

Click the downward arrow in the Control area of Studio One's top bar and choose 'Add Device'.Ĭhoose 'New Control Surface', give your virtual controller a name, and set the input ('Receive From') and output ('Send To') to your virtual MIDI port. Now we need to register MidiShaper as a MIDI controller in Studio One.

Insert MidiShaper onto the track hosting the device you want to control, or an FX track as described above, and set its MIDI output to the virtual MIDI port you activated earlier (1). Windows users need to install additional free software such as MIDI Yoke or LoopBe, and activate at least one virtual MIDI port. In macOS, the IAC virtual port is built into the operating system and can be configured via the Audio MIDI Setup utility. Software instruments and effects that don't support MIDI Learn can be controlled by MidiShaper via a virtual MIDI port. Now you can control the assigned parameter via MidiShaper's modulation matrix. Important: Once the assignment is made, be sure to set MidiShaper's Teach function to 'Off' (3). Its purpose is to avoid assignment conflicts, since the MIDI Learn function of most software devices listens for all incoming CCs.Īctivate MIDI Learn in your software device (we're using Curve 2) to assign the incoming MIDI CC to the parameter of your choice (2). Activating the Teach function makes MidiShaper output only the selected MIDI CC, bypassing all other signals. Other parameters of your software device need to be assigned via its MIDI Learn function.Ĭlick MidiShaper's Teach menu and set it to the MIDI Continuous Controller (CC) of your choice – '15', for example. You can now send pitch, mod wheel and aftertouch modulation signals by routing them to sources in MidiShaper's modulation matrix.

With the instrument you want to modulate set up on an Instrument track, and add an FX Channel.Ĭlick the '+' button at the top of the FX Channel and choose MidiShaper from the menu.Ĭhange the Instrument track's input setting to 'MidiShaper'. Many software instruments and effects support MIDI Learn, although the specific implementation of it varies from device to device. Setting up MidiShaper in PreSonus Studio One Modulating software devices that support MIDI Learn
