the song so let's
29. 1:10first talk about the basics of classroom
30. 1:12translators so let me create one on this
31. 1:14part so every custom translator has an
32. 1:17input and an output so you can choose
33. 1:19the inputs from a list here you can
34. 1:22choose any control change number or
35. 1:24these you know program change pitch band
36. 1:26but the easier way to do it is by
37. 1:29pressing this middle arm button so I
38. 1:31have my Novation controller here so
39. 1:33suppose I want to change the
40. 1:34functionality of this knob which sends
41. 1:37control change signal 21 to something
42. 1:41else so let's change the output to
43. 1:44volume so now this knob acts as a volume
44. 1:49on this part
45. 1:51and suppose on another part I want to
46. 1:54change the functionality to something
47. 1:56else so I create another custom
48. 1:58translator on this part by the way you
49. 2:01can see that see label over there that
50. 2:02means that that part has a custom
51. 2:04translator and it's active so let's also
52. 2:08change so now you realize that this 21
53. 2:11is on the top of this list so key stage
54. 2:14keeps track of all the custom translator
55. 2:16numbers that you have used so far and
56. 2:19basically orders them depending on how
57. 2:22frequent you use them so I'm again
58. 2:25choosing 21 and this time I want to
59. 2:27change its functional to modulation so
60. 2:33on this part this is knob controls
61. 2:36volume and on this part controls the
62. 2:40modulation
63. 2:42you
64. 2:46okay let's go into the advanced features
65. 2:48of cousin translators so I press this
66. 2:51advanced button here and the first thing
67. 2:54I want to talk about is this relative
68. 2:56control here so we have two parts and on
69. 3:00this part this controls the modulation
70. 3:03suppose I turn the modulation all the
71. 3:05way down and I switch to this section
72. 3:10once I move this knob the volume
73. 3:14suddenly drops down to this lower value
74. 3:17of this knob so this is a standard
75. 3:20problem with knobs and non motorized
76. 3:22faders now relative control basically
77. 3:24takes care of that problem so if I turn
78. 3:27the relative control on on both of these
79. 3:30translators now his stage keeps track of
80. 3:35the values of every parameter that goes
81. 3:38through this translator so there's this
82. 3:40that goes out of this track sorry so
83. 3:44there's the modulation signal and the
84. 3:46volume signal that I'm controlling right
85. 3:48now so this controls the volume
86. 3:54now the ovulation is all the way down
87. 3:59but it doesn't really change the
88. 4:02modulation it looks like doesn't change
89. 4:06modulation but it basically changes the
90. 4:08modulation relative to its current value
91. 4:10[Music]
92. 4:12so even if this knob is all the way down
93. 4:15if I switch back to this section it
94. 4:19basically continues from where it's left
95. 4:21off the volume and changes the value
96. 4:25accordingly and if the value of the
97. 4:29volume for example reaches to one of the
98. 4:31upper or lower lower limit so let's say
99. 4:33the upper limit is reduced to upper
100. 4:35limit a little bit so I increased volume
101. 4:43all the way up get here turn this knob
102. 4:46all the way down even if I create this
103. 4:50knob it doesn't change the volume you
104. 4:52cannot go up about the upper limit but
105. 4:54if I turn it down just reduce this the
106. 4:58volume so one way to use relative
107. 5:02control is using trade-out so one of the
108. 5:06cool feature for example if I turn the
109. 5:09volume all the way down and suppose I
110. 5:12have an initial volume of like 91 here
111. 5:16when I activate this section the volume
112. 5:19is 91 this fader cannot increase the
113. 5:22volume anymore because both the upper
114. 5:24and lower limits are 0 so it can only
115. 5:27decrease the volume so the optimal
116. 5:31output movements of this knob doesn't
117. 5:32affect anything but if I turn the volume
118. 5:35down it just fades out ok let's take a
119. 5:38look at other advanced functions let me
120. 5:40increase the volume up again so when
121. 5:44it's on relative control this slider
122. 5:46turns into speed so it basically changes
123. 5:49how fast this knob affects the volume
124. 5:51how fast it changes the volume when it's
125. 5:55the relative control is off this just
126. 5:57turns into curve factor just like the
127. 5:58velocity curve let me create another
128. 6:01part here and let me do demonstrates
129. 6:04this note translators so constant
130. 6:08translators can also change notes but
131. 6:10the advanced features basically changes
132. 6:13okay so I can't hear any notes because
133. 6:17block incoming signals is on so the node
134. 6:20signals are blocked here so I don't want
135. 6:23that I'm just gonna turn this on off and
136. 6:26suppose I also want to assign a
137. 6:29functionality to these nodes let's say
138. 6:32again let's change the volume so how
139. 6:35does this work so let's choose the
140. 6:37global range the lower range on my
141. 6:41keyboard and let's assign the upper
142. 6:44range the operator on my keyboard now
143. 6:48the lowest notes that I have here the
144. 6:51the c2 here signs note and also sends
145. 6:55the zero value for volume and this sends
146. 6:57the 127 value you can also use the
147. 7:04velocity value instead of the note value
148. 7:06so now instead of the node failure it
149. 7:09uses the velocity really to translate it
150. 7:11into a volume signal so let's change the
151. 7:14polarization take the Royal of upper
152. 7:17limit down and turn the lower limit up
153. 7:19so lower velocities basically results in
154. 7:22higher volumes and high Willis's results
155. 7:25in lower volumes so like just like that
156. 7:28[Music]
157. 7:33so the higher velocity basically turns
158. 7:36the volume all the way down
159. 7:42okay let's talk about these special
160. 7:44actions now now the input signal is this
161. 7:48knob here control change 21 and instead
162. 7:51of modulation I'm gonna go into these
163. 7:53special actions now I have a list of
164. 7:55actions that can be performed like
165. 7:58octave up opt out down or changing
166. 8:00sections or even changing the pages of
167. 8:03your major files that is connected to
168. 8:05this section let me demonstrate octave
169. 8:07up now whenever I choose a special
170. 8:10action you also have to define a trigger
171. 8:12condition so for control change numbers
172. 8:15you just have to define the trigger
173. 8:16range
174. 8:17so whenever the translator receives a
175. 8:19signal that matches this trigger range
176. 8:21that action is performed so for this
177. 8:23volume for this function so I'm gonna
178. 8:26take this trigger function all the way
179. 8:28up so let me demonstrate so I take the
180. 8:33all the way up again just keeps
181. 8:39increasing the octave so this is not a
182. 8:41really practical way to use the octave
183. 8:43up function but for example if I instead
184. 8:47choose note values and suppose I want to
185. 8:51do some kind of an Arabic arpeggiator
186. 8:53here and I want to assign the single
187. 8:56notes and also want to translate that
188. 9:00notes the octave of function so here is
189. 9:03what happens so every time I press III
190. 9:10that part just goes one octave up and
191. 9:13whenever I select a section or select
192. 9:16apart the octave just resets to the
193. 9:18center value
194. 9:21[Music]
195. 9:24one of the things that I've really
196. 9:26frequently do in my live setup is
197. 9:28assigning the next section function to a
198. 9:31note so for example if I'm using my
199. 9:34sustain pedal and I don't I cannot
200. 9:36really access to my next section pedal I
201. 9:39just assign one notes to move to the
202. 9:42next section let me create another
203. 9:44section and now so instead of octave up
204. 9:47I'm gonna choose this next section here
205. 9:49and suppose I want to assign this
206. 9:52f-sharp to move to the next section so
207. 9:57while I'm playing the moment i press
208. 10:02this note it just automatically moves to
209. 10:04the next section so let me demonstrate
210. 10:07one more net one more example about
211. 10:10spatial actions so suppose I want to
212. 10:13assign these two buttons here on my
213. 10:14keyboard to change the pages on my PDF
214. 10:17so I create translator a global
215. 10:19translator here and suppose this I want
216. 10:23this to be the next page so I press this
217. 10:26button to assign the input value and for
218. 10:30the special actions I just choose next
219. 10:32page and similarly I'm gonna assign this
220. 10:37function this button the previous page
221. 10:42previous page so let's go into the live
222. 10:46controls have this PDF file here assign
223. 10:59the same PDF file on all sections okay
224. 11:04so it looks like it where it's working
225. 11:05but the problem is when I press the
226. 11:09button it's go to the next page and I
227. 11:11release the button it also goes to the
228. 11:13next page and the reason is I have these
229. 11:17trigger ranges between 0 and 127 so when
230. 11:22I press the button it sends the value
231. 11:24127 and when I release the button it
232. 11:26just sends the value 0 but if I take
233. 11:29this all the way up to 127 it just
234. 11:31changes the pages when I press the
235. 11:33button
236. 11:36so I can just and this actually applies
237. 11:45all the trek all the sections and all
238. 11:48the parts
239. 11:54okay now I will talk about chains of
240. 11:56custom translators so if I select a part
241. 12:00or a track or song itself I can actually
242. 12:04add multiple custom translators and
243. 12:06these are chained so the output signal
244. 12:09coming from this translator is routed to
245. 12:11the second translator here which is then
246. 12:13manipulated by the second one I can
247. 12:16change the order of these by simply
248. 12:18sliding up and down through this arrow
249. 12:21here now you can also change translators
250. 12:24between tracks parts and the song itself
251. 12:27and here you can change the order of
252. 12:30this so by default any signal coming
253. 12:34through a track first is rotated to the
254. 12:35translators the custom translators of
255. 12:39the song the global translators and then
256. 12:41to the truck train track translators and
257. 12:43finally into the parts translators now
258. 12:46let's let's make a demonstration with
259. 12:48this setup here so I have my sunrise
260. 12:50with this lead sound and suppose that on
261. 12:53this track globally I want to assign
262. 12:55this knob the functionality of
263. 12:58modulation so this is control j22 and
264. 13:03suppose that I want to assign the
265. 13:05function modulation to this
266. 13:10so on any parts
267. 13:14this acts like a motivation but now
268. 13:17suppose on this second part I want to
269. 13:19change the behavior of this so I had
270. 13:23that translator here so cut the signals
271. 13:26coming from this translator is first
272. 13:29routed to the song translators down any
273. 13:31song translators and then wrote it
274. 13:34through the track translator so it goes
275. 13:35through this translator and the signal
276. 13:38is converted to modulation and now
277. 13:41finally comes to this translator so I
278. 13:44want to change the modulation signal
279. 13:46which is control change number one into
280. 13:50suppose into volume so if I go to the
281. 13:57Advanced section the original signal is
282. 14:00blocked so if I turn this off this both
283. 14:05turns volume down and also changes the
284. 14:08modulation and suppose I want to add
285. 14:12another functionality to this knob just
286. 14:14for this part so I add another custom
287. 14:18translator so I want the modulation
288. 14:20signals to go through so I'm going to
289. 14:25change the functionality and this time I
290. 14:27want to change the pitch bends so there
291. 14:33a couple of details that I want to talk
292. 14:35about here so this knob changes the
293. 14:38volume and the pitch band simultaneously
294. 14:41and the original signal modulation is
295. 14:43blocked here
296. 14:45[Music]
297. 14:50now suppose I want to change the pitch
298. 14:53band from the center all the way down so
299. 14:56what are these numbers for the 47 and
300. 14:58minus 47 so instead of 0 and 127 I
301. 15:03decided to scale the pitch band ranges
302. 15:06between these numbers because these are
303. 15:08more reasonable numbers when it comes to
304. 15:10intervals and 12 semitones so 47
305. 15:14represents the full pitch up and - what
306. 15:16this one represents full pitch down and
307. 15:18zero represents center pitch so suppose
308. 15:21I want to change I want to start from
309. 15:23Center and and suppose I don't want to
310. 15:30go all all the way down I want octave
311. 15:33down and he said I won't just - I just
312. 15:36want to go to the fifth down so the
313. 15:39fifth represents seven semitones and -
314. 15:4447 corresponds to 12 semitones which is
315. 15:48basically multiplied by four so if I
316. 15:52take this down I can also change numbers
317. 15:55here if I want to assign seven semitones
318. 15:59down I multiply that by four so now I'm
319. 16:04going to choose 27
320. 16:07[Music]
321. 16:10well let's actually change the low range
322. 16:13of volume not zero so they can actually
323. 16:16hear what I'm hearing so now this is
324. 16:20actually a fifth down from this note and
325. 16:26also which decreases the volume at the
326. 16:29same time so now the signals are changed
327. 16:31first coming into here changing this
328. 16:35control change to modulation which acts
329. 16:39like modulation on this part but here
330. 16:41[Music]
331. 16:44instead it changes the volume and the
332. 16:47pitch band simultaneously but if I
333. 16:51change the order here from part to track
334. 16:55this time okay I decide like a
335. 16:58modulation but now here
336. 17:01none of these translators function as
337. 17:04they should because control change 22
338. 17:06signal first comes into this part and
339. 17:08their learned in translator that changes
340. 17:10it into anything and then goes into the
341. 17:13track which which changes in turn into
342. 17:17modulation so that's why the order all
343. 17:20here matters so why would why why do we
344. 17:23want to change the order of these
345. 17:25translators so let me demonstrate here
346. 17:27suppose the song is all the way at the
347. 17:30end this is especially useful when you
348. 17:33want to flitter a certain parameter
349. 17:35going into all the parts so for example
350. 17:41so when the output is just these -
351. 17:44dashes that means that that signal is
352. 17:47filtered so suppose that in in a song I
353. 17:49just don't want to have any pitch bands
354. 17:51apply to any any part
355. 17:55so whatever translators I have anywhere
356. 17:58at the end of all the say all the chain
357. 18:02the pitch pantry is filtered so there
358. 18:05won't be any pitch band modulations
359. 18:07anywhere even if I have some translators
360. 18:09changing certain parameters to pitch
361. 18:11bands it's completely filtered
362. 18:13throughout the song so it is one point
363. 18:15nothing that I want to talk about so on
364. 18:19these parts you probably have seen this
365. 18:23bar here which is always at the end of
366. 18:27all translators let me turn them into
367. 18:29basics and it says block non translated
368. 18:33pitch pants easy and after touch signals
369. 18:35so when this is on all the cultural
370. 18:39change signals and all the pitch band
371. 18:41signals are basically blocked except the
372. 18:44ones that are actually translated so
373. 18:46suppose I want to translate pitch band
374. 18:48into volume
375. 18:52even if this is on it's considered as a
376. 18:55translated signal and it basically goes
377. 18:58through here okay why do we need that so
378. 19:01I have a single track a single part here
379. 19:03the speech band translates into warning
380. 19:06signal and the original signal is
381. 19:08blocked but if I have an additional part
382. 19:10here the same pitch pan signals also
383. 19:12comes into this this part and basically
384. 19:16goes through it so I really want to turn
385. 19:19the this filter on for for all the
386. 19:22additional tracks so that the ordered or
387. 19:24origin piece band track is really
388. 19:25blocked here on this custom translator
389. 19:29by the way there is this save current
390. 19:32state button here which basically allows
391. 19:35you to save these states of your custom
392. 19:39translators and also name them which
393. 19:41allows you to recall them on either
394. 19:44different tracks or parts