The Rob O'Reilly MIDI Pro 3 - Finger pads & XY Pad
MIDI PRO 3
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It has been a long-time dream of mine to get the opportunity to test a Rob O'Reilly guitar.
Not only because of how hard they are to come by in our ordinary day-to-day life, but also because of how they are probably the closest thing we have today to the holy grail from the 80s - the Synthaxe.
This is just meant as a mere introduction to the XY-pad and fingerpads on this controller, for those of you who know nothing about it.
I hope to be able to return with more on this marvellous hardware MIDI Guitar controller very soon.
0:00 Introduction
1:15 The fingerpads/XY pad and the Synthaxe legacy
2:45 Note Trigger examples
3:15 Fretscanning and Infinite sustain
4:00 Scripted or real vibrato - you choose
4:15 MIDI arm assignments
4:45 Fretboard rearrangement layout
5:10 Two ways to trigger open strings
5:28 Four ways to trigger fretted notes
6:25 The Trigger Modes
7:10 XY Pad - Standard trigger mode
7:35 XY Pad - Standard sustain trigger mode
8:13 XY Pad - Sample & Hold trigger mode
9:20 Example setup in Gig Performer using "Sample and Hold mode"
10:55 Using both MIDI and Audio out simultaneously
12:12 The Finger Pads
12:48 Assigning Aftertouch/Channel Pressure/CC to finger pads
13:53 Combining triggers
14:45 MPE?
15:20 Setting up to play with an MPE synth
16:10 Channel Pressure/CC74 split example with Roli Equator 2
17:03 CC74 example with Roli Equator 2
17:34 Use the XY Pad for just CC controls -without note triggers
18:00 Crossfade between two Macros
19:00 Outro
