wouldn’t it be nice to change the behaviour (outgoing message) of the Morph if a key or a pad is hit with two or three fingers instead of one? Playing a different MIDI note on a drum pad when its hit with two fingers would probably be the simplest idea, but there could be many more options.
Changing Pressure, X or Y to a different CC in MPE mode when two respectively three fingers are being used
switching on After-Pressure or Pitch Bend when using two fingers in MIDI mode
jumping up an octave
selecting a different MIDI channel and thus another instrument
I imagine this could be done by multiplying the options given right now for two and three finger.
If you want to take it even a step further you could think about gestures. How about Pinch on a slider to zoom in?
Since it isn’t supported by the Morph, it could probably be done using a USB-MIDI compatible microcontroller (like the Teensy) interfacing with the Morph’s serial interface. It wouldn’t be trivial, and someone familiar with embedded programming would need to do it. However it wouldn’t be that complicated to do either.
In short: assuming Sensel doesn’t implement this feature anytime soon, someone could be hired to implement that feature external to the Morph.
One way of doing something like that now would be to put a midi filter in between the morph and the destination software.
For example, Mozaic on ipad could be set up to detect multiple note on messages on the same note (sent on different channels), and turn that into the relevant message on an output channel.
Hi, any news on multi-touch areas? I’d be especially interested in multi-finger MPE or MIDI XYZ areas. The obvious solution would be to use consecutive MIDI channels for MIDI CC, and different notes for MPE.
Cheers!
Hi again, after actually trying it out, the MPE xyz area does support multitouch, rotating by channel. However, I don’t get it to report more than 7 touches.
It would indeed be nice to have a generic multi-touch option for all area types.
I don’t have any touch limit in my use of the Morph, since I use the API and write my own software. But I love hearing someone say they want more than 7 touches, since that means they may actually have an interesting use case in mind that needs that. What kind of interesting applications for the Morph are you thinking about?
The morph is the controller for my main instrument based on CataRT, with which I perform regularly (see music.concatenative.net).
My control mapping uses a square area for navigating through the corpus and 2 multi-touch strips for effects and rhythmic triggering, so I’m quickly up to 10 fingers…
I’ve been using the morph via the Max external, but want to try out MPE to check if the latency is better, and allow more flexible routing in Live (for the M4L version of the instrument called SkataRT).
