Another Yoshimi demo
Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2017 10:00 pm
I rather seem to have forgotten to post this here 
It is a demo of live playing where the main focus is Yoshimi's fairly new 'Solo' feature (since V1.5.0) appearing to provide totally seamless part switching. It does this by redirecting the incoming channel to a specific part, but allowing note-off messages to still be seen by previously sounding ones, so note release, reverb etc. are maintained.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziuPJuDhjGw
Although being replayed into Yoshimi by the Rosegarden sequencer, the MIDI recording was made live in one pass with a simple foot switch changing active part. No editing was done on this at all.
Other features used were a MIDI-learned main volume on a standard volume pedal (also since V1.5.0), so no issues with different parts being at different levels. Also the bass line is coming from an instrument on part 17 - although received on the same channel as the rest. In this mode solo only affects parts 1 to 16, so (for example) you can use 17 to 32 for normal channel based backing tracks.
At the start, Yoshimi is set up in it's entirety with a single 'recent' state load. That includes main configuration, all patches, Solo settings and MIDI-learn.
I'm afraid my timing wasn't up to much on this occasion. I usually do much better. My excuse is that I'm not familiar with using both hands and both feet - all at once
It is a demo of live playing where the main focus is Yoshimi's fairly new 'Solo' feature (since V1.5.0) appearing to provide totally seamless part switching. It does this by redirecting the incoming channel to a specific part, but allowing note-off messages to still be seen by previously sounding ones, so note release, reverb etc. are maintained.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziuPJuDhjGw
Although being replayed into Yoshimi by the Rosegarden sequencer, the MIDI recording was made live in one pass with a simple foot switch changing active part. No editing was done on this at all.
Other features used were a MIDI-learned main volume on a standard volume pedal (also since V1.5.0), so no issues with different parts being at different levels. Also the bass line is coming from an instrument on part 17 - although received on the same channel as the rest. In this mode solo only affects parts 1 to 16, so (for example) you can use 17 to 32 for normal channel based backing tracks.
At the start, Yoshimi is set up in it's entirety with a single 'recent' state load. That includes main configuration, all patches, Solo settings and MIDI-learn.
I'm afraid my timing wasn't up to much on this occasion. I usually do much better. My excuse is that I'm not familiar with using both hands and both feet - all at once
