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[poppaskilove]

I'll often use my D1 as a midi controller, and would be really useful to come up with a way to utilize a mod wheel (pitch bend less important). Any workaround someone has come up with for this keyboard which does not have a modwheel? No other real knobs to assign midi through cubase, so I think I'm out of luck. Quick websearch has not revealed really anything that exists surprisingly. I'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem!

Ideas?

[voip]

The D1 is designed for a market segment, and price point. Decisions were made at the design stage to include (and exclude) features. A mod wheel didn't fit with the design brief, so the connectivity and code won't be there, making it unlikely to be possible to implement as a hack.

What is the target device for the D1, when used as a MIDI controller? If it is software e.g. Ableton Live, then something like this could be used:

http://www.vmeter.net/

For hardware, another approach is possible. Something like this:

http://www.midisolutions.com/prodbth.htm

With this device, the MIDI out from the keyboard could be passed into the MIDI in of the MIDI Solutions Inc breath controller. Signals from a connected breath controller generate CC# messages which are merged and passed to the MIDI out on the device. The CC# messages can be set by the user to any of several CC# message types, including modulation i.e. mod wheel. It would be possible to use something other than a breath controller to generate the input signals, e.g. a home brewed mod wheel using a potentiometer and a handful of other components, or this:

http://www.doepfer.de/pdf/Modulationsrad_Montage.pdf

As an alternative to the breath controller, there is also the MIDI Solutions pedal controller:

http://www.midisolutions.com/prodped.htm
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