Just gonna throw this out there because I gave up on 14bit CC MIDI.
After experimenting with 14bit CC in different set ups lemur, bcr2000 and elektra one. i’m just not convinced that its worth the trouble!
My reasons for not liking 14bit CC…
- Additional CC management. each knob uses 2 cc slots! and unless you are manually mapping the knobs in your software (right-click midi learn) you have to either manage this in your controller scripts if doing any sort of custom implementation.
*14 bit encoder knobs take a long time to turn. There is more data to churn thru, even with the elektra one smooth potentiometer implementation would take a long time for me to dial something in.
*127 values is pretty sufficient for “most” cases. My midifighter twister encoder knobs spin at 1/3 the resolution and then pressing in for full 127 values. most of the time the 1/3 resolution of 127 is sufficient.
*VSTs generally already get interpolated…so the resolution is less important as internally the “steps” are smoothed out. Note: different VSTs interpolate at different speeds. Some are relativly instant others have a bit of time(1ms?) before they reach the final value, Diva Does this for instance where as the TAL-UNO-LX is closer to instant)
*Acceleration implementation rarely feels natural. I’ve tried this on the BCR2000, which has 3 levels of acceleration and it just gets confusing and unpredictable.
*Using Lemur to generate 14bit CC seemed again cool in theory BUT i found i needed to make the sliders about double the size that I wanted. And even then it didn’t add much value for control.
Where i see value in a high resolution knob is maybe for selecting in a frequency spectrum from 20hz-20khz. Having a high resolution knob here would be great in theory. Then again how do you determine the speed at which it goes across the spectrum? Try accelerating the knob and you start getting confused as to how to navigate it as its inconsistent based on the speed.
Anyways… my two cents on the subject. Would love to hear other perspectives or how others are working/leveraging 14Bit CC and software which is why i posted to this thread. 