Perform Feature Using Midi

[ambivalence]

@a.radder, I guess, you’re looking for this:

MIDI control over Perform mode

What is the problem? Perform mode is very capable when you can play with your fingers, but what if you have other gear you need to play as well? Perform mode lacks the possibility to be automated with 3rd party controllers and DAWs, introduce LFOs or manipulate parameters with expression pedals of all sorts. What do you want to achieve? It would be great to have MIDI features for Perform mode, so the player could trigger any effect live with external midi gear (i.e. a midi controller with foots…

I bought play with the naive idea that every midi capable device has full midi implementation, so it was a real bummer Last ≈ summer when this forum wasn’t even there, I recieved promising email answer that midi implementation is somewhere down the road, but, yeah. Had high hopes I could add a sparkle for my live guitar arrangements via a midi controller’s footswitches and Play. It also turned out it doesn’t even have its own midi channel for starters, so you can’t control knobs with midi expression pedals.

Recording MIDI CC from external source

What is the problem? On the Play, MIDI CC values can be set per step or recorded from the encoder motion, but it is not possible to record them from an external midi controller. What do you want to achieve? Improve the modulation capabilities of the Play using MIDI data generated by a DAW or external instruments and controllers. This would allow the use of external LFOs and other modulation types that the Play can’t support. For this, it should be possible to record CC from an external sourc…

As for this thread, it was about the perform mode for midi sequencer, which, indeed, could be also nice to have, even if some of the perform features won’t be available (no «wish» for that, but I lost my faith in the concept).