MIDI Noodle · Keyboard Split

Bass in your left hand, pads in your right.

Put a Keyboard Split on your keyboard's cable and divide the keys into zones. Each zone plays its own MIDI channel, so each hand can play a different synth.

Keystation 88USBKeyboard Split2 zonesSH-101Zone 1 · Ch 1Juno-106Zone 2 · Ch 2

Set zones by playing them

Add a zone, press Learn and play its first key, then its last. The card shows your keyboard as a strip, coloured by zone, and lights the keys as you play.

Tell it your keyboard's size (25, 37, 49, 61, 76 or 88 keys) and play its lowest key so the strip starts where your keyboard does.

Start keyPress Learn, play the lowest keyEnd keyThen the highestEach zone gets its own channel and colour on the card.

Zones never overlap

The zone you're editing always wins. Learn a key inside a neighbour and that neighbour is trimmed back; land in the middle of one and it's split in two. You never end up with two zones fighting over a key.

BEFOREAFTER LEARNING A ZONE IN THE MIDDLE

Transpose per zone

Each zone can shift up or down by up to four octaves. Drop the bass zone an octave so your left hand sits comfortably, or push a lead zone up to where the synth sounds best.

For example:on an 88-key board, C1–B2 plays an SH-101 on channel 1, one octave down. C3 and up plays a Juno-106 on channel 2.

Pedal and pitch bend reach every zone

Notes go to the zone they're in. Keys outside every zone are dropped, or, if you choose, pass through on their own channel. Sustain, pitch bend, mod wheel and other controls are copied to every zone's channel, so the pedal holds the pads and the bass alike.

Until you've set a zone, the split passes everything through unchanged, so adding one never silences your keyboard.

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