Translating a Note-On Message based on a CC value

Hi All,

I have an electronic drum kit and recently purchased the MIDI adapter to hook it into Rock Band 3. For the hi hat, most of the songs chart as a blue cymbal, while the closed hi hat is yellow. However, the MIDI adapter recognizes the MIDI note commonly used to denote an "open" hi hat (46) as a yellow cymbal, which causes a problem when trying to play along accurately with the songs.

To get around this, I installed MT Classic to change note 46 to a note that is recognized by the game as a blue cymbal (53). It works great, but I was wondering if I upgraded to MT Pro, if I could add a rule that would only make this translation if the hi hat controller (CC#4) was above a certain threshold.

There are some songs that have a sort of half-open hi hat in sections but it stays on the yellow cymbal, and I would like to try to mirror that, but my drum module is sending note 46 so it gets translated to blue and I miss the notes.

Can anyone shed some light on how to make this work, if it is even possible?

Thanks in advance,
Chris

CJXJ220 wrote:if I could add a rule that would only make this translation if the hi hat controller (CC#4) was above a certain threshold

Yes. You can have a translator grab control messages on CC4 and set a global variable (let's say k4) in the rules to the input value.

so input B0 04 qq

rules
k4=qq

no output

Then have the translator for the cymbal input use rules to set the note output.

input 90 46 rr

rules
if k4<= 64 (whatever threshold you like), then set qq = 53
if k4 > 64 (whatever threshold you like), then set qq = 46

and set your outbound message to
90 qq rr

Rough idea...

Great, thanks!

I've got the general idea where you're going with that, I'll play around with the trial version and see what transpires.