The User Manual is not helpful about these things, so Kurt decided to go on his own.
He had to face a couple of problems: the devices sends a Midi-Clock (not a Midi-timecode), which, according to Kurt, makes it a little unstable, and it has a delay.
Besides that, he also noticed that the TENORI-ON could only provide 16 Midi-Notes on each Layer.
So he decided to find a workaround, and started the TENORI-ON helper project.
It’s a Max/Msp patch (current version: 0.94) which lets you:
– adjust to Midi-Clock in ms to your DAW; there’s a little drawback: the TENORI-ON has to start on the second beat, then everything works in sync (adjustable for each Midi-Channel).
– change the first 5 Layers as an input for your DAW as follows
Layer1 = Midi-Notes on MIDI Channel1
Layer2 = Velocity for the notes on MIDI channel1
Layer3 = controller on MIDI channel1 to use it for Cutoff-Filter
Layer4 = controller on MIDI channel1 to use it for Resonance
Layer5 = basic remote-functions
– control samples in the gate-mode and there are some basic remote-functions.
He noticed that the full polyphony is not working correctly, so at the moment the MIDI Channel1 works only with up to 4 voices. But as he says, it’s only 0.94!
You can find and download the TENORI-ON helper patch on Kurt’s blog. Feedbacks are welcome…
In the next days we’ll post an in-depth article about the TENORI-ON, featuring also a mini-tutorial to use it with Apple Logic.
Are you a TENORI-ON user and do you want to share your experiences? We’re here 🙂
